what are these?!

[Tenshi no Ai]

So, my step dad and I were just browsing around Google Earth and he wanted to see if you could see anything in Baghdad (like ruins or something like that.) We didn't, but we DID find some very odd things out in the desert.... Here's a few screenshots... He kept thinking it was a satellite or "UFOs" something, but from the zoom we were in, they'd be HUGE if that was the case! There's also those rectangular cave thingies (also gigantic from scale) plotted all over the rest of the desert. From a close-up of the one round thing, it almost look ripped up, which reminds me of a ripped airplane wing (the early models, that is).

So yeah... I haven't the slightest clue! ...I just have this random little fear in the back of my mind of the government and if they found out that I posted... whatever these things are :/ Oy^^ I'm just being curious though!

[uc pseudonym]

The temptation to stage a government coverup on your post was very strong, let me tell you.

But seriously, I'm not exactly sure what you mean. The big circles? Those are fields, unless I'm much mistaken. In drier areas you can only farm via irrigation and the most effective system obviously results in circular fields. These appear to have houses or sheds of some sort in the center, which also isn't all that unusual.

[Puritan]

I think UC's probably right, they sure look like fields of some sort to me. The long tube-like things running from the center of the fields remind me of automatic watering devices I saw in the Wondrous And Endless Potato Fields of Idaho.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

"Nuclear Launch Detected".

[CreatureArt]

I would claim these photos give proof of UFOs... but I think UC's description sounds like a good explanation.

That's a cool idea, though - circular fields. It does make sense when thinking in terms of irrigation. Its new to me, though. New Zealand gets decent rain most of the time, so its not something I've had to consider before.

[Tenshi no Ai]

Well, that makes sense^^ I guess I just thought the circular shape was just odd and different to see... I guess my imagination just ran away with me thinking if it was some secret government... thing... that well... I've seen too many movies v_v

[CreatureArt]

Ha, I'm still half-convinced that it IS some sort of government coverup! Still, I better not say that too loud in case the MIB hear me. @_@
(<_< ) ( >_>)

Jokes aside, it is possible to see plenty of weird things when you're looking at foreign landscapes. You may laugh at me, but when I went on an 8 hour tramp last November I saw a reflective white patch sitting randomly a quarter of the way up one mountainside. It took half an hour of quiet puzzling and about thirty seconds of talking to my friends to figure out what it was. It was not some sort of physics-defying tilted lake/waterfall. Uhm.. it was actually snow. I have seen snow twice before in my life but it still took me that long to figure out what it was.

So don't feel bad. At least you haven't looked at snow and not known what it was. ^^

[mechana2015]

Irrigated fields. They're all over central california and most of the western united states (which I've flown over a few times). They look normal from the ground but yeah... discs from the air.

[Mi-Ru-Me]

technically they are called center pivots. Those were probably corn fields. they move in a circle on weals usally set with a electric motar some are hydrolic and water your fields. Boss just got 2 new ones a couple years ago.