Comments on: Google Earth- Virtual Trips Around the World http://teacherstone.edublogs.org/2006/10/02/google-earth/ Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:03:06 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: J.B. http://teacherstone.edublogs.org/2006/10/02/google-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-12 J.B. Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:03:06 +0000 http://teacherstone.edublogs.org/2006/10/02/google-earth/#comment-12 Google Earth is one of those things that everyone should try out. Here's one of those amazing things which has been found in Google Earth: Photo: http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/07/19/huangyangtan_wide.jpg Google Earth forum post http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/484568 That's the place in the middle of the desert where the Chinese Army has constructed a scale-model replica of the entire region of Aksai Chin (occupied by China since the 1962 war with India). At 1:500, it's still 700 by 900 meters big ( = several football fields). Next to it is a base with dozens of troop transporters seen coming and going. The duplicate shows everything: rivers, lakes, roads and snow-capped mountains. It's basically a landscape within a landscape. The problem is that nobody has been able to figure out the function of this thing. The world's biggest miniature golf course, perhaps? China's own Area 51? That's why it's the subject of so much discussion in the blogosphere. Any ideas? Google Earth is one of those things that everyone should try out. Here’s one of those amazing things which has been found in Google Earth:

Photo:
http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/07/19/huangyangtan_wide.jpg

Google Earth forum post
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/484568

That’s the place in the middle of the desert where the Chinese Army has constructed a scale-model replica of the entire region of Aksai Chin (occupied by China since the 1962 war with India). At 1:500, it’s still 700 by 900 meters big ( = several football fields). Next to it is a base with dozens of troop transporters seen coming and going. The duplicate shows everything: rivers, lakes, roads and snow-capped mountains. It’s basically a landscape within a landscape.

The problem is that nobody has been able to figure out the function of this thing. The world’s biggest miniature golf course, perhaps? China’s own Area 51? That’s why it’s the subject of so much discussion in the blogosphere.

Any ideas?

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