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China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert
vbraga writes "New photos have appeared in Google Maps showing unidentified titanic structures in the middle of the Chinese desert. The first one is an intricate network of what appears to be huge metallic stripes. It's located in Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, north of the Shule River, which crosses the Tibetan Plateau to the west into the Kumtag Desert. It covers an area approximately one mile long by more than 3,000 feet wide. The tracks are perfectly executed, and they seem to be designed to be seen from orbit."
Who would have thought aliens had QR code technology?
OTOH, give me a couple hits of blotter acid and a Caterpillar D-8 and I think I'd end up with something similar.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Lonely satellite making copies of Nazca.
I'd like to know what technology they're using to get such fine etchings of the google copyright image in the sand. I'm very impressed.
from the 5th century BC to the 16th century AD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
it's being built to keep out marauding mongols, duh
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Doesn't look like metal - you can see vehicle tracks and small bits of hills / dirt piles in the middle. What's really interesting is the lack of 'infrastructure' around it. I don't even see an obvious road in to the area. No buildings on a cursory scan. A few round crater-like areas.
I think it just spells "Welcome Alien Overlords" in Mandarin or something.
More like: "We welcome visitors from the heavens to trade with tie our currency to yours in a fixed exchange rate. Do not attempt to communicate directly with our populace or we will be forced to construct great space firewall."
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Lonely satellite making copies of Nazca.
Perhaps it's the worlds largest joke, played on people in year 9,500, after nuclear wars, alien invasions and man rising from ignorance of 1,000 years of dark age. Gotta admit, that's pretty forward thinking.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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Source: http://berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/helmet/
The tracks are perfectly executed, and they seem to be designed to be seen from orbit.
Keep in mind most Google Maps imagery comes from airplanes and not satellites*
*No, I did not RTFA or look at the images yet.
I'm not sure aerial photography is smiled upon over Chinese military test grounds.
That is what makes it so much fun.
Because the Chinese cannot be allowed to prevail in the random lines in the desert race. We must immediately invest billions of dollars of stimulus funding to eliminate the random lines in the desert gap.
Most likely Ga Ga waxed her legs properly today so they are enduring terrible slow news day
So what happens when Ga Ga waxes her legs improperly?
Not to mention it's completely ripped off from a reddit post here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/mat1s/there_appears_to_be_a_monumental_militaryscience/
Wait, reddit has text???
Only when the one dude who makes FFFUUUUUUU comics is sleeping.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
All I can say is, I read this post and thought, "Weird structures, visible from outer space, built out in the desert... man, this sounds like the first five minutes of a blockbuster Hollywood sci-fi movie..." and unlike most of the stuff coming out of Hollywood these days, I *totally* want to see how this ends. I figure this movie has it all. A mysterious, civilization-threatening menace. Huge battle scenes with entire cities being obliterated. Robots, or aliens, or gods, or Chinese, or maybe Chinese alien robot gods. A scientist desperately working to unravel the mystery and decode the text. At least one smoking hot chick who runs around looking helpless in very tight clothing, implausibly cast as some sort of researcher. And finally, an elite group of U.S. soldiers, written off as a bunch of misfits by the Pentagon, who are now personally called upon by the President in our time of greatest need, to save the nation... and the world.
"I dunno. Let's find out!"