Clearly a popular submission - we've seen it three times before this one:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014746" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014746</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2006910" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2006910</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2015447" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2015447</a> <- This third submission got the upvotes and the comments.
I really get a kick out of Google satellite images of China. There are a lot of oddities, such as that 1/3rd scale replica of a mountain region (assumed to be Tibetan?) with a facility nearby full of tanks/cars/etc.