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I was hoping from the headline that this was about an exoplanet but antelope traps are interesting too...
by gefh 10y ago
I was hoping from the headline that this was about an exoplanet but antelope traps are interesting too...
- ekianjo 10y ago"Space Point" is indeed misleading and completely stretching it. Those are not huge structures and would be very hard to detect from Space. It's more about having a little elevation than anything else.
- mintplant 10y agoI also made the same incorrect assumption as gefh, and I'm not entirely convinced that wasn't deliberate, but to be fair, the article does discuss how satellite imagery has been used by archaeologists to study these sites.
- JorgeGT 10y agoThe "space" bit is total click bait. They can be seen from space... with a huge Earth Observation telescope. They are crediting DigitalGlobe for the remote sensing so in that sense any random car can be "seen from space": https://www.digitalglobe.com/gallery?category=&page=2#gallery-detail-13 https://www.digitalglobe.com/gallery?category=&page=2#galler...
- Razengan 10y agoMe too. It instantly reminded me of the old PC game, Star Control II (the spiritual precursor to Mass Effect), in which an advanced alien race leaves behind artificially-created planets with similar properties, which when plotted together on a map, converge towards the location of their homeward, as if a galactic arrow pointing the way.