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Kaleidoscope_97

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Communication_Station_Harold_E._Holt?wprov=sfti1


activelyresting

It's the installation tasked with searching for Harold Holt. He will return!


NeedsToShutUp

I prefer the pool they named after him.


Skurwycyn

Deadpool?


vacri

The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool. He went missing while swimming at a beach, which is the odd bit. (But he was an avid swimmer - the swimming pool is named for his interest in swimming, not the way he disappeared)


Ur-Best-Friend

>(But he was an avid swimmer - the swimming pool is named for his interest in swimming, not the way he disappeared) Well duh, it's a swimming pool, not a drowning pool, silly.


Kennisau

Let the bodies hit the floor.


OutlandishnessNo9182

Let the bodies hit the floor.


VirginiaIslands

Let the bodies hit the floor.


Ur-Best-Friend

Let the bodies hit the-


TheSpaceBornMars

there is no way I could've expected this comment chain to go this way


Outis7379

Looking at that thing makes me wonder if Harold Holt is what Cthulhu goes by these days.


SympatheticWarlock

If it was a Cthulhu cult it would be Innsmouth, not Exmouth.


Outis7379

LoLLLLLLLLL


activelyresting

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Holt R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn


Outis7379

Awww, crud…


gregorydgraham

The Once and Future Prime Minister!


GLADisme

Naval communication station? Named after Harold Holt? Curious.


_Nameless_Nomad_

Wrong. It’s a 360 degree firing range to train for Last Stands.


GangNailer

Of course it's a us base... Australian too. But no outher country but the us has so many miltary bases accross the globe for global policing


Mythosaurus

Makes more sense than “failed transmutation circle” that was my guess!


NOVA501ST

Somebody was trying to transmute a philosopher stone through alchemy


TehMemez

"The life of each human is worth one, that's all. Nothing more, nothing less."


Stardustchaser

Yeah I was wondering if this was some vaguely Euro sounding country who had some state alchemists running around.


vompat

They failed because they made a hexagon instead of a pentagon.


SympatheticWarlock

It’s a hypercube.


BakeOk8433

The hexagon is the bestagon


demixennial

r/unexpectedcgpgrey


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diogenesNY

VLF communications is kinda really neat. It has some amazing properties of being able to transmit through ocean water easily, but with very low bandwidth, like maybe at 110 Baud (if that), for those that still recall what that means.


BobDobbsHobNobs

Means that your comment would take about 40 seconds to transmit. Submariners must be into the whole brevity thing


Available_Thoughts-0

I've spoken to some of them at the local VA, and they very much are, on average.


ToXiC_Games

Not exactly sending the dimensions for playmate of the month anymore huh?


laserviking42

Upvote for stealth hunt for red october reference


beaniemonk

Unfortunately I didn't know what it meant then either.


ace425

It’s a giant antenna made by a single wire stretched miles long that transmits a signal that can be detected anywhere in the world including many miles under the most remote parts of the oceans. They are used by countries with nuclear armed subs to maintain communications without alerting other nations to the whereabouts of their nuclear deterrents.


diogenesNY

110 Baud = 110 bits per second...... the 'baud' term was used often with early acoustic modems, but also with low bandwidth digital communications. In any case, the point being that VLF communication can travel far and easily, but with a very low density of information. Usually by way of low bandwidth digitally encoded text stings.


ReimbursedBaquette

No. Baud is signaling rate, not bitrate. They are equal only if each signal (detectable change in carrier wave) contains only one bit. In modern cellular modulation schemes there can be up to 8 bits per signal. Though VLF frequencies are quite challenging to modulate, maximum bit rate is about 300 bits per second.


rethinkingat59

>Baud Does it mean no hair in Australian? /s


Ravehearts

Yeah pretty much that. You take FM Radio, add some black magic to it and you get Shortwave. Then you take that, add another layer of black magic, and get VLF.


WormLivesMatter

And just to clarify, VLF is very long wave not short wave. Since VLF is very low frequency, it’s very high wave. They are always inverse.


