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Author Topic:   Google Earth Puzzle: Where's Waldo, er, Giant Geometric Figures
Percy
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Message 1 of 3 (771830)
10-30-2015 12:24 PM


This news appeared in today's NYT: 8,000-Year-Old Enigma Spotted From Space. Huge geometric figures visible from space have been discovered in Kazakhstan, and they were originally identified using...Google Earth.
I thought it should be a simple matter to find them myself using Google Earth. Some of the names given to the figures seemed to be for nearby towns, but Google Earth said it couldn't find them (e.g., Ashutastinsky, Kazakhstan).
Unable to find any, I figured that information about them had been expressed in careful ways that wouldn't give away their locations. I spent around 15 or 20 minutes trying to find some, poking around the Turgay region a bit, but no luck.
Anyway, I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone else wanted to try finding them in Google Earth.
--Percy

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Parasomnium
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Message 2 of 3 (771844)
10-30-2015 6:48 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Percy
10-30-2015 12:24 PM


I found some
Hello Percy,
Interesting article, that. If you click on the link to Steppe Geoglyphs in the fifth paragraph you'll see names you can use to find some of the glyphs. That way I found the three-limbed swastika near Urpek, and "Ushtogay Square". (That last one was even suggested as a name when I started typing "Ushtogay" in the Google Earth app on my iPad.)
Urpek swastika: 50 6' 10" N 65 21' 39" E
Ushtogay Square: 50 49' 59" N 65 19' 34" E
(You can copy-paste the above coordinates in Google Earth to go there.)
Happy searching.
Edited by Parasomnium, : Changed superscript-o's to real degree characters and added comment about copying the coordinates.

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

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Percy
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Message 3 of 3 (771854)
10-31-2015 9:09 AM
Reply to: Message 2 by Parasomnium
10-30-2015 6:48 PM


Re: I found some
Found it, thanks.
So now that I can see one of these in Google Earth, I can't imagine the meticulous care it must have taken to scan the million square miles of Kazakhstan and find these things. Unreal.
Turns out my Google Earth misbehaves a bit. I had to search for "ushtogay square" twice. The first time it said it couldn't find it, so I tried a couple spelling variations with no luck. Thinking maybe I'd entered it incorrectly the first time I tried it again, and this time time it found it. Hitting the back button a few times to see what my typo was, there was no typo. Weird.
--Percy

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