Chinese City Builds A Stargate to Nowhere

[Tiamattt]

Nah, they just needed a way to get off Earth once Japan activates their Gundam.

 

[CommanderL]

Stop reminding me that there will be no new stargate thing stop reminding me that the franchise is dead

 

[Twilight_guy]

Watch more Stargate. It's not a regular Stargate its a Super-gate. It doesn't need glyphs, or a DHD. Also, its used to bring in motherships. I think Doomsday was off by a couple of weeks.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

So. Much. Wasted. Steel.
This makes me angry

 

[Paradoxrifts]

That's like the world's biggest goatse photo opportunity just waiting to be taken.

 

[Lunar Templar]

China made a thing ... that looks like another thing from a movie I watched and barely remember back in the 90s?
Yay? i guess?

 

[dyre]

Weird architecture in China? Who would've guessed! You should see that beer opener building in Shanghai.

Spoiler

I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing was just the result of some backroom deal between local officials and construction companies that wanted some extra work.

On a marginally related note, the Chinese took the Russian AK-47 and made their own knockoff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_56_assault_rifle
The only difference? The tip of the sights are a full circle instead of the original half-circle.

It seems they took the St Louis Arch and felt like making that a full circle as well.

AK knockoffs are more about convenience for domestic production than an exercise in creativity.

 

[Something Amyss]

I don't see any chevrons for dialing up. We should be okay. At best, this is like a cargo cult recreating a landing strip.

Maybe they do the dialy thing that some of the other Stargates we've seen use. No direct DHD or true Chevrons, just symbols that light up when activated. A Stealthgate, as it is.

 

[Something Amyss]

Watch more Stargate. It's not a regular Stargate its a Super-gate. It doesn't need glyphs, or a DHD. Also, its used to bring in motherships. I think Doomsday was off by a couple of weeks.

there's still time for them to dial in before the end of the day (from the perspective of the Mayans' locale).

 

[Evil Smurf]

It does look really cool this though. I want one.

 

[The Lugz]

EVEN china doesn't have enough power to fire up a city sized super stargate
so when they announce the building of 30 nuclear power plants around it.. be scared

i figured it was a reverse dyson wind generator when i saw the picture
but meh? it just does nothing.. how boring

 

[Strazdas]

Just like chinese is colonizing africa to dig gold and diamosn, its going to colonize alien planets to di naquda (speling?)

 

[marurder]

Wow. That's about one hours ride from me! I'm gonna go see it lulz.

Fushun has only 1 major tourist attraction and that's a water park, it is mostly know for being an 'industrial' city. Also dirty. Actually, many of the NE cities are making programs to attract new kinds of revenue by being more touristy, as the construction sector slows down and more blue collar jobs need to be made to keep unemployment from rising locally.

 

[StraightToHeck]

It's either a Stargate or one of those weird Dyson bladeless fans.

And what is the purpose of the giant fan? To create hurricanes. What we are seeing here is a new Chinese super weapon, perfectly disguised as a tourist attraction. You turn on the giant fan for a day and a month later a hurricane forms halfway around the world. And the best part? It is impossible to trace the hurricane back to China.

It is the perfect weapon for the modern super power. You don't want to destroy the competition, just weaken them. One by one every nation in the world will turn to China for economic relief as their own economy has been crippled due to "unfortunately" timed hurricanes. In only a few years China will be the world's greatest economic power. In less than a decade China will have purchased the entire world and everything in it for a pittance.

By the time anyone realizes what is actually happening, it will be too late.

Well crap. I am genuinely terrified now.

*shakes ragefist* DYYYYYYYYYYYYSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!

 

[5t3v0]

Huh. And I just started watching SG1. Coincidence? I think not.

 

[Tim Chuma]

"No they never taught us what was real / Iron and coal / And chromium steel "

Good to see Australian Iron Ore being put to good use at least. Please stop buying so much so the currency goes down and we can actually sell something other than what we dig out of the ground.

 

[vxicepickxv]

I totally trust the Chinese to not lie to us...

The first thing in the article I question is the "population of 1.3 million" part. Chinese media will lie about damn near anything, and often not very well. Take a good hard look at the shot with the double cranes... All of the buildings behind it have active construction cranes on them. This points towards the ghost city thing China has been doing for at least a couple years; adding an absurd tourist attraction to a city no one lives in makes total sense!

The earliest solid article I could find quickly was from July 2010 [http://blogs.worldbank.org/transport/rise-of-the-chinese-ghost-town], but there's scattered data that China has been building unnecessary districts and cities as early as 2005.

Boggles the mind... Part of me wants to stockpile popcorn for when that house-of-cards finally collapses, but the rest of me worries that it'll take the rest of the world down with it.

When China's house of cards, smoke, and mirrors all come crashing down, it's going to be messy.