Last site I read said the level error was 17" over a 13 acre base.
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Wirt Atmar
Sent: Wednesday, 28 December 2005 10:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Iraqi elections

Matthew strikes a resonant chord when he writes the following as a tangent
to 
the central premise of this thread:

> It's not random good luck, and it does not require builders to be trained 
> in geometry or trigonometry either. It is a rather simple thing to take a 
> length of string, put four stakes in the ground and stretch another 
> length of string from one corner to the opposing corner, then taking 
> another length of string of the same length and stretching it between 
> the other two corners, thereby "squaring up" your area marked by the 
> first length of string marked by the four stakes, as you make 
> adjustments. Height to be determined: simple as well - take
> one half or two thirds the length of any side and as the blocks are 
> piled up, stop when the end of the string is reached. An 
> oversimplification to be sure, but then again you don't need 
> anything but an extremely basic understanding of building and 
> measuring to build a pyramid.
 
Of the various pieces of "evidence" that Erich von Daniken, a fellow who 
pushed a different kind of "intelligent design" in the 1960's, used to prove
that 
the ancient pyramids of Egypt could only have been built by aliens were:

     o the pyramids were built on dead level plain, something far beyond the

technology of the time.

     o the pyramids were oriented against the cardinal directions perfectly.

     o the pyramids were built on height/base ratio exactly of pi/3 and
pi/4, 
but the Egyptians had no idea of the value of pi so precisely.

Given these facts, there was only one obvious and inescapable conclusion: 
little grey guys did it.

But in actual fact, every farmer knows how to level a field very accurately.

You simply flood it and fill in the low spots and level off the high areas. 
Moreover every agarian society very rapidly becomes an astronomical society.

People nowadays don't use the sky as either a clock or a calendar, in great
part 
because we never go outside any longer nor can you even see it in most
places 
now, but if you lived in Egypt, it would shine overhead every night and you 
would very rapidly come to know the directions of the solistices and
equinoxes 
(dead true east and west).

But how did they know pi so precisely? It was automatically built into the 
way that they measured distances then (and is still done today). They simply

pulled a large barrel with a stripe marked on it. One fellow pulled, and a
second 
counted the revolutions. If you built anything x number of that stripe high 
and of y number of revolutions, you've got pi resolved into the building as 
accurately as you can build your structure.

Wirt Atmar

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