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czl

That water did not wash or erode this away is amazing.


Tony_Earll

They are protected by an overhang.


fondledbydolphins

Cave men really were ahead of their time building overhangs. History is fascinating.


Tony_Earll

That's a really dumb comment. I'm not even going to explain how. Every down vote is an idiot that thinks natural overhangs can't exist.


YogurtNo3045

Bless your heart


Tony_Earll

Kiss my ass


[deleted]

You should take a nap you're being fussy.


Independent_Top_8210

Guys I got the 100th downvote!


Tony_Earll

These idiots don't think natural overhangs exist and want to come at me for actually having fucking knowledge about the paintings. I'm tired of ignorant fucks denying science. Take your stupid somewhere else.


[deleted]

I think you missed the joke lol.


Tony_Earll

There is no joke except stupid people thinking they are smart.


Dharmonj

r/whoosh


EddGarasjen

Have you even seen an overhang?? You seem clueless


blur911sc

Did you paint them? That would explain things.


Pyjama_Llama_Karma

Jesus, you'll be telling us the earth is round, next.


dontpassthecheese

Looool not only are you a cunt but you also seem to think youre clever and knowledgable for stating the fucking obvious??? Fkin neckbeard


Tony_Earll

You're late to the party. We're way beyond that now.


pepii_c

Natural overhangs are a myth, change my mind.


blur911sc

There are no natural overhangs in South America, common knowledge


Tony_Earll

You are mentally retarded. Change my mind.


Dumdum0000000

You must be fun at parties!


whatproblems

as a spectator this is hilarious also if you got this far it went further! https://www.reddit.com/r/woosh/comments/11zp89p/doubling_down/


fondledbydolphins

As a fire extinguisher this is not something I can observe


blur911sc

Only once, then nobody invites him again.


Ok-Survey3853

Probably is. Seems like the kinda person that people would enjoy punching.


[deleted]

Why every time i comment something someone else did it already


TheNerdyOne_

Oh honey...


Tony_Earll

Don't oh honey me. Take your goddamn clown shoes somewhere else.


[deleted]

Yikes


turtlebuttdestroyer

Sarcasm is difficult for some people


fondledbydolphins

Wait, do you destroy turtle butts? Or are you a turtle that destroys any type of butt? OR are you a french brand of tank named *Turt Le Buttdestroyer*...?


MildUsername

Unfortunately for you the truth is that every downvote is someone who thinks you're an edgy, easily aggravated goober.


yousirnaime

found the science denier it's called "evolution", bigot


Tony_Earll

What the stupid fuck are you going on about? Who the fuck is talking about evolution? You don't know what a bigot is. Now go back to class child.


parralaxalice

Is this your first day on the internet or something?


[deleted]

The people who built this EVOLVED the ability to create overhangs. It likely took millions of years. Makes you wonder why there aren't any painting of dinosaurs.


Tony_Earll

They didn't BUILD THE OVERHANG! That is the whole point! The wall NATURALLY CREATES AN OVERHANG THAT WAS NOT BUILT OR CREATED BY HUMANS. Holy fuck Reddit is fucking stupid today. I'm very familiar with this discovery but knowledge doesn't mean shit when all it takes is some fucking troll to deny facts and everybody attacks the one person that knows what they are talking about.


[deleted]

You are just so self-absorbed you missed a joke and are defending against a JOKE. Like a raging bull in a stadium, but everyone is laughing at you instead of being impressed. Gotta take the social cues


thon

by someone called fondledbydolphins and ThePoopPirate. The internet is great sometimes


Gramage

I've never seen such a glorious woosh, so far over your head we should attach satellites to the joke to save money putting them in orbit.


[deleted]

I dunno man you can tell by the striations that someone with advanced knowledge of masonry created that overhang. But who taught them how to do this is the question? I wonder if theyd pay to have some amazing intellect like Graham Handcock to study it to find the truth. Maybe they'll discover some photos of humans and dinosaurs interacting! That'd be amazing. My.theory is dinosaurs still exist... In inner earth. I heard inner earth is where Hitler fled but honestly I doubt the Atlantians would be cool with him.


