I am home. Anyway, what makes it objectively unlikely? Wealthy people do all sorts of expensive things for mere show and entertainment, from owning expensive Prada shoes and Coach bags (and designing them, to begin with), to getting season passes to the Performing Arts and going on expensive trips drinking $2000 bottles of wine that objectively taste no different than a $20-$200 bottle, etc. In that light, why would it be improbable for there to be a few wealthy intellectualoids who indulge into what mainstream uniformitarian thinking considers "conspiracy theories" simply for amusement...?
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thoht ago
Extremely interesting. It is also possible that someone with a lot of resources (time and money) might have erected the monument merely for amusement.
heuristic ago
possible? yes. likely? no. go home.
thoht ago
I am home. Anyway, what makes it objectively unlikely? Wealthy people do all sorts of expensive things for mere show and entertainment, from owning expensive Prada shoes and Coach bags (and designing them, to begin with), to getting season passes to the Performing Arts and going on expensive trips drinking $2000 bottles of wine that objectively taste no different than a $20-$200 bottle, etc. In that light, why would it be improbable for there to be a few wealthy intellectualoids who indulge into what mainstream uniformitarian thinking considers "conspiracy theories" simply for amusement...?