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To: WhiskeyX; Fred Nerks; SunkenCiv; blam; no-to-illegals; All

I looked at both links. The first one showed a road in some very flat land, with no sign of sand dunes, even relatively low ones. I don’t know if there was some way I was supposed to make a long trip down the road in the various places, but all I managed was to turn around in the other direction. No travel across anything that might have been an excavated area that I could figure out how to make happen. The spooky music was interesting, but not relevant

Do you happen to have any scientific basis for your rejection of the canals idea. I had a year of geology, and we saw a lot of pictures of various kinds of landscape, and nothing with sand dunes created anything that looked like this area. So unless you can show me something specifically scientific that refutes them, I am sticking with my interpretations.


176 posted on 01/07/2015 2:10:31 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
It serves no purpose imo to get hung up about one region out of the probable thousands on the surface of the planet covered by inexplicable lines and symbols, with more and more being uncovered through Google Earth almost daily. Some are obviously misinterpreted, some, like the Nazca Lines are impossible for us to comprehend. Another good example can be found on the Vernuekpan dry lake bed in South Africa.

The place-mark on the top right hand side of the image shows a line that leads to the place-mark in the centre, which ends near the junction of the outline of a V you can barely see in the image I have posted above. This line, possibly a canal, is broken from time to time by what might be sand dunes.

If you go to Google Earth and explore this region beneath the centre place-mark, you will be as astonished as I was. The phenomenon continues over a much larger region that I have pointed out here, there is much more of a different kind to the right of the V, which do have a similarity to the irrigated fields in South America.

I doubt we will have the answers to everything in our lifetimes...but that shouldn't stop us from looking, and admitting we often don't know how it got there.

177 posted on 01/07/2015 3:00:25 AM PST by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: gleeaikin
It's there, and one man with a tractor didn't do it.


178 posted on 01/07/2015 3:13:04 AM PST by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: gleeaikin

“I looked at both links. The first one showed a road in some very flat land, with no sign of sand dunes, even relatively low ones.”

Duh...while you are on the road in the Google Steetview panorama, you’re sitting atop one of the stripes in your pictures that you claim to be human made canals. No canal, imagine that. Yes, the land is very flat, nonetheless you are looking down a road that travels across dunes and the valleys between the dunes. You cannot see the dunes, because, as was said before in prior posts, the dunes have been degraded in the past tens of thousands of years until they have been leveled into relatively flat lands and the valleys between the dunes filled to produce relatively flat lands. The stripes visible in the satellite and aerial views result from the differences in chemistries between the soils of the whitish silicate and calcium carbonate rich degraded linear dunes and the reddish clay filled valleys between the linear dunes. While traveling down the road in the Streetview, you cannot find any canals, because they quite simply do not exist except in the minds of the gullible, who insist upon the existence of UFO alien engineers and like fantasies.

“I don’t know if there was some way I was supposed to make a long trip down the road in the various places, but all I managed was to turn around in the other direction.”

That location was reached by using Streetview to travel on the roads out of the Tsodilo Hills UNESCO World Heritage Site and towards the southeastern and eastern areas beyond them. The Streetview function becomes problematic at about the point of the picture. Using Streetview in the vicinity of the Tsodilo Hills site gives you an opportunity to witness no canals exist where the Google satellite views show the colored stripes on the ground. Instead, Steetview demonstrates how the ancient linear sand dunes and valleys between them were leveled by aeolian forces and erosion to produce soils differing in coloration in a striped pattern.

“No travel across anything that might have been an excavated area that I could figure out how to make happen.”

Streetview can work from that location and along the road/s back to the Tsodilo Hills. When you get your computer and Streetview to work properly to travel down the road, note how your position in the satellite view travels directly across some the same features seen in the Google satellite view you are erroneously claiming to be canals/ditches.

“The spooky music was interesting, but not relevant”

It is relevant because it is mystery music accompanying your fictional mystery canals.

“Do you happen to have any scientific basis for your rejection of the canals idea.”

Why are you pretending to be ignorant of the scientific sources referenced in the previous posts?

“I had a year of geology, and we saw a lot of pictures of various kinds of landscape, and nothing with sand dunes created anything that looked like this area.”

Evidently you failed to benefit from your college education in geology, otherwise you would have immediately understood our prior comments about “degraded” linear sand dunes and their obvious relationship to the formation of sedimentary soils and rocks. Sand dunes, linear and otherwise, which persist long enough to become consolidated and embedded into the soils are in the transition to becoming sandstone and limestone. Degraded sand dunes in sedimentary units was a common feature in our geomorphology surveys.

“So unless you can show me something specifically scientific that refutes them, I am sticking with my interpretations.”

Why do you choose to deny the sources already provided to you in prior posts which reported how cores were taken from the sand dunes?


180 posted on 01/07/2015 10:02:06 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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