More Umass IDTM pics

Stones.



This is how to get to the Umass IDTM.



The sun will rise over this stone on the summer solstice.

Cargo Cults

Natives of islands in the Pacific Ocean, such as New Guinea and Vanuatu, engaged in cargo cults in the years after World War Two. The War brought Japanese, Americans and the English into contact with peoples who had never before seen the type of technology they brought. The people on these islands were often gifted some of the supplies that the troops stationed on the islands received. As the war ended so did the arrival of cargo.
Some peoples responded by imitating the actions of the stationed armies. In different occasions they built imitation control towers, radios out of wood and attempted to flag airplanes into landing on abandoned airstrips, all to attempt to receive their own cargo.
The building of megaliths in Western Europe is a similar phenomena. My people, a race of IDTTers, once had a settlement in that area. Once my people left, the native neolithic people continued to built large circles of stones. Their motivation was to follow my people where they had went. In time this attempt at a practical action became part of their culture in it's own right.

And that's Stonehenge decoded.

Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day

It was two days ago! And I missed it!

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Solar Eclipses

This is a crocheted solar eclipses hot mat available from shirret.com, a site for scrap material crocheting.


I've had an interest in eclipses ever since my third grade class built viewing boxes to view a partial eclipse in May of 1994. Recently I my interest was piqued after reading a short story which described hysterical screaming in Japan by people who had assembled to view an eclipse. Hysterical screaming is a common reaction to eclipses, even those which have been predicted and expected in modern times. This BBC article from 1999 reports on a different type of hysteria during the preparations for the eclipses in England from the same year.



This map is originally from this NASA site. The differing widths of the eclipse path are from the distortion of the projection. Eclipses maintain a path of about 300km.

An interactive map of all eclipses, full and partial, is available at this site.

Curbstonehenge

Looks like some time traveler has built the ruins of an IDTT in Amherst Massachusetts. It's a circle of stones, marking the cardinal points and the sunrise and sunsets of the solstices. We can tell those stones are heavy with a little math. A granite block measuring 35cm x 15cm x 102 cm. at the average density of granite at 2.75 g/cm³ is 324lbs. It looks like they were moved into place using rollers, sledges and levers. The Neolithic megaliths of Western Europe were probably moved in a similar way.



This is a panoramic of the circle. The center platform can be seen in the middle. The small stone in the foreground is the north stone. The small stone in the far back is the south stone. The two large stones on the right side of the circle are sunset stones for the winter and summer solstices. The two large stones to the left are sunrise stones for the same.

This IDTT is appeared in Amherst. Other time travelers?

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