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These sculptures, designed to be observed by our descendants from dozens to thousands of years in the future, would be designed to weather away into their future shape.
Build a hill, carefully apportioning materials weathering at different rates, and get it to slowly morph into the sphinx over millenia.
Plant
a forrest using a variety of trees and landscape it using flame retardants, so if and when it burns, it'll show a grimace
Initiate canals a long a river bed to see line art appear as the water carves new canyons
Tmeteam (they often view the ground & the archaeology from helicopters)
http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/
[po, Apr 16 2005]
Grimace?
http://images.usato...s/03-11-grimace.jpg
[ConsultingDetective, Apr 16 2005]
Baked, in a way
http://www.tvacres....magazines_maxim.htm
[theircompetitor, Apr 28 2006]
And now discovered
http://maps.google....3561&t=k&iwloc=addr
[theircompetitor, Jan 22 2007]
(?) Neat Image from Mars
http://www.foxnews....tian-tree-illusion/
[theircompetitor, Jan 13 2010]
Martian Elephants
http://cosmiclog.ms...t-face-on-mars?lite
[theircompetitor, Apr 07 2012]
Earth as Art
http://www.wired.co...pular-earth-as-art/
[theircompetitor, Jul 24 2012]
Algorithm finds face like structures
http://io9.com/an-a...n-the-ear-510075519
[theircompetitor, May 30 2013]
[link]
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Had to dig deep, but here's one of my biggest +'s |
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Trouble is - it's like waiting for your own great great grandchildren. |
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Last year, in a forest deep in germany, a swastika of trees was discovered from a helicopter. It was cut down(the trees), seems the nazis had the same idea. |
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Great idea though, nice joke examples+ |
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Not quite the same, popped into my head - Splash out on a bit of plastic surgey and have your diaries minutely etched into your skeleton for people to find much later. Example - "3rd metacarple, Thursday: Can't move, entire body is infected and swollen, will die soon. Drunk nurse did obscene graffiti on my femur. Damn." |
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wee don't see weedy much, which is a shame... |
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archaeology from the air is fascinating. see time team. |
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My computer died and I was skint for a long time. I've got a new mac-mini now. Prepare, beware. Cheers po. |
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This slid by me. Good one [tc]. |
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The Centurians, upon landing on the White House lawn in 2008: |
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"Take us to your female leader". |
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"Ah...sir, though Hillary came close, John McCain is actually Presient. I'll go ahead and..." |
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"Never mind that, where is Eva?" |
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Edited this idea to add the link for the interesting Martian image, but find my last annotations more interesting :) |
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According to a documentary I saw, extra rock was left on the Mt Rushmore figures so that erosion would improve them over their first few thousand years. |
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We hillbillies have been doing this for decades; viewed
through the bottom of a Mason jar still wet with white-
lightnin, just about every natural feature resembles
something interesting. Until you go blind, anyway. |
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I think I'll plant my, um, 'tomatoes' in an interesting
pattern
this year. It'll give the DEA guys something pretty to look at
while they're FLIRing for meth labs. |
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Seriously, though, big [+] for this one. Wicked cool idea. |
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And if you can't get all of Earth Wind and Fire, at least hire the horn section. |
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[+] Not that I like the idea, but I like to see ideas that
have
a lot of pastry. |
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Check out the link -- an algorithm that finds face like
geographical features, pretty cool. |
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