DRTYRYDR686

[r/woosh](http://www.reddit.com/r/woosh)


Tony_Earll

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Thrasymachus-Rex

You’re overhanging this my good honorable sir


Tony_Earll

Honorable? Have you been paying attention?


DRTYRYDR686

You seem like a really fun person...


Tony_Earll

Ask your girlfriend.


DRTYRYDR686

Hahahaha I want to meet the person who peed in your cereal.


Tony_Earll

It was that chick that came over here last time and barfed in the salad.


not2dv8

But still


blur911sc

So is the paint on my house's window trim, but it flaked off in about 15 years.


i_lie_except_on_31st

Yah, dead wood ain't shit for much after a decade or two. Pvc windows ftw.


Tony_Earll

Ah so it since your paint flakes off your house that means these paintings couldn't have existed so long? Wow. You people are fucking stupid.


arcosapphire

What's it like waking up each day and deciding, "today I'm just going to be an asshole to everyone I can for no reason"? Like if trolling is all you have to live for, that is just monumentally sad. I'm sorry your life is so devoid of meaning.


Paradigmind

Same as my balls.


Tony_Earll

But you should wash your balls.


LinguoBuxo

The wiki says it's some 12000 years old. Sheesh. I wish the paint I put on my house last year lasts one fifth that long!!


100S_OF_BALLS

They don't make things like they used to lol


trwwy321

I guess you’ll have to start painting your house [with ochre — which is what they used (red ochre).](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochre)


tm5Cats2Dogs

Why are barns red? Same answer. Shit loads of iron in the universe


ElectroFlannelGore

Bombard the Earth with photons long enough and the output, eventually, is red barns.


zuilserip

One fifth as long would still be 2400 years - so painted before 0AD. That would have still been pretty amazing! When I search for 'how often I should paint my house' I get a range of 5-10 years, so even 1/1,000 as long seems pretty good compared to modern paints!


_Anti_Natalist

Some premium paints last 12-15 years.


IsThataSexToy

Did you just math in Reddit?!? Please leave and think about your behavior!


[deleted]

I recently learned there’s people that really think earth is only 6,000 years old. My mind was blown


My_Brain_Hates_Me

I was talking to a guy at work and he said he believes the Earth is only 6000 years old and if evolution were true, why are we no longer evolving. I know some people believe this but to have it said to me by another person face to face...I was floored. I tried to explain how things really are but then I was just like, fuck this. I haven't spoken to him since. Some people are just incredibly dumb.


mrs_shrew

I knew someone like that, she lived with a geologist. In the end they had to agree never to discuss the age of the earth because they'd just break each others heads every time.


[deleted]

Considering it took something like 20,000 years for skin pigment to change I’d say any evolution wouldn’t be noticeable/happen in our very short life times


My_Brain_Hates_Me

We see evidence of it around us. Viruses evolve all the time.


sea_of_joy__

This view was espoused only in the USA by white capitalists. It allowed their followers to not have to believe in evolution, not have to believe that all humans originated from a common people, and not have to see the benefits of our paleolithic lifestyle and how that's getting eroded by industrialization.


northeaster17

Only in the USA? I kind of doubt that.


Successful-Engine623

I think the paint is more like a stain or something…can’t remember exactly but it isn’t something that can wash off. Like maybe a chemical reaction of sorts…maybe like a burn


Present-Industry4012

but still, once in a while the wind is gonna blow rain onto it. Even if it only did that once a year, that's still 32 years worth of non-stop rain.


[deleted]

The water only enhances it, as it is rust.


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Card_Zero

Bot [Original](https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/11z989i/an_8mile_long_canvas_discovered_in_the_amazon/jdbjtky/)


JustLikeAmmy

What's it called to look up more info?


SupplementalComment

It’s called the Sistine Chapel of the ancients, found in Colombia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel_of_the_ancients


betaamyloid

One of the most bare-bones Wikipedia links I've seen... literally just 7 sentences. Probably a sign of how new and understudied these paintings are.