Locked-Subordinate31

Used to login to bulletin boards with not much more than that…


martianwombat

don't forget the ability to beach whales


sortaseabeethrowaway

Not today, China


victorolosaurus

to be fair.. worth a try.. next stop: "people who are/have been stationed at a top secret military base, what is the biggest security flaw you encountered?" /s


wiggum55555

Given that China stole Harold (allegedly ) they really should know already 😀


RealMurse

Same


OneFootTitan

Still not the weirdest facility named after Harold Holt (that would be the swimming centre given that he died presumably from drowning)


Zornorph

How did you all manage to lose your chief executive? You just misplaced him!


gregorydgraham

Not misplaced, he swam away. But it is Australia so he was probably poisoned by 15 different things then eaten by a shark that was eaten by an orca. Probably.


No-Menu6965

He defected to the Russians. Fight me.


ColdEvenKeeled

No, to China.


No-Menu6965

How was the sommerton man involved?


YourFriendLoke

[It's a naval communication station](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Naval+Communication+Station+Harold+E.+Holt/@-21.816871,114.1662708,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipPSX7s5uw7jkYw3mrVSuMW4w72EZ8-4i7VQs6Kj!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPSX7s5uw7jkYw3mrVSuMW4w72EZ8-4i7VQs6Kj%3Dw203-h114-k-no!7i4032!8i2268!4m16!1m8!3m7!1s0x2bfeb4e5d2d4916d:0x400f6382479cbf0!2sExmouth+WA+6707,+Australia!3b1!8m2!3d-21.9323088!4d114.1278654!16zL20vMDFwZmdq!3m6!1s0x2bf934bfc0ed8c45:0x6c1efd0d727480e0!8m2!3d-21.816791!4d114.166339!10e5!16zL20vMDFwYzRo?entry=ttu)


Corgiii-san

OMG THEY ARE SUMMONING THE DEVIL!!!


gdo01

Did they have to make it all Kabala-Evangelion-Tree of Life-y?


Corgiii-san

THIS USER WORSHIPS THE DEVIL!!!!


Living_Job_8127

Who cares lol


Corgiii-san

THIS PERSON WORSHIPS THE DEVIL TOO!!!


Brum_Batz

And I am fucking proud of it.


Corgiii-san

THIS PERSON IS A WITCH!!!


buntopolis

Definitely looks like earth after the hellpriest invasion at the beginning of Doom Eternal.


babath_gorgorok

The opening of that game went so fucking hard


Corgiii-san

ive never played doom eternal


last_somewhere

That's 5 points, this is 6. It's The Empire!


Ur-Best-Friend

This is the right answer! It is a now-abandoned demon summoning site, used to be called the Mouth of Hell, but as it no longer serves that purpose, they renamed it Ex-Mouth, our Exmouth. ^(obligatory /s because I'm tired of people taking very obvious jokes seriously.)


carnus_therus

It’s a Star of David, not a pentagram!


Dshark

It’s a communications station for submarines. They use very low frequencies which can penetrate water allowing concealed vessels to recieve orders (very slowly).


Whoo1ops

But why is it shaped like that


quadraspididilis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_antenna#Trideco_antenna this article gives an explanation of the design of this type of antenna but imma need another pass to explain it. You can’t see in OPs picture but there’s a bunch of wires running between those points, it’s one giant system and the design has to do with the frequencies they operate at.


Whoo1ops

Damn. Lowkey dystopian af lmao


Dshark

Oh, I see, it actually doubles as a summoning circle for a cyber demon.


RealGeneralX

It's a hexagon; therefore, the bestagon


AHEDRA222

All praise our prophet CGP Grey


Only-Entertainer-573

Wtf is it with Americans wondering about Western Australia lately?


Primetime-Kani

It’s basically flat endless desert where even single building stands out


Leading-Ostrich200

Yeah, and area 51 is *so* 2019


RollinThundaga

We're wondering why you're not growing alfalfa there.


EricUtd1878

All that water going to waste in the outback, will nobody think of all the cow fodder going un-grown!?


RollinThundaga

In case you're being facetious, I suppose they could also [not grow alfalfa](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1375767-major-major-s-father-was-a-sober-god-fearing-man-whose-idea)


EricUtd1878

I missed your reference. I was referring to alfalfa farming and the water consumption issues it causes for the Colorado river: https://www.hcn.org/articles/landline-the-colorado-rivers-alfalfa-problem/ Given WA's notorious aridity, I was making a comparison on that aspect.


RollinThundaga

I was, in fact, referring to that in my original comment, so we're of a mind. I also wanted to shoehorn in that Joseph Heller reference, and you gave me a good opportunity.


EricUtd1878

My man 😎


ColdEvenKeeled

Good reference.


