Nov 142011
Every now and then I stumble across a Brand New News Story that just seems damned familiar. Often enough it’s just deja vu, or some combination of being old and broken down with my lifetime of reckless hedonism coming back to haunt me. And sometimes… it’s an old news story, recycled. For example:
Why Is China Building These Gigantic Structures In the Middle of the Desert?
It’s an interesting article, full of interesting photos taken from space showing gigantic *somethings* that China is building out in the middle of nowhere. But it sure seemed familiar. So I searched my own blog, and found this, from two and a half years ago:
What the hell is this in China?
HA! There can be only one explanation…
5 Responses to “What the hell is this in China? Redux”
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I love stuff like this. I long to know the great secrets of the world. They must be truly mind-blowing.
As for the structures: my guess would be that the radial one with the a/c (which appear to be a Mig-15 and some other antiques) is a weapons effects test target. The location is fairly near the nuclear test site at Lop Nor… but surely we’d’ve noticed an atmospheric nuke test. Maybe an e-bomb? Metastable metallic hydrogen weapons? The secret base of the People’s Invincible Iron Fist Combining Giant Robot Team?
The Block of Squiggly Lines could be a test facility for robot land vehicles.
One might try comparing the runway layout of the two “airfields” with real runway maps. There must be an app for that…
The “power plant” and “HAARP” structures might be… a power plant an a HAARP antenna.
As for the long, rectangular grid…. I’m baffled.
Reminds me of Borges story on maps “On the Exactitude of Science” or something.
Speaking of ancient aliens, the most recent episode of South Park satirizes the the Ancient Aliens show on the History Channel. I got some good lolz out of that.
However, while scanning the Gizmodo link, the radial pattern caught my eye and I think B. Lewis above nailed it. I know NAVAIR has a similar setup for their weapon tests, although not as large.
> I got some good lolz out of that.
As did I. “Ancient Aliens” is the most ridiculous pile of crap I’ve seen in a long while; the very antithesis of science and proper historical analysis.
> I know NAVAIR has a similar setup for their weapon tests…
While I’m sure that at least some of these constructions have some (perceived) practical value, some of them remind me of “shovel-ready stimulus projects.”
Consider:
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/
wooh, one day later this reach German media !
and they note some errors in gizmodo article
like “these huge precipitation pools of some kind”
that’s a mining Potash salts plant with help of gigantic water reservoir and the Sun
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,797957,00.html
the guy from “hysteria” channel is a cult figure
to see in there top-overexert TV show “Ancient Aliens”
wat ever counter-argument you say, he say “it’s Alien origin” ROFL