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.Javi and Jack stood just beyond two large industrial excavators and watched them begin to remove the top layer of ice and snow that covered the buried object.As the teeth of the metal bucket imbedded the ground, the top surface exploded into large blocks that were scooped up and placed into a waiting dump truck and carried away.With every two feet of material removed, Javi and Jack inspected the cavity, insuring no damage was coming to anything that lay hidden beneath.After the first day, a cavity measuring a hundred feet square and ten feet deep was created around the target.Javi and Jack entered the large pit by access ramp carved in the ice and assembled their ground radar equipment at the center.Two hours later, they completed their study.As they stood back and reexamined their spray painted marks on the ice, the shape of the object became ever clearer.“Definitely “U” shaped,” Javi said.“The propulsion system must be along the flat edge of the “U”,” he continued, now pointing.“Interesting,” Jack said, his eyes seemingly staring through the ice.“The round front is facing toward the sea cliff.Really makes you wonder, doesn’t it?”“About what?”“Were they using the sea cliff as a launch pad, sort of like launching off an aircraft carrier?” Jack speculated.He surveyed the land around him and continued.“And why land here? Why not near the pyramid? Something just seems strange to me about this location.”“First, I’m sure a spacecraft as advance as theirs didn’t need a runway to launch from… and second, this location seven thousand years ago, might have been the best spot to land and depart from.The reason it’s here might simply be a malfunction with their propulsion system that they couldn’t fix or worse, they crash landed here.The fact is, we probably will never know why they picked this spot for landing,” Javi realized.Jack nodded, then joked, “Unless, of course, Zeus or Poseidon left a tidy little diary of their exploits… you know, something like: “June sixth, five thousand B.C.; went for pizza, lost keys to spacecraft in the parking lot; stranded forever on Earth.”Javi stared momentarily, then smirked.“Yes, Jack.Something like that would be most helpful,” he said sarcastically.“Now, if we could just find those damn keys, we might actually be able to start it ourselves,” he joked further.“I’ll tell you what.Right after we excavate the object, if it does turn out to be the spacecraft, you can be in charge of finding them,” Javi teased.“A righteous assignment,” he stated proudly.“Yeah, right up there with cleaning toilets,” Javi joked.----- ----- ----- -----The following day…Once again, the team of workers swarmed over the excavation site.As the excavators dug deeper, they no longer had the ability to raise the material out of the hole.An overhead crane was assembled and a large bucket lowered was into the pit.Workers inside, placed blocks of ice and snow into the crane’s container and were lifted out and then deposited into a waiting dump truck.The task was slow and tedious, but with the summer light now staying longer than eighteen hours a day, they were able to remove another five feet of material from the deepening cavity.Within three days’ time, a darkened shadow began to emerge from under the ice.Twenty feet below the surface, its shape left little doubt of its content.The object was indeed the spacecraft.Excitement of the reality sent the men’s adrenaline surging, driving greater efforts into their work.Too close for the use of heavy excavators, teams of men with axes and shovels now chopped away at the ice by hand.By the end of the fourth day, Jack and Javi watched anxiously as the men now came within a few inches of the top of the spacecraft.Although the ice distorted their view, the ships features were now evident.Measuring just over thirty-four feet long and seventeen feet wide, the overall rectangular shape seemed strangely foreign to the space and airship designs of humans.Although the front of the ship appeared rounded in “U” shape, Jack noticed a five-foot wide flat edge at the very front, a puzzling feature that greatly diminished the aerodynamic capabilities of the craft [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Javi and Jack stood just beyond two large industrial excavators and watched them begin to remove the top layer of ice and snow that covered the buried object.As the teeth of the metal bucket imbedded the ground, the top surface exploded into large blocks that were scooped up and placed into a waiting dump truck and carried away.With every two feet of material removed, Javi and Jack inspected the cavity, insuring no damage was coming to anything that lay hidden beneath.After the first day, a cavity measuring a hundred feet square and ten feet deep was created around the target.Javi and Jack entered the large pit by access ramp carved in the ice and assembled their ground radar equipment at the center.Two hours later, they completed their study.As they stood back and reexamined their spray painted marks on the ice, the shape of the object became ever clearer.“Definitely “U” shaped,” Javi said.“The propulsion system must be along the flat edge of the “U”,” he continued, now pointing.“Interesting,” Jack said, his eyes seemingly staring through the ice.“The round front is facing toward the sea cliff.Really makes you wonder, doesn’t it?”“About what?”“Were they using the sea cliff as a launch pad, sort of like launching off an aircraft carrier?” Jack speculated.He surveyed the land around him and continued.“And why land here? Why not near the pyramid? Something just seems strange to me about this location.”“First, I’m sure a spacecraft as advance as theirs didn’t need a runway to launch from… and second, this location seven thousand years ago, might have been the best spot to land and depart from.The reason it’s here might simply be a malfunction with their propulsion system that they couldn’t fix or worse, they crash landed here.The fact is, we probably will never know why they picked this spot for landing,” Javi realized.Jack nodded, then joked, “Unless, of course, Zeus or Poseidon left a tidy little diary of their exploits… you know, something like: “June sixth, five thousand B.C.; went for pizza, lost keys to spacecraft in the parking lot; stranded forever on Earth.”Javi stared momentarily, then smirked.“Yes, Jack.Something like that would be most helpful,” he said sarcastically.“Now, if we could just find those damn keys, we might actually be able to start it ourselves,” he joked further.“I’ll tell you what.Right after we excavate the object, if it does turn out to be the spacecraft, you can be in charge of finding them,” Javi teased.“A righteous assignment,” he stated proudly.“Yeah, right up there with cleaning toilets,” Javi joked.----- ----- ----- -----The following day…Once again, the team of workers swarmed over the excavation site.As the excavators dug deeper, they no longer had the ability to raise the material out of the hole.An overhead crane was assembled and a large bucket lowered was into the pit.Workers inside, placed blocks of ice and snow into the crane’s container and were lifted out and then deposited into a waiting dump truck.The task was slow and tedious, but with the summer light now staying longer than eighteen hours a day, they were able to remove another five feet of material from the deepening cavity.Within three days’ time, a darkened shadow began to emerge from under the ice.Twenty feet below the surface, its shape left little doubt of its content.The object was indeed the spacecraft.Excitement of the reality sent the men’s adrenaline surging, driving greater efforts into their work.Too close for the use of heavy excavators, teams of men with axes and shovels now chopped away at the ice by hand.By the end of the fourth day, Jack and Javi watched anxiously as the men now came within a few inches of the top of the spacecraft.Although the ice distorted their view, the ships features were now evident.Measuring just over thirty-four feet long and seventeen feet wide, the overall rectangular shape seemed strangely foreign to the space and airship designs of humans.Although the front of the ship appeared rounded in “U” shape, Jack noticed a five-foot wide flat edge at the very front, a puzzling feature that greatly diminished the aerodynamic capabilities of the craft [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]