{"id":361,"date":"2006-07-23T11:05:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T11:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=361"},"modified":"2006-07-23T11:05:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T11:05:29","slug":"ernest-stavros-blofeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Ernest Stavros Blofeld"},"content":{"rendered":"

Huge Scale Model of Disputed Border Region of China Found in Google Earth<\/h3>\n

\"Huge<\/a>This is one of the most interesting finds in Google Earth in quite some time. A few weeks ago a first time poster, called KenGrok, at the Google Earth Community (GEC) discovered<\/a> a very exact scale model of some mountainous region located in the middle of a desolate area in north central China. Seen in Google Earth<\/a> the huge scale model is .9 km tall by .7 km wide. It is adjacent to what looks like a military base with many camouflaged vehicles. Last week, the same poster found the location<\/a> the scale model represents – a region occupied by China but claimed by India near north central India. If you turn on the “Borders<\/strong>” layer in GE you will see they are colored red to indicate the dispute. Another GEC member showed how exact the scale model is by taking a screen shot of the satellite photo of the scale model and overlaying it over the real terrain<\/a> (turn the image overlay on and off to see how exact it is). This scale model was most likely created for military reasons. Someone posted a description<\/a> of why a military terrain visualization is critical for military purposes.<\/p>\n

In the same thread above, several other interesting locations were found close to the scale model:<\/p>\n