[SunkenCiv]

A group of Chinese and Japanese scientists claimed that the dustball, which weighed 800,000 tons, was kicked up during a storm in 2007 in the Taklamakan desert.

I've heard that Taklamakan translates as "you go in, you don't come out". :')

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"I've heard that Taklamakan translates as "you go in, you don't come out". :')"

Close enough anyway.

[Berosus]

I see that Korla pears aren’t the only thing to come out of that part of China. My wife and I recently discovered those at an Asian grocery store.

http://xenohistorian.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/central-asian-pears/

[blam]

Hmmmm.

That's where these guys ( Tocharians) are located.