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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.
What if they are not sensitive. Maybe just a waste processing facility or something.
http://ogleearth.com/2013/01/kashgars-mystery-complex-is-not...
In this day and age, could probably find some folks from Kashgar on Weibo and ask them. Not Twitter or Facebook, though.
Some of the spots are located at:
38.922210, 83.813098 http://goo.gl/maps/3RSmB
38.973006, 83.905259 http://goo.gl/maps/Wlyfo
38.987518, 83.84858 http://goo.gl/maps/jicRC
38.950323, 83.797617 http://goo.gl/maps/DyykD
but there's plenty of them. And there's a huge complex in the zone that looks like missile silos. But why would leave those silos uncensored an censor "something else"? (I don't know what)
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…
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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…
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.
Just to name a few (historical) examples The SR71 and the U2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird
and of curse, many types of satellites
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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…
As someone who visited Wolfschanze Hitler's secret hideout in Poland, (where assasination attempt take place), I can assure you, you don't need to hide a compound under ground, it can be perfectly concealed on the ground in forest, if you really want it to stay invisible.
There are a lot of spots that seems to be "censored" in Taklamakan Desert, to the East. Some of the spots are located at: 38.922210, 83.813098 http://goo.gl/maps/3RSmB 38.973006, 83.905259 http://goo.gl/maps/Wlyfo 38.987518, 83.84858 http://goo.gl/maps/jicRC 38.950323, 83.797617 http://goo.gl/maps/DyykD but there's plenty of them. And there's a huge complex in the zone that looks like missile silos. But why would lea…
There are a lot of spots that seems to be "censored" in Taklamakan Desert, to the East. Some of the spots are located at: 38.922210, 83.813098 http://goo.gl/maps/3RSmB 38.973006, 83.905259 http://goo.gl/maps/Wlyfo 38.987518, 83.84858 http://goo.gl/maps/jicRC 38.950323, 83.797617 http://goo.gl/maps/DyykD but there's plenty of them. And there's a huge complex in the zone that looks like missile silos. But why would lea…
Who do you suppose is doing the censoring and why?
Does anyone know the real location of these pictures? I tried the waypoint in the picture, and it takes me to blurry mountains.