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Stonehenge Discovery using 3D Laser Scanning
Alligator Descartes writes "The BBC reports - 'High-tech lasers have been used to unlock the secrets of Stonehenge.
The work at the ancient site in Wiltshire has already uncovered two carvings which are invisible to the naked eye.' The project website contains lots of images plus some nice animations of the scan data."
Why, "first post" of course.
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I always thought Stonehenge was early modern art-deco.
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
Here's the correct link
Those aren't axes, they are mushroom clouds, obviously the Druids had nuclear weapons... They had a war, and are warning us not to repeat their mistakes...
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
Stonehenge, where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge
Where a man is a man and the children dance to
the pipes of pan
Stonehenge
Tis a magic place where the moon doth rise
With a dragon's face
Stonehenge
Where the virgins lie
And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky
And you my love, won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how
power plan.
that's right. there are no 'secrets' to the universe. only lack of ability to identify/participate, mostly due to phonIE training that advocates looking away from the light, towards greed/fear based man-made foibles/folly.
lookout bullow.
Isn't that the Mars face ?
OMG StoneHenge was created by aliens!
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When I think of dirty old men, I think of Ike Thomas and when I think about Ike I get a hard on that won't quit.
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Sixty years ago,I worked in what was once my Grandfather's Greenhouses. Gramps had died a year earlier and Grandma, now in her seventies had been forced to sell to the competition. I got a job with the new owners and mostly worked the range by myself. That summer, they hired a man to help me get the benches ready for the fall planting.
Ike always looked like he was three days from a shave and his whiskers were dirty white under the brim of his battered felt fedora.
He did nott chew tobacco but the corners of his mouth turned down in a way that, at any moment, I expected a trickle of thin, brown juice to creep down his chin. His bushy, brown eyebrows shaded pale, gray eyes.
Old Ike, he extended his hand, lifted his leg like a dog about to mark a bush and let go the loudest fart I ever heard. The old man winked at me. OIke Thomas is the name and playing pecker's my game.
I thought he said, "Checkers." I was nineteen, green as grass. I said, "I was never much good at that game."
"Now me," said Ike, "I just love jumping men. .
"I'll bet you do."
". . . and grabbing on to their peckers," said Ike.
"I though we were talking about. .
"You like jumping old men's peckers?"
I shook my head.
"I reckon we'll have to remedy that." Ike lifted his right leg and let go another tremendous fart. "He said, "We best be getting to work."
That summer of1941 was a more innocent time. I learned most of the sex I knew from those little eight pager cartoon booklets of comic-page characters going at it. Young men read them in the privacy of an outside john, played with themselves, by themselves and didn't brag about it. Sometimes, we got off with a trusted friend and helped each other out.
Under the greenhouse glass, the temperature some times climbed over the hundred degree mark. I had worked stripped to the waist since April and was as browwn as a berry. On only his second day on the job and in the middle of August, Ike wore old fashioned overalls. Those and socks in his hightop work shoes was every stitch he wore. When he bent forward, the bib front billowed out and I could see the white curly hairs on his chest and belly.
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"People do that?"
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"I never. .
"Well, old Ike's willing to let you find out."
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"Curiousity, maybe. I'm guessing you never had a good piece of man ass."
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I swallowed, hard.
Ike winked. "Care to be asshole buddies?"
***
We worked steadily until noon. Ike drew a worn pocket watch from the bib pocket of his loose overalls and croaked, "Bean time. But first its time to reel out our limber hoses and make with the golden arches before lunch."
I followed I ke to the end of the greenhouse where he stopped at the outside wall of the potting shed. He opened his fly, fished inside, and finger-hooked a soft white penis with a pouting foreskin puckered half an inch pa
Get the friggin' sharks there?
I'm no archaeologist, but the images have about the same level of conclusiveness as to their composition (that they are "axe-heads") as the Cydonia Face. I'm sure there are other reasons for their conclusions but I sure don't see them from my untrained eye.
how can they tell if the axe-head markings are from the creators or just really really old graffiti?
Could the stone arrangement predate the carvings?
Does anyone know if there is proof that understanding the carvings will actually help them understand Stonehenge? Maybe the axes are just bronze age graffiti.
