YASID "pyramids of minnesota"
Keith Wetzel AKA Space Cadet
I have a vague memory of a very short article in some author's
collection, promoting an idea of totally volunteer group of people who
would go around and build pyramids. Just for the fun. They aren't
suppose to be tombs or time capsules, but just solid stone pyramids!
Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Just my $0.02
Keith W of St. Louis AKA Space Cadet
Paul Colquhoun
I don't know about Minnesota, but somebody has built one in southern
Queensland, Australia.
Google Maps shows it fairly well. Follow the link, then switch on
satellite imagery.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&layer=x&ll=-28.814766,151.851279&spn=0.006364,0.008819&z=17
I've been there myself. I's just a big pile of rough sandstone blocks,
but they had to use some of the blocks to make a retaining wall to level
the ground off first, so they went to quite a bit of effort. It's also
well off the main road, with not indication that it is there at all.
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Vivian Darkbloom
<kaw...@gmail.com> wrote:
"Pyramids for Minnesota" by Thomas M. Disch, originally published in
Harper's Magazine, reprinted in THE MAN WHO HAD NO IDEA.
viv
P. Taine
<postm...@andor.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:31:19 -0700 (PDT), Keith Wetzel AKA Space Cadet <kaw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>| Hello All,
>| I have a vague memory of a very short article in some author's
>| collection, promoting an idea of totally volunteer group of people who
>| would go around and build pyramids. Just for the fun. They aren't
>| suppose to be tombs or time capsules, but just solid stone pyramids!
>| Does this ring a bell for anyone?
>|
>| Just my $0.02
>|
>| Keith W of St. Louis AKA Space Cadet
>|
>| http://www.geocities.com/the_wetzels/
>
>
>I don't know about Minnesota, but somebody has built one in southern
>Queensland, Australia.
>
>Google Maps shows it fairly well. Follow the link, then switch on
>satellite imagery.
>
>
>http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&layer=x&ll=-28.814766,151.851279&spn=0.006364,0.008819&z=17
>
>
>I've been there myself. I's just a big pile of rough sandstone blocks,
>but they had to use some of the blocks to make a retaining wall to level
>the ground off first, so they went to quite a bit of effort. It's also
>well off the main road, with not indication that it is there at all.
Hey! Thanks! We will be driving right by it in September, heading south from
Warwick. I'm adding to my GPS "waypoints".
Jon Schild
No, but I remember reading a short article by a lonely radar technician
in Alaska who taught the children in an Eskimo village to make bone
boomerangs and throw them. He asked only that they never tell anyone
where they got the idea.
--
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei