Thanks to the internet, the concept of a government secret base has been rendered little more than a quaint James Bond plot. For example, in decades past, the public only had conjecture and hearsay to feed its curiosity about the inner workings of the US government’s shadowy military base on the southern shore of Nevada’s Groom Lake, a site better known as “Area 51.” But today, thanks to the technology of Google Maps, we can all achieve a clear birds-eye-view of the secret facility conveniently linked with user-submitted telephoto images supplying a ground level perspective. Now anyone with a smart phone can be treated to an unobstructed view into the secret military installation that for a long time, officially didn’t even exist. Though the government could no longer deny the existence of Area 51, finally admitting to it in a newly declassified CIA history of its U-2 spy plan e program, it is still denying the existence of little green men and alien spa...
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