As it’s almost Friday, you can spend a bit of time wondering what this is all about:
The location is in Kruger National Park.
It’s an experiment that was started in the 1950s, and I’m now working on analysing the data from it. If you look around there on Google Maps, you’ll see that there are several sites like this.
I just thought it was cool that we could see the plots from space.
Triffid farms?
Weapons of mass destruction! Where’s Colin Powell when you need him?
It’s not an experiment, it’s a multi-million
dollarpound Arts Council-funded art project, using 16 millionlitresgallons of purple paint, three toilet seats and a sausage.(Some aspects of the above statement may not be entirely accurate. E&OE, etc.)
Damn, you’re all so close…
They had to use a soya sausage, though.
that reminds me of something that Christo and Jeanne-Claude did in Central Park, except your data are bigger. much much bigger!
It’s a hand clutching a bendy straw to drink a giant glass of coke.
Are you cloning diabetic giants?
How do you know it was coke?
I guessed. It’s the only thing I ever drink through a straw.
COOL..
kinda looks like square crop circles
Head and horns of a huge oryx figure, carved on the landscape by ancient tribes, hundreds of years ago, and designed to signal interstellar visitors.
Think Chariots of the Gods.
Cue weird New Age music.
They might have been signaling triffids, of course.
Is it the veld burning experiment?
(sorry to add a serious entry into the possibilities…)
Curses, Bronwen. You’ve got it! They instituted different burning regimes (every year, every 2 years etc), and we’re looking at the effects on biodiversity.
Did you get to go – bet that it is really hot at the moment! (even without fires).
Must be pretty interesting.
Alain and I went to the Kruger National Park in December one year. Unplanned sleepover. Spent the night killing mosquitoes and hoping that we weren’t in the malaria belt.
I haven’t been invited down yet, but I’m hoping.
Hm, this summer might be a good time to go.