/sci/ - Science & Math

So what was the last big discovery from an amateur scientist?

I know the radio telescope was invented by an amateur ham radio operator in his backyard. That was pretty huge.

Amateur paleontologists also discover a lot of significant things (the largest T-Rex ever was found by a highschool dropout who was the head of a fossil hunting company).

for chrissake go get a grant. we don't need crowdfunding for science

She's not ignored. Italian archaeologist Paola Davoli is interested in the same site.

she is a dreamer, reminds me of the bosnian pyramids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NavCoc0muDc

>>5939961
>for chrissake go get a grant

I don't think they give out grant money for random people on the internet who find neat looking things using google earth.

Why does she need 15,000 dollars to search google Earth?

>>5939969
>Italian archaeologist Paola Davoli is interested in the same site.

Wasn't there evidence of old watchtowers there? Even if they aren't pyramids, 4000 year old man made structures and settlements are always interesting.

These days they seem to learn more by digging up the old latrines and garbage dumps than anything else. Royal tombs get headlines, but the real science is at the outhouse.

>>5939989
>Why does she need 15,000 dollars to search google Earth?

She found neat sand dunes on google earth. The $15,000 is for someone to do some ground radar tests on those mounds.

>>5939944

>Tell real archaeologists to go there
>Go with them
>Enjoy Nobel Prize

>>5939993

Oh my bad, I didn't know it costs 15k to do the radar tests

ignore my post >>5939996

>>5939975
Then get a job and work your way up to a position where you can start receiving serious consideration for your projects.

The supposed pyramids aren't going anywhere. Unless of course they're close to any of the Morsi protests of course, in which case this kickstarter could use a little more urgency and sensationalism.

>>5940000

The girl mentions this in her kickstarter.

She is hoping that a new ancient discovery will unite the Egyptian people and end the Morsi conflict.

>>5939993
Oh good, then there's an actual reason. I think she might want to top off a few extra thousand so she doesn't get shot in Egypt.

>>5940007
Now that's very wishful thinking.

>>5940007
This is the real world.
Not a game of Civilization.
>>5940022
>so she doesn't get shot in Egypt.
>A few extra thousand
Do you know anything at all about Egypt?
They don't just shoot people on the street.
Oh, unless they're carrying around thousands of dollars maybe.

yeah jsut what we need, more attention whoring bitches tying to get fre vacations to egypt

sage for not science or math

>>5939944
show boobs,unite man
get money,
find pyramid,unite Egypt

problem solved

>Archeology
>Hard science
Top kweh

One project has been going for two days

One project has been going for 23 days

>>5940078

>One project has been going for two days

>One project has been going for 23 days

The /a/ project reached it's goal within 24 hours.

It would help if you linked the kickstarter

Ho hum...

>>5940093

I just went on google and typed "kickstarter" and "pyramid" and it was the first reply.

I could post the link but don't want a ban for advertising.

>>5940083
That's because one have an army of zealous followers and will result in lots of masturbation and free games, the other is just a chance to get your name mentioned if it ever pans out.

/a/ here,

get fcked

>>5939961
>we don't need crowdfunding for science

Moron

>>5939944
I'm majorly skeptical. Found 'interesting dunes' on google earth? I think I've done that before too. and the scientific community has shunned her? 99.9999% it's for good reason. I hope she doesn't get funding.

How about that crowd sourced space telescope that searched out meteors? That was a bit cooler.

>>5939944
> Now others claim her discovery would be "the greatest pyramids known to mankind" and it would not be an exaggeration to say the find "can overshadow the Pyramids of Giza.

Others have said I'm the most handsome guy on world, others being my grandma.

>http://io9.com/5940607/this-is-what-the-google-pyramid-looks-like-from-up-close

Why can't she just go there and dig herself? Get a job for a year. Then move there for a month and dig.

>>5939944
>So despite coverage on foxnews, CNN, and discovery channel, this Amateur archeologist girl is struggling to get her funding together for this pyramid project.
>http://www.foxnews.com/science/slideshow/2013/07/16/do-long-lost-pyramids-discovered-using-google-earth-rival-those-giza/#slide=1
>The scientific community shunned her (both geologists and archeologists) but I figured with the media hype there would be some social buzz behind this.. but no.

You don't fund the girl who noticed them.
You certainly don't call her an amateur archaeologist -- she has done not a single activity that qualifies that!
You DAMN SURE don't put her in charge of any effort, or money.

You're watching the wrong thing entirely!

If the archaeology has any credence and benefit, then it is the pros who need to go -- people with at least minimal knowledge of the culture, of archaeology, of sociology, and of history.

Some grade-school kid who pointed is NONE of that.

