Now, what are *you*?

[fivemack]

In the middle of a Libyan desert, coloured like Mars and with sand-dunes looking like the cartoons of a mad fluid dynamicist, we find

this.

My guess is that it's either a gas well or an extraction head for the Great Underground River project, but it's a beautifully alien region.

Comments

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

Er... looks like it's inside Algeria to me.

How odd, there are quite a few spots around the desert with high resolution images of various strategic assets that quite clearly show up as squares of differing colour to the surrounding image. I wonder why Google is doing that? To satisfy a geeky curiousity? To prove that it's got more information processing resources than most countries?

Iraq is quite well covered by now.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I was confused there - I'd several windows open and thought that was Google Mars at first - that's one weird surface.

There's this (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&t=k&ll=35.582117,3.117499&spn=0.022721,0.03901&t=k) nearby, too - I think the square's about a mile on a side, and the borders are about 50m. It's not so otherworldly, but it's definitely a bit posh for out in the desert!

Or there's this (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&t=k&ll=35.631301,3.211071&spn=0.002838,0.004876&t=k) weird circular thing....

[aldabra]

Yes, I thought it was Mars too. Bizarrely regular splodges in that desert.

[sonicdrift.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty! And not Mars.

A mad fluid dynamicist? Never!