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The spot light turns on all us engineers as potential terrorists ?

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  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Ha, somebody is going to have a very boring time if they spend it watching me.
  • Clock LoopClock Loop Posts: 2,069
    edited 2015-11-29 12:51
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  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Whoa, what is that? Likening those silly guide stones to Stone Henge is outrageous.
  • Clock Loop, "Umm, people of earth, this is Prosthetic Vergum Geltz of the galactic Hyden Space Plannng Council."
    He is way too ugly to procreate. I firmly believe he is the only representative of his species. We can take him out!
    The builders of the Georgia Guide Stones don't have any measurable impact compared to those responsible for the symbolism on the back side of the $1.00 bill. Americans see (or don't see) that occult symbolism every single day.
    A good question is why is there a statue of Shiva on the campus of the LHC at Cern less than 30 feet from the main building. At 14tev you have to wonder what effect it will have on earth's magnetic poles.
    Those scientists and engineers, interestingly, are not seen as terrorists...
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-11-28 11:03
    Stone Henge is outragious. Just visit during a solstice.
    If you can't afford the travel, there is always the down-sized duplicate at Merryhill, Washington. The simple fact is there are many circles of stone in Europe that are similar to Stone Henge and the whackos seem to think there is only one with mystical powers. It all might as well be a Burning Man festival.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryhill,_Washington
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryhill,_Washington#/media/File:Maryhill-WA-Stonehenge.jpg

    Have we locked on mystical conspriacy theories of freemasons? Maybe, I need to build my own pyramid. It would make a great bunker for the end of the world.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-11-28 13:00
    Loopy,

    Stone Henge is not outrageous. Or at least not more so than the Pyramids or the Great Wall of China and so on. Whatever it was for it's interesting that whoever built it was up to some serious engineering and astronomy 2000 and more years BC.

    True enough though, there are all kind of Stone Henge weirdos who attribute all kinds of mystic nonsense to it.

    As it happens I have visited Stone Henge many times for the solstice. It used to be that there would be half a dozen nerdy geek types camped out over night just to check how the sun rises over the Heel Stone in the morning. Of course we never saw that as this is England and on mid-summer morning it is often foggy and or cloudy and raining :)

    Then in the 1980's things went mad. A music festival grew up there on the solstice. 200,000 drug crazed people, it was amazing. Amazing that it was all very good natured and very well behaved.

    After 12 years of that the government decided it had to stop. You could not get to Stone Henge for a circle of razor wire 5Km out. Thousands of police surrounded the place and helicopters flew overhead. There was a God awful riot when the festival goers turned up.

    There aren't many stone circles in Europe and none-of them so big. I used to have an interesting map showing them all. There are many in the south west of England. Pretty much none in the north and east. But then, surprisingly, there are many in Britanny and none in the rest of Europe. Which kind of indicates a common culture in "britain" both on the island and in "britain" on the continental mainland near by.

    I'm guessing those circles found in Africa and Israel are not culturally related, but what do I know?


  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2015-11-28 13:29
    Stonehenge short drive up the M3 for me though havn't visited it in a while, used to get a cold shiver up my back when it came into view driving along the road, though I don't think that was anything mystical just the typical English weather.
  • http://www.jameco.com/Jameco/content/incorrectly-using-capacitors.html

    Jameco sent me a email on this subject, good info for anyone starting out in electronics. Maybe if I knew this when I was seventeen, it would have been tough to find an electrolitic in the house.
  • Sorry, I though the U.K. was in Europe, just not on the European continent...but these days one can't be quite sure.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    No, no, no. Europe is over the sea in Eurasia :)
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-11-28 16:58
    Gosh, Wikipedia seems to think the U.K., Ireland, and Iceland are in Europe. At least, they claim that the UN thinks so. Much depends on how one view the term 'continent'.

    "Yet the borders of Europe—a concept dating back to classical antiquity—are arbitrary, as the primarily physiographic term "continent" also incorporates cultural and political elements."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe#Political_geography

    Even Malta is part of Europe, and the isles of Sicily, Corsica, and Sardina.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Yeah, but that as as silly as saying Texas is in the USA :)
  • Best not get him started on the islands off Land's End.
  • ajward wrote: »
    Perhaps I should change my signature! :-)

    @

    No. Because what you want to do with your life is still possible. Even in a bollixed society like ours.
    ----
    Erco? What is your robot doing up a tree with her bear cub?

  • Change this: Founder of the "Society for Aimless Tinkering and World Conquest?"

    Not on your life, or mine, or anyone, for that matter. Seriously.

    This stuff gets people talking, and that's both good and bad. I've always thought it more bad when said talk actually has something to do with change.

    Best path: No response, other than something basic, like the one I gave right out of the gate. Having grown up in a backward place where being the smart one, or geek, nerd, whatever wasn't actually seen as a good thing by enough people to matter, I can honestly say, do not change a thing.

    If anything, double down.

    The other thing I've learned is when times get tough, those same naysayers will come calling, and it's the very best thing ever to help them out with a smile and friendly manner. Powerful advocacy happens right then, and not a word ever needs to be said. It's like magic. No joke. Love it.

    It's one thing to go off and say a bunch of stuff from the cheap seats. Happens. It's quite another to know who is who when people are in need, and you can bet most of those naysayers do know. They just are naysayers.

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