Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Marree Man

en.wikipedia.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 28 posts

Re: Marree Man

#11

Post by roenxi »

amelius wrote: post #10
omk wrote: post #4

Google maps satellite view for those curious. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Marree+Man/@-29.5335821,13...

The satellite image looks slightly different from the Wikipedia image. In the satellite image you can clearly see an ear, and the man is looking to the left. In the wikipedia image, it seems as if the man is wearing a mask and looks to the right. The band over the head is not visible in the satellite image.

The satellite picture is much clearer; the 'mask' on Wikipedia is probably the hair of the satellite image.

Re: Marree Man

#12

Post by buckminster »

Article misses an important point: what is the latest date it definitely wasn't there? There's nothing in the article that makes it more recent than 1928.

Re: Marree Man

#13

Post by mc32 »

buckminster wrote: post #12

Article misses an important point: what is the latest date it definitely wasn't there? There's nothing in the article that makes it more recent than 1928.

Erosion, for one. probably historical aerial photography as well, but that’s not mentioned.

It is light on details such as how it was made (mechanics). But erosion has meant its needed to be redefined.

Re: Marree Man

#14

Post by benj111 »

ben_w wrote: post #3

Interesting. Why do people assume this could not have been done without GPS? Maps have long been created by triangulation, is there any reason that process could not be used backwards to create a terrain feature from a map?

Agreed.

I'm sure theres a rich history of people claiming the pyramids/great wall/stone henge couldn't have been built without X technology, when they evidently were.

Re: Marree Man

#15

Post by sures »

omk wrote: post #4

Google maps satellite view for those curious. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Marree+Man/@-29.5335821,13...

With the "Measure Distance" tool on Google Maps, the figure seems to be 2.6 km tall.

Re: Marree Man

#16

Post by shagie »

hutzlibu wrote: post #6
somada141 wrote: post #5

My family in South Australia has lived a 10h drive from this their entire life and no idea it existed. I should really visit.

Ah .. very australian. I live in middle europe and there are many places just "10h" drive away I have never visited and probably never will .. But aside that, I doubt it will look spectacular close up.

In describing the scale of distances (and time) in the United States to a brit:

> In England, 100 miles is a long distance. In the US, 100 years is a long time.

This likely applies to Australia as well. Note that this is a vast oversimplification as there is certainly culture in both Australia and the US that is much older than 100 years, but it gives the sense that the country is young - the difference between the old world and the new world.

Re: Marree Man

#17

Post by hn3333 »

ben_w wrote: post #3

Interesting. Why do people assume this could not have been done without GPS? Maps have long been created by triangulation, is there any reason that process could not be used backwards to create a terrain feature from a map?

Exactly. Random idea, but one simple way to do it could have been to draw the figure on paper, draw a grid over it, for example with 1cm boxes, and then draw much bigger boxes, say 10 or 100 meters big on the soil. And then just copy box by box and in the end get rid of the grid. Who needs GPS?

Re: Marree Man

#20

Post by ddeck »

sures wrote: post #15
omk wrote: post #4

Google maps satellite view for those curious. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Marree+Man/@-29.5335821,13...

With the "Measure Distance" tool on Google Maps, the figure seems to be 2.6 km tall.

From the article:

"The figure is 2.7 km (1.7 mi) tall with a perimeter of 28 km (17 mi), extending over an area of about 2.5 km2 (620 acres)"

Post reply on HN