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    Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    Shocking. Another city was built on the same site as another one, an area that has good farming and port access. Who would of thought.
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    Image of MiriamCadish MiriamCadish
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    Miltary derived technology at work, this tech is used to find things from minefields to mass graves.
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    Image of HarrisonHizat HarrisonHizat
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    I'm an archaeologist, and I ask myself this question almost on a daily basis... especially how treasured all of our junk will be! On the field, we get overexcited about finding the silliest stuff...
    I'm afraid it'll have to be way more than 1000 years, since everything is much more durable now.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/30/09

    @HarrisonHizat: I wonder what your far-flung future colleagues will wake of the sudden reduction of disposable plastic food containers in some regions due to the switch to compostable materials. "What the hell, did they all start eating less?"
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07/30/09

    @HarrisonHizat: Your comment reminded me of the first Indiana Jones movie, when Belocq tells Indy that a $10 pocket watch buried in the sand for 1000 years would be priceless.
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    Image of NotMandatory NotMandatory
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    Aerial archaeology is pretty amazing, and even much smaller settlements can sometimes be seen quite clearly.

    Here are a few galleries (a mix of personal websites and professional organisations, mostly European):
    http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/aerial-archaeology/aerial-archaeology.htm
    http://www.ohioarchaeology.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&
    http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/aerien/en/index.html
    task=view&id=233&Itemid=32
    http://www.armadale.org.uk/archaeologyindex.htm#Photography

    And some short introductions to aerial archaeology:
    http://www.archaeologyexpert.co.uk/AerialArchaeology.html
    http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1188
    http://www.univie.ac.at/Luftbildarchiv/index.htm#TOC
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/30/09

    @NotMandatory: Cool links, thanks!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    No, no, no! This is clearly a message from the aliens warning us that the upcoming solar storm will turn the Earth's Van Halen Belt into suspenders. This will invert our chakras and make all food taste like Funyuns®.

    The only way to avert the catastrophe is if we all wear pink robes ($49.95 available at my website) on the 9th of October to signify our acceptance of the Spiritual Transcosmic Convergence® as taught by the ascended Tibetan Dolphin Crystal Masters™.

    IT'S BASIC SCIENCE! WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!!
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    07/30/09

    @Grey_Area: Yes, my great and wise leader. I shall do as you command. Do you take AMEX?
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    07/30/09

    @Grey_Area: Bullshit, man. I want some Van Halen suspenders.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/30/09

    @braak: Fine, don't come crying to me when your chakras start squirting out of your elbows.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/30/09

    @TemporalSword: Oh yeah sure, that's a good start. Now get in the van with the others, were gonna hand out flowers at the airport. Then it's back to the compound to perform the Annointed Oil Wrestling and the Washing of the Dozen Sacred BMWs.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07/30/09

    @Grey_Area: Grey, Grey, have you been talking to raellians lately?
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    Image of I'm Waitin' for Dolemite I'm Waitin' for Dolemite
    07/30/09

    @Grey_Area:

    Your ideas intrigue me sir. Praytell how if one might wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    Makes you wonder what outlines of cities today they will find in 1000 years.
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    Edited by TemporalSword at 07/30/09 11:34 AM TemporalSword was starred TemporalSword was unstarred
    Image of Liz Weinbloom Liz Weinbloom
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    That's freaking awesome.

    Anyone else hoping the streets would turn out to spell UNDER ME?
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch! RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch!
    07/30/09

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: Someone needs to tell Eustace and Jill, the lazy, easily distracted punks.
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    Image of Liz Weinbloom Liz Weinbloom
    07/30/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Srsly. If a giant undead lion with a god-complex told ME to remember something, you better believe I would.
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    Image of RavenNemain RavenNemain
    07/30/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Any day with a random Silver Chair reference is a good day.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/30/09

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: Is it a complex if you really are God?

    Also, I would probably say undead celestial dire lion. haha nerd it up nerds.
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    Image of Belabras Belabras
    07/30/09

    @Pope John Peeps II:
    Actually, I think the undying template would fit better than undead.

    You can't out nerd me sir.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch! RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch!
    07/30/09

    @Belabras: Technically Aslan got his Jesus on in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe when he sacrificed himself for Edmund’s screw ups. So if you’ve ever made a reference to zombie Jesus (and really, who hasn‘t?) then you’re going to have to go with Zombie (aka undead) Aslan as well.
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