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A college professor once told me that if China hadn’t had that one-child rule, America would be a Chinese speaking nation. His thought behind the statement was that one billion people having lots of babies couldn’t help but burst a nations flimsy borders. And where is the coolest place to immigrate? Well, anywhere first world really, but at the time he was thinking of the US.
I would like to take the time to tell that professor he was wrong – probably because he didn’t take all of China’s floating ghost cities into account. You can build one on the cheap – and they’d probably house as many babies as you could float into them.
China’s not only known for being America’s nightmare debt collector anymore. They’re expanding their portfolio considerably, it would seem. They’ve got monsters now – remember the one that washed up on the red beach recently? Now wasn’t that a spectacle to behold.
They’ve also got floating ghost cities that pop up all of the sudden, then disappear when somebody stitches up the hole that was ripped in space and time. We know what you’re thinking – holes don’t rip in space and time – but what about that couple that almost got sucked into just such a hole in the middle of their crappy motel room? Tell them these things don’t exist.
Whatever this thing is – we’ll let The Daily Mail explain it:
“Residents in a Chinese city have been stunned after a giant mirage of a ‘ghost city’ towered across the skyline. The apparition appeared earlier this month after heavy rainfall and humid conditions along the Xin’an River in Huanshan City in East China. Tall buildings, mountains and trees appeared to rise up through the ghostly mist that had descended over the river at dusk. There is usually nothing buy sky across the horizon.”
There are videos out there showing this fake city. It was up long enough for people to run home, grab their video cameras and write a super-cheesy musical score. Let us publicly state that the video really doesn’t do much for us. We don’t know what the area is supposed to look like otherwise, so we can’t ooh and aah at something that just looks like a regular town with high rise apartment buildings. If you could see the sun shining through a buildings, or if a plane flew through the middle of one unhindered, then maybe we’d be impressed. As is – not so much.
Still – if it is a mirage – there sure is a lot of detail. Windows, trees, flashing neon lights advertising communist girlie-shows. Surely mother nature couldn’t think of that stuff on her own.
The video, as pointless as it is, is here for your viewing pleasure.