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If the link works, just off the track located on the Chico State campus is (what looks like) an intentional smudge or erasure of the map. Zoom straight in to see the track and smudge...

Anyone seen anything like this before?

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My guess is that they used a photo in the mosaic that had some high cloud in it.

Either that or Vice President Cheney was there that day.

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Looks like scanned hard copy and someone has ripped off a chunk of paper. Same thing in Google Earth for that section.

You know the old saying; garbage in....

I saw the clouds too, but look closer to the track, just at the south end. Like Schlaugh says, it looks like torn paper.

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I'm no expert, but to me it looks like the "bleed" from an overloaded CCD. I would guess that it's a building with a very reflective roof.

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Closer than you think, Mike. That's my office being protected from the likes of, well, anyone reading this!

Oh, okay. I'm in a building elsewhere on campus. The big smudged area looks like Yolo Hall which has lots of solar panels on its roof. I suspect that is the cause of the distortion. You can see similar, if smaller, distortions on the tops of other buildings with solar panels.

Ah, I see it. Yes, I Googled that. Look at Acker Gym just to the upper left, it's washed out as well. The arrays on Yolo Hall must have given a specular reflection back to the sat.

And wouldn't Specular Reflection be a good name for a race horse?

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I think there was a horse once named Spectacular Diffraction. I don't think he ever won a race since he always scattered as he left the starting gate.

I found something weirder, as I was exploring Greenland. By the way, it isn't green.
Anyway, I found this,
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en...735352&t=h&z=8

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If the proportions are 1:3:9, we might be in trouble.

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It doesn't appear to be quite symmetrical, so no fallen monolith this time.

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Could be a perspective thing.

For that matter, what's that 75km long thing partly buried about 200km NNE of the black bar?

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Not sure, but I did see a bit of green on it when I zoomed in. It must be a plant.

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Argh! You beat me to it!


ABR. - I thought I was the only one on this board related to Chico State (although as an alum, rather than faculty or staff...).

Glad to make your (virtual) acquaintance!

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You misspelled "4".

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Since the link doesn't take you right to it- on sat- here's an easy access picture of what was discussed...

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Re Yolo:
Do they do crystal growth experiments in that building? If so, they seem to be rather successful.
Or is there some sports joke I can make regarding crystal meth?

Re Greenland:
Big black asphalt landing strip for a plane with one heck of a large wingspan?

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And it's good to meet you, too, DyerWolf. I think there is at least one other Chico Stater hanging around here, if I remember correctly.

The crystal meth labs are mostly up in the hills which has forced the Forest Service to block access on many small roads. There was also a meth lab found recently in the parking lot of a nearby casino.

Regarding the pictures of the "big landing strip" in Greenland, wasn't there a thread recently about a secret airbase in Greenland? I'm just saying...

Oroville (a nearby town) once had the highest per-capita murder rate of the entire United States as I recall, due to the meth industry.

Ahh, I had almost forgotten the joys of four-wheeling around the foothills near Chico using forestry maps as a guide while dodging pit-bulls and spring-guns. I think it was worth the risk, considering there are a lot of cool things to see, and some great fishing in the back woods. -- It does pay to be aware of your surroundings, and cautious of some of the folks you meet however. I remember one interesting adventure after I broke a wheel on my truck and my roommate and I had to hike out: We got picked up by two guys in a battered 1970's era Ford Fiesta with no brakes or seats. To make up for the lack of seats they had filled the back with several large trashbags full of the fragrant leaves of some carefully cultivated plants, which they had just harvested. They let us out a mile from a gas station and encouraged us not to remember too many details... Thankfully they had both sampled their product and were feeling very peacible...

I'm thinking a lot about Chico lately, considering I will be coming back to town for a friend's wedding in July.

How much has it changed in the last 15 years?

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Occam's Ghost to Grant Hutchison.