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Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

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Post by mandmandam »

yard2010 wrote: post #49
lukehollis wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's something we have to be careful of while working on site! We're really careful around the rooms that have mercury in them--there are few that I didn't put in the guide also. I was wondering about this too: they've found high levels of mercury in the water supply at Maya cities and believe now it contributed to the eventual collapse: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/mercury-and-algal-bl...

> “The drinking and cooking water for the Tikal rulers and their elite entourage almost certainly came from the Palace and Temple Reservoirs,” wrote Lentz and his colleagues. “As a result, the leading families of Tikal likely were fed foods laced with mercury at every meal.” This makes me think: what if today's rulers are being poisoned by something making them act like idiots?

Greed is a poison. Has been recognized as such for at least 2,500 years.

https://tricycle.org/beginners/buddhism/three-poisons/

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

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Post by jpm_sd »

yard2010 wrote: post #49
lukehollis wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's something we have to be careful of while working on site! We're really careful around the rooms that have mercury in them--there are few that I didn't put in the guide also. I was wondering about this too: they've found high levels of mercury in the water supply at Maya cities and believe now it contributed to the eventual collapse: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/mercury-and-algal-bl...

> “The drinking and cooking water for the Tikal rulers and their elite entourage almost certainly came from the Palace and Temple Reservoirs,” wrote Lentz and his colleagues. “As a result, the leading families of Tikal likely were fed foods laced with mercury at every meal.” This makes me think: what if today's rulers are being poisoned by something making them act like idiots?

It's called "social media"

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

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Post by vidarh »

volk45 wrote: post #58
revscat wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> staunch resistance Why?

PA restricts drone take/off and landing to only 6 parks in the whole state. So for example, Washington’s crossing state park with its 3.7thousand acres, restricts drone/take off and landing by state law. I’ve politely reached out to the park, and being a federally licensed commercial pilot with insurance coverage doesn’t pry that jar open. The airspace classification is the limit, so I can fly over as much as I want…

Tried approaching any of the adjacent private landowners, and seen if some of them are either sympathetic to your cause and/or the type who'd love a chance to stick a finger to the relevant authorities?

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

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Post by mxmilkiib »

AStonesThrow wrote: post #47
voodooEntity wrote: post #16

The fact that people carved this tunnels with simple tools and their bare hands into the underground is so freaking amazing i cant find better words for it Edit: also very nice tool :)!

> The fact that people carved this tunnels with simple tools and their bare hands I'm confused, mate: why and how would 21st-century professional archaeologists avoid using modern powered tools and techniques? That's absurd, dangerous, and not cost-effective.

I think you misunderstood that comment a bit

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

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Post by ReallyOldLurker »

lukehollis wrote: post #67
ReallyOldLurker wrote: post #64

Wow! That sure brings back memories. I've been there twice, 2011 & 2012. Congratulations. I'm very impressed.

Thanks so much! Does it look very different / did you go in the tunnels?

I was allowed to go down two short tunnels, one led to part of the underground drainage (the end of it was blocked so I didn't get to look at the drainage itself). Overall it seems the same. From the top of the pyramids in the back, we could look at the remains of the palace area, but it was roped off and I was told that the government was gearing up for archeological work there.The guide I was with talked a lot about how precise the courts were leveled to drain rainwater away and how after all these centuries the drainage still works perfectly.

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

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Post by rmbyrro »

yard2010 wrote: post #49
lukehollis wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's something we have to be careful of while working on site! We're really careful around the rooms that have mercury in them--there are few that I didn't put in the guide also. I was wondering about this too: they've found high levels of mercury in the water supply at Maya cities and believe now it contributed to the eventual collapse: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/mercury-and-algal-bl...

> “The drinking and cooking water for the Tikal rulers and their elite entourage almost certainly came from the Palace and Temple Reservoirs,” wrote Lentz and his colleagues. “As a result, the leading families of Tikal likely were fed foods laced with mercury at every meal.” This makes me think: what if today's rulers are being poisoned by something making them act like idiots?

Or maybe the populace is being poisoned and their leaders need to behave like idiots to control a herd of dumb'ed down and stupid beings.

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

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Post by iwontberude »

lukehollis wrote: post #6
mmh0000 wrote: post #2

I don't know which is cooler. The 3D scan itself or the 3D map in the browser. This is amazing. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for visiting! It was so many tunnels.. I feel bad that I don't build faster sometimes, but this took awhile.

Get used to slowing down, it’s inevitable and you shouldn’t hold yourself to an unreasonable standard. Biology’s first principles make this clear.

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

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Post by fatbird »

yard2010 wrote: post #49
lukehollis wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's something we have to be careful of while working on site! We're really careful around the rooms that have mercury in them--there are few that I didn't put in the guide also. I was wondering about this too: they've found high levels of mercury in the water supply at Maya cities and believe now it contributed to the eventual collapse: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/mercury-and-algal-bl...

> “The drinking and cooking water for the Tikal rulers and their elite entourage almost certainly came from the Palace and Temple Reservoirs,” wrote Lentz and his colleagues. “As a result, the leading families of Tikal likely were fed foods laced with mercury at every meal.” This makes me think: what if today's rulers are being poisoned by something making them act like idiots?

Imagine people 100 years from now asking themselves "how did they not understand the effect that microplastics were having?"

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

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Post by throwway120385 »

volk45 wrote: post #58
revscat wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> staunch resistance Why?

PA restricts drone take/off and landing to only 6 parks in the whole state. So for example, Washington’s crossing state park with its 3.7thousand acres, restricts drone/take off and landing by state law. I’ve politely reached out to the park, and being a federally licensed commercial pilot with insurance coverage doesn’t pry that jar open. The airspace classification is the limit, so I can fly over as much as I want…

A lot of people, myself included, find quadrotor drones in peaceful natural settings to be incredibly annoying. If anyone who isn't aware of the rules sees you breaking them, they will assume that they can do it too and will gleefully bring their loudest, most annoying quadrotor everywhere they can because "they saw someone else do it once." It also opens the floodgates to all kinds of permitting and other process questions for different kinds of activities and they have to justify why they let you do it but not someone else.
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