Or just ask the Chinese.

My first thought was, these lines are man made, for what purpose, who knows. Cleareye is right ask the Chinese.

Wall to nowhere.

It's a calibration pattern for spy satellites. You can find similar patterns in the Nevada deserts in the US.

Looks like a geographical tracerouting system to me. As if the best possible routes for travel have been processed by photographic imagery. Basically.. and automapping system. That, or it's a bunch of noise from the satellite feeds.

The patterns are used for calibrating satellite imaging systems. Nothing mysterious about it, although there are other ways of accomplishing this same task without drawing these huge patterns in the middle of a desert. The pattern certainly does not look like any fractal I have ever seen. It lacks the self similarity at different scales that is typically found in a fractal image.

Can the camera equipment aboard satellites be corrupted and images to be superimposed onto the passing satellite’s electronic boards, just like a virus?? After all, this is an age of electronic warfare where almost anything’s possible!?

If I recall correctly, only a few days ago our spy drone landed in Iran. Allegedly, the drone was “hijacked” by Iranian computer electronics experts.

No way I'm hiking in there and getting assimilated by the Borg!

it's not all that unusual for people to draw huge lines in the sand

The Chinese don't do anything "for fun." There is a purpose for the lines, especially being the size they are. Our military has probably run this complex design through one of their super computers looking for an answer and it probably has to do with what Allen mentioned about calibrating satellite imagery. You certainly can't see it standing on a stool in the back of a truck. And if it's for "alien" contact of some sort we had better hope that it isn't looking like Chinese writing that "they" understand as opposed to Western style letters and numbers that "they" don't understand.

I have completed the translation of the message: It says ...

"All your base are belong to us!"

It is simple, if you decipher the patterns and place them into the Mandarin language it is, the recipe for Moo Shoo Pork dish .

The Chinese don't do anything "for fun."

Yeah,... right.

It's not like they are human beings or anything.

I'm with others whom believe these to be satelite calibration lines, although they're on such a grand scale, I'm not sure why that was necessary or desired, unless it's two birds with one stone and there are underground munitions as well. Either way, asking China would be amusing; one would actually expect an honest response?

I doubt that they are calibration patterns. Why bother when you could simply use any number of roads, streets and highways to accomplish the same thing? I also doubt that it would be necessary to have such a large calibration pattern. After all if some of the sophisticated spy satellites can read a license plate from space, why calibrate on such a large pattern?

I don’t really have any thoughts on what they may be, but interesting speculation in some posts.

They are intended to have us spend thousands of wasted hours trying to figure out what they are all about.

There is no way on earth these patterns are actually present on the ground: the width of the lines is much to uniform - it is either a software glitch or a deliberate instrument tampering.

The Chinese don't do anything "for fun."

Yeah,... right.

It's not like they are human beings or anything.

I do see the point you were trying to make with your sarcasm, it's just that most human beings don't get beaten or suppressed in some way when they try to do things "for fun" especially if that fun activity is self expressive in some way. I guarantee that some guy in China did not wake up and say "Hey, it would be great fun to go out and make some lines in the Gobi desert today"

Not a crop circle, but a Gobi Desert finger trap.

I have seen this before, 60 years ago. I was in Tibet and a lama offered to sell something like this to me; scratched on a worn piece of leather. It had Marco Polo's name on it and was said to be a treasure map to the gold of of the Kublai Khan.

The Tibetan Lamas have no money or I would have tried to sell him all of Manhattan in return.

If you look closely there is an arrow shape; that makes the spot. The only problem I see is after we have found it is how to get a million tons of gold out of there.

Steve, you did not post the link! Please try again.

Sorry to spoil the fun guys,

After a little research on-line it seems the most plausible explanation for these lines is; their used to calibrate Chinese spy satellites.

I've been here for a while - but haven't posted very much though. Anyway, here's the link once more: "www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57326152/mysterious-patterns-in-gobi-desert-deciphered/" If it doesn't show up again, simply google: "CBS strange white patterns in China's Gobi Desert" and follow the link provided by CBS News.

I know EXACTLY what it is. This is merely a fault line. It has been taped up with very large surgical tape made from Chinese silk. It took trillions upon trillions of silkworms slithering around and lead my an old Chinese man called the "Silkworm Wisperer". You will all get the scoop when I release my book, which is soon to be in print............"The Worman of Gobi"

My guess is that it's a huge wood and metal structure designed to act as a Faraday box to shield from EMPs. Why would the Chinese go through all this to calibrate satellites when they could just install hardware at points on the Great Wall and use that?

Alan Boyle, the blog tool also discourages free speech and you will go into a tailspin here if you dare talk about corporations bad habit of outsourcing since all the IT on these sites is outsourced.

Mention outsourcing and you will be sent into an endless spin of CAPTCHA code requiring you to continuously enter the code on the screen, so "they will know you are not a bot". They should know based on what was said.

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Your neighbors in American need to eat too!!!

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Wow I am totally right. The word outsourcing sends you to the CAPTCHA screen. What weirdness.

If the US already has such grids, why not just calibrate using ours? Why build your own? I don't think the image is real in the first place, and is just a stunt. The area where the lines are is kind of fuzzy.

I was trudging around on Google Earth in Nevada. I found a pattern in the sand in the desert. It was a circle divided into quadrants and each alternating quadrant shaded. Nearby was a square with a grid pattern inside it. Also nearby was a smaller square with a smaller grid. In the less immediate area was a series of circles inside each other like a bull's eye, pot marked with small craters. Nearby the bull's eye was an air field. I guess what I am trying to say is that strange things in the desert is not a Chinese phenomenon.

Prag - not having seen your specific images, I can hazard a guess. You can find circles over most of the south, mid-west and far west; often divided into quadrants. These are often only farms - very large circular irrigation systems. Some of these are a couple of hundred meters in diameter. They will show completely (or partially) green during growing season. A small airstrip nearby could support the farm for logistics or pest control. Not sure about your square and grid... Now if this is truly out in the middle of the desert ... could be leftovers from US nuclear testing. Much of Nevada and New Mexico; and remote parts of other western states; are pockmarked by craters from underground nuclear tests. Look at the area around White Sands Missile Base NM or the valley just to the southwest of Groom Lake NV ("Area 51")

Reverse camo, Reverse grid, part boondoggle, part scouting party? Why are most comparing this to something else? A new event is just that, and this is not new, not news, and not interesting.

So now we know that all the "ancient" and Giant Animal outlines all over the world were so the overlords could calibrate the navigation systems on their spacecraft!

On close examination of the image above, I wonder if the white lines are intended to confuse cruise missiles that rely on TERCOM/DSMAC (Terrain Contour Matching/Digital Scene-Mapping Area Correlator) navigation systems.

I have to call you on this one. It's not true at all. China is the opposite of "World Domination". They are an insular, isolationist and slightly xenophobic culture. They always try to Wall themselves in from the rest of the world. I don't think they have any interest at all in ruling the world. They are a defensive culture and civilization. European culture/civilization on the other hand are 100% about "world Domination".

The Life's Little Mysteries' article goes more into the surrounding "mysterious" structures. The surrounding area has very strange objects including one extremely large one, which looks like pools of water or some fluorescent surface.

Interesting indeed.