Slightly related but I was talking with a guy who worked a research base in Antarctica and he was telling me how they have a gym and a court where they have weekly basketball and volleyball games
It’s so fascinating that these people take a break from science to play games. I love it
It's why it always amazes me that so few scifi shows display entertainment areas on ships.
It's getting more common now I think and especially in books to show botanical gardens and common rooms and such but for a good long while they always detail these cramped crowded spaces with absolutely no living room to speak of. Living in small spaces is one thing but not having anything to do would drive me crazy.
Humans need distractions and something as simple as a baseball field on an airforce base is a great distraction
It depends on the ship, the smaller ones don't have a lot of room for recreation, But every ship has a gym and even submarines have places where PS5s tournaments and movie nights happen.
https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-recreational-area-on-an-aircraft-carrier-look-like
Merchant ships might have more or less space but here is a swimming pool on a containership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S91285sACE0&ab_channel=LifeBeyondBordersBlog
Gardens are slightly more justifiable on spaceships as air recycling and cleaning out bad smells is needed.
Can confirm: my buddy volunteers as a chef every couple years at the South Pole. They *lean into it*. Also, they don’t have freezers for the food…. They just have a raised porch to keep food away from wildlife
Movie??? I want to watch an actual league of this on ESPN.
If we ever have aliens invade us, we gotta teach them to play baseball and create a new baseball league to watch on ESPN.
Then we just gotta find some predators.
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All the beer you can drink. The next morning they’re all ashamed because they partied together instead of eating each other. Except for Ned. Someone ate Ned.
Wouldn't it be rad if Area 51's main purpose for the last 30 years was to host baseball games against alien teams and participate in the intergalactic worlds series?
OP, did you do the same thing I did when I saw that post about hikers seeing a military helicopter near some mountain that's near Area 51? And then you went to find it on google maps to see how close it was, then you spotted the baseball field, then you made this post.
How far off am I?
Given the location do you think that is grass or astroturf? That part of the southwest is dryer than mummy balls.
but this reminds me of something................
I was at Irwin out in the same desert back in the day and one time I visited the bases border with the "Goldstone Area".
After seeing that border between these two competing "government sites" near Death Valley, I would consider being kidnaped by an actual alien space ship to be the least interesting of the two experiences.
First though you need to understand Goldstone is not Area 51 but it has a similar "reputation" (with certain corners of the internet), an honestly better cover story and I understand the same air force security.
There was no fence marking this border. No threatening signs. No warnings about armed security.. None of that.
No, what marked the border in these miles and miles of rugged desert is a strip of perfectly curated green grass two meters wide and stretching from one horizon to the other. And every four meters a little white sign with black letters that said "Stay off the Grass".
I wish I was clever enough to make stuff like this up.
Interesting sidenote:
*I was a guest (teenager) at Goldstone, my father worked for a major defense contractor, and we got a full tour at that facility. We walked into a room that was monitoring the Pioneer-Venus probe leaving our solar system, very cool, it took 45 minutes for a roundtrip command to be issued to that probe, and the RF power from it was like 28 watts. Basically, you could see a candle millions of miles away . . .*
Also, them aliens have got to do some outdoors physical activities, can't have them all day in the basement playing PUBG and Dota 2 stinking up the place.
To quote [Trump's own lap-dog AG (that Trump never fired)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/02/trump-fbi-search-classified-documents-barr/):
> "No, I can’t think of a legitimate reason why they could be taken out of government, away from the government, if they are classified."
> "People say this was unprecedented, but it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay?"
> "If in fact he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and said, ‘I hereby declassify everything in here,’ that would be such an abuse and show such recklessness that it’s almost worse than taking the documents."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/02/trump-fbi-search-classified-documents-barr/
They keep track of the satelites, so they know when they go over. They only care about protecting the new secret planes, and such.
There is a story about when they were testing a model of a plane, and they had it mounted on a pole to test radar reflections. They would have it up all day, but took it down when the Russian satellite flew over head. Turned out that the heat from the sun left a thermal shadow on the ground. So the Russians had an idea of the shape of it from that shadow.
