Posted on 01/03/2015 4:10:32 PM PST by Fred Nerks
From my Free Web Book 'AncientCanalBuilders.com'
The largest wide-array man made (or at least non natural) structure in the world is in fact an ancient terra formed systems of agricultural-aquaculture canals in Northwestern Botswana and Northeastern Namibia, north of the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa. Obviously quite ancient, the canal systems no longer provide free flowing water throughout its 105,000 mile array, but many sections show obvious intention to provide cross sectional irrigation.
These canals are too evenly spaced over too large an area to be any kind of natural formation. Based on entry and exit points, it is readily apparent this system is a very large, controlled agronomy array and/or aquaculture system. Its age is defined by the overgrown nature of the canals, as well as some areas that are covered over with drift and sand erosion.
The entire complex covers an area about equal in size to the State of Arizona in the USA. The canals are an integrated system of apparent irrigation and agricultural (and probably aquaculture) design. The system is about 350 miles in width and about 300 miles in depth. (For the remnants still visible.) This system represents roughly 67 MILLION acres of sustainable agriculture. Given the sophistication of design, it is entirely plausible to assume an above average yield, i.e. feeding well over 90 persons per acre on an annual basis. The system may or may not have provided a sustainable aquaculture (marine farming) environment. I have no reason to suspect that it did not.
Given the size and scope of this complex, (canals are about 1 mile apart on average) and collectively are roughly 350 X 300 miles in a rough rectangular format. (At least the observable parts) There could be, and probably is, much more to this complex than what is visible to the naked eye. Right now, we can identify ancient cultivation of roughly 105,000 square miles.
One square mile = 27,878,400 square feet, or 640 acres, so the entire complex had a sustained producing land mass of (640 acres x 105,000 square miles) or > 67,200,000 acres. (That is 67 MILLION acres)
One linear mile of canal had (750' width x + >12' depth x 5,280') = 47,520,000 cubic ft of water per linear mile.
Entire canal length (105,000 miles x 47.5 million cubic ft per mile) = 5,000,000,000,000 (That's 5 TRILLION) cubic feet of water in the canals. It would be an incredible waste of time and effort to irrigate >105,000 square miles of sustainable agriculture land, and not use the 5 trillion cubic feet of water circulating in the canals for aquaculture farming. I don't think the builders were that stupid.
Different estimates of the numbers of people this sustainable system would supply varies widely, though it is generally accepted that a system like this, if properly managed would provide a complete annual diet for somewhere between 60 to 120 people per acre. Which means this system was in fact providing food for an average of about 5 Billion people.
This array is in fact the largest non natural artifact on the Planet. It can be clearly viewed unaided from the International Space Station at roughly 230 miles up, which cannot be said for any other non natural feature on Earth.
I would suggest that depth of canal(s) must have been significant to compensate for general slight variations in elevation. There seems to be an average elevation variation of about 60', sometime more, and sometimes less.
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First brought to my attention by Gary Schoening Here is his original Vimeo post: http://vimeo.com/64351951
Those are vehicle tracks associated with a variety of modern human activities including using the flats for land speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell and others, kiting, and more.
Sure they are, and the thousands of crop circles throughout the world were made by two old men with a stick and a long piece of string...don't worry, be happy.
Vehicle tracks on Verneukpan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verneukpan
Activities
Some campers on Verneukpan.
The pan is undoubtedly the ultimate kiting destination in South Africa. The widespread open spaces offer ideal opportunities for parasailing. The pan is also used by kite-surfers, an extreme sport using wind buggies. These are bicycle-like vehicles with a sail attached to them. With wind buggies speeds of up to 70 kilometres per hour (43 mph) can be reached. There are also many viewpoints that are ideal for birdwatching.[8][9]
you slay me, I’m getting giddy here watching the birds while I fly my kite, going around in circles.
give it up, this is not something you can solve with running to wiki.
The Verneukpan speedtrack with a DAF truck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQeQGVVGUI
The Verneukpan speedtrack with a DAF truck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQeQGVVGUI
Verneukpan is a short drive of 115km south from the town of Kenhardt on the way to Cape Town. This is a vast dry salt pan which is ideal for aerotow operations as you can launch and land in any direction you choose. It was used in 1929 by Malcolm Campbell to set the then land speed record of 350km/h in his Bluebird. The track that he compacted on the pan is still visible today. The surface is pretty rough with rocks and brush over a great portion of the pan.
Verneukpan is the undisputed ultimate kiting destinations in South Africa. Verneukpan is a 100% flat surface claimed to be a dried up lake estimated 57 km long and 11 km wide.
Verneukpan is the place where South African landspeed record holder and former fighter pilot Johan Jacobs died tragically on 27 June 2006 when his jet car, Edge, went out of control and flipped while travelling at close to 500km/h during a practice run for an attempt to break the 24-second world record for the standing mile over 1,64km.
The vast salt plain, back in the late 1920s, saw Malcolm Campbell fail to break the world land speed record when the coarse surface damaged his tyres and in the early 1950s Cape Town’s Vic Proctor try for the world motorcycle record on a Vincent HRD Black Lightning but crash at around 160km/h.
The wide-open spaces of Verneukpan offer ideal opportunities for parasailing and the many outlook posts is ideal for birdwatching.
http://www.greenkalahari.com/attract.html
You haven't looked at the region, you are looking for easy answers. I'll try to give you one. Vernuekpan was a practice ground for whatever energy created the crop-circle phenomenon.
“whatever energy”
Diesel, gasoline, or steampunk?
Why aren’t the circles in the mid-20th Century aerial photographs? Are you saying aliens in UFOs from outer space just made them?
I can see I’ve got your attention. I wrote, what-ever energy and it’s the ‘whatever’ that makes you uncomfortable?
Good heavens no, I'm just trying to show you what is there. Maybe the reason they weren't seen before is because one looked.
I meant of course, that no one looked.
No tricks. No tyre tracks. Come on, you can do better that that.
“Maybe the reason they weren’t seen before is because one looked.”
What evidence the tracks were there in 1912, when they were not?
Establishment scientists often refuse to see/acknowledge material which does not fit into their previous views, or coworkers and superiors who might judge them and affect their grants, employment, and futures. Witness the current change in “before Clovis” thinking, and search now for underwater signs of civilized development when sea levels were much lower at the end of the Ice Age.
Vernuekpan has been an item of interest if mine for a number of years. I first read about the region and the people from the works of Lauren van der Post and his book, Heart of the Hunter, in which he described the culture of the San people, known as the Hottentots or pigmies...possibly the oldest culture/people on earth...
Maybe you might think about what came before in that region, before you talk about land-speed records and flying kites.
Sad, but it’s asking to much, step off the trodden path and you step into the fearful unknown. You know where it leads; where angels fear to tread.
Two old men with a stick and long piece if string...lol!
Very interesting question which tells us more than whodunit. There was no Google Earth in 1912 ( thank goodness) and the entire waste of energy which produced the so called crop-circle phenomenon, has its origin about the same time as the Vernuekpan symbols began to appear.
Think.
Or ask how the chinese and their black slaves settled and ruled parts of central and south America.
yes, the truth is the truth is the truth. Don't want to sound defeated so will stop my comment because am still one (only one) that believes otherwise. May it be that America and Americas have only begun to fight!
That is the absolute truth Fred. So the choice is always going to be use it, lose it, heal it, attempt to nurse it back to health or allow it to become a corpse. Fear is a powerful enemy. 'It' in this case being America.
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