https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lost-cities-of-the-amazon-discovered-from-the-air-180980142/For those of you who don't know, massive discoveries have been made in the Amazon over the past couple years using "LIDAR" imaging technology from the air. We now know that the Amazon was once home to a sprawling and sophisticated civilization.However, I'm hearing that there's a shortage of manpower to undertake the ground exploration of these sites. Is there any way for an American like me to volunteer for this? This would be a dream come true and I would expect no payment.
For that matter, would there even be any law stopping me from just flying to Brazil and going out there myself somehow?
>>2789402You need to be indoctrinated by Big Archeology first. Have you sit through 4 years of useless classes? You can be an unpaid intern.
>>2789402How long until this is called fake and pseudo scientific by archaeologists world wide?The science community has a horrible habit of dismissing anyone who doesnt state obvious 8th grade science like neil degrasse tyson
>>2789411All science is fake and gay. These discoveries are not "science", they're just photographs taken with technology that can see through the forest canopy. All we need is people to hike out to the spots and take photos and samples and go into the temple to kill the minotaur or whatever. We need a guy with a greying crewcut and a cigar to turn on everyone at the last minute.
>>2789413>All we need is people to hike out to the spots and take photos and samples and go into the temple to kill the minotaur or whatever. We need a guy with a greying crewcut and a cigar to turn on everyone at the last minute.where do i sign up?I can forward $1million cash to you to join you in your journey nigerian prince
>>2789411LIDAR has actually found sites, so it's provably non-bs.>>2789407I'm not so sure about that. I volunteered on a dig and didn't have any significant archaeology training. There was lots of encouragement to do other digs. The vibe was very open and welcoming. This can vary, but I think archaeology is quite accessible.>>2789403There is a very high chance that they will think you're stealing stuff. LIDAR exploration isn't only about finding above ground monuments. Some of this stuff is buried, and excavation cannot be conducted without permits and whatnot.
>>2789411Look into the amyloid hypothesis and how the scientific establishment set us back by decades with regards to Alzheimer’s research. It’s not a conspiracy theory. https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-diseaseBasically any deviation from the theory that Alzheimer’s was caused by amyloid beta plagues was immediately dismissed. A 2006 study was supposed to be definitive proof of the AB theory, and The Science! really clamped down on dissenting opinion. But that 2006 study was fraudulent.
>>2789415What are they going to do about it? If they can send people in to arrest me why couldn't they send people in to do the exploration?
>>2789402I wouldn't recommend getting nowhere close to that shithole >hot >humid >full of natives subsidized by the commie government that can kill without repercussions >full of illegal miners/loggers/poachers that will kill you just in case >residents are just as violent >some places are used by drug traffickers and cartels for smuggling >local fauna is made up of poisonous animals or carnivores that will fuck you up at the first opportunity >don't even think about getting in the rivers The list goes on, but there's all sorts of horrible shit going on there, including parents whoring their kids for a pack of cigarettes and moonshine. You wouldn't last a day.
>>2789418So what? We're all going to die anyway. I want to do something cool first. There's nowhere else left unexplored except space and that probably isn't happening. The only thing I'd be afraid of is Malaria, human and carnivore threats will never deter me from anything.
>>2789416i dont have to look into iti believe you.with how snoody the scientific community is i believe you.You cant tell a scientist anything even if it's theoretical without them having a bitch fit.Even if they deal in theoretics they'll have a bitch fit
>>2789420Everyone knows that science and medicine are completely ruined. It's hilarious how fucked we are.
>>2789402>>2789419Here's how you access this world:>Go to school for archaeology / anthropology / world religion>spent the next 6 years planning out every meticulous detail and $ number value required to make an expedition into the remote amazon>recieve grant money or participate in existing grant-funded research>go do it with the intent of publishing completely opinion-free objective observations. leave your personal feelings about human history out of it. otherwise you've got nothing to work with that will put you in any official context to explore these sites or publish any form of observations on them.sucks, but adulthood is understanding that, like it or not, wealthy entities and people with expensive pieces of paper are the ones who are actually going and doing meaningful intellectual work and getting paid for it. you have to pass through a filter of bullshit in order to hold the actual authority to have any form of intellectual freedom or ownership of your work.you can spend your whole life researching this for fun and publishing books on it. it'll be fun, fun to read, etc, but your life's work will be nullified the MOMENT someone with a degree shows up and publishes even slight lazy official research on it. they'll get away with dismissive, opinionated conclusions and speculations while you get laughed at for thinking you've got any authority to have persona opinions or speculation on it. You will be publically mocked by archaeologists who have not and will not step foot near these sites. this goes for all fields of science, academia is a racket. you have to want that end-game life of being a well-funded independent researcher, otherwise it's wasted time. ultimately, archaeology as a rule will dictate that you don't disturb any of this stuff at all without extensive SA govt. presence, poltiics and indigienous activism will get in your wa, yand this will all remain unresearched for decades.
>>2789443That's not true anymore. Today with the Internet random YouTube celebrities are now considered more credible than anyone with degrees and funding. If some complete nobody with a little backpacking experience saved up for plane tickets and made a video showing the inside of some Amazonian temple he would get millions of views and inform everyone's opinion meanwhile the college grad would be completely ignored. That's how the world works today. Especially after the COVID fiasco nobody gives a shit what scientific institutions think anymore.
>>2789419>We're all going to die anywayImagine being this cucked. JFC