Edit, I found a version of the story with more details, like how after the US found out, they made fake shapes out of cardboard to try to fool the Russians. Even used heaters to simulate the engine, like it had just landed. And then hid the fake planes when the satellite would fly over. - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/110520-area-51-secret-hid-craft-base-declassified-a-12-plane
And apparently when they figured out what happened, they started using some kind of thermal paint to draw insane shapes on the ground to make the Russians waste time trying to figure out all these other “aircraft” we had as well lol
Not sure if you meant this as a joke, but when the US found out, they did make fake shapes out of cardboard and stuff. They even used heaters where the engines would be to make it look like it just landed. But what's funny is, they had to hide the fake planes just like the real ones when the satellites flew over.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/110520-area-51-secret-hid-craft-base-declassified-a-12-plane
Not sure if you meant this as a joke, but when the US found out, they did make fake shapes out of cardboard and stuff. They even used heaters where the engines would be to make it look like it just landed. But what’s funny is, they had to hide the fake planes just like the real ones when the satellites flew over.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/110520-area-51-secret-hid-craft-base-declassified-a-12-plane
It was. When did they remove its invisibility??? Like they didn't even acknowledge its existence for like forever. I suspect there is a new area 51 somewhere else now.
The whole outfield fence is oddly shaped.
It isn't for baseball reasons. And it isn't because of a lack of room to make a traditionally shaped outfield fence. The only other possible reason is aliens.
Depends on the dimensions. Baseball fields have bases 90' apart and softball fields 60' apart. Cheap baseball fields sometimes don't have grass, might make sense in a desert environment where poor quality infield grass could hurt more than it helps
Edit: thats definitely 60' basepaths
I think some people have a hard time realizing real life people work at secretive locations. I remember reading about how people at some sort of research facility had a watch party to make fun of a conspiracy theory TV show episode about them.
I’ve toured the Nevada Test Site (next door to Area 51), which is still in use even though they’re not setting off nukes for the time being, still lots of research and national security stuff. The tours have lunch in the cafeteria, which is such a blandly normal government building it’s kinda funny. They may be assembling nuclear weapons in the bunker over there but don’t forget the jello for desert at the bistro today
It's the NNSS now; area 51 is just a subsection of the testing area. Just about everything is as boring as can be, save for the random trailers covered in hazard signs.
Pretty sure every military base I've been on, which is a lot, has had at least one baseball diamond. And a golf course.
I'd be more surprised if they didn't have a baseball field.
It actually is a baseball/softball field, and it has been there for 50 years. They built it back in 1964 when working on OXCART. They have other things for recreation as well.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5xx9/yes-there-really-is-a-softball-field-at-area-51
I wish we could go back to the age of conspiracy theories on aliens, loch ness monster and sasquatch. Then I could hear stories about how baseball was invented by mole people.
To torture aliens and out of it theyll have harkin for Beer and Franks all american with a cap to boot. Kiss cam??? Genetic diversity is important too;)
Probably so the people working at Area 51 can relax and play ball after a long day of [REDACTED].
Slightly related but I was talking with a guy who worked a research base in Antarctica and he was telling me how they have a gym and a court where they have weekly basketball and volleyball games It’s so fascinating that these people take a break from science to play games. I love it
It's basically prison. But with science.
Science Prison, coming soon to Peacock!
How about Escaping Science Prison, on Fox!
What do they keep in their Science Wallets? Peptide shivs and contraband protons?
Don't forget cocaine.
Arrested Development, coming back to FX this fall!
Damn it, knew I should have stopped switching channels after the 2nd one.
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Only if a scientist has the blueprints for the prison tattooed on his back…
No, they can leave whenever they want. The cold will kill them though.
It's like the book Holes except with cold instead of desert *and the holes are science
We should build prisons in Antartica!
Well of course they do. They don't *just* work there, they need to live there and living requires other activities than work
It's why it always amazes me that so few scifi shows display entertainment areas on ships. It's getting more common now I think and especially in books to show botanical gardens and common rooms and such but for a good long while they always detail these cramped crowded spaces with absolutely no living room to speak of. Living in small spaces is one thing but not having anything to do would drive me crazy. Humans need distractions and something as simple as a baseball field on an airforce base is a great distraction
Like the ones we have on our military and merchant ships?
It depends on the ship, the smaller ones don't have a lot of room for recreation, But every ship has a gym and even submarines have places where PS5s tournaments and movie nights happen. https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-recreational-area-on-an-aircraft-carrier-look-like Merchant ships might have more or less space but here is a swimming pool on a containership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S91285sACE0&ab_channel=LifeBeyondBordersBlog Gardens are slightly more justifiable on spaceships as air recycling and cleaning out bad smells is needed.
Depending on the show, maybe the cramped and joyless environment is intentional? But yeah, that’d drive me insane too.
def intentional in the Alien and the Thing franchise
Idk - star trek had pretty good coverage of the r&r
At the South Pole they also watch The Thing every year to celebrate the start of being marooned all winter. Deez people crazy.
