Now that we all survived the rapture, readers are invited to help figure out what this is.
Details here: It is cut out of the Florida forest, the white surface is sand, and there appear to be sand piles that make the step shapes?
http://dailygoogleearth.com/ has the location and details.
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Florida is little more than a sandbar piled with seashells. Anywhere you go there, you dig away the vegetation, and the “soil” is white. As for purpose, I’ll go with modern day “Chariots of the Gods” hieroglyph.
The property, consisting of 2 parcels; parcel # 32-2S-18-15000-001-0000 (70 acres) & parcel # 33-2S-18-15000-001-0000 (30 acres) belongs to Walton County Florida (deeded in Dec 2002). Property usage is listed as vacant government.
http://64.234.218.210/cgi-bin/walton_display.cgi?KEY=32-2S-18-15000-001-0000
http://64.234.218.210/cgi-bin/walton_display.cgi?KEY=33-2S-18-15000-001-0000
Not mysterious but strange and pretty: Southwest Kansas, where circular irrigation intersects property lines and roads and streams in a wildly complex set of Venn diagrams.
Start from Bucklin, near Dodge City.
Early alien art was done under the influence of LSD resulting in chaotic designs. They changed to schrooms and discovered circles work better.
dang verity, that takes all the fun out of it.
I was going to go with the abandoned film site for the movie Tron.
Even bigger mystery – why the heck did they build it that shape?
Thanks for elevating this, Anthony. I posted it and had a little discussion about it on your post about the desert triangle. Someone concluded it was a recent clearcut. But, I don’t understand why the brush was bulldozed in perfectly straight lines that would have required a surveying team. This has been puzzling me for a couple of years. So much so that I might just drive down there and check it out this coming weekend.
@Juice
Most all of north Florida is a “tree farm”.
The river several have referred to is the intercoastal waterway. The river to the north is the Choctawhatchee, which flows into Choctawhatchee bay.
Here is the google map link. Interestingly, if you back out one increment, it disappears. This suggests to me that the zoomed out picture is older than the zoomed in picture.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=30.363544,-86.059341&spn=0.062801,0.106258&t=h&z=13
Just a caution, if I may. Anthony, you presented a Google Earth image (same as in a post last week) and asked what it was. There is a difference between asking what it was, and what it is going to be. To discover what it is going to be requires research into planning documents etc and an assumption that having got this far, it will move to something else.
The “this far” was, as I blogged, a clear felling of trees in a forest. The striations in the forest show it was a plantation. In the 2003 image, you can see the piles of cut tree waste that remained.
That was the right answer for the time.
To state as others have done that it will be a treatment plant or whatever requires not only information absent from the images, but knowledge that the project will proceed. Since the image taken about 2003 is the first to show this clearing, and since more recent images do not show much change except grass invasion and erosion of sharp features, can I suggest that some readers are falling into the climate prediction trap of projecting on the basis of inadequate data?
It’s 8 years or more since the pattern was made, so I suppose we have to wait for another 22 years so we can be sure it’s ‘climate’ and not ‘weather’.
If you turn it 90 degrees clockwise you being given the finger 🙂
My guess would be a water treatment plant of solid landfill, as it looks much like the landfill just to the east, complete with the twin rows of berms surrounding the center area. I’ll go with landfill just starting construction.
It’s an Obamanation.
If you rotate it 90 degrees counter clockwise, I believe it is a chart of the value of my 401k plan
Looks like a step function to me.
The greenies are just trying to increase the albedo of the earth to cool down all the global warming that’s going on. Wait until that white blight grows to encompass the entire globe!
The following topographic map shows there used to be a bunker site immdeiately west of the new site. A map from the Choctawhatchie Water Management District indicates the new site’s boundaries is a “Private” area enclosed within the Choctawhatchie WMD. Another map regarding Walton County and its landfills indicates there is a C&D landfill (Constructon and Demolition debris) in the general area. However, a local newspaper article said there were only three Walton County C&D landfills, and its map displayed them all in the northern end of the county, and not in the area of the previous map. This raises the question of whether or not the object n question is a new bunker system replacing the older bunker site taken into the Choctawhatchie WMD, a new C&D landfill under in its early phases, or something else altogether?
http://www.trails.com/topo.aspx?panerror=true&z=16&e=586111.843519074&n=3360139.78142845&s=50&size=s&style=drgsr
Point Washington Topo Map at Lat 30.3701°N Long -86.1038°W Zoom 15 S Size
Center: 30.3693°N 86.0875°W
Elevation at center: 26 feet (8 meters)
Quad: Pensacola
Drg Name: c30086a1
Drg Source Scale: 1:250,000
Projection: NAD83/WGS84
“There’s going to be a guy’s house in the middle, and he’s making sure the bulk of his flood protection berms are solid before he even starts construction.”
Yeah but, yeah but…..if another slow moving Tropical Storm Fay comes along an dumps around 40″ of rain like it did in Melbourne…..he’s got a house in the middle of a swimming pool. Maybe a minimum 6″ slope per 100′ should drain well though.
This is a storage unit development.
Verity Jones says:
May 22, 2011 at 5:57 pm (Edit)
Even bigger mystery – why the heck did they build it that shape?
Maintaining flow velocity and a reasonably constant distance from the road?
(less turbulance caused by straight runs and tight bends than by long radii)
Remember that the Rapture was not supposed to be the end of the world. The Rapture was the time when all the worthy people were to be removed so that they would not have to endure all the crap involved in the end of the world.
Since you are still here, and so are all of your relatives, friends and aquaintances and me; that just means that we didn’t make the cut. Neither did anyone else.
🙂
It’s a coral bleaching facility.
After treatment of the coral they dump it on reefs to enhance the fear for CAGW.
Website has solved this one, waste water treatment overflow seepage field.
Someone drew a large maze? Difficulty level -1