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NASA Image Shows Enormous, Mystery Geoglyph of 'Marree Man' from Space
Newsweak ^ | 12/30/2019 | Rosie McCall

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Science
KEYWORDS: adelaide; astronomy; australia; epigraphyandlanguage; geoglyph; godsgravesglyphs; marree; marreeman; science
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To: blueplum

21 posted on 12/31/2019 2:45:56 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: blueplum

The Rude Man


22 posted on 12/31/2019 3:02:13 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Bardius Goldberg

Confirmed as the creator of the Marree Man by two people.

Click image for article.

23 posted on 12/31/2019 5:05:33 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks BenLurkin. Modern, but in thousands of years its origin may be a puzzle for someone. :^)

24 posted on 01/01/2020 7:32:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Just checked it out... Looks like a one bar town, or did you fly out somewhere else for liberty? lol


25 posted on 01/01/2020 8:26:25 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Brilliant

Somewhere, just out of sight, is an excited dog geoglyph, waiting for that stick to be thrown.


26 posted on 01/01/2020 8:49:21 AM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: BenLurkin

He’s not rude.

He’s just really happy to see you.


27 posted on 01/01/2020 8:51:15 AM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: blueplum

“Looks modern era. I don’t believe ancients detailed pubic hair.”

Almost sure of it... I just went and zoomed in on it and “it” looks like it may be Circumcised... Not sure the ancients Circumcised either... lol


28 posted on 01/01/2020 8:54:16 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BenLurkin
Thank you for posting this, right up my alley. Yep... Man bun.


29 posted on 01/01/2020 9:08:58 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BenLurkin; SunkenCiv
The Badlands Guardian...
Better to stick to the real mysteries.
30 posted on 01/01/2020 9:51:04 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Salamander

https://webmail.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/saywhat.wav


31 posted on 01/01/2020 9:56:20 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

LOL


32 posted on 01/01/2020 10:10:15 AM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: blam

Artemision Bronze

The Artemision Bronze (often called the God from the Sea) is an ancient Greek sculpture that was recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision, in northern Euboea. It represents either Zeus[1] or Poseidon

33 posted on 01/01/2020 3:07:07 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: blam

The outline appears to be a mirror image of Poseidon, fed into a GPS controlled vehicle...


34 posted on 01/01/2020 4:18:58 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: BenLurkin

How is this a mystery? The guy who built it was interviewed by a scientific magazine about 30 years ago


35 posted on 01/03/2020 2:34:06 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Brilliant

Looks like a spear thrower, an atlatl were it in Mexico.


36 posted on 01/07/2020 12:03:21 PM PST by ThanhPhero
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