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."

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And what do those carvings say?

[corebreech]

Why, "first post" of course.

Some of the carvings found with the laser

[The_ForeignEye]

Besides the shapes, they also found WRITING incriptions! among them:

• Skimpy was here (1969)
• Ron loves Linda
• Go Western United!
• Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
• I hate you Bill!

Sorry... it's friday. I couldn't help it. It was a long week for me...

Re:But how do they know...

[Zocalo]

The markings could have been used to differentiate the stones. Stone C (axe) on top of Stones B (dagger) and C (man), etc..

I now have an image of Stonehenge arriving in huge flatpacks with the ancient rune of "Ikea" stamped on them. Actually, given the typical Brit's bafflement at a set of instructions from Ikea, that probably explains it - Stonehenge was *supposed* to be a five piece table and chair set, but the druids read the plans wrong... ;)

Hurry up and Wait

[Doesn't_Comment_Code]

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.

However, the description was encoded using 128 bit public key (axe,axe,hammer,axe,dagger,dagger,axe,axe,dagger,d agger,hammer,axe,dagger,axe...)

With the current state of computing. It will take 10000 years and the energy of the Sun to decipher the carvings