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Google map mystery of giant lines spotted by satellite in Gobi desert (in China)

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Google Maps satellite spots bizarre structures in Chinese desert | Mail Online

[QUOTEA Google Maps satellite has spotted a series of bizarre structures during a sweep of the Gobi desert in China.

The internet is buzzing with theories about what their purpose is, with suggestions ranging from giant QR readers to practise targets for military satellites.

To add to the intrigue, they are located on the borders of Gansu province and Xinjiang in northwestern China - an area that the superpower uses to build military, space and nuclear equipment.[/QUOTE]

In fact, some of the sites are less than 100 miles from Jiuquan, where China’s space programme headquarters and launch pads can be found.
Some internet users have been trying to overlay one of the strange structures on to various U.S. city maps, worried that there may be a sinister military purpose behind them.

Others have pointed out that if China wanted to attack a U.S. city, it doesn’t need a practise map in the desert.
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Sooner or later, the world is headed for a very dark place, and China will probably be the one to start it.
 
OMG! They're drawing lines in the sand!!! We better attack them ASAP or we'll all be killed by the evil that is RED CHINA!



Aren't you tired of being scared?
 
Tettsuo said:
OMG! They're drawing lines in the sand!!! We better attack them ASAP or we'll all be killed by the evil that is RED CHINA!



Aren't you tired of being scared?
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LOL, yeah, ok.

Nazi Germany, Napolean's France, Stalin's Russia, Polpot, Ho Chi Minh.......they were all just kidding.

Nice sense of history, you have. Of course, liberals seem to all think history began the day they were born.
 
Erod said:
LOL, yeah, ok.

Nazi Germany, Napolean's France, Stalin's Russia, Polpot, Ho Chi Minh.......they were all just kidding.

Nice sense of history, you have. Of course, liberals seem to all think history began the day they were born.
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All of whom gave us actual reasons to be concerned. Drawing lines in the sand is not a reason for concern.
 
Cyan runways are deadly! Not to mention the crazy-paving signals to their Taikonauts
 
Americans and American policymakers SHOULD be concerned about China from a purely pragmatic perspective. But telling us that we should be afraid of lines in the desert is pure idiocy and is nothing more than fear-mongering on your part. As the article points out, the worst thing the Chinese can do to us is to launch a nuke. They don't need lines in the desert to do that.

And, if a Google maps satellite can spot this, doesn't it stand to reason that our defense/intel satellites have seen the same thing?
 
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I think it is pretty obvious what is going on here. The Chinese have contacted an alien race of super beings and have followed their arcane directions for providing them the necessary landing pad for their planned occupation.

I wouldn't worry too much. The Chinese don't want to be our cruel overlords, but just their bureaucrats.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Americans and American policymakers SHOULD be concerned about China from a purely pragmatic perspective. But telling us that we should be afraid of lines in the desert is pure idiocy and is nothing more than fear-mongering on your part. As the article points out, the worst thing the Chinese can do to us is to launch a nuke. They don't need lines in the desert to do that.
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muciti said:
Comparing lines in the sand or potential buildings to Nazi Germany and Polpot seems a bit extreme.
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Which is why we turn this on them. eye-of-sauron_0.jpg
 
Gardener said:
I think it is pretty obvious what is going on here. The Chinese have contacted an alien race of super beings and have followed their arcane directions for providing them the necessary landing pad for their planned occupation.

I wouldn't worry too much. The Chinese don't want to be our cruel overlords, but just their bureaucrats.
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You just recited the plot of "The Event" lol.
 
Tettsuo said:
All of whom gave us actual reasons to be concerned. Drawing lines in the sand is not a reason for concern.
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You have a nation that practices pure communism within its borders and the purest of capitalism outside its borders. It's like General Electric with an employee base of 10-year-olds with no rights working for free.

They're not ready yet, but they have an unlimited supply of free labor, and everybody owes them money, which can be converted into information and know-how (Clinton already helped them out considerably).

This should concern you greatly down the road.
 
Erod said:
You have a nation that practices pure communism within its borders and the purest of capitalism outside its borders. It's like General Electric with an employee base of 10-year-olds with no rights working for free.

They're not ready yet, but they have an unlimited supply of free labor, and everybody owes them money, which can be converted into information and know-how (Clinton already helped them out considerably).

This should concern you greatly down the road.
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I don't know where you've been learning your history/political science or if you actually read the news, but nothing could be further from the truth.
 
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Erod said:
Google Maps satellite spots bizarre structures in Chinese desert | Mail Online

[QUOTEA Google Maps satellite has spotted a series of bizarre structures during a sweep of the Gobi desert in China.

The internet is buzzing with theories about what their purpose is, with suggestions ranging from giant QR readers to practise targets for military satellites.

To add to the intrigue, they are located on the borders of Gansu province and Xinjiang in northwestern China - an area that the superpower uses to build military, space and nuclear equipment.[/QUOTE]




Sooner or later, the world is headed for a very dark place, and China will probably be the one to start it.
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Nah. Elvis Presley will start it.
 
muciti said:
Comparing lines in the sand or potential buildings to Nazi Germany and Polpot seems a bit extreme.
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I don't know about that, because I was going to suggest that it is a super-secret death ray they have in space that is being use to draw those lines on the ground.


BTW, stop using PeteEU's avatar.
 
Erod said:
You have a nation that practices pure communism within its borders and the purest of capitalism outside its borders. It's like General Electric with an employee base of 10-year-olds with no rights working for free.

They're not ready yet, but they have an unlimited supply of free labor, and everybody owes them money, which can be converted into information and know-how (Clinton already helped them out considerably).

This should concern you greatly down the road.
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This whole post is just one giant face palm to the face!
You just moaned about how none of us know history, but this whole post just proves you dont know any history...

But seriously we should be scared about some Chinese lines in the ground?
 
they're calling upon the spirit of bruce lee to kick our asses!
 
China can defeat us handily, causing death, panic, and descention in mere weeks, without ever firing a single rifle, launching a single rocket, or drawing a single line in some desert sand. Economics is the new weapon of mass destruction, and they have it, and us, by the balls.
 
KevinKohler said:
China can defeat us handily, causing death, panic, and descention in mere weeks, without ever firing a single rifle, launching a single rocket, or drawing a single line in some desert sand. Economics is the new weapon of mass destruction, and they have it, and us, by the balls.
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Not really. The economic relations between the US and China are not one-sided by any means. They need us as much as we need them.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Not really. The economic relations between the US and China are not one-sided by any means. They need us as much as we need them.
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I would say the majority of chinese would cope a LOT better being suddenly shunted into 3rd world living conditions, than the majority of US citizens.

You always have to consider that people are willing to give up a LOT, in order to win.
 
KevinKohler said:
I would say the majority of chinese would cope a LOT better being suddenly shunted into 3rd world living conditions, than the majority of US citizens.

You always have to consider that people are willing to give up a LOT, in order to win.
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What precisely would China be "winning" by screwing us? This isn't a zero-sum game.
 
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