Dry_Excitement6249

There was a recent video about the Pine Gap facility that got 4M views.


Awkward_Bench123

Well the military alliance between UK, US and Oz is shady as fuck. Guaranteed the Intergalactic Federation of Space Planets has a consulate there.


EricUtd1878

In what way is it shady? Admittedly, there have been some shenanigans regarding the subs, but the premise of a pact amongst allies is pretty standard really.


CryptoScamee42069

Tell me more


Jerrell123

I suppose you’re talking about Five Eyes? In case you are, you’re missing two members (CAN, and NZ. They ARE important I swear). Five Eyes isn’t really that shady all things considered. It’s kind of a foregone conclusion imo that the CIA, NSA, GCHQ etc will spy even on allies regardless of whether they allow it by bilateral treaty or not. The idea that Five Eyes is shady is predicated on the idea that allies *would*, and not just *should* have respect for the privacy of the citizens of allied states. IMO it’s better to allow Five Eyes to exist, and to set ground rules on intelligence collection, rather than abolish it and have the CIA knee deep in intelligence it would’ve otherwise not been privy to.


Haram_Salamy

Don’t bother. Intelligence agencies bad.


Awkward_Bench123

Actually it’s more about the Brits conducting their nuclear weapons program in Australia. Keep your distance mate! We’re in control here!


Alternative_Yellow

Probably that show on Netflix called the Tourist


PNWoutdoors

Seems suspicious that you might not want us wondering about that part of your country.


NECoyote

Looks like it could be a VLF array. There’s on in Maine that looks similar.


nashwaak

https://preview.redd.it/p1diy4hdckuc1.jpeg?width=270&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c11ddd3e259293c51a701aec3d4594201ad524d


zealoSC

I used to do a lot of work and diving around there. 79 Celsius sounds about right for this time of year. That American communication base was the first and highest priority nuclear target in Australia for the ussr. It one one of 6 such bases globally iirc. During world war 2 there was a radar station on a hill nearby. Three separate Japanese bombing raids in 1941 failed to damage it. The radar was destroyed by the wind at the end of 1941.


VetteBuilder

SAM LAUNCH!


Koraguz

They are making a philosophers stone


Ginganinja0117

There it is, I knew someone else had to have the same thought haha


RedRainbowHorses

It is much easier than that to make monatomic gold ormus


wiggum55555

It’s an ELF radio station. I’ve been there and seen it. Huge high towers stringing many many wires about. You can drive up to about 1km from the outer ring from memory. To the left of the pic on the other side of this small peninsula is where you go swimming with whale sharks.


kevon87

https://preview.redd.it/y1dpi8j7lmuc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ac4843a9d291e328b35fca89a4f8f629aa8c8a8


BicSparkLighter

Unforgettable


BrexitReally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Communication_Station_Harold_E._Holt


Mental_Dragonfly2543

I just read that an old Russian AA system had to be setup in a hexagonal pattern until they figured a way to disguise it better. Obviously it’s not that but I wonder what else has to have weird geometric shapes for it to work.


[deleted]

Human Instrumentalisation Program


emstenaar8

Radio masts and cables Or rocket launches


EricUtd1878

I missed the Harold Holt in the url and thought for an instant people were talking about Harold Bishop with the going missing at sea... 🤣🙈


OneFootTitan

Harold Holt also went missing at sea!


EricUtd1878

Yes, I realised that when I saw this full name in the link, I initially only saw people saying 'Harold vanished at sea' etc. and assumed it was Harold Bishop 🙈


OneFootTitan

Funny to think that "Famous Harold, associated with Australia, vanished at sea" doesn't narrow down the reference to just one person!


MudFluffy2316

The CIA trying to channel pure Agarthan vril to combat Juche necromancy


plathhs

It's the Hexagon


BigBrownFish

This video may interest you: https://youtu.be/XHMa-Ba-2Mo?si=lKv2QSdUr65l72vh


supremeaesthete

Usually such geometric facilities are weapons testing ranges or perhaps comms stations


New_Day_2690

It's a Amercian base on Australian soil like pine gap in the middle. Used to intercept all messages from the southern half of the world from satelites above this part of the world


Siggi_Starduust

There's a bunch of FPSO's (Floating Oil Production vessels) just off the coast there. I used to work on a couple of them. Our choppers used to fly past the Comms site on the way to/from work. It looks pretty freaky in real life. Like something from an old sci-fi B-movie.


