Fossilised sandworm
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Worlds oldest surviving sand castle.
I wonder if someone could get super insanely rich by building a pipeline to the middle of the desert from the ocean, digging a giant hole and building a beach resort on formerly worthless land.
Realistically, a project importing sea water inland would likely salt up the freshwater aquifer beneath the desert...creating more desert - elsewhere.
laughs in Salton Sea
You're basically describing Dubai
Dubai is over the sea, no need for long pipes
I think you should be already super rich to build the giant pipe tho
Nah you just need to find some ~~suckers~~ ~~idiots~~ investors who want in on this innovative and brilliant idea.
Then honestly you don't even have to build the pipe
You can only steal investor money if you're already rich and the investment is coming from the government.
Nah, it's easy as this project would be like most mining startups - you just need a liar and a hole in the ground
It's easy to pretend to be rich. Ferrari rentals are actually pretty cheap.
Reminds me of One of the fort in Skyrim with Bandits in basement.
I want to fill it with cheesecake and bake it.
In Algerian desert, desert bakes you!
Like some randomly generated structure you’d find in an empty area of an open world game. Has monsters in the basement and loot
I find this so freaky interesting! Wow!!!
Think about the stories told, how many people passed through there, how it was build, who might have hid there!
Amazing!
Also, for the ones who read the demon cycle, this is how i imagined Ruins of Anoch Sun
Looks like someone left the Coliseum in the sun for too long.
Haz Masaros Karma Barge
Usul, welcome to Sietch Tabr
And it apparently had one helluva shield wall.
As written.
This looks like it's the size of a palm. Hard to scale
The video and pictures here give a better idea of the scale.
https://www.historicmysteries.com/archaeology/ksar-draa/30684/
Thanks! Already searched for more
I think it's because the dunes have the same shape as the bumps in wet sand on the beach
Tilt shift does that.
This reminds me of the buried library in Avatar 🦉
Have we checked it for Wan Shi Tong?
I'm not going in there, he knows Foggy Swamp Style!!
Same lol that's immediately what I thought of.
Built on a natural outcrop, most are or were also likely on top of accessible aquifers.
Thank you. I couldn't figure out how in the world they managed to get mud or even mortar to build a structure like that, in such an environment. I don't know why "dig a well" was the farthest thing from my mind.
Real life Kenshi game.
Couldn't be, no one is being peaked to death
Ehhhhhhh, now there's a lemming after my heart. Very nice!
How does it keep from being submerged in sand? The ground around the ksar is a different shade, is that what prevents piling? Or is the area bereft of wind? Did they build the area underneath or is it naturally occurring? I have too many questions!
You would build a castle in the desert on a natural aquifier too, no? There might have been an oasis long before this was built.
maybe what we see is just the tip
I'm imagining one poor caretaker with a leaf blower lol
Broom*
Fine. A broom blower.
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