Get off my star map

The plaza’s terrazzo floor is actually a celestial map that marks the time of the dam’s creation based on the 25,772-year axial precession of the earth.

~ Alexander Rose from, The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight

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These weren’t on my mind when we planned our visit, but it was a rare moment of delightful recognition when I spotted them. So often I find interesting places, and then never get there.

And sometimes I go places specifically after finding them on the Internet.

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10 Millennia

… in which one would actually not mark the site, but mark many other sites with clues, that once put together, would be a sort of test to be sure you understood the dangers — before revealing the location.

~ Alexander Rose from, Communication Measures to Bridge 10 Millennia – Long Now

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Sometimes I find things which just simply make me go, ‘wow.’ Here’s one. :)

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