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Are these roads?
Posted by: Dakota
Date: December 30, 2009 08:32PM
I believe we were somewhere over Colorado when I noticed these "roads", but are they really roads? There is nothing there. Are they even man-made? One seems to run along ridges, both go amazingly straight and yet with no apparent start or finish.








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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: rgG
Date: December 30, 2009 08:35PM
Alien landing strips.




Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: Paul F.
Date: December 30, 2009 08:37PM
High Tension line right-of-ways?


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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: flareslow
Date: December 30, 2009 08:46PM
Or pipeline right-of-ways. Roads usually aren't straight for those distances.



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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: December 30, 2009 08:55PM
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Paul F.
High Tension line right-of-ways?

That would be my guess as well...high voltage powerlines.
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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: Dakota
Date: December 30, 2009 09:28PM
They sure take the shortest-distance-between-two-points-is-a-straight-line motto seriously. It sure can't be the easiest to build route. One of them abruptly ends on the edge of a cliff. Where is the power going?


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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: M>B>
Date: December 30, 2009 09:31PM
It looks something like this from the ground...

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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: lafinfil
Date: December 30, 2009 09:41PM
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rgG
Alien landing strips.

Brazilians ?


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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: jdc
Date: December 30, 2009 09:47PM
thats where the lines on the maps go?




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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: rgG
Date: December 30, 2009 10:56PM
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rgG
Alien landing strips.

Brazilians ?

Oh man, that was really bad. smiling smiley




Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: jimbrady
Date: December 30, 2009 11:13PM
The thing that's friekin' me out is you've got a giant yellow date stamp in the corner of your pics. You do realize that's optional, yes?


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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: Dakota
Date: December 30, 2009 11:23PM
Yeah, I know. That's why I turned it on. I knew I wouldn't be entering them in some sort of photo shoot contest.


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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: gabester
Date: December 31, 2009 12:24AM
I'm going with fire breaks.
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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: modelamac
Date: December 31, 2009 06:25AM
Paint. Denotes state lines. hehe


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sticker on my head and call it a day.
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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: pinion
Date: December 31, 2009 06:54AM
Roads? Where we're going we don't need any... Roads.


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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: space-time
Date: December 31, 2009 08:41AM
have you seen those "Squares" in midwest (I think). I saw them from airplane and when I got home I had to check in google maps
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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: billb
Date: December 31, 2009 08:54AM
Power or gas lines, except possibly in SouthWest some of the native americans built some structures and maintained 'paths' having to do with Summer and Winter solstices.
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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: graylocks
Date: December 31, 2009 11:37PM
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space-time
have you seen those "Squares" in midwest (I think). I saw them from airplane and when I got home I had to check in google maps

so, what are those things? i've always called them circles when i see them from a plane. seeing shots of them in Up In The Air reminded me i still don't understand what they are.


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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: JoeH
Date: January 01, 2010 12:18AM
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space-time
have you seen those "Squares" in midwest (I think). I saw them from airplane and when I got home I had to check in google maps

so, what are those things? i've always called them circles when i see them from a plane. seeing shots of them in Up In The Air reminded me i still don't understand what they are.

They are irrigated fields. For relatively flat land they developed sprinkler systems that consist of an overhead pipe carried on wheeled towers with spray heads attached. One end of the pipe is connected to a center pivot, and the whole string goes around and covers a circle to water the crop underneath. It is cheaper than other systems to operate, but costs more up-front. I would provide a link to a picture, but can't locate a reasonable sized one quickly.
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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: AAA
Date: January 01, 2010 12:34AM
Here is a very nice representative photo showing a rotating field irrigation sprinkler on wheels. This is what you see from the sky.
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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: graylocks
Date: January 01, 2010 01:02PM
JoeH and AAA - thank you so much! the circle shape makes total sense now.


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Re: Are these roads?
Posted by: Dakota
Date: January 01, 2010 02:27PM
But you also see them in urban areas. I thought they were storage tanks.


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