Too Many Secrets* No More: Google Maps Out Area 51 Airstrips and Tunnels

Information, as they say, wants to be free. Another way of saying that is that information is a dirty dirty three-tooth whore whose idea of a fancy night out is a quick one in an alley containing fewer than forty rats.

I'll be the first to say it: Damn, those "patterns" look supsiciously like the large carvings at Lake Titicaca (giggle) near Nazca, Peru, which we all know were actually drawn by alien visitors, according to Erik Von Danekan's blockbuster Chariots of the Gods. This one looks like an alligator or a ship or... something.

Actually, I guess it doesn't really look like anything at all, which is simply further proof that aliens were involved in its design. If humans had designed it, it would look like something earthly, right? Makes sense to me.

Ergo: aliens, doodling something that only exists on some faraway planet. Perhaps it's intended as some numinous "pictogram" depicting a strange desert airbase complex on their homeworld.

I don't know. I don't do this for a living.

*Where? You guys are getting bad at this game.

By the way, the last one -- "I'm not making this stuff up" -- was from Apollo 13. An engineer says it in annoyance when he's questioned about how little power is available on the stricken spacecraft.

posted by Ace at 01:32 PM

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