Hi Jon ...

Considering the controversy why is the sand not cleared, corners exposed, volunteers gathered for the removal of the sand, theodilites obtained and a final and accurate to the speed of light measurement obtained. Would seem not an insurmountable problem and getting voluteers I am sure would be no problem.

Best
Don Barone

PS: By the way have you returned to The Louvre yet ? Any and all pictures of paintings by Poussin would be greatly appreciated. And see if you can get a picture of "The Allegory of The Coronation of Celestine Vth" which at all reports I have been able to gather resides at The Louvre and which now, courtesy of Karl Hammer and "friend" now resides in the public domain.


Cheers
Don Barone

"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db