What the hell are these things? I saw them when I was flying to California ...

[purbeast0]

Pic of google maps ...

I saw these in the plane when i was flying from Maryland to California. It looks like this is a little west of Oklahoma City after doing some searching on google earth. It looks like a buncha pacmans or half pacmans or something ... but wtf are all those for? It's like miles and miles of those circles on the ground and nothing else.

Anyone know?

 

[Quasmo]

baseball...

 

[keeleysam]

Those are farms. The watering system goes around a central point.

 

[fstime]

Communicating to aliens.

 

[FleshLight]

Either farms or water treatment plants.

 

[alien42]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Those are farms. The watering system goes around a central point.

yup. the irrigation systems have a central point.

more info

 

[Baked]

Crop fields, noob.

 

[purbeast0]

I have a much better area on my google maps on my other maching, but I only have the lat/long coordinates.

how do I search google maps so that I can enter lat/long coords?

I have a much better example of this ...

 

[NeoV]

landing coordinates for our Alien Overlords...

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: Baked
Crop fields, noob.

lol i figured they were farms, they just look wierd at how perfectly circular and how they are all the same size.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: Baked
Crop fields, noob.

lol i figured they were farms, they just look wierd at how perfectly circular and how they are all the same size.

Crop circles!

 

[dullard]

Roads are of roughly equal distance. Sets up nice square shaped fields. Center pivots water many fields (think of one large shower bar which circles around a central point). Thus the crops grow differently within the perfect circle.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
I have a much better area on my google maps on my other maching, but I only have the lat/long coordinates.

how do I search google maps so that I can enter lat/long coords?

I have a much better example of this ...

In the URL you provided, 35.444169 and -98.561096 are the latitude and logitude coordinates (you may have to convert yours to decimal, there are calculators that'll do that for you)

 

[Mrfrog840]

Originally posted by: BouZouki
Communicating to aliens.

:thumbsup:

 

[SportSC4]

Originally posted by: Baked
Crop fields, noob.

tsk tsk... i don't understand how some people could be so gullible.

pac-mania hit some parts of the country stronger than others. Oklahoma loves its pacman!

 

[tommywishbone]

Originally posted by: alien42

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Those are farms. The watering system goes around a central point.

yup. the irrigation systems have a central point.

more info

Correctamundo, as the Fonz would say.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: tommywishbone

Originally posted by: alien42

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Those are farms. The watering system goes around a central point.

yup. the irrigation systems have a central point.

more info

Correctamundo, as the Fonz would say.

:thumbsup:

thanks for that link. it just looks so wierd flying over and looking down on all these circles when you have never seen em before and just don't know what they are. i'm used to seeing city everywhere not farmland and pacman farms

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
Pic of google maps ...

I saw these in the plane when i was flying from Maryland to California. It looks like this is a little west of Oklahoma City after doing some searching on google earth. It looks like a buncha pacmans or half pacmans or something ... but wtf are all those for? It's like miles and miles of those circles on the ground and nothing else.

Anyone know?

It's a place where they grow all the pie-charts used in presentations.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Those were package plants fields, those plants that grow veggie beef/chicken/hog into the packages you buy at the store, they're the lighter fields, and the darker fields produce Cheerios, have you ever had fresh vine grown Cheerios? Good stuff.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

farm irrigators

 

It's oklahoma, what else do they do there but farm?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
Pic of google maps ...

I saw these in the plane when i was flying from Maryland to California. It looks like this is a little west of Oklahoma City after doing some searching on google earth. It looks like a buncha pacmans or half pacmans or something ... but wtf are all those for? It's like miles and miles of those circles on the ground and nothing else.

Anyone know?

you've really never been to 'flyover country' have you?

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: purbeast0
Pic of google maps ...

I saw these in the plane when i was flying from Maryland to California. It looks like this is a little west of Oklahoma City after doing some searching on google earth. It looks like a buncha pacmans or half pacmans or something ... but wtf are all those for? It's like miles and miles of those circles on the ground and nothing else.

Anyone know?

It's a place where they grow all the pie-charts used in presentations.

OK.. That made me laugh.

 

[Powermoloch]

WE ARE GOING TO DIE

 

[wondersteve]

<--- From Arkansas, they are irrigation systems that have a central point.