lal_truckee wrote:
Sun, Moon, and stars wobble. Lots of ancient constructions are built to
mark the extremes of the wobble.

Or at least imaginative archaeologists seem to think so. Whenever I've
seen the actual evidence in these cases it always reminds me a bit of
the "evidence" for the pyramids on mars... There is so much room for
over interpretation that my bad science alarm bells go off wildly.

One thing I know for certain: if you go looking hard enough for anything
you are going to find it. And just because you find "it" everywhere you
look, provided you look really hard, doesn't mean it's real. Yet that's
just the sort of "science" applied in these circumstances.

What I'm saying is that without objective evidence most of these claims
are less than compelling. They are little more the speculation. Yet
they are often cited as fact.

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Greg Crinklaw
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