Did anyone happen to watch this show the other night? Were you as horrified as I was when the overly dramatic host and another scientist took a chisel to an ~ 3 foot by 4 inch stalagmite in order to break it free in order to count the rings? Apparently, they were wanting to calculate the rate of annual water flow in order to match it up to the apparent demise of the below mentioned headless skeleton. Their theory was that the hapless victim was sacrificed at about the same time as a drought was occurring and, by doing so, the gods would be pleased with the sacrifice and send rain. How you could correlate the age of the stalag with the victim's death is beyond me. Is this appropriate behavior? I'm surprise no one else hear saw this or thought to comment on it. Y'all's thoughts? Mark A.
________________________________ From: Allan Cobb [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 10:58 PM To: Texascavers Mailing List Subject: [Texascavers] Caving Show on Discovery Channel Monday night (January 21) at 8 PM is a new series called Bone Detectives. This episode is about a headless skeleton in a cave in Belize. The cave that the show centers around is called Midnight Terror and it was only discovered about a year ago. The show also did filming in several other caves in Belize.
