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Agent641@lemmy.world to Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

It's not clear why the ancient humans built these mysterious circles, but we suspect they had religious significance

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It's not clear why the ancient humans built these mysterious circles, but we suspect they had religious significance

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Agent641@lemmy.world to Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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    Ah yes, “religious significance” the get-out-of-jail-free card of archeologist since, well, forever.

  • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world
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    Impossible, humans couldn’t do something this advanced. It’s definitely aliens

  • HornyOnMain@kbin.social
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    I wonder how many “ritual” objects in archaeology were just someone being bored and making random shit

    • RealFknNito@lemmy.world
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      “We don’t know what it does or what it was for so it was probably religious. Now someone go fetch the religious dildo.”

    • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world
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      Well if those carts were left exactly there for thousands of years, we’d eventually just have a circular iron ore deposit

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    I was expecting the magic roundabout.

  • douz0a0bouz@midwest.social
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    Bold of you to assume that there will be anyone around to deem us “ancient”

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    These carts are exhibiting similar behavior to that of their larger ancestors, the Covered Wagon found on the early American prairies. They too would circle in times of danger.

  • instamat@lemmy.world
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    That’s the Costco parking lot in Goleta isn’t it?

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      It lools really similar, but I don’t think so. Wrong number of windows on that tower on the corner, the arch is different, and the lamps, while the same style, have only two per pole at that point in the lot.

      https://www.google.com/maps/place/Costco+Wholesale,+7095+Market+Pl+Dr,+Goleta,+CA+93117/@34.4280052,-119.8747787,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x80e940ae68dce3df:0x807ccc2bcda68abe!8m2!3d34.4280052!4d-119.8747787!16s%2Fg%2F1tdr3mhr

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        I never thought I’d get to say this but…

        THERE. ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS.

        photo of a light pole in the costco parking lot in goleta, california

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          The shot you’re taking isn’t from the area where the original picture was taken.

          If you move the camera over to where it’s looking at the similar tower structure, there are only two.

          EDIT: Also, while the logo looks similar to Costco’s, if you zoom in on the original, it’s not a Costco logo. I think – not 100% sure – that that’s a CompUSA, from back when they were still in business. Check out their logo:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompUSA

          EDIT2: I found it. There used to be a CompUSA in the same shopping center; different building from Costco. It’s a Best Buy now, but it has the right lights and the three windows on one side of the tower and the two on the other.

          https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4290695,-119.8747639,3a,75y,311.09h,76.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sa3pOLxJckiITUbyxs2HNCA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

          7090 Marketplace Road, Goleta, CA

          EDIT3: Oh, to be fair, I guess the carts are on the Costco side…it’s just looking at the CompUSA.

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            Haha, sorry I made you go down that rabbit hole. Well done on the research!

            EDIT: the shot I took was more or less from the perspective of the original, but looking to the left/west

            EDIT 2: you’re right that it was a compusa, I used to buy blank CDs from there to burn mp3s! God I’m old.

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    Cart circles.

    I remember Art Bell was into those.

    Wierd ones were found in fields.

    No one knew how the carts got into the fields.

    Many believed it was aliens.

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    Symmetrical cart stacking. Just like the Kroger’s mass turbulence of 1947.

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    So I’m assuming there’s just enough give between them all so they can be scrunched up enough to leave room for them to be parted

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    Deeeecent

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