A clean slate? (or should that be granite?)

Trethevy Quoit 11

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stonefree May 2, 2011 09:12:57

Our plan was to share some of our findings in a forum of like-minded people who already had an interest, and hopefully some experience, in the subject matter. We hoped to dispel the myth that this structure was intended as nothing more than a tomb by showing that there was a far greater intelligence behind both the positioning and the construction.

If we had just been using this as a marketing strategy 'to draw people in' so we could sell them an as-yet unpublished book, perhaps we would have chosen a slightly bigger target audience than the small handfull of people on here? Perhaps we were slightly naiive in thinking that people would be as amazed as we have been to discover the sublime nature of this 'Solar Observatory' and wish to support us in finding out more about it using a wide range of techniques, from simple test digging to using more advanced techniques such as ground penetrating radar etc.

To be fair, I think we expected a certain amount of healthy scepticism, but hoped that the questions we would inevitably be asked would help us to better formulate our answers and present our evidence. Unfortunately there have been too few questions asked, and some of those were so far removed from our course of enquiry that we were caught off balance, whereupon one or two seem to have jumped to the conclusion that we have nothing of interest to say and are fair game for a bit of derision.

I'll hold my hands up and admit that I am guilty of rising to the bait and allowing myself to get caught up in this silly game of overt posturing, but I've been trying ever since to find some common ground for this important subject to be discussed without the need for egos getting bruised!

So, gentlemen, what say we start again with a clean slate?

nigelswift May 2, 2011 09:24:09

Replying to stonefree

FFS, that's not a clean slate it's a paste of the posting from the old thread, containing sideswipes at people here. Wish I hadn't said it was a bosting idea now. :(

Sanctuary May 2, 2011 10:43:37

Replying to stonefree

stonefree wrote:

Can I jump in again here and ask if you consider it a tomb at all.. or that a tomb is just part of it?

If just part of it, then what role do your findings play with regard to the remains that would have been in the chamber or intended to be in the chamber?

I think those are a couple of sensible questions that shouldn't create much of a problem answering.

drewbhoy May 5, 2011 21:41:26

Replying to stonefree

Thit Like? I'm a Turra loon, somewhere north of everywhere, and all of these affa big words are to much for a loon like me to unnerstan. My heid is fair bizzin and canna tak in athing. When I read summat sturdy was gan in a hole my heid jist aboot dirled roon an roon I wis all a futter. I thocht thit di we hiv here. We can a be wrang! Bit I hiv my ain theory tho. Noo I've hid a few gulshies already the nicht so my spelling might be a dither. I think it wis a desk at an ootdoor squeel for lankie loons like mysel and the hole was used for an ink well. Ye ken the stuff we used to write we. But I see the cheer his been pinched. Must go, my coal powered computer is rinning oot a stem. Cheerie!

nigelswift May 6, 2011 01:28:39

Replying to stonefree

stonefree wrote:

Our plan was to share some of our findings in a forum of like-minded people.....................So, gentlemen, what say we start again with a clean slate?

When I said that would be a great idea I also suggested you list your hypotheses alongside your supporting reasons. It's a shame that hasn't yet been done as this thread is hard to follow and what is being said seems to keep evolving.

Take this capstone hole. We have heard you can observe the sun through it and see the corona and "boiling". We've also heard you can use it to observe the sun and both deduce and measure the earth's wobble. That's quite a hole!

First, is it being suggested it was deliberately constructed to do all of those things, or some of them - or none of them?

And second, regarding the claim you can observe the corona and boiling through it. Can we have more on that please because I have to confess that seems to be impossible to me, which doesn't fill me with enthusiasm about anything else that's being suggested.

The Eternal May 7, 2011 23:33:57

Replying to stonefree

stonefree wrote:

Our plan was to share some of our findings in a forum of like-minded people who already had an interest,...............So, gentlemen, what say we start again with a clean slate?

Yup, I'm all for that, matey.
Regards,
TE.