Can I bum a sig?
Ok men its time for the 14th annual get naked at stonehenge!! There will be tons of naked guys for your enjoyment were going to use the laser this year to burn off any genital warts you might have!!!
So how long before the laser scanning data is used to produced smaller replicas of Stonehenge? I'm sure there's a market there for selling them to new-agers / people who want more than just a gnome in their gardens.
Careful, lasers could just release demons into the world if you tickle too many sacred sights with them. Satan would love that. The demons rejoice!
O_o Astaroth's eyes ever watchful O_O
They found 3 more little axe head things among the 50 they've already found....now the answers to the mysteries of Stonehenge are so clear!
Who pays for this stuff?
I can just imagine the conversation that must have taken place when they were building Stonehenge:
"What can we do to immortalize our civilization?"
"Hey, let's build a giant stone monument with no discernable purpose!"
"Man, that will mess with their heads for YEARS!"
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They look more like the sort of mark left after the impact of a metal object. Maybe someone just banged an axe against the stone. Cavemen were capable of better art than this (I'm not talking about the alignment of the stones themselves).
I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.
... including based on the female anatomy.
"Powers. I have them."
How do they know that the figures that are found were there from the beginning and not some punk at some point put them there (grafitti)
Jason
Looks more like tool marks than "carvings" to me. I think this is just a bunch of archeologists seeing what they want to see.
I've broke stones in 2 in a firepit.. and got the same types of marks..
maybe it's a secret message from the creater of the earth that we're supposed to runout and hack/murder each other with knives and axes...
or maybe it's just the stone..
One thing they still can't answer.. is how it was built..
how did these men put these giant stones in place... and why is there so much mathimatical correctness in the placing of the stones..
it's just spookie..
The article says the hi-fi super duper lasers have unlocked the stonehenge secret...but it doesn't say what the secret is.
Besides the shapes, they also found WRITING incriptions! among them:
Sorry... it's friday. I couldn't help it. It was a long week for me...
The cradle of civilization.
e 53 .html
http://www.stonehengelaserscan.org/stone53/ston
Amanita muscaria. Amen.
Why are they saying that they're unlocked the secrets? So the secret of stonehenge is "There's a lot of the same repeated pattern all over the place"? This doesn't answer any questions at all - they already know that. All they found is about 6 more silly axehead designs, just like the ones all over the other stones. Maybe they can use it to find writing or something. Until then, they haven't really unlocked anything.
-3Suns
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The Revolution will be Slashdotted
hmmm... they are either ax heads... meaning the people who built these were a war-like band, or they were really into or mushrooms
Right, carbon dating rocks eh? Using what carbon? Carbon dating can only date things which had sufficient carbon 14 content and is based on its radio active decay to carbon 12. It only works on things that were once living (I'm no scientist but I'm pretty sure these rocks weren't) and even then it can produce hideously inaccurate results.
As for the scanning. The markings could be anything. Because of the extent of errosion there is no way you can tell if these were done shortly after construction or years afterwards.
Nothing but misinformation here.
Don't blame me - this
...and the children dance
to the pipes of Pan!
I looked into the abyss, and the abyss looked into me--and we both winked.
I was expecting a detail artical with cost stuff, but what do I get? A short blurp about using laser to see a carving that was found in 1950!!
The journey is better then the end.
I just wonder how long it is before employees are scanning their buttcheeks. /shrug
'Life is like a spoonful of Drain-O, it feels good on the way down but leaves you feeling hollow inside'
All the nerds are arriving to their cubicles (myself included) and the site has just been /.ed. Ah well I guess I can look at this later.
I think it says "Mom, in a spinning class!"
Ya, they kind of look like axes...or maybe shrooms...oh hey, animations, that'll probably be cool, I'll just click here and... *SERVICE UNAVAILABLE*
Using state-of-the-art technology, scientists have laser scanned Stonehenge and found a detailed description of the monolithic structure carved on one of the stones.
d agger,hammer,axe,dagger,axe...)
However, the description was encoded using 128 bit public key (axe,axe,hammer,axe,dagger,dagger,axe,axe,dagger,
With the current state of computing. It will take 10000 years and the energy of the Sun to decipher the carvings
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
I looked and I sure can't see any axe heads in those murky images.
