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Post by NeandertalMan on Feb 12, 2008 2:16:54 GMT -5
NUg Friends conduct experiment to solve underground cave mystery!??Posted by Fulvio, Monday, Feb. 11, 2008At the end of December, our friend, Luca Cavallari, and his fellow speleo's exploring a cave North of Naples, near Rome, uncovered a tantalizing mystery . . . perfect circles inscribed, and overlapping above three dimensional "grapes" formed by drip calcification in an area of cave floor deep back in the sometimes humid and uncharacteristically warm cave. But what made the perfect circles, seen in the photo of the cave floor photo below?? Well, to find out, Luca, Stefano Bevilacqua, Silvia Caricati and Nico Squicciarini, all cave explorers from Rome returned this past weekend to the "Grotta Imbrogliata" or "Cheating Cave," to conduct some experiments and hopefully learn the "secret of the circles." Luca's well done and tantalizing video is posted at the link below and we look forward to a visit with him soon to learn more about just that the heck is going on as they assemble, measure, calculate and then cover the bottom of a board with lamp soot, in their roped off experiment area, marked "Do Not Touch." Take a look and see if you can figure out what they are up to! YouTube video LINKby Napoli UndergroundLarry Ray
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Post by NeandertalMan on Jun 12, 2008 23:55:33 GMT -5
Final research on "mystery circles" by Speleo Club Roma underwayPhotos of the perfect circles formed on various surfaces on the cave floor and formation of perfect circle on test panel after only a few months.foto by Luca Cavallari posted by Fulvio, June 9th, 2008YouTube VIDEO Grotta Imbroglita ultime misurazioniLuca Cavallari and his Speleo gang up in Rome are wrapping up their rather involved research to try to discover what could be producing the perfect circles in certain areas on the floor of the "Grotta Imbrogliata" or, roughly translated, "Cheating Cave" near Rome. The photos below show examples of the strange circles they have found deep inside the cave, and also show their rather clever research device. A piece of plywood was covered with lamp soot and placed at particular angles in the area just above where the strange orbs were already formed. On their seventh visit last Saturday, June 7th, they recovered the test panel and other materials as well as making new measurements of temperature and volume of water collected from dripping formations above. The final information now may help them piece the whole puzzle together. The video shows the diligent researchers at work. We will keep you posted!! (Original story at: www.napoliunderground.org/Article1154.html) Larry Ray
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