What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? 257
New submitter snooz_crash writes "An Ex-CIA analyst requests your assistance in IDing a base that he has been observing for quite a while. The base has been in existence for several years, but its shape and location do not lead to an immediate answer to the riddle of 'what the heck is it?'"
Isn't it obvious? (Score:5, Funny)
It's a cleverly designed denial of service attack against the CIA/NSA/etc. By making them waste time trying to figure out what this base is, they're keeping them from discovering actual information.
It can't be an underground complex (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe.... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe that's why he's an ex-CIA analyst.
Ikea store (Score:5, Funny)
Blue roof, yellow trim. Built on cheap land for no good reason. Duh! It's an Ikea store.
IDing (Score:2, Funny)
Try the maps on IBing
Re:Ummm.... maybe go there? (Score:5, Funny)
Go there, who does that these days? Click street view and read what the sign above the door says.
Found Em! (Score:2, Funny)
That's where they are keeping Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Re:Factory (Score:5, Funny)
Factory on the left, dorms on the right. Nothing to see here.
Sooo...
Newest Foxconn facility?
Where are the roof nets?
Re:Maybe.... (Score:5, Funny)
Not necessarily. China may not be super secret squirrel any more about everything, but they still have plenty of secrets.
That said, it's probably a Wal-Mart.
Re:PIg farm with big building for pregnant sows (Score:4, Funny)
Nah, this is what a pig farm looks like from orbit [wowwiki.com].
Re:IDing (Score:4, Funny)
According to Apple Maps it's the Swaffham branch of Sainsburys.
Re:Isn't it obvious? (Score:3, Funny)
And here I thought it was our base that r belong to the Chinese.
It is obvious! (Score:5, Funny)
This is a clever trick designed by Slashdot to make people RTFA.
You're not making me fall into that trap, by gum...
Re:Ummm.... maybe go there? (Score:5, Funny)
Don't shoot yet... (Score:1, Funny)