Post-Modern Sand Architecture on Earth and Mars.

This is an interesting idea.

It is generally believed that the sandstone blocks that were used to build the pyramids were quarried nearby. There must be evidence of this.

But what if this method of forming blocks with bacteria and sand had been discovered. Might they have switched to it, allowing them to form their blocks tightly in place with block molds? If so, this method could have been used to form massive pyramids on earth - as well as explain the massive pyramids on Mars. And the building process would have been much faster, accounting for how quickly they were said to have been built. And this type of construction would have been familiar to them - as they used mudbrick construction in much of their other building.

This is definitely worth looking further into. A couple of years ago now I posted on the problem of martian sand dunes, they are a little too much like the sand dunes of Earth. Tom commented on the post and asked people to look out for images but i think it got lost in the shuffle, as people were more interested in looking for art.

Let's say that we built this wall across Africa and it works. Then we'd start building other walls into the Sahara to reclaim it. I did post on Ted to suggest that the people to see about this, in the first instance, would be the Dutch. They have a vested interest in land reclamation and coastal defense. They are very good at stabilising sand dunes, they use salt tolerant plants. Okay build grids of washed sandstone over high salt content dunes. Plant them up and wait a few years for the salt tolerant plants to do their work.

Of course, the Dutch would want to put turbines into a sandstone dyke and then push the whole thing into the sea, cheap wave power. The martians don't have much in the moon department but it makes sense to stick utilities into such dunes when your planet is slowly turning into a desert.

Thinking about this a little bit, it would be quite tricky to decide whether such structures were built by conscious entities or not. Perhaps we should look for a section where a "sky hook" had once been.

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I found that post I mentioned from Tom. I suppose one question has to be, can we differentiate between a dune system converted by martian hands, a one converted by some sort of niche bacteria, evolved for a dying Mars, and of course the famous tubes.

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Originally posted by Stoat

if the Mars storm is a rather mild affair, how is it that the sand dunes look remarkably like the ones on Earth?
Standard theory is that they were formed billions of years ago back when the Mars atmosphere was twice as thick as Earth's. Meta theory says they were formed by water flow during the one-time gigantic flood 3.2 million years ago that came from the explosion of Body C, a water world then orbiting Mars. This latter scenario predicts that the true dunes (to be carefully distinguished from the "glassy tubes", which are not sand dunes) are all confined to one hemisphere of Mars, the hemisphere that is now mostly the southern one but overlaps the crustal dichotomy boundary on one side by about 20-30 degrees. Do any of our sharp-eyed Mars image examiners know of any exceptions? -|Tom|-

Here is another example of Martian sand architecture.
This formation (called the Hanger) is located in the Phlegra Montes region of Mars.


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Like the Citadel, note the sliced "cut-away" look at the interior cells.

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