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Gigantic Structures in China - 12-06-2011, 11:02 AM


Does anyone have any guesses on what these are?

Why Is China Building These Gigantic Structures In the Middle of the Desert? | Danger Room | Wired.com

Apparently some of these are calibration targets for spy sattelites.

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12-06-2011, 01:55 PM


There were some calibration targets found out in the California Desert that the US govt finally admitted to existing (don't know if Google has blurred them out or not since the news story)
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Cool.

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