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To: general_re
You could really do it all alone if you weren't in a hurry and you had some stakes, but having at least one other person help would let you avoid leaving evidence in the form of stake-marks...

Who said there were no stakemarks? If you saw the little holes, would you recognize them as stakemarks? And, finally, if they mattered, why wouldn't the makers take an extra 30 seconds and cover them up?

As for precision, a couple of $2 pen lasers (1000m range) will give you all the precision you need. Although I note that we never see pictures from close up (at ground level) to check the regularity of the edges, the probable spacing of the board, marks from ropes, undisguised footprints, or errors, etc.

64 posted on 07/26/2002 1:19:17 PM PDT by balrog666
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To: balrog666
Who said there were no stakemarks? If you saw the little holes, would you recognize them as stakemarks? And, finally, if they mattered, why wouldn't the makers take an extra 30 seconds and cover them up?

Nobody said that here, but I've seen the lack of stakemarks touted elsewhere as evidence of otherworldly origins.

Silliness. The dead giveaway of human origins on 90% of these things, like the one picture in the thread here, is that they're basically six-pointed designs. That's exceedingly easy to do with nothing more than a long piece of rope and something to flatten the stalks. This is basically the old middle-school geometry method of inscribing a hexagon within a circle using a compass and straightedge, writ large. Your rope functions as both the compass and the straightedge in these cases, and it's absurdly easy to do.

I'm halfway tempted to call some friends and give it a whirl, just to see how fast we can pull it off. You can really get some surprisingly complex designs with just a bit of planning....

74 posted on 07/26/2002 1:34:26 PM PDT by general_re
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