Very strange. What do you think... crop circles or military test grounds? Maybe it's just a little something the Chinese threw together to entertain space travelers? Some of these lines are nearly 20 miles long. Fascinating stuff! Massive networks of stripes appear in Chinese Desert Nov 14th 2011 Talk about your morning weird. Some people studying Google Earth for some reason managed to run across some very weird patterns in the Chinese desert that have a bunch of folks stumped. The patterns look like stripes that were etched or dug over the top of the landscape in the area. Some of the lines appear to be made from a silver/white material. Considering these can clearly be seen from orbit the formations are raising some eyebrows with geeks trying to figure out what exactly they are for. Are these some sort of alignment or targeting grids for space weapons or what? In one of the photos, you can clearly see a grid of structures with three of them either destroyed or partially standing as if they were for target practice. The strangest one is the intersecting grids lines; the structure covers 18 miles of space. The other pattern that looks like some sort of targeting grid is set up with concentric rings of what appear to be structures with straight spokes radiating out from the center. There are aircraft placed in the center of this circle. I have no idea what it is, but it reminds me of how the military would test the blast radius of some sort of bomb to see what the damage is like further out from the point of impact. What do you think? Is this a military testing ground or the Chinese equivalent of crop circles? More pics: Any guesses???
For the top picture, my guess would be that there was at one time walls put up, and that it was used for military training in urban warfare. Now all that remains are the "roads" left in the ground. This would explain the strange shapes. For the middle picture, seems to be either target practice, possibly with the targets containing explosives. For the picture at the bottom, it may possibly be radiation testing, or testing for a leak of toxic chemicals, with the concentric circles containing sensors/ measuring devices. It appears that someting must have expanded outward in all directions, which is to be measured, from the planes in the center.