However, I did see a fluffy bunny, a fire truck, and a hamburger patty. Maybe I'm just projecting.
Just how would a carving of a bronze axe head be different from a carving of a stone or copper aze head? Did the carvings come with captions?
*actual scale size is 13 inches tall.
Perhaps it was supposed to be 18 inches instead of 18 feet. Someone must've gotten chewed out after that blunder.
GL
Stonehenge was probably the highest technology of its time. Anyone who builds an astronomical calculator is a nerd.
I imagine a Stonehenge engineer teleported into the present as feeling a warm glow of satisfaction that his work had lasted four thousand years, and having an intense desire to take apart the laser scanners to see how they work.
photons aren't exactly mordern technology. maybe the software and hardware used was high tech, but not the lasers.
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object oriented database solutions
Rule would control digital TV copies
Rule would control digital TV copies
FCC looks to require devices to block Internet piracy
By Jonathan Krim
THE WASHINGTON POST
Oct. 16 -- The federal government is preparing for the first time to require that personal computers and other consumer electronics devices contain technology to help block Internet piracy of digital entertainment.
A RULE being considered by the Federal Communications Commission is one of a series of proposals pushed by the entertainment industry to help thwart copying and online trading of movies and television shows that increasingly are being broadcast in digital form with high-quality picture and sound.
'BROADCAST FLAG'
But the new rule also would force consumers to purchase new equipment if they wanted to record enhanced digital-quality television programs and replay them on other machines.
Opponents of the proposed rule, including many technology companies and consumer groups, say it won't work. They are especially concerned that the plan might lead to government regulation of how personal computers and other devices are built, particularly if hackers crack the system and further changes are deemed necessary.
Officials at the FCC, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they expect the agency to settle on details of the "broadcast flag" rule by the end of the month. The broadcast flag takes its name from the bit of computer code that would be embedded in digital television signals and would be read by "compliant" devices such as a television set or a digital video recorder.
The rule would not affect consumers who record shows the old-fashioned way, with VCRs. Nor would it affect programming received on a cable or satellite system, in part because consumers pay for that content.
But the entertainment industry does not want digitally enhanced "high-value" entertainment sent free over the air to be easily copied and distributed on the Internet.
FCC officials said they expect the final rule to enable competition among different means of deploying the flag system to protect broadcasts, rather than the government anointing one in particular.
Unlike with recent FCC decisions on high-speed Internet access and media consolidation that have deeply split the five-member commission, none of the three Republicans and two Democrats has led a public campaign against the broadcast flag.
"I'm optimistic we'll have a clean majority," said one senior agency official. "The commission has acted in the area of digital television in a very bipartisan fashion."
Promoting digital programming, especially high-definition television, on regular broadcast channels has been a goal of the FCC since the Clinton administration.
Regulators have long worried that if enhanced digital programming is primarily offered on for-pay cable and satellite systems -- which scramble their signals -- free "over-the-air" television could wither and die.
So the FCC granted broadcasters additional spectrum to provide enhanced digital signals, and set quotas for how much programming they must offer, although those quotas have mostly gone unfilled.
Now the agency is addressing how programming can be protected so that it cannot be easily copied and sent around the Internet, undermining the lucrative aftermarket for videos and television syndication.
That puts the FCC in the middle of one of the most contentious issues of the computer age: how to protect against unauthorized use of digital entertainment when part of its appeal is the increased ability to manipulate it, customize it and transfer it to different locations.
WAYS TO CIRCUMVENT
In theory, the broadcast flag system would thwart Internet distribution by preventing computers from copying the files in a way that would allow them to be sent to others.
Critics point out that the system could be easily cir
Those aren't axe heads. Those are pictures of our alien creators beaming us down to earth from their ships. Duh!
In Republican America phones tap you.
Bronze-age craftsmen used stone moulds to cast the bronze tools they used...these look exactly like the surviving examples of moulds (allowing for 4000 years of erosion as these have been exposed to the elements, not buried in nice protective clay).
Stonehenge as an armaments factory, anyone?
But watch the archeologists classify the 'carvings' as having 'ritual significance', the standard phrase when they don't have a clue what an artifact was for...
