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nigelswift May 13, 2014 06:41:32
Replying to GLADMAN

I know what you mean. You'd think a formula for figuring intentionality versus randomness would have been worked out by now but no. Thornborough and Giza are pretty close to Orion, but so what? Chance or not? Or are they both intentional and Orion is chance? ;>O

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GLADMAN May 14, 2014 23:38:49
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
I know what you mean. You'd think a formula for figuring intentionality versus randomness would have been worked out by now but no. Thornborough and Giza are pretty close to Orion, but so what? Chance or not? Or are they both intentional and Orion is chance? ;>O
So if there is no agreed algorithm for determining such odds is this not simply a matter of subjective armchair conjecture versus the concrete fieldwork of archaeologists actually surveying on site? Surely there is no substitute for the latter?