Geoengineering via industrial-scale ritual magic is the only possible rational explanation.A gigantic pentagram was found in Google Maps in an isolated region of Kazakhstan, West of the city of Lisakovsk (coordinates +52° 28′ 47.14″, +62° 11′ 8.38″). The circle's circumference is over 1000 feet wide and contains a clearly defined, mathematically correct pentagram.
A few days ago, when one would zoom into the pentagram with Google Maps, two strange locations would pop up, one named "Adam" and another "Lucifer". However, since the story came out on the web, these locations disappeared and zooming into pentagram is now disabled.
Since yesterday, there is Russian text appearing on the pentagram which is apparently translated to "unfinished summer camp Denisovsky area Kostanay Kazakhstan".
This is obviously what Grant Morrison's been up to recently.
That's pretty awesome, but hoo boy is that website full of crazies.
It is actually my favorite crazy conspiracy website.
When I zoom in using the new Google Maps preview, there are two locations, one says "Pentagram" and the other says "Biogenesis Lab".
Clicking on each one brings me to a Google Plus page, so on further reflection this might just be some Plus trolling that is making its way into Maps.
I was just showing a friend...Its kinda scary!
This must be where all of us who played D&D in the eighties are meant to congregate in the Last Days.
More info and some ground-level pictures from 2009...
http://englishrussia.com/2009/11/05/way-out-places/
Either Charlie Stross is getting a bit carried away with research for the next Laundry novel or, well, it's an ARG for the next Laundry novel.
Five-pointed star was one of the important symbols of Soviet Union. Sincerely yours, Captain Obvious.
We'll have none of your logic here sonny jim, what are you, some kind of communist?
Maybe you can only zoom in now if you +1 it. Whores.
More info here (with a link out to what it looks like on the ground): http://www.nbcnews.com/science/huge-mysterious-pentagram-kazakhstan-explained-6C10843939
SA-2 Surface-To-Air missile sites have a pentagram formation of missiles surrounding the C&C formation Boom