Originally posted by 01010101010101
this looks fake as hell , look at the pics .... smudges can be seen.... looks like Photoshop to me ...

Yeah right and after photoshopping the smudgy pictures, they hacked the Google Earth Server and uploaded them for everyone to see.

You're not the sharpest knife in Nanas drawer, hmm ?

they look like ordinary missile silos to me

Anyone find Ferrari World yet? Prepare for mind blowage..

The man made islands are pretty sweet too.

You can get down to ground level in Google Earth, and they have some of the 3d structures popping out. Use your CTRL, Shift and ALT to mess around with it.

This may be a dumb question, I read the first few pages of replies, but haven't had a chance to read them all, but is it possible that with the lack of roads leading up to the 'things', that those are runways?? I don't know if they're long enough or whatever, but maybe flying is the way that whoever goes there, gets there!?

I was told by a friend.....In the UK these domes are used for housing radar heads, but can be used for all industrial applications. Could be water for example.??????

They may be in place to protect against sandstorms.?????

With the Latitude and Longitude we should find this on Google Earth !

Google earth co-ordinates - 24.714502,54.984069

It looks like a mining operation

I say it is cratered, not a dome because of the shadows...Take a cup and shine a light on it from just a little above the rim. The shadow will be cast on the upper side just like in the photos. You have 2 shadows there, not one. One from the building, and one from the top rim of whatever this is.

P/S...After looking at these for 30 mins now I have changed my mind. I to think they are a dome. That is, if they are real at all....

changed my theory. Page 9

The lines of the rectangular grid with such smooth "sand" between them are actually the edges of the concrete roofing slabs we are looking down on. They are camouflaged by being made with desert sand, keeping them the exact colour of the surrounding sand, and being level with the ground. The small metal domes placed at regular intervals on the grid are air intakes. Access to this (military) facility is via a vehicle lift at the top of the road spiraling up the large dome.

The facility is deep and vast, with its own hydroponic food supply and large underground recreation areas. It is staffed by scientists who are allowed to go home for a week every month, and who know what would happen to their families if they were to reveal anything they are working on to anyone, by military minders and clerks, and by a staff to keep everything running, (cooks, cleaners, maintenance, gardeners, medical staff, etc,) who live on site to prevent information leaks. This also prevents attention being drawn to the site by vast numbers of vehicles accessing and leaving it each day.

There are also long underground tunnels connecting the facility to other military installations.

Living there is quite pleasant, unless you are one of their guinea pigs.

Naturally, all the above is pure speculation.

Originally posted by spikey
They don't look like domes, they look more like craters.

The road spirals downwards, not up.

Looks like it to me anyway.

As a guess, i'd say it was either fresh water storage for the new 'island' developments UAE have built, or sewerage.

May even be underground oil storage.

Or could be doomsday bunkers for the rich that will be buying the multimillion $ apartments and private islands in the area.

Unless we get someone stop by who actually lives there, or has worked on these things (or knows someone who has), we're only guessing.

I have to agree.

It definitely looks depressed to me, with the "road" spiraling from the bottom out to the surface. Since this is the desert, i would also guess that these "craters" are for water, and the rectangular structure at the bottom is a raised cover of some sort that houses a pumping station, probably for irrigation.

That is really the only thing that makes sense.

BUT if they ARE craters, and if they stay empty, wouldn't they constantly take in sand and constantly have to be cleaned? That would be a pain.

I guess a dome makes practical sense in that regard, but a crater makes practical sense in the other.

I say depressed, not raised, with a road leading to the bottom for maintenance, etc. But that's how i see it.

Cool, nevertheless.