Excellent new candle to set our clocks' by.

I love and thrive by such knowledge being added to the greatest puzzle of all. Keep em' coming & going!

R & D


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achernar

 

Oh great, in a zillion years I'll be able to see galaxies and a song of the stars hitherto unknown. By that time I may even have saved enough for an Ethos.

 

Oh dear! Did you have another fight with that Porcupine you married, Mak?

 

Sorry, I went all Pina Bausch there for a bit. Must have been a flashback to my university days and getting all learned up about the performing arts.



OK, I may have interests outside of astronomy. I bet you never thought you'd see me say that!

 

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I'd foolishly just assumed you did! Most illogical!

You'll have to forgive me. I've been off tormenting thos idiotic blow-hard God-like 'Mod-Squad' over in the Dark Lord's Manor. They have been tearing down posts by Yours' Truly and 'Nebula' for their "Dining & Dancing Pleasure!"

And without a single word by way of an explanation. At least in my case. As for 'Neb'- your favorite 'PID' was in the middle of it - using Moonshane as his Provocateur-du-Jour. They said he was posting a 'conspiracy-theory' by addressing a thread on people's opinions of if there is 'life' in the Universe.

So I'm busily calling them out as the UK's answer to ☭ ☭ ☭-Trolls. Referring to them as ☭-Comrade.....

They're just about ready to 'crack-up.'

Do Svidanya!

☭Raul☭

 

Is there anything those blokes won't argue about, delete, censor or ban? I just knew when Ray mentioned Brexit Stu Pididiot would claim the thread was becoming overtly 'political', which is against the rules of course. I've seen this rigid adhering to the rules by stick up the jacksy overly officious moderators before.

I think Ray asked a fair question and astro gear prices have been jittery here since the Brexit bollocks up fandango. I wouldn't class it as a 'political' debate though, more economic really.

'They said he was posting a 'conspiracy-theory' by addressing a thread on people's opinions of if there is 'life' in the Universe.'

Maybe their tinfoil hats have unravelled?

 

More likely a blast of air coming out their ears whisked it off their heads?

I know a way to fix that problem: Suggest a hammer and some nails to secure the tin-foil helmets atop their heads.



Amazing what those pinhead "moderators" can cause just in an astronomy-forum! Can you even begin to conceive the mess they'd create if they had any real power and were let loose in an international-diplomacy forum running out of the United Nations? Screw the 'tin-foil helmets' - we'd need very thick lead-foil whole-body suits! And the deepest diamond-mine in South Africa to call 'Home' for a few years.....

 

I think because of axial precession some classical constellations are moving further south. Canopus and a lot of Argo Navis were more easily visible from the Mediterranean a few thousand years ago. The Argo is slowly sinking south.



I'm not up on alignments of megalithic structures but most seemed to be oriented to the winter solstice I think.



Stonehenge has an odd feeling but Avebury has a great vibe to it. Nice pub in the centre of it as well. You can feel the buzz as you walk towards the circle at Avebury. I came away from it all Earth Goddess inspired. Although that might have been the real ale. I've visited some of the smaller circles still standing in Wales and Northern England. I'd like to have visited the Callanish Stones in the Outer Hebrides, but it's too far on the bus.



Ladytron shot this video there. I know many of these structures were very lunar inspired and can calculate eclipse cycles. I don't know whether they class as the earliest astronomical observatories but our neolithic ancestors must have had a great knowledge of the night sky. I'm guessing it was important to emerging farming communities.

Or it might have been Zeta Reticulans.

 

Danger .... danger ... Will Robinson ... stupid moderator alert!

 

It's too far on the bus from Worcestershire though.

I've walked completely around the Avebury stones. No one ever visits Swindon apparently. I don't think it actually exists, a bit like Brigadoon or Bridgend. Bridgend is a mythical place in Wales where the tylwyth teg skinheads live. Supposedly they come out at midnight on the full moon and vomit a lot before mugging travellers.


Silbury Hill, like the pyramids, is obviously a Zeta Reticulan base.

 

I'm pretty sure I've heard of the Marlborough mound. There are a lot of barrows/burys still extant. I can see a neolithic barrow from my living room window.

I don't know about stargazing holy men.

I've been to an eisteddfod or two, sometimes there are bards and druids.

My guess is that most of these barrows were defensive hill forts or some were burial chambers.

Or Zeta Reticulans.

 

It's difficult to even speculate. They had different priorities to us I suppose, like being able to eat enough to survive and not dying prematurely.

There's evidence Stonehenge was some sort of healing centre that attracted people from all over Europe.

The Indo European Celts inherited a lot of these sites but the sites themselves mostly predate them.

It's impossible to really say who built them and for what purpose.

Unless it was Zeta Reticulans lol.

 

I saw a really good documentary on the origins of Stonehenge not so long ago. The site seems to have had natural features which made it a sacred site even before treehenge.

 

Ollantaytambo is a very impressive site too, with many tightly fitted blocks weighting many tons each, then raised up the mountain. Some people assume this architecture it's pre-inca architecture, me, I believe it.

Heavy blocs abandoned along the way,


Wow.

I am not sure we have the technology today to carve directly into the mountain, Very impressive carving technology.




High precision blocks





I hope you liked the pictures.