Hmm.. so if these sacred sites are mined and end up in our smart phones, will there be something scared and mystical in my phone? Sounds pretty exciting to me.

and so another one bites the dust in a long chain of failures, we somehow allow all of this to happen, and since history repeats and reiterates itself again and again, sooner or later the majority will be the minority in something else, and will be left behind and forgotten, who could those be?

The bankers maybe? or serious sport fans, or maybe even, why not, the weapon makers, I am allowed to dream after all...
In a holoforum in the future someone will post something like this: "Hippies have made a deal with local authorities to plant more flower gardens in reservation space for the military inclined"- no one sympathizes with the violent, I hope.

A W E S O M E thread dude!!!

Ok, firstly lets not even pretend this is in the realm of coincidence; yes there are countless sacred sites but why are THE MOST sacred also the richest in minerals? If you listen to what the Aboriginal Australians have to say about the Jabiluka region you will learn much, they too speak of the Sun in that land, and then we see lo & behold we source radioactive materials from there!

People speak of PROGRESS when we are desperately sourcing new mining sites while most of what has previously been mined for our tech sits wasting away in garbage heaps. Where does the progression part fit in?

It is interesting to ponder some of the alleged tales of the Atlantean civilizations etc. who's tech apparently related to crystals, yet our tech hinges on exactly the same thing: crystal doping in semiconductor fabrication.

Is it any coincidence how many ancient cultures speak of denizens of the underworld?

What indeed drives the burning to bring past & buried matters to surface & sunlight?

Edit: Not that I claim to be above any of this either I love me some solid tech!

Originally posted by yourmaker
How would we feel if a bunch of Mexicans came up here and said, sorry Canadians, we're going to destroy the Hockey hall of fame because we believe there is gold and silver under there.

That's the equivalent. You'd have Joe Hockey from Manitoba on the first bus to Toronto ready to protest to death.

The difference being that someone owns that land the hall of fame is on. If you wish to protest do so to whomever sold the land to the Canadian mining company (probably the Mexican government).

Many of these sites are probably meteor impact sites, making them resource rish and probably the reason why they are revered.