#3173: Satellite Imagery
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[Cueball and Ponytail are standing on either side of a board on a wall, which is displaying a satellite image of an area without cities. A large river is going through the left part of the image, going from north to south. Another river joins it from the left in the lower part of the image. A lake is in the right upper part of the image. There are a few white lines running through the image, probably roads. However, in the left part of the image over the middle of the north/south going river there is a square area which looks pixelated into 36 equal sized smaller squares. The color of the image is brownish with white and black and gray scales as well. The 36 smaller squares are held in these colors, though not white or black, but each small square is held in a uniform color, where the rest of the landscape has a smooth transition in colors from one place to the next.]
Cueball: Wait, when was this imagery taken? Is this censorship the work of the contractor? One of our people? Foreign actors!?
Ponytail: Do we know who's operating a facility at that location?
Cueball: We can't find anything.
[Caption below the panel:]
My hobby: Setting up big colored panels in the middle of nowhere as a prank on remote sensing people.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:Every weekend I take an ATV out into the desert and spend a day tracing a faint "(C) GOOGLE 2009" watermark across the landscape.