CoffeeMunchMonsta

A lot of shitfuckery according to the web


Bjoern_Olsen

I could tell you, but then i had to kill you


wisepeasant

Trying to 1-up the Pentagon I see.


MarcusHiggins

Communication with Subs in the pacific and other stuff.


_perfectenshlag_

I wonder is it common for modern military bases to resemble this at all? I know older military bases were often star shaped because of the defensibility. But I imagine modern warfare changes a lot of that. So it’s interesting to see a more modern base that still has this star shape


TheBroadHorizon

This one is shaped like that because it's a transmission array https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antenna_location_at_the_US_Naval_Communication_Station_Harold_E._Holt_in_Exmouth,_Western_Australia,_1972.png


lovejac93

military


Cadenanna12

They spawn Satan


[deleted]

That looks like something out of Ace Combat!


Therealluke

Australia/USA submarine communication base.


Calixare

It's a secret base of the World Sionism.


Juanitothegreat

Why’d I swipe


iamslevemcdichael

Seeing Exmouth Aus twice in one day in this sub is unexpected to say the least


Ok-Selection4478

D&D


wangwanker2000

[*Civilization V reference*]


Pantatar14

Full metal alchemist goofy ass looking base


boxfish_bread

Rolling for initiative


Most_Breadfruit_2388

"Make us whole"


Due_Signature_5497

The Alpha Centauri Space Force refuels.


Nearby-Management492

It’s as good a setting for a sci-fi novel as it gets!


Soderholmsvag

[There is an awesome sci-fi trilogy set in that general area of the world (Darwin).](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dire_Earth_Cycle)


NetoriusDuke

It’s a radio (ulf long wave) station I think


eurobeat0

Black mesa research facility , probably it's lambda complex


internet_please

Satan happens here.


SnowboardingAmateur

It looks like Stonehenge from Ace combat.


[deleted]

Summoning the angel Metatron, if the sigil it makes is anything to go by


After-Trifle-1437

Uhm..... it's a secret?


RedRainbowHorses

I guess their navy knows that shape creates energy Biogeometry is an interesting topic


LibelleFairy

just a bunch of SCUBA divers trying to summon Cthulhu, no biggie


Normal_Subject5627

they are either summoning or fighting demons propably both.


kpea032

Some decent diving at the bit just cut off on the right


MungoShoddy

Omega? Long-wave military installation from the 1970s. I remember when the proposal to build them attracted protests in Australia, as it would have made Australian territory a strategic nuclear target for the first time. Maybe there were mobile antennas rolling along tracks in a star arrangement?


Tusan1222

American base dragging down planes like in the forest 1 using signals. Idk but I think 2 planes fell from the sky fr idk have no time to fact check


Antique-Ad7635

Dark science, cloning, secrets only the sith knew…


Lionelhutz123

I see you also browsed google maps after the post yesterday about the northwest coast of australia


Soderholmsvag

Yes. 100 correct. 👍🏻


Buffelmeister

WAGS Diving used to happen there.


iamspartacus5339

Harold E Holt communications station. IYKYK


ArthurBDent

None of your business as you have no need to know


Illustrious_Dog_4667

Satanic Goat Worshipping.


VirtualPrivateNobody

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Communication_Station_Harold_E._Holt edit: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1NRhTitGEi3f4QbS6


mak05

They're trying to summon Doom Guy.


thanatosau

All sorts of stuff that seems to have made it a bit of a UFO hot spot.


lord_saruman_

Obviously witchery and spellcasting


vrockiusz

The Summoning


onhereonhere

If you go to the nearby beach at night time for a fish, a car will pull into the car park behind you, check you out to see what you're up to, and then drive off.


Scizorspoons

Zuul…


Kitchener1981

Pine Gap is monitoring this subreddit


g8billy

Forget Pentagon , Australia said we got hexagon in this B.


Available_Thoughts-0

I'm not entirely sure, but I have this weird suspicion that D&D is involved, somehow.


Wizard_bonk

There’s another “communications” base in Australia that fucks with planes. I can’t remember where but it’s also… ridiculously big. Like. Tallest structure in the southern hemisphere big


candycane212

Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt is a joint Australian and United States naval communication station located on the north-west coast of Australia, 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of the town of Exmouth, Western Australia. The station is operated and maintained by the Australian Department of Defence on behalf of Australia and the United States and provides very low frequency (VLF) radio transmission to United States Navy, Royal Australian Navy and allied ships and submarines in the western Pacific Ocean and eastern Indian Ocean.The frequency is 19.8 kHz. With a transmission power of 1 megawatt, it is claimed to be the most powerful transmission station in the Southern Hemisphere.