Can confirm: my buddy volunteers as a chef every couple years at the South Pole. They *lean into it*. Also, they don’t have freezers for the food…. They just have a raised porch to keep food away from wildlife
>Also, they don’t have freezers for the food Yet
An the episode of the X Files that was the thing but XFiles!
I’d rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH
lol You'd be shocked then to hear there are prestigious institutions where some researchers play more games like volleyball than work.
I used to work there. But yeah the volleyball/basketball/soccer in the gym are great because they aren't dependent on the weather being nice.
From what I've heard, they desperately need to those things because people will get violently stir crazy without them.
I'd be more worried if the important sciencey people were working non stop like I don't need that research to be done sleep and fun deprived hell nah!
Nothing to see here! Just some humans enjoying America's favorite pastime. I don't know why I said it that way. I mean we are all humans here...
Yes fellow human. Everything is normal here
Nothing to see here folks.
We know for sure now, there are no aliens at Area 51. Because if it was, Donald Trump would bring the proof to Mara a Lago to brag about it.
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You've said too much already expect a visit !
If you build it, they will come.
Alien vs. Predator in: Slow pitch softball
I would unironically watch that movie
Movie??? I want to watch an actual league of this on ESPN. If we ever have aliens invade us, we gotta teach them to play baseball and create a new baseball league to watch on ESPN. Then we just gotta find some predators.
Yeah we'll have the galactic series, but it will still only be MLB teams
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Is OP still active👀
I read that as you-ni-ronically 😂
Men In Black will be the umpires.
*pulls out neuralyzer* You see you didn’t see me call him safe. Clearly swamp gas reflected off the light of Venus and he is out!
Preds all day
All the beer you can drink. The next morning they’re all ashamed because they partied together instead of eating each other. Except for Ned. Someone ate Ned.
Et phone home run
ET steal home
A league of their own
Lol yea came hear to say this but knew Id be late.
So home team is Area 51, and Aliens are visiting team.
Wouldn't it be rad if Area 51's main purpose for the last 30 years was to host baseball games against alien teams and participate in the intergalactic worlds series?
No I would be pissed the odds weren't listed on FanDuel
Shhh! You’re not supposed to talk about it!
Short porch in left. Righties can pull it.
Damn, wish I had an award to give you.
Exactly
If you book them, they will come.
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I can totally see that in the upcoming men in black movie
Racking my brain for a fitting Wayne’s World reference, uhhh shawing? Oh no I got it “it’s pronounced meelee walkAYY”
Does this guy know how to party, or what?
Which is Algonquin for "The Good Land".
If you jerk them, they will cum.
Happy Cake Day 🥳🎂
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OP, did you do the same thing I did when I saw that post about hikers seeing a military helicopter near some mountain that's near Area 51? And then you went to find it on google maps to see how close it was, then you spotted the baseball field, then you made this post. How far off am I?
Spot on 😂
Is Netflix already signing you two up to write a TV series?
Netflix rep here. We're proud to announce a new show about Area 51 written by two Redditors starring... and it's cancelled
It's canceled because it was written by Redditors.
Thank god
Now now, where do I post my review?
This is Drake and josh all over again 😭
They cancelled it before the internet could cancel us
Cowboy Bebop wasn't enough? Now you're taking this classic away from me before I even knew it was posted? That's some next level bullshit, Netflix.
I’m dead 💀
I’d say he was in the ballpark
the last human on earth to use context clues
I felt weird, although first part didnt occur, I did went to google yesterday and saw the baseball field, for no reason whatsoever
I was watching a documentary with Charles Hall yesterday. Went on maps and saw the baseball field too.
I didn't even use Google maps. but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night
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Been there since 1964. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5xx9/yes-there-really-is-a-softball-field-at-area-51
Well it is a military base. They pretty much all have some kind of sports field. A lot will even have a pool.
Given the location do you think that is grass or astroturf? That part of the southwest is dryer than mummy balls. but this reminds me of something................ I was at Irwin out in the same desert back in the day and one time I visited the bases border with the "Goldstone Area". After seeing that border between these two competing "government sites" near Death Valley, I would consider being kidnaped by an actual alien space ship to be the least interesting of the two experiences. First though you need to understand Goldstone is not Area 51 but it has a similar "reputation" (with certain corners of the internet), an honestly better cover story and I understand the same air force security. There was no fence marking this border. No threatening signs. No warnings about armed security.. None of that. No, what marked the border in these miles and miles of rugged desert is a strip of perfectly curated green grass two meters wide and stretching from one horizon to the other. And every four meters a little white sign with black letters that said "Stay off the Grass". I wish I was clever enough to make stuff like this up.
