[Cringing Negativism Network]

I was thinking about this yesterday, here’s my hypothesis:

I think the patterns are there to provide satellite positional information in the event other means of obtaining positional coordinates are unavailable. For instance a space based skirmish of some sort, or EMP related something or other, take out GPS capabilities.

The patterns could be read from orbit by an onboard computer, and their unique shape would provide a 360 degree, optical fix that could be read, like an iPhone reads one of those oddball square bar-codes.

Which incidentally, those shapes appear similar to.

/tinfoil

[GOPJ]

I think the patterns are there to provide satellite positional information in the event other means of obtaining positional coordinates are unavailable. For instance a space based skirmish of some sort, or EMP related something or other, take out GPS capabilities.

The patterns could be read from orbit by an onboard computer, and their unique shape would provide a 360 degree, optical fix that could be read, like an iPhone reads one of those oddball square bar-codes.

Which incidentally, those shapes appear similar to.

I think you're on to something here... but a few questions... why would it be so large? Could the 'reading' be affected by debris - is that why planes and trucks are in the pattern? Could this be used to reprogram missiles after an EMP attack? If it's an important wartime communication device - why so obvious?

[Reeses]

The angular pattern may be to test a missile sensor picking out a city to aim for from high above. It could be looking for angular shapes to discern a high value city target, i.e. a swarm of Democrats vs. country conservatives spread out.