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Google adds THIS to our worries ...

... namely worries about that bizarre military facility in China recently discovered using Google Earth

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

Articles with photos:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/19/huangyangtan_mystery/
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/chinese-xfile-excites-spotters/2006/07/20/1153166503699.html

It's pretty weird. In the middle of the desert the Chinese People's Army built an artificial landscape, 800 x 1000 feet big (that's several football fields), complete with lakes, rivers, roads and snow-capped mountains. It's an exact 1:500 scale-model duplicate of Aksai Chin, which China has occupied since the 1962 Sino-Indian War. In Google Earth you can see a hundred or so troop carriers parked, coming, or going.

Lots of discussion (the discoverer even had to start a blog to manage the buzz: foundinchina.blogspot.com), nobody has figured out what exactly the facility is for, but you don?t build a huge thing like this for fun.

Any ideas?

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