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Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Post by kitd »

Shrezzing wrote: post #93
Oarch wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Great Glen Fault is beautifully straight line across Scotland. Once seen it can't really be unseen.

I'm not sure if this is concrete fact, or just a theory, but you can continue the line up Norway's western coast too. Then in the other direction, the line was broken, but restarts & progresses from Nova Scotia down through the Appalachians in North America.

IIRC they were all part of the same Pangaian range, and include Greenland east coast and the Atlas mountains.

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Post by acjohnson55 »

Archelaos wrote: post #34
logtempo wrote: post #13

Are they aligned because they are famous, or are they famous because they are aligned? Or are they aligned because if I pick 7 famous monuments aligned I can draw a line, look over my shoulder and say "ho look, if we draw a line it match!" From wikipedia, the list of St Michael churches: St. Michael's Church (disambiguation) Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel (es), San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato Mexico World Heritag…

This Wikipedia list has a lot more St. Michael's churches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Church Around 150 in Europe alone. For the next hackaton: Write a programme to find all possible approximately straight lines between any 7 of these churches.

Also, allow the map projection to vary, to produce lines of different curvatures.

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Post by nabla9 »

weberer wrote: post #79
nabla9 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>.. are aligned. Only on Mercator projection that is younger than many of the sites on the line. Oder of things: 1. There were bunch of monasteries (not cathedrals), not aligned on any direct line. 2. Mercator invented a projection. 3. Someone looked at map using Mercator a projection and invented story about ley lines.

I think too much weight in this discussion is given to the Mercator projection since that's the specific one we use today. People were making 2D maps for much longer than that. Flat maps existed in the medieval era.

All maps on paper are flat. There are multiple projections into 2d map.

There is no reason to assume that the lines align in other projections.

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Post by deepsun »

dhosek wrote: post #62
voidUpdate wrote: post #3

> Did the builders knew the earth was round? Yes. This has been known since ancient greek times, and Aristotle calculated the size reasonably well. Maybe not every labourer knew or cared but the architects almost certainly did

One of the incorrect things about Columbus that I was taught in second grade was that he had trouble getting support for his voyage because his would-not-be patrons thought the earth was flat. In fact, they refused to fund him because he thought the earth was much smaller than it was and they had the correct size of the earth.

I wonder how many would-be Columbuses were before him and failed.

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Post by jfengel »

dougdimmadome wrote: post #77
dougdimmadome wrote: post #75

Skellig Michael is not a Cathedral by any stretch of the imagination. It is a cluster of stone beehive huts on an island. It should be recognisable to most people these days as the place Luke Skywalker was hanging out in the new Star Wars sequels, as the movies used it as a filming location in 2015 and 2017. It's a UNESCO world heritage site and a huge tourist attraction long before Star Wars, but it is definitely no…

...and, fun fact, the "porgs" only exist because the island is also a wildlife refuge and home to thousands of birds who happily walked across the set during takes, so they had to be CGI'ed out.

Under ordinary circumstances they would have kept the birds out of the shoot. But Skellig Michael is extremely protected, and that includes not being allowed to touch the birds.

CGI'ing over them is a genius solution that makes me absurdly happy.

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Post by grahamlee »

karaterobot wrote: post #98

Are any of these actually cathedrals? I see some monasteries and sacred sites, I don't see any cathedrals in that list. The difference is that 7 cathedrals, all named after St. Michael, found in a basically straight line would certainly not be a coincidence. It would be like there being 7 Google complexes in a straight line spread around the world: something's going on here. But 7 random religious sites named after o…

If you add every single other church or shrine that's dedicated to St. Michael to the map, what's the straight line you can draw that contains the most of those locations?

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Post by arethuza »

jfengel wrote: post #97
Oarch wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Great Glen Fault is beautifully straight line across Scotland. Once seen it can't really be unseen.

I'm gonna be driving along most of Loch Ness early this autumn. Anything in particular I should look out for with respect to the Great Glen Fault? Any less-obvious geologic features?

Not related to the Great Glen Fault but the Parallel Roads in Glen Roy are fairly close and worth a look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Roy#The_Parallel_Roads_of...

Edit: Also have a look at the Lochaber Geopark:

https://lochabergeopark.org.uk/

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Post by margalabargala »

grahamlee wrote: post #107
karaterobot wrote: post #98

Are any of these actually cathedrals? I see some monasteries and sacred sites, I don't see any cathedrals in that list. The difference is that 7 cathedrals, all named after St. Michael, found in a basically straight line would certainly not be a coincidence. It would be like there being 7 Google complexes in a straight line spread around the world: something's going on here. But 7 random religious sites named after o…

If you add every single other church or shrine that's dedicated to St. Michael to the map, what's the straight line you can draw that contains the most of those locations?

As this article found, the answer to that question depends heavily on the map projection you use.
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