Comments on: China’s Scale Model http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/chinas-scale-model/ Why bother seeing the world for real? Fri, 25 May 2012 11:41:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Wayno http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/chinas-scale-model/comment-page-1/#comment-206400 Wayno Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:07:37 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/06/1019/#comment-206400 <p>The trucks are parked behind a series of buildings. Official looking ones to the south facing the entrance and barracks like ones behind them creating a square.</p> <p>If I was looking at this without context, I would say it looks like a school.</p> <p>6000 people sounds about right for a tank division.</p> The trucks are parked behind a series of buildings. Official looking ones to the south facing the entrance and barracks like ones behind them creating a square.

If I was looking at this without context, I would say it looks like a school.

6000 people sounds about right for a tank division.

]]> By: Oscar http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/chinas-scale-model/comment-page-1/#comment-43323 Oscar Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:01:49 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/06/1019/#comment-43323 <p>there are 150 trucks parked by the location, do you think they need ~6000 people for just creating simulation?</p> there are 150 trucks parked by the location, do you think they need ~6000 people for just creating simulation?

]]> By: Marty http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/chinas-scale-model/comment-page-1/#comment-41036 Marty Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:28:03 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/06/1019/#comment-41036 <p>Or maybe, just maybe, they're developing some top-secret REALLY HUGE TANK for the next invasion... something "to scale" ya dig?</p> <p>maybe...</p> Or maybe, just maybe, they’re developing some top-secret REALLY HUGE TANK for the next invasion… something “to scale” ya dig?

maybe…

]]> By: Andrew http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/chinas-scale-model/comment-page-1/#comment-41002 Andrew Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:35:28 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/06/1019/#comment-41002 <p>I think they might use it as a scale model for a camera to be displayed on a screen in a tank simulator, making it seem much more real than computer-generating the graphics. Similar stuff is sometimes done for flight simulators, moving a small camera through a cityscape. However, I've never heard of anything this big, and I don't know how they'd move the camera. There may be an elaborate system of cables we can't see.</p> I think they might use it as a scale model for a camera to be displayed on a screen in a tank simulator, making it seem much more real than computer-generating the graphics. Similar stuff is sometimes done for flight simulators, moving a small camera through a cityscape. However, I’ve never heard of anything this big, and I don’t know how they’d move the camera. There may be an elaborate system of cables we can’t see.

]]> By: cookie monster http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/chinas-scale-model/comment-page-1/#comment-40977 cookie monster Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:42:05 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/08/06/1019/#comment-40977 <p>Tank training? So do the tank drivers negotiate the terrain in teeny tiny scale model tanks? Not bloomin likely!</p> <p>There does however seem to be a lot of vehicular activity in and around the complex.</p> <p>This really fries my head - what ARE they doing???????</p> Tank training? So do the tank drivers negotiate the terrain in teeny tiny scale model tanks? Not bloomin likely!

There does however seem to be a lot of vehicular activity in and around the complex.

This really fries my head – what ARE they doing???????

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