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The Baigong Pipes- Nature or OOPart?[China]

China Expat ^ | 16 Dec 2008 | China Expat

Posted on by BGHater

We're all familiar with the concept of modern technology having ancient Chinese analogues. But a 2002 discovery in remote Qinghai province is anachronistic enough to constitute an OOPart. Out-of-place-artifacts are so unusual, or found in such improbable contexts, that mainstream science has no plausible explanation for them.

The crystal skulls of Mexico referenced in the latest Indiana Jones movie, the iron pillar of Delhi, and the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism are examples of OOPart yet to be explained. Like these, the pipes of Qinghai's Mount Baigong suggest a level of technology simply inconceivable for the apparent era of their manufacture. Those open-minded enough to think "extraterrestrial" when searching for a theory, while often dismissed out-of-hand, have like-minded souls in some of the Chinese scientists investigating.

Locals, residing forty kilometers southeast of Qinghai's Delingha city, have known of the pipes for centuries. They credit aliens for their construction, and even have legends of extraterrestrial visitors to Mt. Baigong. Although the stories are met with predictable skepticism, they become harder to laugh off when one takes in the sixty-meter pyramid near the mountain's summit. Superficially, the pyramid could be shrugged off as having been shaped by natural forces. For some reason, however, the structure has not been conclusively studied, at least officially.

Near the foot of Mt. Baigong lie three caves, the largest and most accessible some eight meters high by six meters deep. Inside, spanning from the roof to the back end of the cave, runs a pipe 40 cm in diameter. Another one roughly the same size runs into the earth from the floor, with just the top protruding.

A piece of Baigong pipe

The pipes, according to tests carried out at a local smeltery, are made chiefly of iron, but with an unusual thirty percent silicon dioxide in their matrix. They are also centuries old, if Xinhua and its source, Liu Shaolin, the engineer who carried out preliminary tests, are to be believed. Strange, but easily written off as a bizarre metallurgical operation by some nomads with too much time on their hands, assuming geological origins of the eerily symmetrical pyramid.

However, dozens of pipe openings have been discovered in the mountains far above the caves. Now these nomads must be credited with some advanced system of drilling since forgotten, as there is no modern industry in the area nor record of such. Not far from the foot of Baigong sits Toson Lake, on whose beach run many more iron pipes in unlikely patterns and in a variety of diameters, toothpick-sized at the thinnest. More pipes are in the lake, some protruding above the water surface, others buried beneath the lake's bed.

Although nine Chinese scientists were reportedly dispatched to make a detailed analysis of the pipes in 2002, there has been no further information. This hasn't prevented local government from promoting the site as a tourist attraction. A CCTV crew went to Mt. Baigong soon after, accompanied by researchers from the Beijing UFO Research Association, but no record or footage of the expedition has come to our attention. If this is because such documentation would be widely laughed off, then they would at the expense of Yang Ji, a research fellow of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who told Xinhua that the extraterrestrial theory was "understandable and worth looking into".

Then again, plain old terrestrial science has many mysteries left to be fully explained. Similar pipe-like structures have been found in the Jurassic sandstone of the Southwestern United States, as well as in Citronelle formations in Louisiana. No pyramids have been found close on, and researchers have concluded that they were formed through natural processes. But similar conclusions from scientists studying the Baigong pipes have yet to be announced, six years later.

The strange landscape near Mt. Baigong



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To: SunkenCiv

Ping. Pipes again.



by 2 posted onby BGHater (Tyranny is always better organised than freedom)

To: BGHater

The Bongs of the Gods, perhaps? ;-)



by 3 posted onby GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles, When you walk around wi)

To: BGHater

So dinosaurs had paint rollers. Have they found the handle yet?



by 4 posted onby AZLiberty (I hope Obama changes.)

To: BGHater

maybe when the ET’s/Aliens found themselves in China they couldn’t find anything to do as “The Big Giant Talking Head “instructed-so- they built some pipes to play the organ.



by 5 posted onby MissDairyGoodnessVT (Good Morning Mr & Mrs Scooter and All The Ships At Sea)

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by 6 posted onby SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)

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by 7 posted onby SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)

To: SunkenCiv

Can’t we let baigongs be baigongs?



To: bigheadfred

Cant we let baigongs be baigongs? That pun is championship material, bigheadfred! Applause, applause!



To: Miss Marple

:-)



by 10 posted onby bigheadfred (I would say more but my head is big enuf as it is. P.S. At least there r 2 Smart people on FR)

To: SunkenCiv

Any chance of sending a team of professional archaeologists to the site? Knowing China’s xenophobia, they’d probably have to be Chinese, though.



by 11 posted onby Berosus (No more Kennedys, no more Clintons, no more Bushes, no more political dynasties. Deal?)

To: Berosus; SunkenCiv; BGHater; Miss Marple

Any chance of sending a team of professional archaeologists to the site? Knowing Chinas xenophobia, theyd probably have to be Chinese, though Just don't send this bunch...Chinese "Researchers" "ABLE BAKER CHARLIE TO ROGER FOX DOG"



To: bigheadfred





To: null and void

How did you get a pic of my last family reunion? Musta had to a searched deep for that.



To: bigheadfred

Yes. Quite deep. I must say you come from a family of deep stinkers uh, thinkers...



To: null and void

Vent all you want. I will sulfur thru it.



by 16 posted onby bigheadfred (Why is everything so dark----and stinky?)

To: Berosus

Probably professional geologists would be more appropriate, these look like unusual natural formations — and even if not, that would probably be an appropriate first step. :’)



by 17 posted onby SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)

To: SunkenCiv

Exactly. But why mess up a perfectly good tourist trap with a boring scientific explanation? Everybody knows ET’s are fascinated by anal probes (a pipe of sorts), cattle mutilations and other strange pursuits that bring them here from across the galaxy. Why not leave some mysterious “pipes” in the ground? It makes perfect sense...doesn’t it?



To: Bernard Marx

Travel in the Ancient World

by Lionel Casson A gifted faker name Alexander founded an oracle in a backwater on the south shore of the Black Sea. Here, for stiff prices, a talking serpent he had rigged up answered questions for the local hayseeds... (p 135)

Well, it does to me, but that's not exactly a litmus test...

by 19 posted onby SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)

To: bigheadfred

/rimshot!



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