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Band of Holes

48 points by user070223 11mo ago

slongfield 10mo ago
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%B052'28.5%22W/@-13.7098494,-75.8765213,737m/ https://www.google.com/maps/place/13%C2%B042'20.0%22S+75%C2%...
- Ghoelian 10mo ago
  There's also some better pictures in one of the article's sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20160205050218/http://strzyzewski.info/exploration_98.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160205050218/http://strzyzewsk...
- nandomrumber 10mo ago
  That’s a lot of holes. It seems obvious to me they were made by the landing pylons of heavy-lift alien spacecraft.
  - omnicognate 10mo ago
    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.
    - nandomrumber 10mo ago
      There’s an Albert Hall where I live, it’s probably much smaller than its name sake. I think we can fill it.
surprisetalk 10mo ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite horror stories (NSFW): https://imgur.com/gallery/lni-enigma-of-amigara-fault-junji-ito-nuSwv https://imgur.com/gallery/lni-enigma-of-amigara-fault-junji-...
- EdwardDiego 10mo ago
  That was rather good, thank you!
- mock-possum 10mo ago
  DRR DRR DRR…
- AmbroseBierce 10mo ago
  Obviously the rescuers should have just used a stick and push them back until they are de-deformed by undergoing the reverse process, on a serious note I think the author should have gone further, one is that it should show a pregnant lady going into one of the holes, just to put that mental image in the readers, and second, it should have a bonus page where we are shown that the bodies melt into the ground once they make it out, and then when they seem like they are dead they make a strange sound until the rescuers conclude that are trying to say "kill me"
noduerme 10mo ago
Blackburn, Lancashire best catch up
dvh 10mo ago
I think it's either some animal trap (birds nest, small mammal, insect) or some plant growing area or maybe moisture harvesting.
doodlebugging 10mo ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900238

48 points by user070223 11mo ago

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%B052'28.5%22W/@-13.7098494,-75.8765213,737m/ https://www.google.com/maps/place/13%C2%B042'20.0%22S+75%C2%...

Ghoelian 10mo ago
There's also some better pictures in one of the article's sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20160205050218/http://strzyzewski.info/exploration_98.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160205050218/http://strzyzewsk...
nandomrumber 10mo ago
That’s a lot of holes. It seems obvious to me they were made by the landing pylons of heavy-lift alien spacecraft.
- omnicognate 10mo ago
  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.
  - nandomrumber 10mo ago
    There’s an Albert Hall where I live, it’s probably much smaller than its name sake. I think we can fill it.

surprisetalk 10mo ago

Reminds me of one of my favorite horror stories (NSFW): https://imgur.com/gallery/lni-enigma-of-amigara-fault-junji-ito-nuSwv https://imgur.com/gallery/lni-enigma-of-amigara-fault-junji-...

EdwardDiego 10mo ago
That was rather good, thank you!
mock-possum 10mo ago
DRR DRR DRR…
AmbroseBierce 10mo ago
Obviously the rescuers should have just used a stick and push them back until they are de-deformed by undergoing the reverse process, on a serious note I think the author should have gone further, one is that it should show a pregnant lady going into one of the holes, just to put that mental image in the readers, and second, it should have a bonus page where we are shown that the bodies melt into the ground once they make it out, and then when they seem like they are dead they make a strange sound until the rescuers conclude that are trying to say "kill me"

noduerme 10mo ago

Blackburn, Lancashire best catch up

dvh 10mo ago

I think it's either some animal trap (birds nest, small mammal, insect) or some plant growing area or maybe moisture harvesting.

doodlebugging 10mo ago

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900238