peter theil needs to meet this kid.<p>formal schooling is the worst thing in the world for curious and thoughtful minds like this.<p>still, it&#x27;s amazing that such a &#x27;discovery&#x27; can be made so quickly by sattelite confirmation. the age old human mind combined with modern sensor tools is capable of &#x27;discoveries&#x27;. simply not possible in the past.<p>consider in the past, it owuld have taken years to put together expedition funding and organize explorers to get to the suspected location of the alleged city.<p>now, you just get the right person on the phone at the right research department , and existing searchable maps of the location are already at your disposal, if they (high resolution lidar?) aren&#x27;t already accessible through public google earth maps.<p>this is amazing. we are making discoveries at light speed because massive quantities of diverse information are available to 15 year olds, and the capacity for verifying suspicions is there because of our capacity for creating searcheable organized data.<p>this truly is the structure of scientific revolution. so many things coming together to make a new paradigm of discovery possible. it is  THESE kinds of stories really give me passion for science making the world better.