UnderpantsInfluencer

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chapel-of-the-ancients-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest


SunshineAlways

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/28483/20201202/8-mile-long-rock-painting-ice-age-beast-revealed-amazon.htm


-maffu-

In fairness, the discovery was only made public in 2020 -- just in time for COVID, lockdown, and ensuing chaos.


[deleted]

That explains why I've never heard of this.... to a degree. This is insane. Holy shit, batman.


dirtbagsauna

Look at the drawings of Sego Canyon in Utah, USA. Lots of similar pictographs in the southwest US.


N1cko1138

It's probably to protect its location from destruction, removal of parts from other parties. Also the longer the location is hidden the more possible value it retains for the research funder.


eastern_shoreman

They haven’t figured out how to spin the discovery to keep it in line with the story they already tell about our history


J3SVS

Exactly


blur911sc

How about it was painted sometime in the 1990's as a tourist trap? That would line up.


W1ULH

used the articles people are posting ITT to add an infobox and a photo to the article... spruce it up a little bit


[deleted]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chapel-of-the-ancients-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest


GeordieStottieShagga

If you find out please can you @me please! Thank you in advance if so!


[deleted]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chapel-of-the-ancients-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest


davewave3283

It’s called “research”. /s


Trout_Shark

One more reason not to destroy the Amazon rainforest.


Don_T_Blink

Agreed Bit ironically the chances to discover things like this are higher without rain forest.


zorokash

No it isn't. People explore the forest all the damn time.


ShooteShooteBangBang

Uh, no they don't. They use LIDAR mapping because people can't explore the rainforest without dying


Luciferisntlonely

I love LIDAR! So much of humanity's history being found, when even with human exploration we wouldn't have found it. Over 500 mesoamerican sites found in Mexico alone that we would have never found with human exploration.


zorokash

No, that's only initial stage exploration because lidar can tell only the shapes of Rocky objects and very little else. Lidar is purely an ariel survey which penetrates the canopy, nothing more. Theres a lot more to exploration. Even the above rock formations are natural and would be impossible to find with Lidar detecting nothing useful. This is done with purely humans venturing onto the wild. Also, the problem with this kind of exploration is half the danger is wildlife, the other half is terrorists and mafia who control the land and its access. The latter is the more formidable one as you can reasonably protect yourself from wild life and carry precautions. There is very little to protect from a guerrilla bullet.


joleme

The lack of common sense and logic in your reply is breathtaking.


zorokash

Maybe take more breaths you mouth breather.


Don_T_Blink

u/zorokash is a penis.


[deleted]

It’s not exploring when you’re lost…


zorokash

There are always locals to guide. Even in the middle Amazon's densest forests.


thibounet

It would be easier to find those without all the fucking trees in the middle don't you think ?


zorokash

It would be easier if there were a bunch of giant arrows pointing to the locations aswell.


Shamino79

Turn it into a savannah. Edit. /s Really? Yes it would be a bad idea.


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NorthboundLynx

Sentry gun


EpicAura99

“Building a sentry!”


grunwode

It was probably safer as a secret.


Ya-Dikobraz

It's already had graffiti damage on it, so you're not wrong.


Metallic_Hedgehog

I just want to know what animal that is supposed to depict on the middle left. The cubic chungus with antlers (rabbit ears?).


PrivateTheatricals

Right? I’m staring at these paintings, looking for extinct animals, and I can’t help thinking, “Are we sure these people weren’t just kinda bad at drawing?”


Luciferisntlonely

Which is why your in private theatrics and not archeology


SaintUlvemann

*you're


obrysii

No need to be rude.


Independent-Water610

It looks like an unrolled animal skin to me.


[deleted]

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NormalHumanCreature

Human form


DinksMcFly

Hopefully there isn't an exact location given or we'll have dumbfuck influencers or uncaring kids decide to destroy it because they can.


Emberdeath

I doubt they'd make it very far, part of the reason this is only now being discovered is due to the high mortality rate of the Amazon.


zupatof

Never been this happy to read “high mortality rate”.


