[HN Gopher] El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep...
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       El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon
       rainforest
        
       Author : Brajeshwar
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2025-05-04 15:34 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.livescience.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.livescience.com)
        
       | cm2187 wrote:
       | Not that remote, seems to be less than a 100km away from an
       | airport, a short helicopter ride. Surely someone must have
       | visited the site to figure out what's underneath the vegetation.
        
         | Jun8 wrote:
         | I think it's a protected area for the indigenous people and
         | entry is prohibited.
        
         | pinkmuffinere wrote:
         | Can you land a helicopter in the middle of a dense rainforest?
         | I suspect the terrain is more limiting than the distance
        
         | CGMthrowaway wrote:
         | It is almost certain this is an extinct volcano but has never
         | been confirmed due to limited access.
        
       | flancian wrote:
       | Pretty weird article. Just on the title alone:
       | 
       | - 'Mysterious': there's very little of substance in the article
       | to advance the position that it is mysterious at all.
       | 
       | - 'Sacred': OK, I guess!
       | 
       | - 'Pyramid': "A fourth explanation -- one for which there is no
       | evidence -- is that Cerro El Cono sits on the ruins of a pyramid
       | built by ancient Indigenous tribes". So... no evidence then :)
       | 
       | - 'Hidden': "It rises steeply from the relatively flat jungle
       | landscape of eastern Peru, making it visible from as far west as
       | the Andes -- 250 miles (400 kilometers) away -- on a clear day."
        
         | CGMthrowaway wrote:
         | New to the internet?
        
           | Arkhadia wrote:
           | New to people on the internet gaining pointless cred for
           | wasting time and typing up pointless critiques on pointless
           | articles?
        
         | nartho wrote:
         | I'm no expert, but it seems like the bottom of the pyramid has
         | what looks like natural rock formation, seems like that
         | wouldn't be possible if it was man made ?
        
       | codeduck wrote:
       | That website is almost unreadable. So much crap littered around.
        
         | walrus01 wrote:
         | It's your prototypical clickbait content farm website, complete
         | with "disgusting" images of human skin rashes and similar.
         | 
         | https://www.fastcompany.com/90843502/the-chumbox-is-still-th...
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         | https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=taboola+c...
        
       | willvarfar wrote:
       | Seeing the comments here I just searched for an alternative
       | article. This has a nice picture of the dormant volcanic cone
       | called El Cono: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/01/sierra-del-
       | divisor-nat...
        
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