Miles of mysterious striped network grids discovered in Chinese desert ( YAHOO NEWS! )

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Here's a new geological conundrum courtesy of the Mysterious East: A group of people studying online maps stumbled across a series of strange patterns in the Chinese desert large enough to be seen from space. The unusual white designs appear to have been etched into the ground and their creators clearly don't lack for ambition: They are over one mile long and 3,000 feet wide. The researchers have yet to identify the silver or white material used to fabricate these outsize desert grids.

Now main streaming on Yahoo! News...I remember just reading this on GLP and bam! Now on yahoo news.

Seems people are pushing toward military training and such...but why would it be painted like that? Just doesn't make sense.