(06-18-2024, 07:31 PM)FlyingClayDisk Wrote: I've figger'd it out! Eureka!
When they were digging, they dug up a skeleton from the first generation Algore (ver 1.0), the one they used to make all the Algore clones from ever since. Buried with him was a sign which read..."The great polar ice-thingies are melting! Gimme' all your gold, trinkets and jewels, and I will command it to stop. You will eat sticks and bugs and be happy!"
When the ancient archaeologists first discovered that, they said "''F' THIS!! If we dig this guy up, we'll never hear the end of it; he'll be all up in our grilles, taxin' our wheels, and fire, and bronze 'n sh!t!!! Screw that! Just throw some more dirt on him, and we'll tell the others we only found a bunch of useless rocks 'n sh!t!! Don' tell no one, k?"
Now, a couple thousand years later, the new archaeologists found another sign buried but shallower. It read..."By order of the great Pharaohs we have been ordered to give notice of impending doom There is nothing to see here, and we command you to move along! Oh, and watch out for that Swiftboat dude too, he's pretty jiggy with the enemy but you'd never know it. Oops, too late! See ya' in a couple thousand years, muh man! (Egyptian fist bump)"
J/K of course, but on a serious note, I have always felt there was some grand deception going on at Gobekli Tepe, that it reveals something very disruptive and damaging to organized religion, and if it would be discovered the big religions would be caught with their pants down and a bag of money in their hands, and have a whole lot of 'splainin' to do!
Those darn Algore clones are everywhere!!!
But... on your serious note, there's absolutely nothing that anyone could uncover that would be "disruptive and damaging to organized religion". They've found proof that the Shroud of Turin is actually a medieval forgery, but this hasn't brought Catholicism to a crashing halt or destroyed Protestantism. Or any other religion.
Even if it was "aliens showed up" (which isn't likely but let's say they find Stargate SG1 and Jack O'Neal and Daniel Jackson standing around talking to Teal'C), that's not going to destroy the message of any religion (including Wicca, Asatru, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Shinto, Sikhism... or anything else.)
And particularly something that's 14,000 years distant. If someone came up with "we found Adam and Eve and they're actually from a planet called Romperoomia", the "people of the Book" aren't suddenly going to fall on their faces and scream that they have no reason to live because one of the foundations of their religion has been changed. Some would ignore it, some would say that the discovery was more foolin' by the devil, some would accept it and go "cool story, bro" and so forth. But your minister wouldn't quit ministering and the pope won't quit pope-ing and so forth.
(06-19-2024, 08:09 AM)Chiefsmom Wrote: I do understand what is entailed for a dig.
I've witnessed both the good and the bad. We've had several mammoth's found here in our small town. The first, when the new highway went through and was delayed for a long time, due to CAREFUL excavation.
Most recently, when a farmer's field and culvert was going in. NOT a careful excavation. In fact, they didn't even dig up all the bones.
MSU was involved with both.
But I can't wrap my head around laying concrete over a site, and some of the other things going on. I get the tourism angle. Gotta make that money.
Just seems like bad decisions being constantly made here.
Now... I haven't actually gone into the details of what's going on there, but I do know that we cover up sites to save them. Not sure about the concrete, but if there's a pad under it and supports, they could continue to dig underneath the concrete (as it appears they have done and are doing) without actually damaging anything... since the pillars and so forth seem to be not sitting on the surface but are only found after digging down into the soil for some distance.
