Chinese black helicopters circle Google Earth

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Jul 29, 2006, 06:57
Wang

Chinese black helicopters circle Google Earth

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Chinese black helicopters circle Google Earth

Mystery military project wows the crowd

By Lester Haines
Published Wednesday 19th July 2006 08:35 GMT

Those among you who like your skies darkened by black helicopters are invited to mosey on down to the remote Chinese village of Huangyangtan which hosts what must be the strangest military installation ever spotted spotted by the Google Earth Community:

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

Zooming in for a closer look, we have what appears to be a 900x700m scale model of a mountainous landscape...

http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/07/19/hua...tan_medium.jpg

...complete with lakes, valleys and snow-capped peaks:

http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/07/19/huangyangtan_close.jpg

Truly bizarre. Google Earth aficionados can examine the evidence for themselves here (.kmz) while wondering what on Earth, or where on Earth for that matter, this remarkable landscaping project is.

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Jul 30, 2006, 20:45
nurizeko

Thats pretty darn wierd...heh.
Jul 30, 2006, 21:10
leonmarino

Did you hear about the swastika fountain in Belgium?
http://www.tiscali.nl/images/6/5/060726_earth1.jpg
They're gonna have it rebuilt now because of protests.. The architect is understandably upset about it. :blush:
Oops, gotta go before the off-topic police catches me!!
Jul 30, 2006, 21:44
JimmySeal

Speaking of off-topic google earth, there's a 75' x 110' picture of Eva Longoria out in the Nevada desert:
http://www.thesuperficial.com/images...a-longoria.jpg

http://maximonline.com/maximusa/Maxim_Cover.kml
Jul 30, 2006, 23:15
RockLee

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Originally Posted by leonmarino

Did you hear about the swastika fountain in Belgium?
http://www.tiscali.nl/images/6/5/060726_earth1.jpg
They're gonna have it rebuilt now because of protests.. The architect is understandably upset about it. :blush:
Oops, gotta go before the off-topic police catches me!!

Haha, that place is in Maasmechelen, 10 min driving from my place :) I went checking it 2 weeks ago, and indeed it's a swastika...I was about to go complain with my friend myself :p
Jul 31, 2006, 15:42
Ewok85

You better not come to Japan, thats called a manji (まんじ　卍) and its not too strange to see it around the place :)
Jul 31, 2006, 16:36
Mamoru-kun

Manji have an inverted design...
Jul 31, 2006, 20:35
leonmarino

え！？マンジ！？:shock:

「え！？マジ！？」のしゃれ・・Just a lame joke folks.
Jul 31, 2006, 20:51
Maciamo

Wang, where do you see black helicopters on your pictures ? :?

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Originally Posted by leonmarino

Did you hear about the swastika fountain in Belgium?
They're gonna have it rebuilt now because of protests.. The architect is understandably upset about it. :blush:
Oops, gotta go before the off-topic police catches me!!

The swastika is originally and still mainly a Hindu and Buddhist symbol. Who protested against that ?
Jul 31, 2006, 21:01
leonmarino

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Originally Posted by Maciamo

The swastika is originally and still mainly a Hindu and Buddhist symbol. Who protested against that ?

Well, somebody told the mayor (a Christian Democrat) apparently, and now he's going to have it rebuilt.
The architect also argues that Hindu's and even the ancient Greeks (I don't know if that's true) used the symbol.. Here's the news article in Dutch if you can read that.
Jul 31, 2006, 21:09
JimmySeal

Regardless of its original meaning, the swastika in western civilization has come to have very negative and unpleasant connotations and any architect outside of Asia would be well advised not to use it in their designs.

The topic of this thread is misleading, but apparently the IT doof who titled the original article came up with the title, not Wang.
Jul 31, 2006, 21:12
Dutch Baka

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Originally Posted by Maciamo

Wang, where do you see black helicopters on your pictures ? :?

The swastika is originally and still mainly a Hindu and Buddhist symbol. Who protested against that ?

Well it is in Belgium, and not in Asia, so I think it is logical people are protesting against it.

* there is a small shrine 5min away from my house that have 2 big swastika flags.
Jul 31, 2006, 22:36
nurizeko

Maciamo, I think black helicopters is just a saying, like "The men in black".

When something wierd/out the ordinary and/or suspicious is noticed its like a conspiracy theory that has black helicopters or something.

Meh I aint good at describing it, but I hope you get where I'm going with that.

Also I read on the article its a highly detailed perfect scale model of a disputed border area with China and India (funny, since that Area is infact if anything part of Tibet, not part of China...well...in a perfect world) thats used for training pilots or something.

Looks like you could have some fun war-games on that.
Aug 1, 2006, 06:41
Maciamo

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Originally Posted by Dutch Baka

Well it is in Belgium, and not in Asia, so I think it is logical people are protesting against it.

However I am pretty sure that there are more Buddhists and Hindus in Europe nowadays than Nazis...
Aug 1, 2006, 15:58
Mamoru-kun

...er...will all due respect, the "manji" cross and the Nazi cross are inverted (perhaps my first message was not clear enough...or is it me who don't understand that everybody already got it?). The cross on the picture is really a Nazi cross, and not the "manji" symbol, so of course should be modified (my own opinion)...
Aug 1, 2006, 17:40
leonmarino

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Originally Posted by Mamoru-kun

...er...will all due respect, the "manji" cross and the Nazi cross are inverted (perhaps my first message was not clear enough...or is it me who don't understand that everybody already got it?). The cross on the picture is really a Nazi cross, and not the "manji" symbol, so of course should be modified (my own opinion)...

Even if it vaguely resembles a Nazi-cross (from the ground you can't see it) I think it is very far-fetched to destroy it and rebuild it. The architect didn't mean to confer a Nazi-ideological message.
Aug 1, 2006, 19:22
Mamoru-kun

Well, the problem is now that more and more people will go there "because" of that "unseen" symbol, and days afters days the whole meaning of that place may change. And I'm not speaking about the neo-nazi groups which may decided that particular place as their "meeting spot" in the future...:-|
Aug 1, 2006, 20:51
leonmarino

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Originally Posted by Mamoru-kun

Well, the problem is now that more and more people will go there "because" of that "unseen" symbol, and days afters days the whole meaning of that place may change. And I'm not speaking about the neo-nazi groups which may decided that particular place as their "meeting spot" in the future...:-|

Well if the mayor had said "no way we're rebuilding it, because the architect didn't mean anything wrong with it", the case would have been closed.

Now they're going to have it rebuilt, architect is angry, it comes out in the news, everyone sees it, some protest, some don't, but in any way the whole "Nazi" and "Swastika" thing will get more media-coverage and attention than otherwise, which will most probably persuade some weak-minded kids joining some stupid movement etc.. "There's no such thing as bad publicity", and that also counts for Nazism and such.