What Did Google Earth Spot in the Chinese Desert? An Ex-CIA Analyst Isn’t Sure

[Sionyn]

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/01/google-earth-china-hunh/

[Sionyn]

i bet their trying to model daves lab

[Bored@Work]

"it went up in what I’d call an incredible hurry"

I call bullshit. Google is slow at updating satellite images. He should not have enough samples to judge how fast this was build using Google alone. The image we see at Google at the moment might be weeks or years old, and he would have to have not one, but at least two images from known dates to make that call.

[tinhead]

"it went up in what I’d call an incredible hurry"

I call bullshit. Google is slow at updating satellite images.

yep, it takes months.

>> Re: What Did Google Earth Spot in the Chinese Desert? An Ex-CIA Analyst Isn’t Sure )

why he can't simply call Chinese gov and ask them? Or even better, why is he not using the pictures from spy satelites? They much better, there is no need to use google crap for investigations.

[andersm]

I call bullshit. Google is slow at updating satellite images. He should not have enough samples to judge how fast this was build using Google alone.

Google Earth has had the ability to show historic imagery for maybe a couple of years now. It's just a matter of how often a particular patch of data has been updated.

[Mechatrommer]

the last time i checked google earth is where i live in now. it only showed flat land, no construction no tractor nothing, its been 3-4 years by then when the housings are fully completed.
edit: and oh, you also want to check out whats on the saudi arabia deserts. you will want to "go up there in an incredible hurry"

[SeanB]

Lo0oks like a waste dump for toxic/nuclear waste, with the buildings above built to provide a processing facility for future expansion. Trench, fill then cap and cast a concrete cover. Then build the processing facility for the next ones on top so you can maximise site utilisation.