I can hardly wait for the paleobabble-sphere gets hold of this one. No, archaeologists haven’t discovered ancient electronics in the Mayan temples. This article is about how the positioning and certain architectural features of Mayan temples may reflect a knowledge of good acoustics (as opposed to a good knowledge of acoustics). This shouldn’t be a surprise. Acoustics (the fact that the human voice carries better in certain places and under certain conditions) is something that can be learned by experience and experimentation. But duplicating it takes some smarts. No aliens needed, just smart humans.
But just wait — I would bet my paleobabble library that talk shows that cater to this sort of thing will have “researchers” on that will tell us the temples were designed to communicate messages from the space gods. Or maybe they designed the temples that way so everyone could here “we’re all going to die tomorrow!” on December 20, 2012.
If it’s true this blows the socks off the Greek theater in Epidaurus .
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Are you feeling alright?
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pretty good, despite recent oral surgery (had to have my alien implant removed – finally). Glad that’s over.
By the way Greece amphitheatres are also planned and designed to be “giant loudspeakers”. They all have good acoustics and they are much older than the Mayan temples.
I had a chronic “brain fuzziness” thing going on for years. I underwent dental surgery (I am now part bovine, still not divine) and immediately experienced a great clarity of mind that persisted. I inquired about it and there are two theories:
* getting rid of oral infections is credited with all kinds of health benefits (and the inverse is true as well… oral infections are linked to all kinds of BAD stuff);
* anesthesia sometimes does people a world of good;
It was a great practice run for death. The experience wasn’t that bad. Still, waking up, feeling like a new man is better.