18" tall?
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The software their using to analyze the carvings is called Demon. Didn't several anime series start with the premise of unlocking the secrets of stonehedge with the power of a demon? Just a thought.
"Cthulhu was here"
Stonehenge, where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge
Where a man is a man and the children dance to
the pipes of pan
Stonehenge
Tis a magic place where the moon doth rise
With a dragon's face
Stonehenge
Where the virgins lie
And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky
Nice try...everyone knows that slashdot people don't have wives, girlfriends, or even pets.
You probably have either a collection of Atari's or Amiga's in your basement and you are in love with Natlie Portman
Take your trolls somewhere else like Kuro5hin.org
Seems the link remains.. but nobody knows what happend to its content..:)
http://www.stonehengelaserscan.org/ doesn't work, returns : Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
Apparently the carvings say:
Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
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I think Clark Griswold made those marks.
Remember...to...drink...your...Ovaltine...
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
this is a device to unlock ancient secrets which clearly violates the DMCA
in my life God comes first.... but Linux is pretty high after that
Francis Smit
Looks like Dr.Evil finally found a new job for moon team alpha, moon team Zappa and those freaky sharks with laser beams attached to their heads.
You think any of those carvings are in the ancient languages of COBOL or Fortran?
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http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:BAqUaiHp3yAJ: www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART18464.html+s tonehenge+laser+scan&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Cantankerous old coot since 1957.
Found on a side of the stones:
If you can read this, you're too close.
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You think aliens use chisels?
Where the banshees live, and they do live well.
Do you have that Steve Miller song "Big Ol' Jet Had a Light On?"
Stonehenge was revealed years ago to be a primitive mainframe computer by the good Dr. F. E. Tunalu at the Institute of Druidic Technology.
See his article on Hyperborean Mainframes
You will also enjoy the exhibits of flint-mice and bronze mouse-pads.
main site is down, but more images / text
here.
Wow, everything on that site looks just like a 404!
finding 2 carvings of axeheads does not equal unlocking the secrest of stonehenge.
'mmmmmmmmm.... forbidden donut'
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:BAqUaiHp3yAJ: www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART18464.html+s tonehenge+laser+scan&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Trust me. This is an inactive account. Regardless of what the
Hommage to Stonehenge (tongue-in-cheek) check out http://www.carhenge.com
I feel sorry for the archeologists of the future when they dig up the US.... Nothing but soft drink billboards and Nike sneakers. :)
Middle Neolitic, era, dead at 5000
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - historical era Middle Neolitic was found dead in Stonehenge this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to world history. Truly an European icon.
Feel free to generate *lithic is dying using the link in my sig.
The riddle's already been solved!
First furniture porn, now ancient stone porn... what's next?
no really... what's next? I want in!!
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion." - Democritus
Just makes you wonder what would give them the idea that this might come back with results.
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Great, so it's a bunch of graffiti put there centuries later by a bunch of Celtic misfit teenagers.
Those little punks!
So the carving reads "The page cannot be found"?
Your kids got the box from the last big stone, now it's my kids' turn.
(Yes, I stole that one from the Farside where the rocket scientists are argueing about the cardboard box from a Saturn V.)
My other car is a 1984 Nark Avenger.
Namaste
it is a giant Vagina
Table-ized A.I.
Wow - not!
This looks more like a desperate search for research funds. I can almost see the write-up:
"ET has axe fetish, leaves clues at Stonehenge."
What an amazing bunch of, well, nothing...
Oh, wait, maybe this'll turn out to be Martian fossils? Or maybe Bigfoot's foot-prints?
Maybe it's just the marks left by whatever means they moved the stones by... ?
Unbelievable.
Maybe I need a better Rx?
Keeper of the terrible karma ---
Uhh... what?
Is this some sort of religious thing?
You would think that if you wanted to convince somebody of your beliefs that you would speak in a manner that could be understood.
...like this one.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
If I recall correctly, Stonehenge was constructed long before the druids came into existence.
physicsexpert is an evil troll. he pretends to know stuff but he posts misinformation (read: bs) in his posts.
What a bunch of bull!
physicsexpert is an evil troll. he pretends to know stuff but he posts misinformation (read: bs) in his posts.