Band of Holes

(en.wikipedia.org)

39 points | by user070223 5 days ago

4 comments

  • slongfield 9 hours ago
    The satellite view shows this off much better than Wikipedia's ground-level picture. It Really is just a long band of holes dug into the side of a mountain.

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/13%C2%B042'20.0%22S+75%C2%...

    • Ghoelian 6 hours ago
      There's also some better pictures in one of the article's sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20160205050218/http://strzyzewsk...
    • nandomrumber 5 hours ago
      That’s a lot of holes.

      It seems obvious to me they were made by the landing pylons of heavy-lift alien spacecraft.

      • omnicognate 3 hours ago
        Even more holes than Blackburn, Lancashire.

        At 1m diameter and 75cm deep, so ~0.59m^3, I calculate that to fill the Albert Hall, which a search suggests "has been estimated at" ~100,000m^3 (feels low to me, but it's quoted in many places), it takes around 170,000 of these Peruvian holes.

        • nandomrumber 3 hours ago
          There’s an Albert Hall where I live, it’s probably much smaller than its name sake.

          I think we can fill it.

  • surprisetalk 9 hours ago
    Reminds me of one of my favorite horror stories (NSFW):

    https://imgur.com/gallery/lni-enigma-of-amigara-fault-junji-...

    • AmbroseBierce 2 hours ago
      Obviously the rescuers should have just used a stick and push them back until they are de-deformed by undergoing the reverse process, on a serious note I think the author should have gone further, one is that it should show a pregnant lady going into one of the holes, just to put that mental image in the readers, and second, it should have a bonus page where we are shown that the bodies melt into the ground once they make it out, and then when they seem like they are dead they make a strange sound until the rescuers conclude that are trying to say "kill me"
    • EdwardDiego 5 hours ago
      That was rather good, thank you!
    • mock-possum 5 hours ago
      DRR DRR DRR…
  • dvh 1 hour ago
    I think it's either some animal trap (birds nest, small mammal, insect) or some plant growing area or maybe moisture harvesting.
  • noduerme 4 hours ago
    Blackburn, Lancashire best catch up