This aircraft carrier in China is going to have a hard time achieving much while locked in a small lake some 30 miles from the sea.

That’s because it’s a ¾ scale model of the U.S. Nimitz Class Aircraft carrier, and is part of the “military education centre” of Orient Green Boat after-school camp for youngsters. Don’t ask me what youngsters at an after-school camp actually do with an aircraft carrier.

As an added bonus the 380 hectare park is purportedly the “largest sculpture park in the world” (More info from Global Security).

Also going nowhere is the $7 million North Avenue Beach House in Chicago. The ship-shaped building was originally built around the time of the Great Depression and then received a full makeover back in 2000.

Previous Landlocked ships we’ve featured: The Whampoa, Durban Seaworld and Shekou Sea World.

Thanks: TuneS, Trident2d5, Dave & Me

It’s time travelling time at GSS, and today we’re travelling back to the Jurassic, Late Jurassic and the Pleistocene periods, all at the same time!

Yes you heard me right, as here in the Plänterwald leisure area, Berlin, we can see what appears to be a Diplodocus (from around 200 million years ago), a Stegosaurus (146 million years ago), and a Mammoth (from a relatively tiny 1.6 million years ago) all enjoying a nice day out.

Honestly, I bet they’re not even anatomically correct…

More about the unfathomable enormities that are Geologic time periods at Wikipedia.

Thanks to dda.

Nearby to the previously posted Machu Picchu, Peru, is a very unusual archaeological site – the strangely beautiful Inca ruins of Moray.

The concentric rings clearly visible were farming terraces with a sophisticated irrigation system, constructed inside enormous natural depressions in the landscape. Supposedly the Incas built them here to experiment with the different farming conditions the landscape accommodates, as the annual temperature difference between the top and bottom can be up to 15°C (27°F).

Which is fairly impressive given that even this largest depression is only 30 metres (100 feet) deep.

Here’s the very brief Wikipedia page.

Thanks to Josh E.

First it got Dugg, and then it got Slashdotted – but the fact remains that the enormous KFC logo recently constructed in Nevada is not the first logo (or brand) visible from space. In fact, it’s debatable whether or not it’s even really visible from space at all (See the introduction to our book for a more complete examination of this argument). Either way, KFC’s big logo isn’t actually that big.¹

Now this Readymix logo in the Australian desert is big. Really big.² It’s 3.2km across, and 1.6km high – and come to think of it, it’s been there since 1965, so probably qualifies as the first logo visible from space, and it’s possible that this was the first logo constructed specifically for that purpose too.

Digg that Diggers

1) It is however an excellent example of big business beginning to try to cash in on the online satellite imagery phenomenon. However I seriously doubt that the image will ever appear on Google Earth or Maps, as to the best of my knowledge, Google don’t currently buy any imagery from GeoEye, the only company who have definitely captured a photo of the giant KFC logo.

2) However, even the Readymix writing is nowhere near the world’s largest text.

Thanks to the (ever awesome) Keyhole users.

Check out this incredible image of a helicopter skimming the surface of the pacific, several miles off the coast of Baja California Norte, Mexico. How cool is the disturbance in the water from the helicopter’s downwash!