Ok well my Download pics are up. Apologies in advance but I'm not photographer material and my camera is rubbish anyway.
Had a fab time though. Weather was marvellous and the lineup of bands was the bestest and heaviest evar!
Failed miserably to meet many people though as it only occurred to me when I got there that I didn't have anyone's numbers except Tubesound's - and I met him anyway!
The SG Burlesque show was very, very cool indeed and I managed to make it to the front to holler my support and take lots of pics. Cakemix was in proud mother mode too, and she certainly had every reason to be...
Only real down side was getting home. Some idiot broke down in the exit to the car park, and with no wardens and multiple gridlocks of angry drivers it took 3 hours to leave the car park. And then the police closed the entrance to the M1 so we had to go via Burton and Coventry. I didn't get home until 4.30am and I had to work the next day...
Had a fab time though. Weather was marvellous and the lineup of bands was the bestest and heaviest evar!
Failed miserably to meet many people though as it only occurred to me when I got there that I didn't have anyone's numbers except Tubesound's - and I met him anyway!
The SG Burlesque show was very, very cool indeed and I managed to make it to the front to holler my support and take lots of pics. Cakemix was in proud mother mode too, and she certainly had every reason to be...
Only real down side was getting home. Some idiot broke down in the exit to the car park, and with no wardens and multiple gridlocks of angry drivers it took 3 hours to leave the car park. And then the police closed the entrance to the M1 so we had to go via Burton and Coventry. I didn't get home until 4.30am and I had to work the next day...
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These ancient builders marked the year by identifying the two days a year when the shadow cast by the rising sun was perfectly aligned with the shadow of the setting sun. We call these the spring equinox and the autumn equinox that fall around the 21st of March and 21st September respectively. They also knew that there were 366 sunrises from one spring equinox to the next and it appears that they took this as a sacred number.
They then scribed out a large circle on the ground and divided it into 366 parts.
A megalithic circle was divided into 366 equal parts, which is almost certainly the origin of our modern 360 degree circle. It seems probable that when mathematics came into use in the Middle East they simply discarded 6 units to make the circle divisible by as many numbers as possible. The megalithic degree is 98.36% of a modern degree.
When the late Professor Alexander Thom surveyed over a thousand megalithic structures from Northern Scotland through England, Wales and Western France he was amazed to find that they had all been built using the same unit of measurement. Thom dubbed this unit a Megalithic Yard (MY) because it was very close in size to an imperial yard, being exactly 2 feet 8.64 inches (82.966 cm). As an engineer he could appreciate the fine accuracy inherent in the MY but he was mystified as to how such a primitive people could have consistently reproduced such a unit across a zone spanning several hundreds of miles.
The answer that eluded the late Professor lay not in the rocks, but in the stars.
The MY turns out to be much more than an abstract unit such as the modern metre, it is a highly scientific measure repeatedly constructed by empirical means. It is based upon observation of three fundamental factors:
1. The orbit of the Earth around the sun
2. The spin of the Earth on its axis
3. The mass of the Earth
Many ancient mysteries remain because of the lack of perspective. The folks of the day, we today, were just trying to understand and harmonize with the cosmic order/chaos to be able to blend with the substance of God.
Greetings and Im welcoming my self aboard. I am glad to meet a compatriot.
Hi, I hope my contribution will contribute to the collective.