Lidar Reveals 650-Square-Mile Maya Site Hidden Beneath Guatemalan Rain Forest
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#2So exciting! The number of buildings in the images is insane. I wonder what they'll find if they go down and poke around a bit?
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#3This is exciting as someone who recently discovered Graham Hancock.
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#4If I was a billionaire, I’d commission a lidar survey of the entire planet.
The amount of stuff that seems to be hidden beneath forest and snow and mud and ocean is absurd.
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#5what kind of lasers / lidar technology is this that is not reflected by trees?
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#6This is exciting as someone who recently discovered Graham Hancock.
What is exciting about Graham Hancock an easily debunked promoter of pseudoscientific theories? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock
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#7This is exciting as someone who recently discovered Graham Hancock.
Try discovering Graeber and Wengrow instead for something more realistic and just as awe inducing
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#8This is exciting as someone who recently discovered Graham Hancock.
What is exciting about Graham Hancock an easily debunked promoter of pseudoscientific theories? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock
He stimulates my imagination to propose even more fantastic "what if" scenarios. The Wikipedian, "Objective truth derives from quotable CNN articles and talk page bickering" not only misses the point, but is problematic epistemologically.
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#9This is exciting as someone who recently discovered Graham Hancock.
What is exciting about Graham Hancock an easily debunked promoter of pseudoscientific theories? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock
Graham Hancock is a journalist and a compelling science communicator. He has pursued theories outside the orthodox views of conventional archeology and, at least with the younger Dryas impact hypothesis, more and more evidence points to the fact that he may be right and conventional archeology may be wrong.
Smearing him as a promoter of pseudo-scientific theories without articulating your rationale is frankly weak-sauce.
I find your argument as un-compelling as those who smear others as conspiracy theorists so they can dismiss their claims without a second thought. Try harder.
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#10what kind of lasers / lidar technology is this that is not reflected by trees?
Good question!
According to [1], they rely on finding holmes in the foliage:
Lidar, of course, does not actually see through vegetation. Rather, it sees through holes in the foliage. Some of the multiple laser pulses it emits simply find openings between leaves and branches, in much the same way that sunlight filters through the forest canopy, continuing down to the ground.
[1]: https://www.gislounge.com/next-generation-lidar-seeing-the-f....