Huge underground city discovered in Turkey, possibly biggest in the whole world! - Polidicks

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;46831559] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("epic video game reference" - Orkel))[/highlight][/QUOTE] Exactly how is this ban necessary? I don't see anything in the rules sticky that says video game references aren't allowed, especially since facepunch wouldn't exist if it wasn't for video games.

Journey to the Center of the Earth: The Squeakquel

[QUOTE=amos106;46838271]Exactly how is this ban necessary? I don't see anything in the rules sticky that says video game references aren't allowed, especially since facepunch wouldn't exist if it wasn't for video games.[/QUOTE] I thought it was pretty clever. But if Orkel didn't find it funny, I can see why he'd ban. Hopefully he'll reverse it since people aren't dumbing it.

[QUOTE=amos106;46838271]Exactly how is this ban necessary? I don't see anything in the rules sticky that says video game references aren't allowed, especially since facepunch wouldn't exist if it wasn't for video games.[/QUOTE] I've noticed a few admins banning people for referencing video-games, I wonder what's going on lately with that? It's stupid to ban people for it since you can't avoid referencing games on a gaming forum lol. On topic however this is awesome, I wonder if there are any creatures who have moved in since people moved out and if there are any scriptures which could give insight of why they lived underground as opposed to living on fertile land. How could you even eat if you lived in a cave? Unless they were mining things and trading for food

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;46833803][URL="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkey-worlds-biggest-underground-city-was-home-farming-community-5000-years-ago-1481435"]IBTimes has more info.[/URL] Photos by their source, the [URL="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=429&GalleryID=2398"]Hurriyet Daily News[/URL]. [t]http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/images/news/201412/n_76257_1.jpg[/t][t]http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/images/Gallery/g_62579.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/images/Gallery/g_62588.jpg[/t][t]http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/images/Gallery/g_62593.jpg[/t][t]http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/images/Gallery/g_62577.jpg[/t] [t]http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1416797/underground-city.jpg[/t] This place is fuckin' Middle-Earth.[/QUOTE] Just shows how much wonder and awe there is still to be found on our planet. I'm very excited and want to hear more of this as soon as possible.

im not an archeologist but damn I wanna be one right now and run around in those ruins and pretend to be indiana jones or something. (even though id probably step on and ruin a piece of history) that place looks incredible and werent there some ruins in anatolia like this found earlier that were like 10 stories? I want to see how deep these go, impressive stuff

[QUOTE=T553412;46831621]Looking good for 5000-years old ruins. There's got to be so much awesome shit deep inside.[/QUOTE] Like 5000 year old shit in ancient toilets? That's awesome shit alright.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;46831559][IMG]http://d.ibtimesco.uk/en/full/1416689/nevehir.jpg[/IMG] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("epic video game reference" - Orkel))[/highlight][/QUOTE] awful mod please stop

[QUOTE=TreasoN.avi;46838449]I thought it was pretty clever. But if Orkel didn't find it funny, I can see why he'd ban. Hopefully he'll reverse it since people aren't dumbing it.[/QUOTE] If orkel didn't find it funny? It doesn't matter if Orkel found it funny or not. It was a shit reason to ban. If finding something unfunny was a bannable reason, lmao pics would be a graveyard

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;46833803][URL="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkey-worlds-biggest-underground-city-was-home-farming-community-5000-years-ago-1481435"]IBTimes has more info.[/URL] Photos by their source, the [URL="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=429&GalleryID=2398"]Hurriyet Daily News[/URL]. [t]http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1416797/underground-city.jpg[/t] This place is fuckin' Middle-Earth.[/QUOTE] Is that a town just a few hundred meters away? Just tells you how much we haven't discovered and how close it may be to us.

[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;46838864]Like 5000 year old shit in ancient toilets? That's awesome shit alright.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure archeologists [I]love[/I] to get their hands on biological remains that aren't bones. They can give you so much information on an individual's diet and way of living.

[QUOTE=Sir Spicy Buns;46839146]If finding something unfunny was a bannable reason, lmao pics would be a graveyard[/QUOTE] nothing of value would be lost [i](not defending the ban reason above)[/i]

Dude they should totes rebuild it Save money + time and its completely awesome [editline]2nd January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=elixwhitetail;46831559][IMG]http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1416689/nevehir.jpg[/IMG] Minecraft chunk errors in real life. But for real, more secrets of the past are always cool. Human history is very deep, we just don't know most of it because we have no records of it. About 10% of the Amazon was man-made from deliberate soil fertilization over a span of a thousand years, but they left behind almost no other trace, having lived in organic constructions. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("epic video game reference" - Orkel))[/highlight][/QUOTE] What a dumb fucking ban, who chooses these mods? Orkel shouldn't be a mod anymore the amount of dumb shit I've seen him ban for is stupid

Do they realize that banning all of these people for dumb reasons is causing 20x more off-topic shitposting than they're trying to prevent? When will this stop? So I don't get banned too, this is incredible. Really goes to show how many things there are still left to discover, this has been right near a town for thousands of years and it was just unearthed a while ago.

