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Re: Band of Holes

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Post by Ghoelian »

slongfield wrote: post #2

The satellite view shows this off much better than Wikipedia's ground-level picture. It Really is just a long band of holes dug into the side of a mountain. https://www.google.com/maps/place/13%C2%B042'20.0%22S+75%C2%...

There's also some better pictures in one of the article's sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20160205050218/http://strzyzewsk...

Re: Band of Holes

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Post by nandomrumber »

slongfield wrote: post #2

The satellite view shows this off much better than Wikipedia's ground-level picture. It Really is just a long band of holes dug into the side of a mountain. https://www.google.com/maps/place/13%C2%B042'20.0%22S+75%C2%...

That’s a lot of holes.

It seems obvious to me they were made by the landing pylons of heavy-lift alien spacecraft.

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Post by omnicognate »

nandomrumber wrote: post #6
slongfield wrote: post #2

The satellite view shows this off much better than Wikipedia's ground-level picture. It Really is just a long band of holes dug into the side of a mountain. https://www.google.com/maps/place/13%C2%B042'20.0%22S+75%C2%...

That’s a lot of holes. It seems obvious to me they were made by the landing pylons of heavy-lift alien spacecraft.

Even more holes than Blackburn, Lancashire.

At 1m diameter and 75cm deep, so ~0.59m^3, I calculate that to fill the Albert Hall, which a search suggests "has been estimated at" ~100,000m^3 (feels low to me, but it's quoted in many places), it takes around 170,000 of these Peruvian holes.

Re: Band of Holes

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Post by nandomrumber »

omnicognate wrote: post #9
nandomrumber wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s a lot of holes. It seems obvious to me they were made by the landing pylons of heavy-lift alien spacecraft.

Even more holes than Blackburn, Lancashire. At 1m diameter and 75cm deep, so ~0.59m^3, I calculate that to fill the Albert Hall, which a search suggests "has been estimated at" ~100,000m^3 (feels low to me, but it's quoted in many places), it takes around 170,000 of these Peruvian holes.

There’s an Albert Hall where I live, it’s probably much smaller than its name sake.

I think we can fill it.

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