Outrage as Concrete is Poured on World’s Oldest Known Temple at Göbekli Tepe (What the FUCK?! I just found this, it's from 26 March 2018, but I'm still mad like it just happened!)

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[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Rage bait.

The article states there's damage but doesn't detail it nor provide images.

I'm not saying this is fake news or true news, I'm saying it's not enough news to really form a proper opinion.

Even the 5 minute video linked within the article doesn't feature enough information nor images to determine whether this tourist center project is legitimately worth protesting or not.

My gut instinct: it's not good, but it's not all bad either.

Also, shouldn't UNESCO have had a say in it? (Like you can rely on government.)

[–]Vigte[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not sure how much control UNESCO has over their Heritage Sites :| From what I've seen the concrete was poured over loose ground to create a walkway for increasing tourism (more like, in HOPES of more tourism I think).

The only issue I hold with it, is that they have only excavated a small percentage of the site and that their probing for more things beneath the surface is NEVER complete... who knows what they may have laid over... :\

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree on both counts.

I suspect they'll get lots of tourists like other popular sites, as long at it's politically calm there.

I'm less concerned with what they laid over (can all be removed) and more interested in what precautions they took and how they distributed the weight so as not to affect what may lay beneath.

Personally I think they should have gotten more imaginative with the architecture. They could have dug up some pits far away, in doing so make sure there was nothing important in them - then in those pits anchor some poles with lots of high tensile cables in any number of ways to "hang" your structure, curtains, tents, whatever.

Here is a small variation of what I mean : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D9%90Ajllan1.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadium_Abu_Dhabi.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tensile_membrane_structures

Better yet, with enough of posts well distributed, and with stable weight redistribution configurations that don't depend upon drilling down for the post holes, perhaps it could be even less invasive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity

Perhaps mixed with hyperboloid structures?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hyperboloid_structures

They can make very interesting structures : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Killesberg_Tower.jpg

But none of these even come close to what I'm imagining.