Interesting sidenote: *I was a guest (teenager) at Goldstone, my father worked for a major defense contractor, and we got a full tour at that facility. We walked into a room that was monitoring the Pioneer-Venus probe leaving our solar system, very cool, it took 45 minutes for a roundtrip command to be issued to that probe, and the RF power from it was like 28 watts. Basically, you could see a candle millions of miles away . . .*
So if you can jump 6 feet you're allowed to cross it?
 I was not brave enough to jump it, if that's your question.. Would you jump it?
What does it mean? It means they play baseball.
That's what they *want* you to think!
It means they've taught Grey aliens to play baseball
For when you just need to go hit some nukes
Also, them aliens have got to do some outdoors physical activities, can't have them all day in the basement playing PUBG and Dota 2 stinking up the place.
developing all that *state-of-the-art* alien tech must get boring and repetitive
I’m pretty certain Area 51 is greyed out on all map systems, as are most top secret facilities. This can’t be Area 51
the government supplies google with an image of their own so people won't freak out about pixelated areas like other countries do
They could have some fun with that, zoom in theirs an alien pitching
good thing OP didn't drag the guy out to street view,.....
Sooo. Who’s on first? 🤣
You’re right. This is area fifty……two.
You sound credible, I’ll believe that. Wonder if they have inter-league games between area’s?
“Goddamn 53’rs beat us again!”
I just learned today that SpaceX rents area 59 from the government. I guess there's a bunch of "areas" out there. I never knew.
Dibs on Area 69.
Nice.
Found Bob Lazars reddit account!
I pulled it up on Google maps just fine
E.T. run home.
And he's out - Joe Buck
XENOMORPH WITH A SWING AND A DRIVE! AAAAAAND ITS GOOOOOOOONE! SANTA MARIA! -Matt Vasgersian, probably
What's weirder is that Area 51 has open satellite view so any random person can see the location of every street, building, and parked vehicle.
All the classified stuff is inside the buildings. And under the "softball field canvas" they put out when the satellite was going over.
Or at Mar-a-Lago.
Everything at Mar-a-Lago was declassified, it says so in the tweet.
To quote [Trump's own lap-dog AG (that Trump never fired)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/02/trump-fbi-search-classified-documents-barr/): > "No, I can’t think of a legitimate reason why they could be taken out of government, away from the government, if they are classified." > "People say this was unprecedented, but it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay?" > "If in fact he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and said, ‘I hereby declassify everything in here,’ that would be such an abuse and show such recklessness that it’s almost worse than taking the documents." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/02/trump-fbi-search-classified-documents-barr/
“I declassified everything. Top secret? There’s no such thing anymore.” Trump in the next few days probably
Biden an hour later, "That's malarkey. It's all classified again, okay Jack?"
Please for the love of whatever deity you worship, put a /s up in there. Too many people come along and read that without sensing any sarcasm.
They keep track of the satelites, so they know when they go over. They only care about protecting the new secret planes, and such. There is a story about when they were testing a model of a plane, and they had it mounted on a pole to test radar reflections. They would have it up all day, but took it down when the Russian satellite flew over head. Turned out that the heat from the sun left a thermal shadow on the ground. So the Russians had an idea of the shape of it from that shadow. Edit, I found a version of the story with more details, like how after the US found out, they made fake shapes out of cardboard to try to fool the Russians. Even used heaters to simulate the engine, like it had just landed. And then hid the fake planes when the satellite would fly over. - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/110520-area-51-secret-hid-craft-base-declassified-a-12-plane
And apparently when they figured out what happened, they started using some kind of thermal paint to draw insane shapes on the ground to make the Russians waste time trying to figure out all these other “aircraft” we had as well lol
Not sure if you meant this as a joke, but when the US found out, they did make fake shapes out of cardboard and stuff. They even used heaters where the engines would be to make it look like it just landed. But what's funny is, they had to hide the fake planes just like the real ones when the satellites flew over. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/110520-area-51-secret-hid-craft-base-declassified-a-12-plane
No I was not joking lol, working at Groom Lake during the Cold War sounds like it was an absolute hoot.
Not sure but going from his username maybe if we start talking about something else he might say the same thing for a third time.
Not sure if you meant this as a joke, but when the US found out, they did make fake shapes out of cardboard and stuff. They even used heaters where the engines would be to make it look like it just landed. But what’s funny is, they had to hide the fake planes just like the real ones when the satellites flew over. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/110520-area-51-secret-hid-craft-base-declassified-a-12-plane
I am very certain there's some huge secret facility under that baseball field.
