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The Largest Ancient Man Made Canal System on Earth
earthepochs.blogspot.co.uk ^ | April 3, 2014 | johnmjensen jr

Posted on 01/03/2015 4:10:32 PM PST by Fred Nerks

From my Free Web Book 'AncientCanalBuilders.com'

The largest wide-array man made (or at least non natural) structure in the world is in fact an ancient terra formed systems of agricultural-aquaculture canals in Northwestern Botswana and Northeastern Namibia, north of the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa. Obviously quite ancient, the canal systems no longer provide free flowing water throughout its 105,000 mile array, but many sections show obvious intention to provide cross sectional irrigation.

These canals are too evenly spaced over too large an area to be any kind of natural formation. Based on entry and exit points, it is readily apparent this system is a very large, controlled agronomy array and/or aquaculture system. Its age is defined by the overgrown nature of the canals, as well as some areas that are covered over with drift and sand erosion.

The entire complex covers an area about equal in size to the State of Arizona in the USA. The canals are an integrated system of apparent irrigation and agricultural (and probably aquaculture) design. The system is about 350 miles in width and about 300 miles in depth. (For the remnants still visible.) This system represents roughly 67 MILLION acres of sustainable agriculture. Given the sophistication of design, it is entirely plausible to assume an above average yield, i.e. feeding well over 90 persons per acre on an annual basis. The system may or may not have provided a sustainable aquaculture (marine farming) environment. I have no reason to suspect that it did not.

Given the size and scope of this complex, (canals are about 1 mile apart on average) and collectively are roughly 350 X 300 miles in a rough rectangular format. (At least the observable parts) There could be, and probably is, much more to this complex than what is visible to the naked eye. Right now, we can identify ancient cultivation of roughly 105,000 square miles.

One square mile = 27,878,400 square feet, or 640 acres, so the entire complex had a sustained producing land mass of (640 acres x 105,000 square miles) or > 67,200,000 acres. (That is 67 MILLION acres)

One linear mile of canal had (750' width x + >12' depth x 5,280') = 47,520,000 cubic ft of water per linear mile.

Entire canal length (105,000 miles x 47.5 million cubic ft per mile) = 5,000,000,000,000 (That's 5 TRILLION) cubic feet of water in the canals. It would be an incredible waste of time and effort to irrigate >105,000 square miles of sustainable agriculture land, and not use the 5 trillion cubic feet of water circulating in the canals for aquaculture farming. I don't think the builders were that stupid.

Different estimates of the numbers of people this sustainable system would supply varies widely, though it is generally accepted that a system like this, if properly managed would provide a complete annual diet for somewhere between 60 to 120 people per acre. Which means this system was in fact providing food for an average of about 5 Billion people.

This array is in fact the largest non natural artifact on the Planet. It can be clearly viewed unaided from the International Space Station at roughly 230 miles up, which cannot be said for any other non natural feature on Earth.

I would suggest that depth of canal(s) must have been significant to compensate for general slight variations in elevation. There seems to be an average elevation variation of about 60', sometime more, and sometimes less.

Your comments are welcome, or you can contact me here:

johnmjensenjr@gmail.com 321-614-5040

First brought to my attention by Gary Schoening Here is his original Vimeo post: http://vimeo.com/64351951


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KEYWORDS: africa; agriculture; ancientcanals; animalhusbandry; botswana; canals; godsgravesglyphs; irrigation; kalahari; kalaharidesert; namibia; remotesensing
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To: central_va

Obviously the work of Extraterrestrials!

(not bothering to post the pic of the guy with the funny hair from ‘H2’.) lol


21 posted on 01/03/2015 4:36:44 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Balding_Eagle

There are no ‘remains of processing plants, animal lots, cities, roads and other transportation systems’ in Peru or Bolivia either.

http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/canalsperuview.htm

I don’t automatically accept the theory of Atlantis in South America, but the massive evidence of canals (terra-forming?) is quite stupendous.


22 posted on 01/03/2015 4:37:09 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

So what’s the name of this feature? Who else has studied it besides Internet bloggers?


23 posted on 01/03/2015 4:38:19 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Fred Nerks

bookmark


24 posted on 01/03/2015 4:38:24 PM PST by dadfly
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To: central_va

It’s not funny...it remains a mystery:

http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/geoforms.htm


25 posted on 01/03/2015 4:42:24 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Jonty30
Maybe. Some math whiz here should be able to calculate the amount needed to fill this thing from the dimensions given.

My guess is we're talking something with an extremely large capacity here.

26 posted on 01/03/2015 4:44:45 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Fred Nerks; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Fred Nerks. Jensen seems to be the only source of this information.

27 posted on 01/03/2015 4:44:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Fred Nerks

wow... I THOUGHT I’d heard it all.. but, this is news to me.


28 posted on 01/03/2015 4:44:52 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: Lx
5 billion people???? There are 7 billion people now. Where did they go?

Where do you think all that green glass came from in the African deserts?

29 posted on 01/03/2015 4:45:29 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okavango_Delta


30 posted on 01/03/2015 4:45:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: KoRn
Apparently they were farming the Gobi desert as well.


31 posted on 01/03/2015 4:46:19 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: central_va

Sure. Driest place now.

I don’t think they are going to build such a canal system in the desert.


32 posted on 01/03/2015 4:46:21 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Windflier

Beeg Badda-Boom


33 posted on 01/03/2015 4:47:30 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Windflier

There are ancient Indian texts that do suggest a nuclear war at one point in the past.


34 posted on 01/03/2015 4:47:43 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Balding_Eagle
Which means this system was in fact providing food for an average of about 5 Billion people.

Not to mention it supposedly held 5 trillion cubic feet of water. That's equivalent to 36 Baltic Seas or one-fifth of the Mediterranean.

Given its location -- on the West Coast o Africa, north of the Kalihari -- where the hell did all that water come from?

35 posted on 01/03/2015 4:47:55 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Zing!


36 posted on 01/03/2015 4:47:58 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Fred Nerks
Interesting. Dug with shovels.

But what did they do with the dirt? That is about 169 cubic miles of dirt. In perspective:

Mt. St. Helens - 17cm
Mt. Everest - 365cm

37 posted on 01/03/2015 4:49:17 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Lx

Flood came, kilt em all...


38 posted on 01/03/2015 4:49:28 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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Great Zimbabwe Empire — Stone Monument
https://www.afrizim.com/places/Masvingo/Activities/Great-Zimbabwe.asp


39 posted on 01/03/2015 4:50:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Some estimates say that before the Great Flood of Genesis, the planet had many billions in population. I have read as large as 7 to 8 billion or more. Since most of the known world was in the Middle East areas of the world back then, this might be possible. Or, I don’t remember from this article, did this all occur 457 billion years ago when we were just coming from slugs to monkeymen according to liberal evolution?


40 posted on 01/03/2015 4:51:04 PM PST by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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