Re: VMs: Gordon Rugg's experiment

["Barbara Barrett" <barbarabarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barbara Babbles;
Gordon's effort reminds me of all "reconstructive archaeology"; pooves
little or nothing.

Thor Hyadal made it from Peru to Easter Island in a craft made of
traditional Peruvian material and design. That only shows the peruvians had
the technology to make the journey, not that they did (or explain how Easter
island was inhabited long before the Incas came into being!).

Likewise the Nova project that constucted a small Egyptian pyramid in a few
days with traditional materials, methods, and manpower. While proving that
the estimates of thousands of labours working for several decades to build
the great pyramids at Giza *might* be gross overestimates, because Nova
couldn't prove that it was their methods that actually were used, they
didn't actually prove anything.

Or the project which used only traditional pre-inca materials to make a
successful hot air ballon didn't prove that the Nazca peoples viewed the
huge geoglyphs on the Nazca plain in that way, only that they could have.

Gordon's project shows that a vms-like document could have been made in
relativly little time (and so the objection that such a thing was
"impossible" is laid to rest), but does not in any way prove that this was
the method by which the vms was produced or that Dee/Kelly manufactured it -
or deal with the contrary evidence of contemporary accounts.

Certainly the Gardian headline "It's Gibberish" was somewhat unwarented.

I'm reminded of the gernan soldier character who used to pop up in Roland
and Martin's Laugh-In's catch phrase "Very EEnteresting......but shtupid".

Barbara




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