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30-SEP-2015 jCross

September 30, 2015

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These are the Horsecollar ruins in Natural Bridges National Monument. They are called that because the entry ways in the two graineries on the right are in the shape of horse collars. This was shot from an overlook. There is no easy way to get down to them.

I find these things interesting. These particular ruins are located just above a river so they had easy access to water. They must have also had some kind of crop raising going on or they wouldn't need a grainery. These people were not migratory, so they had to survive a winter that would be pretty cold in this area. Bottom line, they had to be pretty tough and they needed a lot of ingenuity. I get to thinking on occasion that I would love to have a time machine. It would be of the type where you can't get off it but can only observe what is going on unlike the Time Traveler's machine in H.G. Wells' novel. Also, you could only go backwards. I guess I would add a position function as well so that you didn't have to cart it all over the place in order to have your look back. I need some help building one of these things. Perhaps John could lend a hand. He seems pretty handy with building things. This is stuff we never covered at the Academy.

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jCross02-Oct-2015 01:21
You will never find an honest politician.
Sorry.
That is a galactic truth.
John Cooper01-Oct-2015 23:34
John I have often considered building a time machine.
My plans are more like the Herbert George model.
I want to get off and look around.
Also I want to go forward as far as possible, just like Herbert George did.
Back is good, but we already know a lot about it.
Whereas I have no idea what will happen tomorrow.
Position function is vital, not an extra.
Go back in time one hour and the Earth has moved a long way through space since then.
Like falling off a liner sailing across the ocean.
The Earth rotates around the sun, and they both move through the space in our galaxy.
And our galaxy moves through the universe.
Calculating your exact spot even down to seconds is harder than finding an honest politician.
The positional computing power is astronomical. As hard to do as travel itself.
The only thing stopping me is I am running out of time.
Irony at its finest.