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in the middle
of the desert there is a lake that looks
like it was made
by aliens it's huge it's symmetric
and it has a very weird shape
what is this lake who built it
and why does it look like this
one year ago i opened my laptop and saw
this image we all thought it was
photoshop is this a real thing i mean it
looks kind of photoshopped
yeah i wonder if it's photoshopped or
not like look at this this is crazy
okay that's definitely photoshopped but
turns out
it was not photoshop it was a real
new lake created in secret in dubai
and we were one hour away from it so we
immediately
got in a car let's go and drove to the
middle of the desert
we drove and drove and drove
very very similar to the one we saw on
the internet
we're in the right direction we knew we
were on the right track
so we continued until we arrived
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here
this is the expo late it was built
this year as a welcome sign to tourists
they cut out a hole in the desert
planted
trees around it and filled it with water
lots and lots of water
we are walking on top of water i'm
walking on water
but what's even more interesting than
the lake
is the shape of it this shape is so
symmetrical it looks like an alien came
up with it
turns out it was not an alien or a
design agency
it was a human who came up with this
shape
four thousand years ago this is a true
story
four thousand years ago in the united
arab emirates
someone created a beautiful ring
maybe for a wedding maybe for a gift and
that
ring stayed hidden in the desert
specifically
here for thousands of years
until one day the local people
discovered this
area and found the ring
it became the first ever jewelry
discovered in the entire country
it is evidence that this is where people
designed
traded loved and lived and you can see
that evidence
everywhere you go
in fact there is so much hiding under
the desert right now
that only 10 to 20 percent of the area
was discovered
the remaining 80 percent is still hiding
here
under the sand now
this ring from the past is a symbol of
the future
they say history repeats itself and
as we look at this beautiful design
these words
couldn't be any more true
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