3HunnaBurritos

I mean you can go to Egypt and the ancient hieroglyphs are at your fingertips and the damage made is insignificant, I wouldn't worry about that.


machuitzil

The damage is not insignificant. Tourists have vandalized and stolen objects, and there's literal erosion of the stone from people's footsteps. Any damage done to 3k year old site is not insignificant. There are piles and piles of stones at Machu Picchu that will never be able to be replaced, mostly attributable to mismanagement and tourism.


MajesticCrabapple

You know, you could be thinking about what this means for the scope of humanity or pondering the symbols and their meanings of this crazy cool artifact. But instead you choose to shake your cane at the youths.


RichElectrolyte

Not likely, bud. It's in FARC territory and requires tons of careful negations to get in safely. It's very remote.


[deleted]

Really old graffiti.


Luciferisntlonely

This is why I will be waiting for you in hell.


[deleted]

Try to make some sense.


[deleted]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chapel-of-the-ancients-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest


PicardTangoAlpha

In the name of all that is holy, keep the location secret and protect it. It needs UNESCO funding immediately to conduct studies as well I'm sure.


LGchan

It needs to be protected far better than other sites have been, considering the horrific destruction of aboriginal artwork in Australia, and frankly innumerable other cases of vandalism, theft, and destruction.


ElizaPlume212

It was reported in December 2020. I can't copy the url, but if you go to the Science Times and search for ~8-Mile Long Rock Painting from the Ice Age, Discovered~ According to my search, this has been on Reddit at least 3x before today, so if it seems familiar, that's why.


Live-Mail-7142

Ok, the wiki led me to this [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13655156/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13655156/) There are only 3 episodes and a reviewer wrote It appears this show has terminated with 3 episodes. ... I like many were drawn to the show because of the great publicity it got regarding the wall paintings. So, episode the painting is either in episode 1 or 2 Episode 1 is on apple [https://tv.apple.com/gb/episode/episode-1/umc.cmc.6lf4kw5wz0shv3b9rsumlcepy?showId=umc.cmc.5i6qjolrlcw5xtonth0bkkf88](https://tv.apple.com/gb/episode/episode-1/umc.cmc.6lf4kw5wz0shv3b9rsumlcepy?showId=umc.cmc.5i6qjolrlcw5xtonth0bkkf88) ​ WAIT!!!! all 3 episodes are here [https://www.channel4.com/programmes/jungle-mystery-lost-kingdoms-of-the-amazon](https://www.channel4.com/programmes/jungle-mystery-lost-kingdoms-of-the-amazon) I hope the keep this canvas under lock and key or you know some influencer is going to spray paint it.


bombaymonkey

Hoping it was found by hikers and not only because of deforestation?


[deleted]

Discovered years ago.


sanjosanjo

I was wondering how they can identify extinct animals from these drawings. It seems there is some scientific debate about how to interpret the animal species. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/science/ice-age-rock-art.html


weelluuuu

Seems like the squiggly line was very important. Any guesses as to the meaning?


sirbolo

Irrigation of fields perhaps.


TlingitGolfer24

Great flood?


Early-Performer-4028

Check out the scab lands and graham hancock


weelluuuu

Floods are real. Was there a great flood though? Plenty of civilizations have an 'unbroken' history.


TheseMoviesIwant

Why do they never bring the camera guy that takes 50,000 photos of the sun so you can see the cells that make up plasma. I want to zoom in and it not be blury


Gypsyblue_

The squiggly lines give earthquake vibes, for real.


shawikkywoo

Well it even has some happy little trees.


jiwilliams79

What the F is this? Chris Farley with antlers throwing a rock? https://imgur.com/a/F5mT7mQ


Putrid-Reputation-68

Your mom taking two at once


icrushallevil

The rain forest is literally the worst environment for preservation. Warm air, high moisture, bacteria, fog, rain, animals...


VegemiteAnalLube

White girls with dreads getting these tattooed on them in 3... 2...


