Kazakh Pentagram, Alien Cathedral & 7 Strange Symbols Seen from Space

When the Taklamakan Grid was discovered via satellite in 2012, there was much abuzz about what the strange design in the Gobi Desert could be for. Theories spread that the Chinese government was attempting to communicate with extraterrestrials, or was even planning an attack on the U.S. and the grid-like pattern was a simplified mapping of an American city. But Professor Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, an assistant professor of physics at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy, seems to have it figured it out. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2225203/Google-Earth-reveals-strange-patterns-Chinese-desert.html" target="_blank">Via the UK’s Daily Mail</a>: “Her belief is that the grid is evidence of a comprehensive geological survey of that part of the desert, including the widespread digging of trenches and boreholes to map the extent of the ore seam. She further believes that the wide area investigated may be down to a training exercise in which large numbers of students practiced their surveying techniques in the desert. If she is right, this part of China seems set to become an important centre for mining.”