Re: You are cataloguers,not astronomers
- From: "William Foley" <bill1401a@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 15:30:10 GMT
You suck, not post.
<geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "But such information will probably be of little use or interest to the
> archaeologist unless it serves to amplify some historical or cultural
> detail. An astronomer may not understand why his information fails to
> produce excitement because he does not fully grasp that archaeology is
> a social science. Few astronomers have the training to completely
> understand that distinction. The astronomer will generally fail to
> consider how little value an isolated astronomical fact may have to an
> archaeologist in the absence of a cultural context. The different
> languages of astronomy (a "hard" science) and archaeology (a social
> science) foster a lack of attention on the part of the Egyptology
> community for ideas presented by astronomers."
>
> http://www.cloudbait.com/archaeo/arce2004.html
>
> I have to laugh at distinction between 'hard' science and social
> science notwithstanding that you flatter yourselves by the unwarranted
> title of astronomer.
>
> Is it not bad enough that you cataloguing freaks ruined
> Copernican/Keplerian astronomy that you have to go back and destroy the
> exquisite ancient wisdom.
>
> Do you know why the Eygptians chose the angle of inclination of the
> Great Pyramid as 51 degrees 50 minutes ?. It takes a
> geometer/astronomer to enjoy that one but you miserable creeps,even if
> you could see it do not have the capacity to enjoy it.
>
> 1.62 - 3.24 - 6.48 - 12.96 - 25.92 - 51.84.
>
> Even though it has been years since I worked on geometric
> progression,nothing gives me more pride and joy than the ancients and
> to marvel at their economy and ingenuity.
>
> Here is another one 25 - 30 - 36 - 43.2 - 51.84
>
> All these great things that you never can enjoy because you rob the
> astronomer/geometer title and turn my astronomical heritage into an
> exercise in photography and gizmos.
>
> 51.84 degrees = 51 degrees 50 minutes.
>
>
> The mind which is free of the empirical tyranny can enjoy the work of
> men and creation without having to prove anything no more than nobody
> needs to prove music or art right or wrong.Look at the first sequence
> from 1.62 to 51.84 latent with significance of the two most fundamental
> constants in nature ,Pi and Phi.The ancients knew how to represent all
> shapes within a pyramid using the most economic value to represent it
> with human architectual tolerances - 51 degrees 50 min .
>
> The crow does not pretend to be an eagle but you and your colleague
> pretend you are astronomers/geometers.To be fair there is always a
> chance that someday it will happen that men will find themselves out of
> the empirical rut to breathe the air of astronomers/geometers and their
> insights which have been buried under 3 centuries of empirical garbage.
>
> I hope you suffer the pain of not knowing why the Eygptians chose the
> angle of inclination because nobody can teach you why and it is
> specifically designed that way,just like the great Judaeo-Christian
> heritage.
>
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