iPod homage seen from space

Seriously folks, as this is a mineral mine we're talking about, it seems to be two evaporation basins side by side. Presumably, the minerals (think salt or simlar) are underground, dissolved in water to be pumped up, after which the water is evaporated or drained off in these structures. This accounts for the click wheel shape: around the edges the water already has evaporated, in the middle there's still some present.

But kudos to whoever first spotted this!

Steve plays poker? OMG! OMG!!!

The digg post was better worded

"The ad, which depicts Apples flagship iPod product has been constructed on the site of an abandoned mineral mine in remote western Australia. It has been in development for almost two years since Apples founder Steve Jobs aquired the location during a game of poker with (the late) Australian publishing and gaming tycoon Kerry Packer.""

Um....I'm pretty sure that this was meant as a joke. I think some of you are taking it a little too seriously.

Yeah, I call bull***t too.

In case someone believes the obvious joke here, here are a couple of nearby locations to look at:

http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-30.394792,121.078262&spn=0.047234,0.070896

http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-30.799728,121.56518&spn=0.047037,0.070896

http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-30.593519,121.572561&spn=0.047137,0.070896

Either Apple's planning more advertisements than you thought, or it's just a style of farming (?) that produces shapes like that.

Isn't this post about 5 days too early?

Man some people don't look around. Right next to that "ipod" are buildings that look similar to it. Its not anyone making an ipop its just coincidence. Look around the spot on google maps. Geeezzzzzz

Wow, Steve's really put iPod on the map!

Shouldn't this have been posted on April 1? Or even better, "I'm REALLY gullible day"