It Was a Mystery in the Desert for 50 Years

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32529260

The best way to understand this is as performance art. The true masterpiece is how the artist convinced his sponsors to pay for it.

And now it's a mystery behind a paywall.

Hunh. It’s really nice, I like it.

Disinformation! PSY-OP! That's just the emergency exit for the deep underground military base beneath Area51!1!!

SCNR ;-)