Spheres used in mining?

[go2toa]

Does anybody know why there is a tendency to leave spheres on the edge of craters?  They're roughly the same size as the stone spheres in Costa Rica, but they might be hollow to transport whatever's being mined.

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

Gas tanks for storing Helium 3   

[deuem]

My money is on empty alien beer kegs for the workers. Mining is hard work.
deuem

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

[deuem]

go2toa, if you had some photos of the spheres to add to your post, it would help a lot. Deuem

[robomont]

[robomont]

The un says its art.that aint art.thats high voltage.the things inside are high voltage brushes.i dont know what it is but i know what the parts are.it has something to do with static electricity.my guess.kinetic energy space mines.

[ArMaP]

The un says its art.that aint art.

Art can be made with any thing, it doesn't stop it from being art if it's made with high voltage brushes.

And yes, that one (along with several others) was made by an Italian sculptor, Arnaldo Pomodoro.

[go2toa]

If I had to guess, I'd go with tanks to hold highly pressurized gas.  If a coke can of Helium 3 could power a car for 1 year, imagine what a 10' sphere could power.

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They are sprinkled around buildings, usually on the edge of craters.  Sometimes they appear to be linked, forming a straight line, usually longer than the straight lines in this photo, but those could be pipes of roughly the same diameter.

Two unusual things in this picture: high concentration of spheres without buildings, and a backward c of spheres inside a small crater.  Scattered spheres in the vicinity in loose pattern is common.  They're disposable work items.  I've even seem them thrown around buildings and even the edge of driveways.

Sometimes you'll see guys get excited about a symmetric convergence of lights.  Those are just spheres lined up reflecting sunlight.  And that's nothing really. 

I asked Jaxa to comment but they didn't respond.

[go2toa]

Two unusual things in this picture: high concentration of spheres without buildings

I take that back, there is a small building with a little parking lot surrounding it in the lower right corner.  That's a good way to gauge the size of the spheres.  Without a trailer, a full size pick up from here might haul just one sphere.

[Amaterasu]

I took that image into Photoshop and played with the levels.  Very curious that the black areas stay black black black, and do not resolve into ANY info on the floor of the crater.  This suggests some tampering likely took place where the floor was painted black deliberately.

[ArMaP]

This suggests some tampering likely took place where the floor was painted black deliberately.

Or it suggests that the image had the contrast increased, as most people prefer a high contrast image to a low contrast image, even if the low contrast image has more detail.

Google usually increases the contrast of all the Moon and Mars photos.

[Amaterasu]

ArMaP, I have not seen any photo that will not bring out SOMETHING in shadows - even ones that had contrast played with.

[ArMaP]

ArMaP, I have not seen any photo that will not bring out SOMETHING in shadows - even ones that had contrast played with.

I suppose you do that to all the photos you see...

[Amaterasu]

All the ones that look like something may be hiding in "shadows..."  [smile]