That ban really gives me a 2009 throwback feel!

[QUOTE=RichyZ;46839281]because mods are getting really tired of those fucking dumb "epic meme, but really:" type of posts[/QUOTE] If he was banned for his "epic meme," although he provided actual content thereafter, why wasn't Mingebox banned further down the page for his reference, that is "epic meme"ing, to Amigara Fault? Is it because he didn't have the [I]damned preciousness[/I] to say something that wasn't a joke? So it's okay to drop shitty jokes all over the place so long as you don't provide any actual discussion with them? Also, it was fun discussing this with my friends. Ended up with one of them loaning me a book of theories on religious persecution in the middle east (the theory for why these cities exist.)

[QUOTE=amos106;46838271]Exactly how is this ban necessary? I don't see anything in the rules sticky that says video game references aren't allowed, especially since facepunch wouldn't exist if it wasn't for video games.[/QUOTE] Also it was an actual good post with a one-line reference in it.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;46831559] Minecraft chunk errors in real life. But for real, more secrets of the past are always cool. Human history is very deep, we just don't know most of it because we have no records of it. About 10% of the Amazon was man-made from deliberate soil fertilization over a span of a thousand years, but they left behind almost no other trace, having lived in organic constructions. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("epic video game reference" - Orkel))[/highlight][/QUOTE] There's a difference between shitposting with video game memes, and just sticking a [I]not even that bad[/I] reference to a game in a post and then having a good post along with it.

neat find, although how do people actually find shit like this like woops, there's a city under this grass :v: also orkel wtf

[QUOTE=Vasey105;46833901]Wait, is this an actual massive underground city, or just little hobbit holes like the ones elix posted?[/QUOTE] In-between. Been to Cappadocia, been inside the one previously considered the largest in the area. It's tunnel-systems in several stories with rooms and ventilation shafts and shit. The pictures posted here in this thread are not the new one, they're a mix of the old one and a bunch of other stone-dwellings from Cappadocia. They're [I]all over the fuckin' place[/I] there, like it's the god damn Flintstones. Even a friggin' castle carved out of a rock. [editline]2nd January 2015[/editline] [IMG]http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/280/cache/cappadocia-tuff-hills-and-cave-dwellings_28005_600x450.jpg[/IMG] Foreground is the rock huts that are all over the god damn place like giant, livable stone dildos. Middleground is a more modern but still old-ass city. Background chunk is the rock castle. You get a real beautiful sunset up there.

5,000 years? That's incredible. Forget the underground city part, finding an entire undisturbed structure that's been around for that long is of even greater significance. No doubt that the reason it's survived intact for so long is [I]because[/I] it's been underground. I mean, sure -- Turkey has some old places, but how many of them have remained completely untouched for millennia? This is really amazing.

[QUOTE=Riller;46842023][IMG]http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/280/cache/cappadocia-tuff-hills-and-cave-dwellings_28005_600x450.jpg[/IMG] Foreground is the rock huts that are all over the god damn place like giant, livable stone dildos. Middleground is a more modern but still old-ass city. Background chunk is the rock castle. You get a real beautiful sunset up there.[/QUOTE] My favorite part is that the city just decided to build around the stone dildos. Like, imagine living in a city next to a bunch of vacant ancienct stone dildo houses

[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;46842183]My favorite part is that the city just decided to build around the stone dildos. Like, imagine living in a city next to a bunch of vacant ancienct stone dildo houses[/QUOTE] Given that people were living in some of the dildoes up until mid-20th century and the age of the city, chances are the switch from dick to box was simply architectural fashion.

These sites have been known about for a while, there are even mile deep bunkers capable of supporting tens of thousands of people. With entrances that can be sealed up with giant boulders and only opened from the inside. With facilities for every imaginable thing such as places for cattle or shrines and temples for religous ceremonies. The only vulnerability to these ancient refuges/cities are their ventilation shafts, which if blocked would lead to, well... death P cool

[QUOTE=Sovietzek;46833846]This looks like a place where dwarves would live.[/QUOTE] They delved too greedily and too deep.