Rock Site Concept: The 1968 Navy Proposal to Build a Massive Deep Sea Base

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This is gonna be a somewhat morbid article. You'd think I would love the idea of a massive deep sea base, but it was being planned for a very sinister, bleak purpose.

Very few applications are valuable enough to justify the enormous expense of large undersea facilities. Mining. Farming. Oil extraction. Submarine resupply. But also, preserving enough of the Navy in the event that the US is wiped out in a nuclear war that retaliation is still possible.

This base would be capable of supporting dozens of families, like a small town, while supporting the surviving nuclear subs of the US fleet long enough that they could launch revenge nukes at the enemy.

It is a little known fact that the main limitation of modern nuclear subs is the food supply. They have decades worth of electrical power. Enough to make all the heat, light, fresh air and fresh water for all that time.

But the food supply runs out in about three months. What if you had a facility underwater with stockpiled food to resupply from? You could go years, even decades without surfacing.


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Just imagine yourself serving aboard a nuclear submarine when you receive word that your home country has been defeated in a nuclear war. All that remains of it is its nuclear sub fleet and a base like this one. Modern compact naval reactors last 50 years on their built in fuel supply.

That means you can go on living full time underwater for the next five decades as you move to different positions in the sea in order to launch nukes at the enemy country. What's the point, by then? Spite? Making sure they pay for what they did, even if they are the last humans left alive on Earth?


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Basically the plot of Iron Sky, except it's Americans under the sea instead of Nazis on the Moon. Crazy stuff like that was routinely considered due to the seriousness of the Cold War, and the lengths to which both sides were willing to go in order to emerge victorious.

The Orion Project was another good example of this Cold War engineering insanity, but that's another article. The Rock Site Concept was ultimately not approved, because it was competing for funds with the Apollo Project.

Some people claim that the formation seen above is in fact the Rock Site Concept or similar base, burrowed out of the rock of the continental shelf. Probably not, I think it would defeat the purpose to build it in such a way that satellites could expose its location.

It looks like just a rendering artifact. A bunch of these have been held up as evidence of everything from a hole to the inner earth at the poles to undersea bases to UFOs. In each case, just a weird consequence of how the Google Earth software interprets orbital photographs in the process of turning them into a terrain texture.

Some time ago I went looking for more info about the Rock Site Concept, having first read about it in Ian Koblick's "Living and Working in the Sea", only to discover the original proposal has been declassified. Anybody can now read transcripts of it that reveal the scope of Rock Site Concept : Read here

That's all for now. Be on the lookout for the next installment.


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Hollow earth, mountains, and sea floor too. Wouldn't be surprised at all if this ended up as much more than a proposal.
Much more like Iron Sky that it may seem as well, considering it was Operation Paperclip minds that drafted these plans.
Loved this article Al.

Good to see you mention the "hollow Earth" @gurudeva. I have interviewed a Flat Earther guy 2 times just this week here on Steemit, and I have not gotten much attention. True or not its interesting to listen too.
Some of the other tings you mention are up my alley too... I am guessing you are up on Project Stargate as well?
Thanks for kicking off great conversations @alexbeyman!
~@bluerocktalk🖖

I'll check those interviews out! Hollow earth is always fun, residing on the lighter side of the lie spectrum.
Project Stargate, according to the CIA, a completely worthless endeavor, nothing gleaned- millions wasted. Must be the case, because the CIA never lies.

lol, @gurudeva. I know several of the folks (psychic spies) personally. The CIA is giving out "Fake-news" imagine that!
Interesting times for sure. in Fact this weekend, I am taking a refresher course on CONTROLLED REMOTE VIEWING, the exact method taught by Ingo Swann in Project Stargate.
~@bluerocktalk🖖

oooh, @alexbeyman! This is right up my alley! Most folks I know believe there are many out there already!!
~@bluerocktalk🖖

I absolutely love some of the old concept art from the 60s and 70s this is some great material you came across

Alex - I heard about US plans about moon, but I never heard about this update ever before.... Nice you decided to share it....

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@alexbeyman,
Hope they will build one near NK! Only in that condition I like such great idea! Otherwise this is too much expensive!

Cheers~

Oh my god this is going really crazy. After seeing all your post i really want to live underwater at least once. This is gonna be so cool in the future. I really wanna see where this ends.

No doubt it is a great idea. it will be more fun living in water for such a long time.it is like living in another world with aliens and monsters, i mean Ocean Creatures.

I never thought about an idea like this before...

Wow, very nice post once again, keep it up. You are a genious alex. I upvoted this post.

nice posttt & picture !!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for information

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