Ex-CIA analyst finds mysterious Chinese complex on Google Earth

Post by juan_juarez » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 12:43 AM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #6

dreamdu5t wrote: post #3

Uhhh, why don't they build these underground or camouflage them at all? I find it hard to believe sensitive compounds aren't camouflaged for satellite imagery.

I'd imagine cost. Putting things underground takes a lot of time and costs many times more than putting it above ground. If you need something in a hurry and don't have infinite resources, you really don't want to be digging. If this is indeed a secret Chinese facility I'd say it's done its job. We know it's there but we haven't the faintest clue what it does. In the modern age of spy satellites, hiding something com…

Post by contingencies » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 1:12 AM UTC

JonnieCache wrote: post #7

The best thing the chinese have got in their desert is a 1:20 model of a section of the india-china border. http://www.gearthblog.com/images/images706/scalemodel.jpg http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/07/huge_scale_m... They also have a deserted replica of a typical english town: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Town And they recently unveiled an exact replica of a real austrian town: http://www.bbc.co.u…

Post by juiceandjuice » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 1:58 AM UTC

juiceandjuice wrote: post #14

The buildings/structures out there are in interesting ratios. One of the U buildings is ~64m on 3 sides. Another one is 125% bigger on the smaller size, and then in a ratio of 1:2:1 per side. A couple more buildings are about 108m, then there's more at about 86. Again, the bigger one is 125% larger. The big building is about 144m on the left and 154m on the right. To the right of that, there's another complex that's…

Post by wololo » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 3:16 AM UTC

biot wrote: post #12

juan_juarez wrote: post #11

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Google Maps is just free public satellite imagery. You can barely make out people (interestingly enough, I just realized most people are filtered out of the images). The CIA's had birds for years that are good enough to read license plates on moving cars. I'm sure that, if anything interesting is in that desert, they knew what it was before it was even built.

> The CIA's had birds for years that are good enough to > read license plates on moving cars. That's an urban myth, assuming that by "bird" you're referring to an orbiting satellite and not terrestrial equipment like airplanes, quadcopters, and so on: http://everything2.com/title/Spy+satellites+can%2527t+read+y...

Post by contingencies » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 3:31 AM UTC

liquid_lazer wrote: post #18

contingencies wrote: post #13

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Nice! Also, some obscenely rich guy in the east built a full-scale Whitehouse as a personal residence. In the southwest, there is giant 'Optimus Prime' Transformers statue advertising a car-yard. China and America are pretty similar, all things told.

I need to see the Optimus Prime