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General Discussion & Feedback => Just Chat! => Topic started by: RD on 23/11/2011 16:34:37
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http://gizmodo.com/5859081/why-is-china-building-these-gigantic-structures-in-the-middle-of-the-desert
If it's not a replica of a road network (of where ?), my money is on an artwork by Ai Weiwei (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%27Sunflower_Seeds%27_by_Ai_Weiwei,_Tate_Modern_Turbine_Hall.jpg) [:)]
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Maybe it's an intergalactic bar code.
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Maybe it's an intergalactic bar code.
Nah..... Its Milton Keynes.
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... Its Milton Keynes.
It can't be MK: where are the roundabouts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes_grid_road_system) ?. [:)]
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... Its Milton Keynes.
It can't be MK: where are the roundabouts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes_grid_road_system) ?. [:)]
Fiendishly clever and inscrutable, these Chinese. They've taken them to Bejing to copy them and sell 1000's on eBay.
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A good explanation:
But it now seems likely that the structures are used to calibrate China's spy satellites, according to Natalie Wolchover of website Life's Little Mysteries.
She spoke to Jonathon Hill, a research technician at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University, which operates many of the cameras used in Nasa's Mars missions - who said the symbols are near-identical to US targets used to calibrate Corona spy satellites in the Sixties.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2062456/Gobi-Desert-Google-Map-mystery-explained-Objects-likely-spy-satellite-targets.html
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A good explanation:
But it now seems likely that the structures are used to calibrate China's spy satellites, according to Natalie Wolchover of website Life's Little Mysteries.
She spoke to Jonathon Hill, a research technician at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University, which operates many of the cameras used in Nasa's Mars missions - who said the symbols are near-identical to US targets used to calibrate Corona spy satellites in the Sixties.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2062456/Gobi-Desert-Google-Map-mystery-explained-Objects-likely-spy-satellite-targets.html
If it's just a reference why not use an existing ~1000m rectangular structure, (e.g. attached),
rather than go to the effort building a giant target in the middle of nowhere ?
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If it is designed for drone, bomb, and missile attacks... perhaps the Chinese would choose not to calibrate it to Beijing.
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I think it's a meaningless composite image. It's marginally interesting to view it in negative.
One image (the mountain range and river for example) appears to be overlaid with a semi transparent second image the grid, (which kinda looks like the lead work [in negative] of a leaded light window]).