I was recently in the States (ND) for the first time and I noticed something?

Oh No!!!!!!!

I hope there not Missile silos because i took a pis on one.

Or it could be that you were passing when i was pisin and you thought it was a nuclear weapon??? LOL

Chadness

Uh, no. We don't keep missile silos next to the freaking freeway. They are in heavily guarded facilities in the middle of open fields. Those were probably sewer access holes.

The overpasses are based on road patterns and how much road construction funding any particular state's politicians can milk the federal government for.

There ARE some areas of the country where freeways built in the 50's and 60's have features that were designed with national defense in mind. Most of these are designed to make it difficult for advancing Soviet tanks. However, we don't worry about that any more.

ymicgee

the round circles might be from the automatic sprinkler systems... many fields are watered w/ systems that can be moved to another area..

Also experimental agro farms also use circular pattern in their test patches..

paradigm_thinker

Highways today have more to do with commerce than with the military. As times have changed, so have the reasons why we do some of the things we do- even if we are doing the same things as before.

The round marks on the grass were likely not silos but someone's lazy attempt at mowing the lawn.

Prof-Moench

what country are you from? there are alot of over passes and they do not store silos for other people to just look at.

seek_fulfill

dunno. haven't noticed.

yellowstonedogs

I noticed the same things on the trip from Vegas to Carson City, around Walker Lake. I assumed them to be some type of Army thing!

From what you are talking about it sounds like it may be missiles. We have them spread all across ND. Next time you drive by check and see if there is a fence with a brown sign on it. If it has that then its a silo. Just make sure you dont drive up to the area. It will turn bad....

gimpalomg

If there were no fences, they probably weren't silos. But without seeing what you saw I couldn't be sure.

US Air Force retired.

gregory_dittman

Like this: http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/content/images/2004_1446.JPG ?

http://www.pbase.com/image/32638715

The second version is the sprinkler system that is moved around by wheels and fuelled by wells.

techline210

In the fifties the U.S. Congress set up the interstate freeway system to enable high speed movement of the military. As far as circles on the grass i dunno.

Andcelly

maybe not. have you asked other people about it too? who live around the corner?

Ã‘ina

over passes are everywhere i notice them more when you are going on the expressway and as for the other thing it could be crop fields or something

Missile silos would be in secret locations that you couldn't driveby.
And highway overpasses are everywhere it has nothing to do with the military.
I'm not sure what the roundmarks you seen were.. but if i seen one in person i could probably tell you.

jekin

When they built the freeways they cut across farmer's land and divided the property so the farmer couldn't access the land. They should have made an overpass every mile, but too expensive so they compromised. Remember farmequipment only goes about 12 mph.
If the green circles were about half mile in diameter it is because they use a circular irrigation distribution system.

APRock

The overpasses are for the county and state roads. The circles are probably something like wheat fields with centralized irrigation systems,

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