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Liquid_o2 01-20-2011 09:44 AM

The 30,000-Year-Old Cave That Descends Into Hell
 
Searched but couldn't find it, hope it's not a repost!

http://gizmodo.com/5738795/the-30000...=Google+Reader

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There's a cave in France where no humans have been in 26,000 years. The walls are full of fantastic, perfectly-preserved paintings of animals, ending in a chamber full of monsters 1312-feet underground, where CO2 and radon gas concentrations provoke hallucinations.

It's called the the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, a really weird and mysterious place. The walls contain hundreds of animals—like the typical Paleolithic horses and bisons—but some of them are not supposed to be there, like lions, panthers, rhinos and hyenas.

A few are not even supposed to exist, like weird butterflyish animals or chimerical figures half bison half woman. These may be linked to the hallucinations. The trip is such that some archeologists think that it had a ritual nature, with people transcending into a new state as they descended into the final room.

In fact, the paintings themselves are of such sophistication—some even have three-dimensional relief—that is hard to believe they were made back then. However, radiocarbon dating shows that these paintings are indeed prehistoric: A group was made around 27,000-26,000 years ago and the other at 32,000-30,000 years ago.

The cave first discovered in 1994 by three French speleologists: Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, and Jean-Marie Chauvet. And now you can visit it too. Not in person, but in the next best thing: The great German film director Werner Herzog has made a 3D film of it, which is the only 3D film I want to watch this year (actually, amazing documentaries are probably the only movie genre that is perfect for 3D, like this or the Hubble 3D movie).

PiuYi 01-20-2011 10:14 AM

crazyballs

TheKingdom2000 01-20-2011 10:20 AM

Dammn! I wanna go to that cave!

Drow 01-20-2011 11:08 AM

i would shit my pants if i were to hallucinate in a cave 1312 ft underground

AccordCouped 01-20-2011 11:27 AM

maybe mewtwo is down there

Mugen EvOlutioN 01-20-2011 11:33 AM

damn that sounds amazing

hal0g0dv2 01-20-2011 11:41 AM

that is unreal

Greenstoner 01-20-2011 12:16 PM

i will be checking this on film for sure

StaxBundlez 01-20-2011 05:19 PM

i'd turn it into the bat cave

The_AK 01-20-2011 05:31 PM

3d documentaries, now thats what we should be getting more of. Not Jackass 3d or another Pixar 3d movie.

1exotic 01-20-2011 05:41 PM

http://www.google.ca/url?source=imgr...UVKpOckBTkaqNQ

orange7 01-20-2011 05:48 PM

kinda scary, but at the same time it's so kool.

you! 01-20-2011 08:22 PM

so any scoop on when this movie will come out?
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TurtMcDirt 01-20-2011 09:05 PM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1664894/
March 25th in the uk

FerrariEnzo 01-21-2011 04:43 AM


Vansterdam 01-21-2011 05:07 AM

Shit that sounds dopeeee
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AzNightmare 01-21-2011 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by AccordCouped (Post 7272844)
maybe mewtwo is down there

and chilling out with Bin Laden?

wingies 01-21-2011 09:32 AM

Wow imagine if it was at science world omnimax in 3d!

SupraTTturbo2jz 01-22-2011 12:06 AM

fucking aliens did it i tell you!


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