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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 23, 2012 - 03:03pm PT
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Last week I reported:
The Integratron is the creation of George Van Tassel, and is based on the design of Moses’ Tabernacle, the writings of Nikola Tesla and telepathic directions from extraterrestrials. That's right - and Dr. F. can confirm it - old George talked to aliens prior to building the Integratron.
Anyhow, this one-of-a-kind building is a 38-foot high, 55-foot diameter, non-metallic structure originally designed by Van Tassel as a rejuvenation and time machine. Today, it is the only all-wood, acoustically perfect sound chamber in the U.S. That might not sound like much but the structure is magnificent, a real work or art, and all done with wooden dowels and glue and so forth. A labor of love with a few little green men tossed in for good measure.
Apparently, they were missing a key part, so the time traveling aspect never worked and Van Tassel went and died. Then they recently found the missing piece in the garage of Van Tassel's widow - it was a kind of octagon/geodesic-shaped widget, also wooden, little bigger than a rugby ball, but according to Craig, was wrought with "fantastic articulation of small oak gears and do-dads and several Plexiglas windows and so forth."
This was the key piece, the "vortex catalyst" that could redirect the spectacular cosmic energies and vortices tapped from the fall line on which the Integraton was built - or something like that. You'd have to ask Craig.
Anyhow, the rig went on line last week, and Dr. F was there to see it.
They apparently stuck the widow's beagle in the "power chair" stationed in the middle of the wooden time machine. Craig swears he was standing fifteen feet away from the hound and was looking right at it - then it was simply gone. Vanished.
But this in only starting to get good. As the story goes, local resident and former 5.12 Gunks pioneer and math whizz/professor John Stannard was hiking out by the Lost Pencil when he came across the raptured beagle and, for the lack or a rightful owner, kept it at his crib over by Gordo's palace and when the story started circulating at Gordon's on Sat. night (no one believed a word Craig was saying, of course), Stanndard went and got the Beagle and Craig almost sh#t his pants.
Nobody is quite sure what to say about any of this except Dr. F. seemed genuinely rattled by the experience and was drinking whiskey from the bottle along with the "White Louis Ferrrrakhan."
No se??
JL
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 23, 2012 - 03:06pm PT
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That Integratron looks a whole lot like an outhouse.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Apr 23, 2012 - 03:27pm PT
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It was a "Bagel" not a "Beagle."
And I think Craig ate it while Largo's back was turned.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Apr 23, 2012 - 04:32pm PT
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Gobbies on my knees and hands
Must have been the brilliant technique...
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Apr 23, 2012 - 04:37pm PT
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That cord looks like it could play a Middle C.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 23, 2012 - 04:49pm PT
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I can verify that Craig actually climbed this route while I - who climb once every three years now - floundered.
JL
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Apr 23, 2012 - 06:25pm PT
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Does anyone recall a "flushing" sound when the beagle disappeared?
I've had hiking partners disappear into similar looking buildings but there were always some kind of unpleasant sound involved.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Apr 23, 2012 - 07:14pm PT
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The Bagel just disappeared from one post and re-appeared on another post further up!
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Apr 23, 2012 - 07:37pm PT
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So strange, the Beagle just appeared in front of me, barked once, and disappeared.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Apr 23, 2012 - 07:44pm PT
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I'm waiting for jstan to report his side of the story.
Maybe this is the famous bagel/beagle?
It was certainly at casa jstan.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Apr 23, 2012 - 07:54pm PT
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I magically received not one, but FOUR, bagels when I was sort of near the Integratron. Probably about 15 miles away, and I think my four bagels may have appeared before the one beagle disappeared, but anything is possible with time travel!
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Apr 23, 2012 - 10:07pm PT
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'theory'
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Apr 23, 2012 - 10:09pm PT
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I did?
maybe it was a time traveling me who came back when I wasn't looking and posted the answer I'm going to figure out sometime later...
this time-travel stuff can be confusing
just try to figure out this movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film);
anyway, don't worry about it, if you think you're involved with time travel, it's more than likely you're going insane, having a bit of dementia, are really overhung and not wanting to think about how you got that way, or are just being mischievous, or too involved in a klimmer thread
whatever
carry on
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Apr 23, 2012 - 10:13pm PT
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I thought "over hung" was a physical attribute?!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Apr 23, 2012 - 10:16pm PT
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hungover... can be a physical attribute, too
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Apr 23, 2012 - 11:15pm PT
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dr. F may be playing with fire. van tassel's widow, if she's still alive, was a suspect in his death in 1978, after which she supposedly went mad. yes, the key parts disappeared.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vantasselfamilyhistoryhomepage/GeorgeVT.html
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 23, 2012 - 11:53pm PT
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It is written:
"Van Tassel wrote six books about his out-of-this-world experiences, including, "I Rode in a Flying Saucer." And he started a non-sectarian, non-profit organization for religious and scientific research, the College of Universal Wisdom."
It is, I believe, from the College of Universal Wisdom that our own Dr. F received his PhD in Astral-dynamic Vortices and Mental Physics. If there ever was a man who could harness the awesome power of the Venusians, it surely is the good Doctor.
JL
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 23, 2012 - 11:54pm PT
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OK!
This was fun to read, but I now have 24 Beagles that are mostly here, but then are not.
There are also a batch
of bagles mostly here and then not.
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Why here?
Then/zen knott?
Idaho???
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Apr 24, 2012 - 12:37am PT
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Fritz, if you see a bagel walking down the path, kill it!
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