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To: colorado tanker; bunkerhill7; JRios1968; SunkenCiv
Anyone out there know EXACTLY what this thing is???

I think it may be some kind of astronomical device. The "case" I found it in had the inscription: "When the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars..."

Been pulling my HAIR out trying to figger it out!!!

13 posted on 08/23/2010 6:23:55 PM PDT by bigheadfred (apoplectic purple)
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To: bigheadfred

That appears to be a target that I used just once, about 40 years ago.


18 posted on 08/23/2010 7:08:49 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: bigheadfred

It won’t be useful for another couple of centuries yet. :’)


24 posted on 08/24/2010 4:24:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: bigheadfred
Anyone out there know EXACTLY what this thing is???

It was the object of veneration of a cargo cult that would worship it by watching it spin on a disk while in a drug induced trance. Often accompanied by sexual abandon.

29 posted on 08/24/2010 9:23:28 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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