Posted on 01/21/2011 2:53:23 AM PST by Renfield
There's a cave in France where no humans have been in 26,000 years. The walls are full of fantastic, perfectly-preserved paintings of animals, ending in a chamber full of monsters 1312-feet underground, where CO2 and radon gas concentrations provoke hallucinations.
It's called the the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, a really weird and mysterious place. The walls contain hundreds of animalslike the typical Paleolithic horses and bisonsbut some of them are not supposed to be there, like lions, panthers, rhinos and hyenas.
A few are not even supposed to exist, like weird butterflyish animals or chimerical figures half bison half woman. These may be linked to the hallucinations. The trip is such that some archeologists think that it had a ritual nature, with people transcending into a new state as they descended into the final room.
In fact, the paintings themselves are of such sophisticationsome even have three-dimensional reliefthat is hard to believe they were made back then. However, radiocarbon dating shows that these paintings are indeed prehistoric: A group was made around 27,000-26,000 years ago and the other at 32,000-30,000 years ago.
The cave first discovered in 1994 by three French speleologists: Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, and Jean-Marie Chauvet. And now you can visit it too. Not in person, but in the next best thing: The great German film director Werner Herzog has made a 3D film of it, which is the only 3D film I want to watch this year (actually, amazing documentaries are probably the only movie genre that is perfect for 3D, like this or the Hubble 3D movie).
Well, it probably works better than Coke and aspirin!
Other than giving somebody like me raging heartburn, what’s that combo supposed to do?
It’s supposed to get you high, get a girl “ready”, or cure a headache. Take your pick.
Is the Holland Tunnel really that old?
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don’t forget beer making ingredience for the man cave..:O)
So that’s where Obama was born!!!!!!!!!!!
Quite an interesting site. Thanks.
Many years ago, I spotted a bull in a field with extra legs. I said to myself....Cool...an optical illusion. The extra legs turned out to be.....
So let me get this straight.....
A cave exists and sits in a void for 24,000 thousand years, then God creates the universe around it 6,000 years ago....
So this cave predates the universe? Yeah, that is very scientific....
Beautiful, brilliant!
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Man is man, no matter from what age. He craves to participate in the God-act of creating and controlling his environment through art. It is a part of his soul yesterday, as today and it is what sets him apart from the beasts.
The instructions for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch are in the "Book of Armaments" (Chapter 2, verses 9-21), as follows: "And the LORD spake, saying, first shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
Nice. Just leave us hangin'...
“Dammit-they-found-our-spot/There-goes-the-neighborhood” Ping
They claim that four out of five dentists recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum. The fifth dentist has been taking a lot of heat for his dissenting opinion. But I ask you, is it right to condemn a man who is just trying to make a living and wants a little job security? What have you got against free trade? Leave the poor guy alone, dagnabbit!
Thanks for posting it; and for the ping. It was difficult, but managed to look at many of the paintings full screen and manually advancing the frames. They are incredible.
I’d settle for a 2-D version, as I have an uncorrectable vision problem that makes a 3-D movie somewhat moot for me.
Also, the nearest 3-D screens are 65 miles each way.
WERNER HERZOG was born to film this.
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