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Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
« on: November 15, 2011, 10:20:51 AM »
Some interesting stuff for conspiracy theorists (though not having made a comparison, the "DC streets" one is pretty good):

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/15/google-maps-reveals-strange-patterns-in-china-desert/?test=faces
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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2011, 10:46:26 AM »
Well, color me stoopid, as it looks like a cheap overlay to me......
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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2011, 10:53:39 AM »
Links that take you to the actual images.
http://gizmodo.com/5859081/why-is-china-building-these-gigantic-structures-in-the-middle-of-the-desert


ETA:  Some of these images were discovered back in 2006.  http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/07/huge_scale_mode.html  Look at the other interesting locations.
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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2011, 12:03:44 PM »
In the Gizmodo link one image is described as a "complex" that is 5x10 miles, but they only show one big building. They must mean the area of the building. What would you store in a 5x10 mile building if you were the Chinese? Your clone army, or your dormant Terminators?
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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2011, 12:06:48 PM »
On some of the other sites with other pictures, the grid is conjectured to be for aerial/space targeting tests and blast damage assessment.  There are pictures of bombed out buildings and damaged aircraft parked around a bullseye.
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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2011, 12:11:39 PM »
Military projects of some sort.
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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2011, 02:35:59 PM »


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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2011, 08:18:58 PM »
Looks like roads designed by the CA dept of transportation. =D

I seem to remember the old MX missile system having a network of roads similar to this.  The only kicker is that the area isn't that large.
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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2011, 08:25:14 PM »
Quote from: Gowen on November 15, 2011, 08:18:58 PM
Looks like roads designed by the CA dept of transportation. =D

As a Californian I take umbrage. You are completely wrong. The roads on the Google images look like they've been maintained.
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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2011, 09:22:32 PM »
It obviously a Walmart reeducation or distribution center.
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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2011, 07:33:30 PM »
I heard they were built to calibrate the spy sattelites the Chinese have sent up.....chris3
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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
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Re: Google Maps Reveals Strange Patterns in Gobi Desert
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2011, 09:25:58 PM »
They appear to be segments of street/highway maps, clearly a test target.  I have been mulling this over for a while and recently I saw a section of a Google maps photo of an area in NC that looked remarkably like the Gobi patterns.

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