Today's tidbit about Cheyenne Mountain...
Jul. 29th, 2006 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eregyrnThey're standing down NORAD.
"...On Friday military officials in Colorado announced that Norad’s day-to-day operations would be consolidated, for purposes of efficiency, in an ordinary building at Peterson Air Force Base in nearby Colorado Springs.
The mountain will be kept only as a backup, though fully operational and staffed with support personnel — a place of secure retreat should the need again arise, a military spokesman said."
Huh! Interesting.
I'm grateful to long-time friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xanadumalion for the news and the link -- all these years I've known her, and I never knew that she had worked there! (I guess we had fallen out of touch right before my obsession with SG-1, and then since then it hasn't really come up.) Over in her LJ she has some neat reminiscences about going to work at the Mountain.
(Geekily, it makes me realize how few people who write SG fanfic know much actual detail about what the interior of Cheyenne Mountain is like. While SG fans internalize the whole "28 levels" thing, I think everyone fails to realize how *big* it is in there. I include myself in this, prior to reading an article about it a little while ago. I have to admit, I would love something like a book or a Nat'l Geo piece about the Mountain, complete with pics and maps and schematics, because -- it's just kind of *neat* and mind-bogglingly huge. And yet it occurs to me that, um... it's a military base and such a revelation of its physical form is pretty darned unlikely. And it ain't like they give tours. You notice how very limited they have always kept the stock scene-setting footage used on the show. In lieu of that, I'd love to see someone who'd actually worked there write a fictionalized account of what it would really look like for a character to get from their parked car all the way inside. Hmm.)
ETA:nangi_akki reminds me that it's the opening chapters of "Fast Food Nation" that contain a more detailed than you usually get description of the interior of Cheyenne Mountain!
ETA2:green_grrl has put some nifty links to descriptions of NORAD in comments! Thanks!
ETA3: Gateworld posts about it:
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/07/airforcewillclosecheyennem.shtml
"...On Friday military officials in Colorado announced that Norad’s day-to-day operations would be consolidated, for purposes of efficiency, in an ordinary building at Peterson Air Force Base in nearby Colorado Springs.
The mountain will be kept only as a backup, though fully operational and staffed with support personnel — a place of secure retreat should the need again arise, a military spokesman said."
Huh! Interesting.
I'm grateful to long-time friend
xanadumalion for the news and the link -- all these years I've known her, and I never knew that she had worked there! (I guess we had fallen out of touch right before my obsession with SG-1, and then since then it hasn't really come up.) Over in her LJ she has some neat reminiscences about going to work at the Mountain. (Geekily, it makes me realize how few people who write SG fanfic know much actual detail about what the interior of Cheyenne Mountain is like. While SG fans internalize the whole "28 levels" thing, I think everyone fails to realize how *big* it is in there. I include myself in this, prior to reading an article about it a little while ago. I have to admit, I would love something like a book or a Nat'l Geo piece about the Mountain, complete with pics and maps and schematics, because -- it's just kind of *neat* and mind-bogglingly huge. And yet it occurs to me that, um... it's a military base and such a revelation of its physical form is pretty darned unlikely. And it ain't like they give tours. You notice how very limited they have always kept the stock scene-setting footage used on the show. In lieu of that, I'd love to see someone who'd actually worked there write a fictionalized account of what it would really look like for a character to get from their parked car all the way inside. Hmm.)
ETA:
nangi_akki reminds me that it's the opening chapters of "Fast Food Nation" that contain a more detailed than you usually get description of the interior of Cheyenne Mountain!ETA2:
green_grrl has put some nifty links to descriptions of NORAD in comments! Thanks!ETA3: Gateworld posts about it:
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/07/airforcewillclosecheyennem.shtml
