What? Those are balls.

Circular pattern with airplanes and walls: world's greatest paintball pit.

They pray joke

Lead.

Secret cities to put all the unwanted female babbys?

Pinner: They pray joke


I see no Coke there.

I just really do not want to know how to play Kumtag . . .

Looks like a testing range for some sort of satellite targeting system.

1.2 billion people.

it's called 'busy work' folks.

*shrug* Probably another stupid Christo "artwork".

Clearly the work of the Illuminati.

At any rate, not near as interesting as the massive, to scale mockup they made of the Sino-Indian border to practice military drills.

Probably just testing the resolution of satellites.

Perhaps it's some kind of targeting or calibrating grid for Chinese spy satellites? Maybe it's a QR code for aliens? Nobody who would waste time talking to Gizmodo really knows.

There, fixed that for you.

The Modules for the Condition Ones?

/it'll take a Miracle...

The circular on looks like a damage assesment grid for airburst weapons.

A stately pleasure dome

I'll tell you one thing: They're not building a playhouse for the children.

They also built a big empty city for $500 billion, fit for 1 million people but almost no one lives there.

Go figure.

If I had to guess, I'd say that's a mock airstrip for bomb tests, the high-contrast bright blue paint lets them assess damage from planes/satellites. There are pockmarks on it already.

whither_apophis: A stately pleasure dome

A statery presure dome

RTS map prototype mock-ups. Those Asians love video games.

It's a street lamp?

The truth behind the white lines is really boring and kind of funny.

yogaFLAME: Better watch out for scarred Ishbalans.

mmm..scarred lesbians....

anyone got pics of what a scarred lesbian looks like?

The stadiums for the next time they have the Olympics there?

JLEM: Looks like a testing range for some sort of satellite targeting system.

Correct. A lower-altitude satellite pass got this additional image:

Hell, just go to Google street view and see what they are.

david_gaithersburg: The truth behind the white lines is really boring and kind of funny.

The white line is for loading and unloading only.

photoshop works nice, doesn't it?

Werewolves keep getting into my trash and scattering it down the street.

I'm with the person that said some of them are probably copies of city streets in other countries.

China has very long term plans and goals. Don't be surprised when they pull the pin one day and every electronic device in your house starts trying to kill you while Chinese commandos rain down like Red Dawn.

I'll tell you one thing, they're not building a playhouse for the children.

/I heard they have an ex-wife in some place called Mayors Income, Tennessee
//And what's that tune they're always whistling

Lead mines?

Just a little prep for Case Nightmare Green.

Don't worry, there's nothing you can do about it anyway.

david_gaithersburg: The truth behind the white lines is really boring and kind of funny.

World's biggest coke party?

So the CIA is crowd-sourcing now?

I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing is "look over there" ploy while the real funky stuff is happening on the other side of the country.

I used to have an old book picked up from the 99cent bin called 'Deception:the secret war between the CIA and the KGB' or something.

Really fun to read on the deception, the double and triple agents and also included was some part that talked how the US used to think that Russia was not a threat because the long range missiles they were using were missing the target due to some guidance system problem. This was until the US satellite changed it's scheduled flight pattern and did a pass over the target range site and found bulldozers moving the targets away from the resulting explosion craters.
Turns out they had the information on the satellite pattern.

/of course the whole book can just be a whole bunch of deception, whadda I know

Moisture collectors, wind traps, deathstills, qunats, the shield wall, etc...

LockeOak: If I had to guess, I'd say that's a mock airstrip for bomb tests, the high-contrast bright blue paint lets them assess damage from planes/satellites. There are pockmarks on it already.

That is better than my guess of a man made seaplane base.

vodka: I'm with the person that said some of them are probably copies of city streets in other countries.

Seems unlikely. Cities with modern layouts are more gridlike (few triangles), and cities with old pre-automobile layouts don't have straight streets. Unless the lines are just very crude representations.

The Taklimakan Desert continues to support small populations of animals like wild Bactrian camels (Camelus ferus) and Asian wild asses (Equus hemionus) that have been extirpated in other parts of China. All of the 500 Bactrian camels that survive in the wild in China inhabit the Taklimakan, mostly in the area to the east of the (now dry) Lop Nor Lake. Arjin Shan Wild Camel Nature Reserve (15,125 km2) has been mapped to conserve habitat for this species, but the wild camels are still thought to be in a state of decline. An extension of Arjin Shan Nature Reserve is located at higher elevation in the basins of the Kunlun Mountains to the south. If these two large protected areas are managed successfully, they will be valuable for desert conservation in China. A roughly equal number of wild Bactrian camels occur in Great Gobi National Park in Mongolia. (new window)



Great. The Chinese Pentagon is f*cking up yet another desert.

prjindigo: photoshop works nice, doesn't it?

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Getting warmer, really warm.

tetsoushima: Moisture collectors, wind traps, deathstills, qunats, the shield wall, etc...



Here's a better view.