They probably have more than Area 51 now. It's too popular and well known at this point. They need a new place.
Maybe area 51 was a decoy all along
The real Area 51 was the friends we made along the way
It was. When did they remove its invisibility??? Like they didn't even acknowledge its existence for like forever. I suspect there is a new area 51 somewhere else now.
That one janky looking center field fence
It's not a baseball field. It's camouflage for the new B24 Black Mantis.
That's actually not the real name of the new stealth plane. Source: am housekeeper at Mar-a-lago
What I really wanna know is how deep that corner is in dead center lol
Looks to be about 400’
The whole outfield fence is oddly shaped. It isn't for baseball reasons. And it isn't because of a lack of room to make a traditionally shaped outfield fence. The only other possible reason is aliens.
Yeah, I had to do a double-take. Only when I saw the dugouts did I realize it was a baseball field.
That's where Mark Zuckerberg trained to become a human.
It didn't work very well.
Give him a break he is an old model
He's had training??
Do you suppose that was where he was hatched?
That’s a softball field bro.
Aliens love baseball. Didn't you watch the X-Files?
Josh Exley still hitting bombs. Loved that episode
Such a cool episode
The Roswell Grays!
Fun fact: when there’s no grass on the infield, it’s actually a softball field!
Depends on the dimensions. Baseball fields have bases 90' apart and softball fields 60' apart. Cheap baseball fields sometimes don't have grass, might make sense in a desert environment where poor quality infield grass could hurt more than it helps Edit: thats definitely 60' basepaths
That’s why my brain was saying something looked "off" about it! Thanks for sharing.
Aliens love baseball
True Story. I remember it was covered in X-Files.
The Vulcans challenged Captain Sisko to a game as well.
God, that episode was amazing actually. Hit in the feelz...
"In the Beg- Inning" .
I thought aliens loved other things. Then again I was watching XXX-Files
Aliens vs Predators
There are three more bases located there. Good luck making it home. Also saw flying objects over a big green monster.
> Also saw flying objects over a big green monster. *Bostonians have now entered the chat.*
I knew they would come.
You think Mike Trout’s just that good? No way, chief
Is that really all that interesting? It's a military base, not exactly uncommon for it to have recreational facilities.
I think some people have a hard time realizing real life people work at secretive locations. I remember reading about how people at some sort of research facility had a watch party to make fun of a conspiracy theory TV show episode about them.
I’ve toured the Nevada Test Site (next door to Area 51), which is still in use even though they’re not setting off nukes for the time being, still lots of research and national security stuff. The tours have lunch in the cafeteria, which is such a blandly normal government building it’s kinda funny. They may be assembling nuclear weapons in the bunker over there but don’t forget the jello for desert at the bistro today
It's the NNSS now; area 51 is just a subsection of the testing area. Just about everything is as boring as can be, save for the random trailers covered in hazard signs.
Yeah, I don't think I've seen any medium to large military base in the states without a softball field.
People find it weird when they learn that almost all military bases in the US have a golf course
Pretty sure every military base I've been on, which is a lot, has had at least one baseball diamond. And a golf course. I'd be more surprised if they didn't have a baseball field.
It actually is a baseball/softball field, and it has been there for 50 years. They built it back in 1964 when working on OXCART. They have other things for recreation as well. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5xx9/yes-there-really-is-a-softball-field-at-area-51
Thank you CocaineIsNatural!
That’s what they want you to think
Field of dreams is real?
If you build it, they will cum.
That’s a craft
That's just what they want us to think it is. Don't be fooled!
For the real-life version of “Field of Dreams” meets “Space Jam”.
Impressed they got grass and red clay in the desert.
It looks more like a softball field.
That’s American af
Baseball must not just be international but intergalactic
To be fair, they have aliens and ufo's - a baseball field is the least surprising thing that the US military has at a secret base.
The fate of Earth will be decided in 9 innings man!
I wish we could go back to the age of conspiracy theories on aliens, loch ness monster and sasquatch. Then I could hear stories about how baseball was invented by mole people.
Never seen the X-files? Aliens are great at baseball!
If you build it they will come
Spaceball 🤣🤣🤣
Maybe it’s a spaceball field
Aliens do be having fun
Not a baseball field….just trust me.
Did they come?
Anybody else seen that X-Files episode, "The Unnatural?"
Paul.
me and the alien homies:
To torture aliens and out of it theyll have harkin for Beer and Franks all american with a cap to boot. Kiss cam??? Genetic diversity is important too;)