bruce@garfield.UUCP (Bruce Keats) (07/30/85)
In article <290@mit-athena.UUCP> martillo@mit-athena.UUCP (Joaquim Martillo) writes: > >I heard a good rumor recently. In the past few years, a circular array >of stones was placed in front of the Harvard University Science Center. >These stones are affectionately called Bok's Rocks. > >Anyway at various times during the day sprinklers within the array spray >water over the stones. > >The reason for this array of stones with sprinklers is obscure and >mysterious. I have recently heard suggested that the array of stones >forms some sort of primitive altar for strange sacrificial rites >(probably of animals given the size of the stones). The sprinklers are >there to wash the blood from the altar. One possible explaination is that the people at Harvard are trying to create another Stonehenge. The stones are actually Megalithe seeds (available from ACME Megalithe Co. at a nominal cost) and sprinklers are to make the them grow. -------- Bruce Keats, Memorial Univ. of Nfld., St. John's, Nfld. UUCP: {philabs,utcsrgv,masscomp,mcvax,siesmo,astorvax}!garfield!bruce your_favorite_AT&T_site!garfield!bruce CDNNET: bruce@garfield.mun.cdn
bhs@siemens.UUCP (07/31/85)
peoplethinkthatthislineiseatenbutitisnot,isit?youcanseeitafterall,canyounot? Well, actually, please do not forget that MIT is just down the road. Of course, there will be intense rivalry with MIT, and it is only understandable that Harvard will fear some form of evesdropping. MIT being very clever, Harvard has not actually been able to identify any instance of this, but can merely suspect. Harvard could set up actual electronic radio frequency jammers to preclude remote sensing of Harvard test equipment, but since there has been no known case of bugging, it would not be the correct academic style. Thus, a distinguished Harvard professor, whose name momentarily escapes me, came up with an alternative, legal, solution. If one can set up an electromagnetic field of suitable shape, one can easily divert radio frequency waves. The shape can be achieved with the circular arrangement of the stones. When they are wetted with the sprinklers, the minor washing off of the mineral surface will generate a dielectric effect, which in turn will create the magnetic field required. Bernard H. Schwab Siemens RTL, Princeton, NJ
tomczak@h-sc1.UUCP (bill tomczak) (08/01/85)
martillo@mit-athena.UUCP (Joaquim Martillo): >> >>I heard a good rumor recently. In the past few years, a circular array >>of stones was placed in front of the Harvard University Science Center. >>These stones are affectionately called Bok's Rocks. bruce@garfield.UUCP (Bruce Keats): > One possible explaination is that the people at Harvard are trying >to create another Stonehenge. The stones are actually Megalithe seeds >(available from ACME Megalithe Co. at a nominal cost) and sprinklers are to >make the them grow. I actually like the truth all by itself. The (rich, eccentric?) couple that funded the building of that fountain apparantly donate money to universities all over the country to build fountains. When the woman was asked what she thought of the Science Center's new fountain after it was done she said (paraphrased) "Oh this is so lovely, this one actually works!" Bill Tomczak (Harvard University Science Center)
jhs@druri.UUCP (ShoreJ) (08/02/85)
Re "Bok's Rocks" at Harvard: Although I rather liked Bruce Keats' "seed" theory, the truth is: Yale anthropologists and socioligists want to study Harvard hominids' reactions to the 2001 effect. A Stonehenge patten was chosen because budget cutbacks precluded manufacturing another perfect, immutable monolith. Ethereal voices have been heard in the area, but no burst of enlightment has been recorded to date. --Jeff Shore @ AT&T, Denver ..!druri!jhs "Ackpht!"