Andy Burns wrote:
Comments elsewhere (slashdot perhaps?) suggest looking back at the
historical maps, showing they didn't exist in 2003, started to be
"constructed" in 2005 with apparent heaps of material being spread to
create them, and a few temporary buildings around them, fimished in a
couple of years and nothing done to them since ...

Perhaps the Chinese were upset at the debunking of the urban myth that the
Great Wall could be seen from space and were determined to have /something/
which could be.

André Coutanche

In message , Ian
writes
In message , Rick writes

"Ian" wrote in message
...
In message , Rick writes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pict...s/8888802/Biza
rre-structures-in-the-desert-in-China-discovered-on-Google-Maps.html



Superimposed.



On second thoughts you could be right, nothing would really surprise
me with Google, remember the panic they created when we thought that
the world was being invaded by alien side cutters...
http://tinyurl.com/cl9b4ta

I find it strange that these are being called structures.

Zooming in shows these lines to be transparent.

As I said, trails left by giant radioactive slugs and snails!
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Ian

Paul - xxx wrote:
Rick wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8888802/Bizarre-structures-in-the-desert-in-China-discovered-on-Google-Maps.html

Has anyone actually asked the Chinese?

Yes. This morning. I have a Chinese colleague. He's dived into Chinese
chat forums, and the consensus in those is it could be preparatory work
for a wind farm ?

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:26:33 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:

Paul - xxx wrote:
Rick wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8888802/Bizarre-structures-in-the-desert-in-China-discovered-on-Google-Maps.html

Has anyone actually asked the Chinese?

Yes. This morning. I have a Chinese colleague. He's dived into Chinese
chat forums, and the consensus in those is it could be preparatory work
for a wind farm ?

Interesting idea though I would have expected more symmetry.

Steve

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Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

Has anyone actually asked the Chinese?
Yes. This morning. I have a Chinese colleague. He's dived into Chinese
chat forums, and the consensus in those is it could be preparatory work
for a wind farm ?

Interesting idea though I would have expected more symmetry.

Steve

Why do they need a symmetry on a building site? Don't they have health
and safety in China? Anyway, I thought they either built a pyre or
exposed the body to the vultures.

Bill

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:52:00 -0000, André Coutanche
wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:
Comments elsewhere (slashdot perhaps?) suggest looking back at the
historical maps, showing they didn't exist in 2003, started to be
"constructed" in 2005 with apparent heaps of material being spread to
create them, and a few temporary buildings around them, finished in a
couple of years and nothing done to them since ...

Perhaps the Chinese were upset at the debunking of the urban myth that
the
Great Wall could be seen from space and were determined to have
/something/
which could be.


Oh, the Great Wall could certainly be observed from space... but not from
lunar orbit, low earth orbit, certainly.

The artefact is about 2 square kilometers in area.


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