And there still might be genuine professional interest -- you seem only to have looked at the funding for this girl.

>>5939993
>She found neat sand dunes on google earth. The $15,000 is for someone to do some ground radar tests on those mounds.

But if that someone is hired by her, or qualified by her, or she is involved in any way, no one will be interested.

No one wants a non-expert kid to make decisions, and if there is anything there, they don't really even want her to visit.
Anything to be said about such a site has to be said by experts.

This certainly looks interesting. But so does Little Witch Academia.

You're setting up a false dichotomy, OP, and I don't like it.

>>5940200

Oh, lovely.
So, many people have gone right to the site,
no one has said that the whole thing is constructed at all (even if walls were once built on the summit of one)
a geologist said it is clearly a natural butte,
and another said she is just another pyridiot.

It's investigated, guys. Let's go look at something with more promise.

why would I give a shit about lost pyramids?

Why was she shunned?

>>5940226
I wish there would be more excavations of settlement hills/tells in the Near East. Even the known cities are barely excavated. Most hills have one step trench for the entire city and that's it. And I recently saw a bunch of untouched settlement hills in Iran as well. But there isn't enough money and people willing to do it. Everyone only cares about pyramids. Fucking pyramids.

Why does a company need a kickstarter to make a sequel? That would only happen if the first one was garbage that didn't make any money.

>>5939959
some amateur recently discovered another moon of Neptune. not a big deal though.

>Meanwhile the anime that /a/ helped fund is kicking it's ass.
because /a/ is full of richfags.

>>5940253

It is Iraq that saddens me the most.

Some of the oldest cities in the world are sitting there only half explored. Now and then local kids dig up 5000 year old artifacts and sell them for $5, and then they are resold on the black market to a small fortune.

There are non-profit groups trying to protect these sires because the government is barely functional at the best of times and lacks the resources to do it themselves.

Nineveh was a massive city state, with only two of the main mounds examined to date, but over 80% of the city still underground. In 1990 they were finding amazing things in the 2nd mound. Then operation desert storm happened, and Iraq has been a mess ever since.

>>5940277
One day everything will have historical value and will be totally forbidden to be destroyed. C'mon, we live in today, people from before are already dead.

>>5940277
>Nineveh
Good. The sooner it's dug up, the more likely I'll get to see it. I don't give a damn if some anthro prof misses publishing a paper. And I don't give a damn if Iraqi relics leave Iraq. Same for any other country.

Hello fbi :)

>>5940036
What if she's ugly?

>>5940277
That's the case for most of the cities. I bet they would find tons of clay tablets and shit in most of them. They better excavate another Ebla/Mari/Banipal library before the year 3000.

>>5940364
>clay tablets
with touchscreens?

>>5940366
Would be cool.

Have you guys actually watched the Little Witch Academia one shot? It was pretty awesome. A much more efficient use for crowd funds than some random chick who saw some sand dunes on google earth. Let someone who actually already has the resources and the interest, and most likely the know how, to do the research.

>>5939971
What happened to that? I remember they did find some interesting structures, but the digging has ceased before anything big was discovered.

>>5939993

She doesn't need ground radar yet;
you only use that if you think there is something buried.

This site could as easily already be exposed well above such details.

What was needed was someone to go see if there were signs of building.
Many such people went, found nothing about the mounds that suggested anything but natural forms.

We had very little suggestion there was anything special here (some hopeful person looking at pictures) and now even less -- experts who say there is nothing interesting.

Why would anyone go back now?
Why would anyone else spend money for it?

>>5940383
>What happened to that? I remember they did find some interesting structures, but the digging has ceased before anything big was discovered.

I heard the structures were quite recent, and they have made it into a minor tour spot.

It seemed they found out it wasn't particularly interesting, so they decided to pretend it was mysterious and unknowable instead.

They definitely did not find that the mound was built; it was a hill.

Can I also call myself a satellite archaeology researcher if I scan deserts with Google Earth?

>>5940444
Yes.

It's like one day into funding, give it a week or two before you start writing it off as a failure

The whole pyramid thingy sounds more of /x/ tier crackpottery instead of real finding as this guy already said:
>>5940429


Meanwhile i went to look at the witch academy thingy and watched the first part, I found it pretty cool, and could have even backed if it weren't over it's stretch goal already.

Besides, it's only like the second day and stuff like kickstarters need time to get rolling and gather publicity for potential investors. Stuff like archeology doesn't actually interest very large group of people and it takes time for the groud to notice this.

Double besides; it's not like the pyramids will go anywhere, if they are there at the first place, if this fails there will be others to follow.

>>5940494
Sweet.

salary pls

>>5940277
Poor Lamassu.