Posted on 11/14/2011 8:34:01 AM PST by granite
Talk about your morning weird. Some people studying Google Earth for some reason managed to run across some very weird patterns in the Chinese desert that have a bunch of folks stumped. The patterns look like stripes that were etched or dug over the top of the landscape in the area. Some of the lines appear to be made from a silver/white material.
Considering these can clearly be seen from orbit the formations are raising some eyebrows with geeks trying to figure out what exactly they are for. Are these some sort of alignment or targeting grids for space weapons or what? In one of the photos, you can clearly see a grid of structures with three of them either destroyed or partially standing as if they were for target practice.
The strangest one is the intersecting grids lines; the structure covers 18 miles of space. The other pattern that looks like some sort of targeting grid is set up with concentric rings of what appear to be structures with straight spokes radiating out from the center. There are aircraft placed in the center of this circle.
I have no idea what it is, but it reminds me of how the military would test the blast radius of some sort of bomb to see what the damage is like further out from the point of impact. What do you think? Is this a military testing ground or the Chinese equivalent of crop circles?
It should say “Enter Here” up in one corner and “Exit” in the opposite corner.
It looks like it could be a pretty cool maze if somebody just adds some lines in the passageways to make the dead-ends.
By the way, that doesn’t look much like a “desert” to me.
Looks vaguely like the program code necessary to download a copy of the Wee Wee's longtime missing birth certificate on your smart phone!
Looks like typical oil lease roads to well sites in SW Texas.
I suspect it’s a hidden grid of Taipei or a Russian or American city.
The article is incompetently written, with meaningless phrases like: “the structure covers 18 miles of space.”
The grid patter is about one mile square, from the scale at lower left.
A perfect rectangle on contoured terrain, how did they do that? Looks like it may become a world record stained glass project?
Satellite weaponry target practice?
There are other photos at the link.
Because, if nothing else, finding weird stuff like this is fun. There's a lot of strange/amusing/interesting features one can find with detailed satellite imagery.
(not a "photoshop" - actual Google Maps satellite photo)
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there building a fortress to house the gold they will recover from Fort Knox....
....Obama is going to pay the debt.
Too logical, you take all the fun out of it.
Looks as if it were some sort of electro-magnetic grid...just guessing.
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Looks like the Chinese are making their own Nazca lines. Maybe they’re expecting extraterrestrial visitors.
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Easy;)
Mike
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