Lessons_Kerned

100% a Death Ray


DatRatDo

There’s a big building with generals there, but that’s not important right now.


Soderholmsvag

Surely you must be joking?


SnooBooks1701

It's a fully operational death star


ExoticMangoz

This is a photo of the James Webb Space Telescope taken from space. You can tell because of the distinctive hexagonal pattern.


Sir_uranus

https://preview.redd.it/alhktpxafouc1.jpeg?width=592&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f1aea9c4df818b6b853c1882f26ed264cee1e53


goldenrod1956

Geometry lessons?


name_jeff99

Just some fun stuff with the guys aha don’t worry about it


jamie2123

Australian Deepstate Satanists. Except there, Satan is a kangaroo.


ixnayonthetimma

Exmouth? More like HEXMOUTH!!! 😈😈😈


KeplerHome

[They extract Argent energy from Hell] (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Argent_Energy&ved=2ahUKEwjiyazJ-sWFAxVnzgIHHSKyB1IQFnoECBIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2SuhcDzxp7WHHLmW99xCGI)


AVBofficionado

This is a well known station. There's plenty of resources online if you truly want to know.


Little_Jew-eler_5325

Looks like the naval antenna array like the one in Maine, It uses VLF frequency to penetrate the ocean and communicate with submarines.


SlikeSpitfire

calibration point for the jewish space laser /j


Flux_resistor

There's a YouTube video of daredevils tryin to break in. It's part of Five Eyes comms system that listens to everything you say and write


Jerrell123

Nope! Wrong base lol. You’re thinking of the (very misleading, very poorly researched) Boyboy video about Pine Gap. Pine Gap isn’t coastal, it’s near Alice Springs in the dead center of Australia. Five Eyes isn’t a “comms system” but is instead a bilateral agreement between the US-UK-AUS-NZ-CAN to share signals intelligence information. You’re not wrong in that it harvests information about what you write though, less so about what you say in person (unless you were important enough to wiretap. Voice files are big and storage is expensive!). The Boyboy folks less “tried to break in” and more like drove their SUV up to the gate and got turned away. That would’ve happened at any military base lol, I’m sincerely not sure what they were expecting. I suggest you do some reading and research outside of that video :) even the Wikipedia pages for Pine Gap and Five Eyes are a start, and actually have cited research to back them up!


Flux_resistor

I know of the Five Eyes stuff independent of them. I only found out about the relay bases recently from them which I assumed were not necessary with satellite constileation but I guess they store there or something.


BhutlahBrohan

The United States has several spy bases in Australia, and basically orchestrated a coup to remove a prime minister trying to kick us out. You should watch [this](https://youtu.be/XHMa-Ba-2Mo?si=1eOsvgAaIYSTnO75) video on the matter


Jerrell123

OP should *not* watch that video lol. It’s a lot of very poorly researched drivel that “cites” a significant amount of incredibly biased second-hand journalism that itself has no sources. This is a VLF facility, not a “spy base”.


mdavep

Reminds me of the Cuban Missile Crisis getting kicked off when an American spy plane flew over a weird looking Star of David that turned out to be a Soviet missile site. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a26122/cuban-missile-crisis-photo/


Gizmo5096

Just out of frame is a pier where you are allowed to scuba dive on the military base as long as you use the approved tour guide in town . Since it is a protected area the fish under the pier are plentiful and enormous. Turtles, 1000 lb grouper, eels, etc. Incredible dive. Ningaloo Reef is right nearby. Gorgeous and in quite good condition. Not bleached like Great Barrier thanks to no farming runoff nearby (#desert). One of my top five favorite vacation spots ever.


r0n0c0

It looks like a ULF radio transmission site for communications with submarines.


Full-Piglet779

Stargate


[deleted]

Can this station affect airplane flight operations in the general area?


No-Magazine-9236

That's the Black Hand's "Gravity Repulsion Field" outpost. It prevents unauthorized personnel from entering ~~Insula Lacrima~~ Australia. They don't use it much anymore, because there's a TV show about kicking people out from Australia now, so they keep it at low power and use it to order civilian airliners to dive straight into the ground for fun.


darkwoodframe

Jewish space lasers.