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If I were a multibillionaire with money to burn, I would fund a planet-wide lidar scan. So much of our history could be hidden beneath waves, jungles and snow.
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
If I were a multibillionaire with money to burn, I would fund a planet-wide lidar scan. So much of our history could be hidden beneath waves, jungles and snow.
- postexitus 4y agoGosh, imagine what the conspiracy theorists will say.
- pestatije 4y agoImagine all what they'll discover when there's a way to reliably scan the earth with neutrinos
- vkreso 4y agoThere is already a similair tehnique called muography which uses muons and has already been used for scanning the pyramids in Gizah and currently for the Mayan pyramids in Chichen Itza amongst others. Pretty SF stuff! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_tomography https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_tomography
- fooker 4y agoThere is an argument for not digging out everything we can right now. Technology improvements might allow us to get much more information in the future.
- slackdog 4y agoIt seems like the cat is out of the bag; LIDAR/SAR is proliferating. If you don't look/dig for stuff, another team of researchers will.
- hgsgm 4y agoTechnology improvements like... LIDAR?
- andrewflnr 4y agoNo. The idea is usually things that let you extract more info at the dig site, from the excavation process.