A COLLECTION / 26 INVESTIGATIONS

Conspiracy theories
Iceberg.

Familiar claims at the surface. Stranger details below. Choose a layer, follow a claim and run the numbers.

Enter the iceberg

26 investigations in view

01
The familiar view

At the surface

Start with photographs, horizons and the shape of the world.

02
Signals and perception

Below the image

A fast target, a shared memory and the numbers missing from the frame.

03
What lies beneath

Under the structure

Follow the tunnels, survey lines and engineering behind extraordinary places.

Secret Power

Denver Airport tunnels

The trains carry 9,600 per hour and demand uses 83.3%, leaving 1,600 passengers per hour. The tunnels are sized for the airport that exists.

The Ancient World

Great Pyramid build rate

The build needs 38.33 blocks/hour, or 383.3 blocks/day, and one block every 31.3 minutes for each hauling team. Change the crew size and the working day.

The Ancient World

Nazca ground survey

A 304.8 times enlargement with cord and stakes carries 0.405 metres of position error, 0.302% of the figure's length. No aerial view is needed to lay one out.

Deep Time

Chicago raised streets

Each jack operator turned 2,240 full turns, one every 80.4 seconds, raising 1.59 mm a quarter turn. Buried doorways were lifted past, not flooded.

Antarctica

Antarctic pyramid peaks

A pyramidal peak drops 45 ° down the face and 35.3 ° along the ridge, a 9.7 ° difference. Glacial erosion carves this shape on peaks worldwide.

Antarctica

Antarctic ice cliff draft

A visible 50 m cliff sits on 330.5 m of submerged ice, 380.5 m of column in total; dense ice alone would need 463.1 m. Set the freeboard and firn air.

Antarctica

Lake Vostok liquid water

The ice column loads 33.3 MPa against a melting boundary of 31.7 MPa, 1.6 MPa beyond it, so the lake stays liquid below zero. Set depth and temperature.

Denver Airport

Denver runway crosswinds

One wind gives 17.32 knots across runway 34R and 10 knots across runway 08. The layout answers the wind rose, not a symbol. Set the wind and compare.

Denver Airport

Denver baggage timing

A 37.3 ms timing allowance shifts the target 0.536 m at carrier speed, leaving -0.136 m of clearance. A negative margin means a misplaced bag.

04
Bones, dates and fabrications

The deep record

The stranger details are often preserved in the material itself.