[claydough (OP)]

Not sure where to post this although I think I am looking at the some kind of humongous violent Crystalline result?

take a gander please at the following Google earth link in 3D! ( as much as I ctrl click orbit the view and refresh I always get what looks like a crystalline city! )


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My imagination running wild since the plot in question located on an oil refinery.
In the tableau in my head there was some kind of chemical process gone haywire or perhaps a chemical fire where an emergency retardant was also a catalyst that resulted in the giant emerald forest?

I tried google street view from the closest street but the view is either absent or blocked.

Crash landing of a meteorite piloted by an alien race that have a crystalline cellular structure. They have been seeding planets with crystal life in this kamikaze manner for a short time only?

Some kind of cooling pit for a refinery process? And This is a frozen result? ( If you zoom out there are similar sized and shaped pits of what looks like possibly liquid filling with pipes running in a network just under the surface? )

Thanks fer any straight d0pe!

[claydough (OP)]

hmmm...
not sure what the blacklisted term was in the google link of the 3d earth view. Cant post links so I stripped the head but I guess that is not good enough?
So here are the coordinates instead in case someone would care to scratch their heads:



29°44'54.3"N 94°59'30.8"W

29.748419, -94.991882

[evan_au]

It is labelled as an Exon-Mobil chemical plant, on the outskirts of Houston. It looks like there are many chemical storage tanks, some of them in poor repair. Each tank has a surrounding low dam that is designed to capture the contents of the tank in case the tank ruptures.

A fire in the tank could explain a blackened area inside the dam.

I understand that Google allows land-owners to "censor" certain areas that they consider "sensitive". Some low-resolution polygons could be used as "censorship". A series of towers looks a similar pattern to what you expect in a petrochemical plant, although not exactly what you would expect in a field of storage tanks.

[claydough (OP)]

Another forum refereed me to bing's satellite and birds eye views where the pit shows flat green liquid.
So now I am guessing that there is something perhaps metallic that reflects back to google's capturing and calculation technologies in variances causing a haywire frequency result?
That would explain the bumps on some of the facets ( ripple on the liquid surface? )

( It would be a shame though... I was secretly hoping for The Green Lantern's take on his own "fortress of Solitude" )

[chris]

You could not post the links because you have not got enough posting cred here yet; once you reach a threshold number of posts then additional features are unlocked. It is intended to deter spammers.

[Paul Repstock]

Evan; Do you have any definite information on Google's "censoring" of images?
In the area where we live there are regions which display images that I know are atleast 15 years old?
With the huge numbers of satelites now in orbit, it surprises me that ordinary people cannot gain access to Real Time images at a reasonable cost. I do understand that the data needs to be run through enhancing processors. But, it can't be that expensive.