Is the GW a target for aliens?
So lo and behold, due to a new job, I find myself stuck in the morning traffic along the George Washington Parkway southbound on a regular basis, and while crossing the last Spout Run overpass before diving down below the Key Bridge, I find the odd plastic bag material “X”’s in the grass on the left and pass the bridge, on the right.
I’m not sure if they are a prank or something else more menacing, or just a clever way of testing Google Maps resolution. Maybe it’s an art project, or where the not to target the space based lasers, maybe an odd group game of tic-tac-toe, or maybe just something clever to see how long it takes somebody to blog about it? Suffice it to say, I ask you, loyal Metblog reader, to fancy an opinion as to what these crosses may be.
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Those are used for aerial photography. I believe they are used for orientation and help measure distances.
Or, along similar lines, perhaps they’re starting to enforce speed limits by airplane over that stretch and haven’t been able to paint distance markers (used to calculate a car’s speed), so this is a quick fix for the time being.
Yes.. but why there? The one side is almost covered by foliage overhead?
And I never see traffic moving faster than a snails pace at Spout Run, so the speed trapidea is a bit far fetched.