Mar 142009
There’s something screwy going on in western China.
Located at +40° 27′ 25.20″, +93° 23′ 24.00″
And at +40° 27′ 10.80″, +93° 44′ 34.80″
Between these two sites, located at +40° 29′ 9.60″, +93° 29′ 60.00″ is clearly some sort of base with numerous “airstrips.”
The two primary “airfields,” if that’s what they really are, look to have been built to the same plan, just at slightly different angles. It seems the western field is the older one, as it looks like it has been seriously eroded. There appear to be a vast number of either bumps or craters strung across the older field… bombing practice? Trees? Huts? Dunno.
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i think someone’s playing silly buggers with the images, zoom right in and notice how the surface terrain goes _over_ the patterns/airfield….
that China Version of the U.S. Nevada Test and Training Range
so a China Airforce training facility
including with Nuclear weapon test site
I don’t know what is going on with the man made stuff, but I think there is a lot of flash flooding erosion happening in that area. I think it is an excessively interesting area to be building. That might explain some of the strange structures.
several km nearby
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Some goofball structures are non-governmental. This one, for instance, is a Scientology facility in New Mexico:
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.523704,-104.571819&spn=0.018302,0.038624&z=15
Landing pad for UFOs or some damned thing.
But for the life of me I can’t figure out what those Chinese facilities are. What’s the purpose of paving those lines?
There are a number of known instances of military services building mockups of enemy areas where they practice invasion & control. I’d be surprised if these didn’t match the street layout of some cities somewhere.
That was my first thought… but who the hell lays out a city like that???
Many modern streets started as cow/livestock paths. There are many such in Europe and Asia. A village starts around a cow path to the local water source or the market, then once buildings are erected it never changes.
Even in the USA where we started from scratch a couple hundred years ago- many of the main north-south secondary roads in Texas were once cattle drive routes. Look up Preston Road in Dallas for example.
Look at maps of virtually any port city and you can see some of the oldest streets follow the terrain – because the livestock found it easier to walk that way hundreds of years back. 🙂
>but who the hell lays out a city like that???
the tibetans????
The “Airfields”, especially the one on the right, and one below it if you zoom out a bit look like they MIGHT be solar panels… There’s a power station of some sort south east of that site.
The others a more than a bit odd. There’s an array of blue buildings, at least one of which has obviousely blown up… Perhaps it’s an industrial meth lab!
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