Comments on: “Scientists” Discover Ancient Relic with Google Earth

By: dr.R.

dr.R. — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:24:51 +0000

You're not an investment banker, are you?

By: cookie monster

cookie monster — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:50:27 +0000

But the crucial question is – are you a scientist or a ’scientist’?

By: David Roberts

David Roberts — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:31:08 +0000

Without wishing to blow my own trumpet, a colleague and I found some similar fish traps on the Menai Strait, Anglesey back in 2004. Photos here: http://www.pixaerial.co.uk/php/show_image.php?image=35078

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:24:38 +0000

Curious, A year ago on the same day this was posted there was another post of someone discovering something using Google earth. http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/03/27/google-earth-can-make-you-famous/

By: cookie monster

cookie monster — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:12:40 +0000

I’m not a dentist……….

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:35:17 +0000

I’m not a scientist…

By: cookie monster

cookie monster — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:10:26 +0000

Blimey - these 'scientists' are a touchy bunch arent they? Ive actually found a picture of the reaction from a 'scientist' upon reading this post.

By: BJN

BJN — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:19:40 +0000

By the way, I found Dr. Ziggy Otto’s email address along with articles about his research and activities.

Dr Ziggy Otto is the senior marine conservation officer with the Countryside Council for Wales.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/7874406.stm

Perhaps you’d like to share any LOL thoughts you have with Dr. Otto via z.otto@ccw.gov.uk

By: BJN

BJN — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:01:49 +0000

Excuse me, but aren't scientists allowed access to satellite images? Is it somehow cheating to look for achaeological artifacts, impact craters, or the myriad of other features that Google Earth makes freely available (via saltellites images that Google didn't make possible, BTW)?

Do you know enough archaeology to have interpreted the image as a fishing weir? And where do you get the temerity to actually criticize a scientist for actually traveling to the site in question to examine the evidence to confirm (or not) their interpretation of an image? The effort to examine and confirm a hypothesis is what separates scientific inquiry from useless desktop speculation.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:00:20 +0000

Agree with first two comments - after looking over this story elsewhere, there seems no basis for your irony. There's so much crap (and I chose my word carefully) out there about all things trivial to be located on Google Earth, Maps and SV, it seems this could have been a chance to praise people who are basically doing the same as the editors of this page

You don't need a piece of paper with "Congratulations, you're a Scientist" on it to be given permission to follow through your curiosity.