From: "Rice, David" <shy.david@edenbbs.com>
>> coffers of the high priests--- truth and reality be damned.
> So you've noticed. <smirk> You'll have the COTE.TXT file
No, I did not think it was too harsh. Bullshit is still
bullshit, and pointing out out the stink of bullshit is a
community service.
>> It cannot be in situ, naturally. No, I've ceased reading
> That's the fuck, yes. I got some mail from Holden as well
He once called me "The most insulting person" he had ever
met on the 'net over the past five years. I wish I had that
message printed and framed.
> Give Doctor MacRae a note telling him what you think. He
Teddie reminds me of the Biblical inerrantists who believe that
"prophesy" is "all coming together," as they ignore the
evidence to the contrary. He believes that gravity was somehow
"less" when Earth was orbiting Saturn. Sheeish.
>> Saturday I watched "The Mysterous Origins of Man"
> It appeared to be no different than the first showing. Did
Well, part of my "favorate" was the structure where the sawed
blocks of sandstone and limestone were "too tight to fit a needle
through," and where the blocks were "level" (using a bubble
level).
Such blocks in the structure are the exception, not the rule. One has to
look long and hard for a block that is perfectly level to the horrizon,
though it is slightly easier to find blocks that are tightly joined. This
fact is explained in the Weirdbase files, gathered by Hicks.
On the show they had someone take a 12-inch bubble level and place it on
the top of a low wall, and showed that the bubble was centered in the level.
Then five minutes later they showed the same shot filmed from the opposite
direction, as if to pretend that it was a different block. If they had used
a four-foot level, spanning two or three blocks, the bubble level would
have shown that the wall is not level --- only that particular block was.
How these level blocks and tight joints are supposed to be evidence for a
"superior civilization" the show didn't say.
Then the show claimed that the structure was alighed so that the inner gate
had the sun show through its opening during the equinox, and the sun rise
over the two corner posts, one on each side of the main gate, during the
solstices. The two corners were equidistant from the gate --- the bullshit
artist who made the claim that the sun was supposed to rise over the corner
posts lamented that THEY NO LONGER DO, and he therefore claimed not that his
conclusion was false, but that Earth had radically changed.
Since the corner posts are equidistant, the structure would have to be
built on the Equator before the three points (center gate, two corner
posts) would match during the equinox and solstices. Also, the observer
would have to stand at the proper distance in front of the gate to see the
sun rise over the corner posts.
Also, if Earth did somehow shift its crust, NONE of the three points
should match the three solar events. The show implied that the equinox
matched the gate entrance, but the solstices did not.
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To: frice@stbbs.com
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:36:22 +8000
Subject: "Mysterious Origins of Man"
> by now, I'm sure. I think I'll start calling Cote and
> Holden "Galileo" since they think they are. Did you
> think I was too inflamatory with Cote? I don't think so. I
> think I spelled out exactly what he is doing and I'm certain he
> knows it.
>> Holden's crap years ago. I still have a few megabytes of
>> his "Earth used to orbit Saturn" crap.
> which I should add to the BONES directory. He demands that
> MacRae will be discovered to be a fool with egg on his face.
> }:-}
>
> "Some day!" - Childish school yard rant.
> did a SHIT load of good work -- all for free! -- and Holden
> repays him back by demanding MacRae lied about his findings
> -- like some kind of Satanic cabal of scientists suppressing
> the "truth."
>> nonsense. The bullshit was even worse than I had heard.
> you like the right-wing survivalist stuff?
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