China desert has giant line puzzles- all newly Googled. Update

Read here at Gizmodo, h/t Hot Air.
Seven examples given from Google searches.
Suggestions include weapon targeting grids, calibration lines for space observations and a general sense of puzzlement.

A second site looks like the picture below but with a boundary line.

Second photo has an 18 mile long grid pattern just to the left of the green marker and at about a sixty degree angle.  Link to Google.  
The Google zoom links for the others are at the Gizmodo site.
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And more.
This answer seems definitive, that it serves spy satellite technology as other structures once helped the US.