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Post by Ian Thomas on Dec 8, 2023 21:45:46 GMT 10
I'm guessing most of us have heard some media talk of an alleged 27000 year old pyramid in Indonesia. Gunung Padang, specifically. That name rings a bell because I recall Graham Hancock put great store into it, in one of his books or vids. That alone oughta raise a red flag. So, here's Anton's take on it. Although there are many, many caveats, it appears we may have to take the claim seriously, at least provisionally. Bear in mind the old science adage: "Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." The paper is here. Looks legit - it's in Wiley's stable.
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Post by dennisw on Dec 9, 2023 10:26:28 GMT 10
I have read some of the stuff but have not bothered to follow up because it is a bit fanciful and reads too much into what has been found. It does need more evidence for conclusive results.
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Post by Ian Thomas on Dec 10, 2023 5:01:30 GMT 10
True - what's needed is definitive proof. Lost Ice Age Civilisations and all that? Hell yeah, we'd all like the story to be true. But merely wanting something to be true does not make it so. Gotta have convincing evidence. That'd mean digging some kind of deep tunnel/trench into the structure. Trouble is, the site's a national monument for Indonesia and the government might not go for that option. Still and all, you have to allow that it might be true. Gobekli Tepe turned archaeology on its head: who's to say humans were not "doing stuff" since scores-of-thousands of years ago, way back in the Pleistocene? 🦣
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