[Luddite Patent Counsel]

They're mayonaisse jars from an ancient Costco.

[DTogo]

As always, yet another reason to blame the US for something...

[Deaf Smith]

They look like Mortars, aimed for defense or a siege.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Grut]

The salient frontline topographical feature was called "Skyline Ridge;" after repeated B-52 attacks, it became known among BUF crews as "Skyline Valley."

[Tallguy]

IIRC, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954), where the Viet Minh defeated the French Colonial Army, took place on the Plain of Jars.

[facedown]

What many people don't realize is the size of these things:

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[ExSafecracker]

This must be an interesting place. I would like to see it
myself.
If I read this article from the unimpeachable Guardian right tho, we dropped 2million TONS of 1000 lb and 500 lb
bombs on this relativly small area. Not only that, but our
stuff was so bad that 30% of it did not explode and is still
lying around for the local population to salvage for scrap
metal. I won't even get into the whole Darwin thing with that.
Are there really 12000 1000pound bombs or 24000 5000pound
bombs just lying around? You must be able to move around the
whole area just jumping from bomb to bomb. (Not that I would
suggest that.)

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.archaeology.org/9611/newsbriefs/laos.html

Jars vs. Jungles
Volume 49 Number 6, November/December 1996
by Matthew E. Draper

Jungle overgrowth is gradually destroying the 2,000-year-old stone containers dotting the so-called Plain of Jars in northern Laos. Perhaps used as sarcophagi, wine fermenters, or rice-storage containers, the jars range in height from three to ten feet. Some 300 have been cracked by invading plants and tree roots. Khamphay Khanthavong, who directs the conservation and archaeology division of Laos' Information and Culture Ministry, says the government lacks money to save the jars. Conservators operating on a slender budget of $143,000 per year have been trying to preserve the containers by removing the trees and plant growth. Complete preservation, however, will require foreign aid.

[SunkenCiv]

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