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PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Inhabited Beauty@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Aerial view of Centuripe, Italy

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Aerial view of Centuripe, Italy

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Inhabited Beauty@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago
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    “Drrr…drrr…drrr”

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      This is my hole

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        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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          Somebody lives at Grundleview Lane.

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    Looks like a giant fell on his face spread eagle and the town was built of its body

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      Don’t tell conspiracy theorists that. They’ll take your comment as proof, make a podcast about it, then make a podcast about you.

      It really does, though.

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        • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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          How artistic, the right side of his brain is trying to escape.

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    This city is me shaped!

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      THIS IS MY CITY!

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        Junji Ito has entered the chat

    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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      Just imagine centuries inti the future and a guy looking at this says it’s shaped like and image of Xtallll, and therefore is meant for communications with extraterrestrial beings.

      …as some ancient astronaut theorists believe…

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    If you’re tossing a ball around in the backyard and throw it too far, you’d need to pack for an excursion to go get it.

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    Reality is great because you can create stuff like this and nobody calls it “hacky” or “an overwrought metaphor that’s about as deep as a plate of cereal”.

  • watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The Wikipedia page of this town doesn’t mention this at all.

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      The English wikipage is unsurprisingly not thorough on this small Italian city. The Italian wikipedia page has this picture showing the same thing from the side. The front view is obviously taken from an angle to accentuate the human appearance of the townscape.

      https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centuripe#/media/File:Centuripe_dall’alto.jpg

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    I had to look up other images to confirm this is real. It looks very much like AI.

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    Apologies if this is a stupid question, but what’s the benefit of building a town on narrow ridge lines?

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      Defense, possibly? Centuripe is ancient, founded back when such things were prime considerations.

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        Yup. TONS of little towns on hills like this. Often smaller. Always a keep and a church, often a tower.

        Easy to defend, easy to see signals from neighboring towns, easy to spot invaders. Safe from seasonal flooding.

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      Once upon a time attacks came from just land (or sea if near one), and walls and high ground let you literally roll boulders to crush your foes (yay catapults). WW1, Maxim guns, planes, and bombs made this all pointless (but absolutely no fear of floods)

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    A bit terrifying

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      The town DEFINITELY has a dark cult that outsiders aren’t allowed to know about, I guarantee it

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        I think that’s just the Italian Mafia

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    not sure id want it known i lived in a mountain crotch

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      That neighborhood always smells like ass.

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    deleted by creator

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      Somebody lives in the taint. I hope it’s called like Via Gooch.

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    “Hey aliens!”

    Makes city that moons space

    🍑👽

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    Hes just a little guy

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    No water, long way to food

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      You can see on the map they’ve got public taps: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/37.620996/14.742858

      One of the archaeological sites is labelled “Roman Cistern” too and you can see a lot of streams.

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        Not that I don’t you, as it makes sense, but I can’t see any cisterns on satellite view. It does say the town was completely razed in 1233, so it might have existed. My next question would be how they collected the water on top of a hill

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      They definitely have access to water inside the town.
      If there wasn’t, building it there would be pointless, attackers could just wait a week instead of assaulting it.

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    My body is ready

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