“Ancient Mayan city” discovered by teen may in fact be cannabis crop
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#2 Whoops, well give the kid high marks for trying
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#3Usually you find the cannabis before you find the lost Mayan city. Kid's got it all wrong.
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#4It may be anything, but I think it's a little strange how they shot this down so fast without any evidence. Makes me wonder if this is a desperate attempt to deter looters.
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#5Before they get into a big flame-fest, maybe someone should go and, you know, check it out.
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#6It may be anything , but I think it's a little strange how they shot this down so fast without any evidence. Makes me wonder if this is a desperate attempt to deter looters.
Probably not.
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/32829/has-a-fift...
> Very few Maya constellations have been identified, and even in these cases we do not know how many and which stars exactly composed each constellation. It is thus impossible to check whether there is any correspondence between the stars and the location of Maya cities. In general, since we know of several environmental facts that influenced the location of Maya settlements, the idea correlating them with stars is utterly unlikely.
> In this case, the rectilinear nature of the feature and the secondary vegetation growing back within it are clear signs of a relic milpa. I’d guess its been fallow for 10-15 years. This is obvious to anyone that has spent any time at all in the Maya lowlands.
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#7I'm actually surprised that I saw the "it was false" news pretty much everywhere, without even seeing the original news anywhere.
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#8It may be anything , but I think it's a little strange how they shot this down so fast without any evidence. Makes me wonder if this is a desperate attempt to deter looters.
deter looters by advertising a cash crop? :)
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#9> "The whole thing is a mess - a terrible example of junk science hitting the internet in free-fall," wrote Dr David Stuart
Wouldn't it actually be an excellent example of 'junk science hitting the internet in free-fall' ?
Re: “Ancient Mayan city” discovered by teen may in fact be cannabis crop
#10Whoops, well give the kid high marks for trying
cough high marks cough ? :P