Stonehenge Discovery using 3D Laser Scanning 259
Alligator Descartes writes "The BBC reports - 'High-tech lasers have been used to unlock the secrets of Stonehenge.
The work at the ancient site in Wiltshire has already uncovered two carvings which are invisible to the naked eye.' The project website contains lots of images plus some nice animations of the scan data."
And what do those carvings say? (Score:4, Funny)
That looks familiar (Score:2, Funny)
OMG StoneHenge was created by aliens!
Re:Nuclear war (Score:3, Funny)
Either that or they were into psilocybin.
Purpose (Score:3, Funny)
"What can we do to immortalize our civilization?"
"Hey, let's build a giant stone monument with no discernable purpose!"
"Man, that will mess with their heads for YEARS!"
Some of the carvings found with the laser (Score:4, Funny)
Besides the shapes, they also found WRITING incriptions! among them:
Sorry... it's friday. I couldn't help it. It was a long week for me...
Re:But how do they know... (Score:5, Funny)
I now have an image of Stonehenge arriving in huge flatpacks with the ancient rune of "Ikea" stamped on them. Actually, given the typical Brit's bafflement at a set of instructions from Ikea, that probably explains it - Stonehenge was *supposed* to be a five piece table and chair set, but the druids read the plans wrong... ;)
Re:So what's the secret? (Score:4, Funny)
I think it says "Mom, in a spinning class!" (Score:1, Funny)
Hurry up and Wait (Score:5, Funny)
However, the description was encoded using 128 bit public key (axe,axe,hammer,axe,dagger,dagger,axe,axe,dagger,
With the current state of computing. It will take 10000 years and the energy of the Sun to decipher the carvings
One of the inscriptions found (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And what do those carvings say? (Score:4, Funny)
Old languages (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And what do those carvings say? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:And what do those carvings say? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Phrase - "Delete user user's access from domain."
Interperatation - "Some great and powerful leader is able to grant and revoke a drug addict's access to his land. And what is this sticky stuff on the back?"
Real answer - "This is a sticky note from an under paid sysadmin doing menial data entry work on an active directory project."
Re:Some of the carvings found with the laser (Score:3, Funny)
> Stonehenge is in England
I know! That's what makes it so mysterious! WooOOOOoooOOOooo...
Using my generator (Score:2, Funny)
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - historical era Middle Neolitic was found dead in Stonehenge this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to world history. Truly an European icon.
Feel free to generate *lithic is dying using the link in my sig.