Posted on 12/31/2019 10:18:50 AM PST by BenLurkin
The Marree Man is a geoglyph spanning 2.2 miles (or 3.5 kilometers) head-to-toe, and can be found in the middle of South Australia's desert near a town called Marree, itself 365 miles (589 kilometers) from the city of Adelaide.
The image of a hunter with what might be a stick (or a boomerang) in his hand was chosen as NASA's Image of the Day on Sunday. It was taken by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on June 22, 2019.
The mysterious figure was first spotted in 1998, when a pilot noticed the carvings on a plateau, but has faded as time went on. According to NASA, the lines were barely visible in natural color images collected in 2013 by OLI on Landsat 8.
There are several theories as to who made it and why, ranging from members of the U.S. army to a local Australian artist, who died in 2002.
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Someone needs to take space johnny’s crayons away.
Looks like he’s conducting an orchestra to me.
Lefty.
This is what happens when people take their noses out of their iphones.
I wonder if, way back when, the makers could have migrated to Nazca?
The proportions are remarkably accurate, the weight of the line consistently even, in outline only (no visible facial features, representations of breasts, nor muscles), the pose is vaguely Classical Greek (one side of the figure is animated with extended arm and turned leg), and there is an indication of calves in the lower legs—which I think is unheard of in another glyphs anywhere (that I am aware of).
I could be very wrong, but it’s accuracy and mammoth size lead me to conclude that it is a piece of modern art made in secret or possibly a hoax if it it is being considered as prehistoric. If the figure was made from digging grooves in the ground, placing rocks on the place, or uncovering a substrate of another color, some indication of its true age might be found.
JM.02
See post #2
I agree with you. A remarkable achievement however it was made!
In the US, some accessible geoglyphs have been trashed by vehicles. Looks like a bird head, similar to hieroglyphs. Note there are walls with hieroglyphic carvings in eastern Australia, in a rare form which graffiti artists would be unaware.
There were ocean crossing civilizations before us.
Dr Robert Schoch thinks so.
Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders
There are more pyramids in Mexico than all the rest of the world combined.
And, the oldest is probably in Caral, Peru.
Complete with fig leaf and a beak.
Can anyone else read the caption?
I think it says some about BurmaShave. But it might be about Brylcream.
Man bun
Crime scene?
This was made by US Air Force personnel from Woomera Air Station, only a few miles away.
It was a satellite downlink station, and would have been observing the Earth in the first place. I was stationed there 1982-84.
Years later, people I know told me about it. A big joke at the time.
Looks modern era. I don’t believe ancients detailed pubic hair.
Similar landscape drawing:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Cerne-abbas-giant-2001-cropped.jpg
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