04-24-2009, 02:37 PM
Quote:Funny how these arguments are just surfacing now? :roll:
Ours has been on public display on our website for two years,why is it now that the research work Alan & Co. have done is in question?
Why is it now in question? John Antsee (who like Eric Marsden is unfortuantely deceased), Aitor Iriarte and others have been providing alternative theories and backing them up with functioning machines and testing for years. The debate was old when I joined the fray. I just happen to be an insolent Yank who likes to figure things out for himself and question the status quo. What concerns me and possibly others is the proliferation and standardization on one design. Just like Payne-Gallwey's onager it self-validates. "It works tolerably well and everyone else has one like it so that must be how the Romans did it." All contrary research and thought must cease immediately. The matter has been decided by the High Priests and their decisions are not to be questioned. Go and tithe among your people that ye may buy the approved idol to place upon your altar (or website). Seriously, I wish Alan Wilkins could find the time to join us here on RAT. His access to source material and knowledge would be of great value and at the glacial pace of academic journals and the traditional published debate it will take another 2000 years to find the truth.
P. Clodius Secundus (Randi Richert), Legio III Cyrenaica
"Caesar\'s Conquerors"
"Caesar\'s Conquerors"
