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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re:  Weird Gravitational effects at Lake Delton Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 11:38:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 11:38:43 1985
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> From:  Cymru am Byth! <bradford@AMSAA.ARPA>
> 
> 
> <> >I expect (if the owners would allow you to do it), simply measuring the
> <> >platform with a tape measure and (perhaps) a carpenter's level would
> <> >expose the trickery.  It is probably "off level" by a couple of degrees,
> <> >and one side is a little longer than the other to make it appear level
> <> >to the eye.
> <> >
> <> If the owners forbade instrumented observation, one possible test would...
> <
> <It seems to me that if the owners forbade instrumented observation, one has
> <the answer in hand already...
> 
> 		Of course the owners would not mind you using a
> 	carpenter's level -- if it showed any "tilt", that must
> 	also have been caused by the gravitational anomoly!!!
> 
Would they mind if I came in with a thodolite and measured star positions
relative to the local gravitational vector?  That would pin it down easily
enough.

-- 
Glend.	I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hot.	Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you
	do call them?    --  Henry IV Pt. I, III, i, 53

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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