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What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert?

Posted by Unknown on from the secret-alien-base dept.

New submitter snooz_crash writes "An Ex-CIA analyst requests your assistance in IDing a base that he has been observing for quite a while. The base has been in existence for several years, but its shape and location do not lead to an immediate answer to the riddle of 'what the heck is it?'"

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  1. Isn't it obvious? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a cleverly designed denial of service attack against the CIA/NSA/etc. By making them waste time trying to figure out what this base is, they're keeping them from discovering actual information.

  2. Maybe.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe that's why he's an ex-CIA analyst.

    1. Re:Maybe.... by tnk1 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not necessarily. China may not be super secret squirrel any more about everything, but they still have plenty of secrets.

      That said, it's probably a Wal-Mart.

  3. Ikea store by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Blue roof, yellow trim. Built on cheap land for no good reason. Duh! It's an Ikea store.

  4. Re:Ummm.... maybe go there? by Albanach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go there, who does that these days? Click street view and read what the sign above the door says.

  5. Re:Factory by CanHasDIY · · Score: 4, Funny

    Factory on the left, dorms on the right. Nothing to see here.

    Sooo...

    Newest Foxconn facility?



    Where are the roof nets?

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    An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
  6. Re:IDing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to Apple Maps it's the Swaffham branch of Sainsburys.

  7. It is obvious! by Penguinisto · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a clever trick designed by Slashdot to make people RTFA.

    You're not making me fall into that trap, by gum...

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    Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
  8. Re:Ummm.... maybe go there? by djl4570 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried that. It's blurred out.