I’ll take the L on that one, but I’d rather be wrong and corrected than be right and an asshole about it.

I’ve still never seen a satellite dish made of strips of sheet metal like this.

Looks like the aviary in Jurassic park 3, where the pterodactyls escaped from... Be careful

Old smashed windmill with aluminum blades? Looks like there's a rust tower thing next to it????? Idk

Well obviously it's a decoy skylight for the main bunker entrance vestibule.

I wonder if there are satellite dishes like this that come flat packed and you need to assemble it.

Pretty much only explanation. The strips aren't as good as solid, but if the tech that allowed mesh existed they wouldn't have to try to maximize surface area still and could use mesh panels.

It's one of those weird products that as soon as it solved a problem (shipping a complete fish to remote area) the real problem (needs a solid dish) got solved.

So they probably weren't popular for long, but also might not have had a reason to replace the physical dish for decades.

Even when people stopped using dishes in general, they tended to just sit there. Which also makes "dumped off a cliff" a likely explanation.

um. the bunker entrance in lost did not look anything like this. it looks like a skylight.

I thought he was pretty open about it...

After reading the thread, I'm going to risk a well cover.

There was a mysterious underground bunker or silo or something within which someone needed to enter a code every so often. It was a pretty big plot point and served to bring a lot of tension to the series, because what would happen if you didn't enter the numbers on schedule?

You’re right, I’ve never seen Lost. Was there something like that in it?

I couldn’t get close to measure it since it was down below the “trail” I was walking on, but from what I remember it was big but not very big, maybe about as large as the space between my feet when I stand with my legs spread wide? I’m not very sure, but when I look for pictures of grain silos, they seem way bigger. (Yes, I needed to google “grain silo”, I’m a city girl.)

My takeaway from this thread is that no one has seen or at least remembers the hit TV show Lost

I WANT TO BELIEVE

I was also thinking that this is probably the bottom side of what ever it was. I wonder if there are satellite dishes like this that come flat packed and you need to assemble it.

The local brasserie was shocked when little green men showed up asking for a pint.

Heres a random forum with a picture:

https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/how-many-of-you-45-year-old-baws-remember-old-school-tv-antennas/117396033/

Second post with picture, trying to link it directly somehow goes to a reddit post.

But yes, eventually tech was good enough they could do it with mesh. Before that they were solid metal.

Like I said, this look like an old one.

But you should really try asking questions instead of just confidentally being wrong and waiting to be corrected. I tend to block people like that pretty quickly, and so do other people who take the time to explain things.

Looks like a roof of a grain silo but it seems to be inverted. Also, doesn't look like it was ever watertight so I suspect it's probably something else.

How big is it? It’s really hard to tell from this photo.

This satellite dishes were mesh, not sheet metal.

I estimated about 2m.

Fascinating how our brains interpret the clues differently: 1m, 2m, 2.5m.

Because the supports are exposed it's probably not the top of something, but an old satellite dish.

Not like, from a satellite in space. But just a couple decades ago if you wanted satellite TV you needed a dish that huge. Most likely just dumped off the cliff, it's not designed to be oriented like that so it falls apart quickly

Is it? It's really hard to see how far down that is, I was thinking something like 2.5m diameter at least, which sounds like it could be a brickwork silo? I dunno, I'm not a siloologist at all, just going off things I've seen standing around.

Crashed flying saucer.