Luke Caverns
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 May
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But my email address isn't hard to find. They could probably find it. Yeah.
I can't believe I just thought about this.
Yeah. Yeah.
That, like, the Mexican government is involved in it? Well, the Russian government is involved in it. Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I'm sure, yeah. Well, you know, I'm sure, you know, all of those high-ranking Russian officials, I mean, Putin's a historian. He has an appreciation for history. You know, I'm sure it's a little side...
hobby for him you know to have his boys go all around the world and collect things to bring to him you know he doesn't have time to go like on a on a right tour across mexico or egypt or something so they just steal things and take them back yeah that's crazy yeah so they're getting it you think they're getting most of do you think they're doing it themselves going out to these places and like looting you think they're they're getting it yeah so um
So in the Paten in Guatemala, one of the things that they're combating right now is, you know, the cartels have their own LIDAR drones. The cartels have their own LIDAR planes. Everything the Mexican government has, the cartel has as well. And so they launch expeditions themselves to go find these lost cities.
Um, you know, I have a, uh, I'm sure we've talked about this before and maybe you have access to this as well. Uh, you know, there's a complete LIDAR map of the entire United States that the, uh, I think the comet research group has, and, uh, they gave me access to it. You probably, you might have it too. Um, uh, Why am I blanking on his name? Who's the... George? No, Carolina Bays.
Why am I... Chris? Chris, yeah, yeah, yeah. Chris gave it to me. So Chris gave me this LiDAR map. Chris Cottrell. Chris Cottrell, yeah. These don't exist on... these don't exist for Mexico. You can't find, even though they've LIDAR scans so much of Mexico, you can't find these scans anywhere.
And the reason is, is that the, the, the value of the artifacts at these sites is, well, I mean, it's enormous, right? So if you would just, if you just projected onto the world or made, you know, made a LIDAR scan immediately accessible or even privately accessible, it's going to spread like wildfire and these sites will get looted like that. And they already do.
So by the time that Mexican or Guatemalan archeologists get to a lost city that they maybe knew of 50 years ago when somebody, you know, like a medical plane or whatever is flying over and they go, oh, look at that. There's some giant pyramid down there. They mark it on the map and then they know that something's out there.
The 50 years later, a team finally gets there and it's all been looted, but maybe been looted recently because there's a bunch of Gatorade bottles, you know, laying around. Um, and it's the cartels that are out there, you know, they, uh, illegal logging. So they're, they're cutting down trees.
And then while they're cutting down trees, they're finding cities or they have their own expeditions that are going out to find cities and they just blow holes in the side of pyramids. I, I was at a site, um, near, uh, El Ramon Al in, um, in Campeche, Mexico. And it was a site that had already been looted. Locals may be looting it. I don't know if cartel did it or not.
But they'll cut down these trees or they'll make these trees fall. And you'll have this big tree that grows out of the side of a pyramid. And if you cut down that tree and get it to... tip over, it'll just pull out this huge part of the pyramid and then they'll sift through that.
And so it's this, I went to the site that had 16 pyramids in this, I don't know, maybe thousand by thousand yard span that we went and looked at. And every pyramid was just cratered in, you know, looking for different artifacts because there's nothing on the surface other than pottery. So in the Americas, I mean, people are,
at least in, I should say, Central America and Mexico, yeah, it's a vicious war for preserving archeological sites. South America is a lot harder because I don't know too much about organized crime in South America as much as I'm more familiar with it in Mexico, but it doesn't seem to be as big of a problem, and it might be because the sites are even less accessible.
The jungle is considerably larger in South America. Um, so like in Peru, you don't have, you still have a big looting problem when you're talking about, uh, sites that are out in the desert, like Moche culture, Nazca culture, like the Nazca lines, you know, the Nazca have their own pyramids.
They have these huge mound sites that all of them have been looted, but most of the time it's done by locals. Um, you know, often the jungles, these old ancient Inca cities, um, they're completely inaccessible. You have to launch a state-sponsored expedition and send people out there for an incredibly long time just to find something like that. So South America, it's not as much of a problem.
They must be, right? Yeah, yeah. Well... Yeah. I mean, if I don't know how much like geopolitics or whatever you'd want to get into, but I mean, you know, cartels are using, uh, Russian guns. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, there's, uh, Yeah, I think like mid-2023, there was something that went viral, and it was the cartels had new kits. They were completely kitted out, and it was whatever, some kind of AK-47 that they had that a gun expert that I follow, he said he zoomed in, and he did a whole analysis of it, and he's like, this is a Russian model. So, yeah. Wow.
The loots and who knows what else. Yeah, right, right.
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