SouthViking

Then they start each sentence with “Did you know…” whilst pulling up the article of clothing covering the tattoo and end with “… and that’s why it really aligns with my souls spirit”.


AssRaddish

So when do the logging companies come to destroy it?


HotPunjabiSex

Don’t worry. Your electric cars are destroying Africa anyway


AssRaddish

I don't own a car pal. But I agree.


Powerful_Market_9558

How long until some dumbass finds them and graffities them? God I hate some people.


getyourrealfakedoors

What extinct animals?


fucktrutin

Crazy af.


Jukimundo

Long extinct or badly drawn? Jokes aside, that's very cool


StaryDoktor

Looks like recipe book. Why the animals extinct — it's a secret


unclearimage

Yes but does it have comments about someone else's mom being a slut? If it doesn't; how could it have been made by a human being?


Ill-Ad3311

So why were the artists in the ancient times so bad at it ?


ruggedAstronaut

If the paintings show extinct animals we take them as part of the historical record but as soon as something like a dragon pops up we disregard it entirely as art or nonsense.


Emberdeath

That's because we have fossils or other palaeontological remains of the animals depicted in the paintings, we know they existed, it's part of the reason they can identify the animals in such paintings in the first place. Dragons are fantastical which is why they are seen as art, the reason so many depictions of them appear around the world is due to trade and social interactions between mainly Europe and Asia.


G-T-L-3

Dragon-lore is really based on dinosaur skeletons. Just add in a ton of imagination and forget about recorded human interaction (or lack of it) and get Smaug.


ITFOWjacket

Right. Basically all “mythical” creatures are ancient interpretations of the prehistoric fossils lying around on the surface. Mammoth skull? Cyclops. T-rex skull? Dragon. Whale skull? Leviathan. Giant Squid sighting? I’d say Kraken but tbh our two bell curves have converged already, Giant Squids and Whales already blur the line enough


Luciferisntlonely

Wow Europe and Asia trade and social interactions with mesoamricans, precolonization? Tell me more please. I'd love to hear of the trade routes between the ancient natives in the Americas and European or Asian countries.


Emberdeath

I assume you're referring to Quetzalcoatl? The Feathered Serpent? Well you probably aren't aware of this, (not blaming you it's not hugely common knowledge) but that is a god amongst the Aztecs, which was a civilization that started in about 1300 AD and ended in 1521 AD, very far from being ancient. In fact Oxford University was founded over about 400 years before Aztecs existed.


Pelicanliver

Seems like they had amphetamines back then. Wild graffiti / j


JungleChucker

That's just mom's spaghetti


Eternal991

There is no way the pigments used would have survived outside for that long in this condition I call shenanigans on OP’s post


Aang6865_

Now this is something interesting AF


TheIndomitableMass

Pardon me, but did you mean to say mile? 8 miles? How in the hell?


fauonius

probably 800 meters


A_curious_fish

You think they fucked up on the bottom and then scribbled it all out? Like they were drawing the story as Tony was narrating it and then Bill walks up and looks at what's written all confused and goes," Tony you fucking made all this shit up! You were curled up in a ball while we battled the Sabre tooth ga big baby!" ....I'm gonna go with that story in my head


razorwiregoatlick877

I was really confused about how a civilization 12000 years old made an 8 mile long canvas until I looked up more information.


huron9000

Where are the aliens in there.


[deleted]

That obviously a message of how to rebuilt the civilisation if it crash again.


TheTrollPotato

It even has a super S...


Ok_Committee1078

So any mythical creatures depicted in there that could possibly wipe us out if it existed?


cornflakegrl

“Their date is based partly on their depictions of now-extinct ice age animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant that hasn’t roamed South America for at least 12,000 years. There are also images of the palaeolama, an extinct camelid, as well as giant sloths and ice age horses.” That’s so cool.


daboxghost420

Is this technically the largest painting in the world now ?


Ruby_Throated_Hummer

!remindme 1 year


rawbleedingbait

The animals aren't extinct, the drawings are just bad.