"the Discovery Channel aired a documentary about it last November)" I saw this documentary, very good. Some of the towers are beautiful.
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04/02/2004 8:32:20 PM PST by
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04/02/2004 8:37:28 PM PST by
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I'm sure that building them seemed like a good idea at the time.
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04/02/2004 9:47:46 PM PST by
BenLurkin
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Pictures?
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04/02/2004 9:54:28 PM PST by
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9 posted on
04/03/2004 1:53:38 AM PST by
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"Her most important contribution is the attempt to date the towers,"Where would they go, I wonder? Being stone towers, they'd probably enjoy rock concerts.
11 posted on
04/03/2004 8:17:41 AM PST by
BradyLS
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Seriously, I'd thought I'd read in a National Geographic a few years back that one archeoligist studying these structures found evidence of Christian Iconography dating from about a thousand years ago in one of these structures. Some preliminary research led the student toi suggest that the tower might have housed a Christian monastery at one point.
12 posted on
04/03/2004 8:21:02 AM PST by
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Sure wish there were some pictures of the towers. ~</:o(
The bit about them being 12-pointed and earthquake resistant is intriguing to me. My house is 12-sided (do-decahedron,) and in our big '89 quake, the damage to the house was purely cosmetic. The builder had touted the design as "earthquake proof" and I was amazed when the foundation and frame stayed pristine, even ON AN EPICENTER! Interesting that the 12-point towers resist quakes too.
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"Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?..."
14 posted on
04/03/2004 4:02:06 PM PST by
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Where are the pictures; the author surely didn't one well enough for me to see it, all I see are lighthouses with guy wires.
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Who built them? When? Why?—nobody seemed to have a clue. "In his house in (Tibet) dead Cthulhu waits dreaming..."
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Star-shaped towers - Cthuhlu Mythos ping?
20 posted on
04/05/2004 6:20:25 AM PDT by
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