(Touched off by 2fries “Treethedral”)
Select a suitably sized slab of solid sandstone. (Imagine immensity).
Location: large lake.
A decent distance downhill drop is desirable.
Supervise a series of steerable sluices.
Water washes where where we would want windows.
Time ticks.
Water wanders where-ever we wish.
Erection of Erodothedral extends enormous eras or eons, or even an eternity.-- krelnik, Oct 30 2002 Sportku http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/SportkuPurposely poetic previous post [krelnik, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004] Atmospheric Filters http://www.halfbake...mospheric_20FiltersAnnotations are also absolutely amazing [krelnik, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004] (?) Tufa-thedral http://www.aber.ac....mages/mono-lake.jpgWould it look something like this? [jurist, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004] Erodothedral of the Sun http://www.terragal...image.care0755.htmlMakes me homesick... [lurch, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004] Mono Lake http://www.danhelle...e-sunrise-a-big.jpg04 Dec 02 | I don't know what [jurist]'s images of mono lake looked like but, since his link has gone dead, I found a replacement, best I could. [90KB image] [bristolz, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004] Somewhat naturally baked in some areas with sufficient sandstone.
I attended a religious service out in the middle of what was not at the time the Escalante-Grand Staircase National Political Area. Incredible, breathtaking... Says one, "If this overhang came down, they'd never find any of us" Says another, "Naw, it's been this way since the beginning. It'll be standing here a thousand years from now"
We went back the next year. Just a huge pile of broken rock.-- lurch, Oct 30 2002 Can just imagine God saying "darn, got the aim right, just got to work on the timing".-- PeterSilly, Oct 31 2002 The perfect way to supplant organized religion with naturalism. Organic buildings rule!-- ASLAN, Dec 05 2002 (+)
Don't know how I missed this one.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 22 2010 random, halfbakery