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14-11-2011, 12:35 PM | #1 | ||
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Put your tin foil caps on and share your ideas on this.
sourced > http://gizmodo.com/5859081/why-is-ch...-of-the-desert Google maps direct link to another >http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.452...h&vpsrc=6&z=17 More pics at site I think it's some sort of military target but it's pretty strange. (yes it's a slow day at work for me!!)
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14-11-2011, 12:58 PM | #2 | ||
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Could possibly be used to calibrate a satellite all seeing spy eye?
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14-11-2011, 01:58 PM | #3 | ||
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Chinese crap circles
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14-11-2011, 02:18 PM | #4 | ||
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The one with the derelict aircraft appears to be a training centre of some kind (like for Commandos), but the others...my guess is spy satellite calibration but you can do this with any fixed landmark.
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14-11-2011, 02:27 PM | #5 | ||
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something to do with 2012 lol
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14-11-2011, 02:32 PM | #6 | ||
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Guiness world record for largest *insert witty comment*.
My personal one is *largest photoshop*. |
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14-11-2011, 02:46 PM | #7 | ||
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Chinese checkers... Lol...
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14-11-2011, 04:45 PM | #8 | ||
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Chinese graffiti for NASA/US spy satellites.
Rough translation is "Yankee go home!" Or the Chinese version of this.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marree_Man
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14-11-2011, 05:06 PM | #9 | ||
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Giant Chinese puzzle!
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14-11-2011, 05:17 PM | #10 | ||
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Looks a little like on of those barcodes a smart phone reads....
Scan it and it will say "Made in China"... Looking at the comments in the link, looks like a map of a city.... semi plausible if you ask me! |
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14-11-2011, 05:45 PM | #11 | |||
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I you go to the Google link of the last one, the planes, then zoom out, there's a heap more semi "weird" stuff, some of which looks like an old airfield and irrigated cropping.
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14-11-2011, 05:59 PM | #12 | |||
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14-11-2011, 06:01 PM | #13 | ||
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quite an effort, but wierd.
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14-11-2011, 06:27 PM | #14 | ||
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Freaky, that's exactly the same pattern Elvis had on his belt buckle at his second to last show...
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14-11-2011, 06:40 PM | #15 | ||
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China is probably testing laser beam cannons.
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14-11-2011, 10:09 PM | #16 | ||
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its a whale sonar jamming system , jamms whale sonar so no aliens think we're eating whales .
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14-11-2011, 11:00 PM | #17 | ||
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Housing estate.
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14-11-2011, 11:54 PM | #18 | |||
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I'd say its a photoshop....a bloody good photoshop at that. Cant find any other explanation. If it were something top secret im sure it would have been photochopped out of google maps/earth a long time ago... but then again....weird stuff happens every now n then....eh well life goes on...for now
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15-11-2011, 08:40 PM | #19 | |||
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glancevie...e-china.glance
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15-11-2011, 09:18 PM | #20 | ||
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Reverse engineering Jackson Pollocks Blue Poles
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15-11-2011, 09:56 PM | #21 | ||
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On a mil website discussing this, area- and scenarious used for training by PLA and other mil related service agencies for advanced and regular smart weapons.
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15-11-2011, 11:00 PM | #22 | ||
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hmmmm........ looks fake to me.
if they have built something there then why can you still see the contors of the original landscape through the white lines. or maybe its just a new modern art work. lets spray paint patterns over the desert and see how long before someone spots it.
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15-11-2011, 11:16 PM | #23 | ||
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maybe the satellite lens cracked
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16-11-2011, 01:45 AM | #24 | |||
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16-11-2011, 11:38 AM | #25 | ||
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Federation square...
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16-11-2011, 11:50 AM | #26 | ||
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Totally fake.. you can see the contours of the landscape, and the straight lines are just too perfect over a non-flat landscape like that... someone has just hacked google maps again
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