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post 49 says
The point of the chicken is to obtain a feather, that's one part of what it takes to prevent the vase from smashing the other two elements you can get from The Hopi and a very particular bit of Napoleon's Army.


Is that his Navy?

I would imagine it is something to do with the paticular group that went on the egypt campaign

>>Does the vase fail to hit the ground because of some form of intervention<<

Yes.


>>can [it] be proved that the vase will never hit the ground?<<

Of course.

>>Perhaps it doesn't reach the ground because a small part of the time-space continuum directly below it ceases to exist.<<

Like dropping it down a blackhole, f'rinstance?

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An excellent summary, but you missed the entirely relevant DGI I awarded to Mckay, for "The rosetta stone being discovered by Napoleon's brigade of scientists."

Not his navy, a wee bit more professionally specialist.

I believe it has been said that connection between the Hopi Indian and the Napoleonic lancers was they both used ingenuity.

The entire group didn't go, some a few elected to stay behind, but the majority went.

Hey, I never mentioned a black hole- don't give me klaxons for words I never used.

Ingenuity, yes. A certain flair for the quiet interesting you might say.

Well how else would you define "a small part of the time-space continuum directly below it ceases to exist."

A Black hole is an excess of matter pulling all things towards itself.
I was talking about the exact opposite. Atoms and molecules losing consistency so that something would fall into a wormhole in the fabric of space. That is a whole other kettle of fish.

As to the DGI you said in post 49
The Rosetta stone was a red herring, but the rest of that sentence is what won you the DGI Bonus.
the rest of the sentence read
was discovered by the scientists he took along, but I can't see a connection there.

"Stand upright, shoulders back, back straight"
that doesn't sound like any scientists I ever heard of.
It is more like an Army private snapping to attention.

However you seem to indicate that this would be an ingenious solution within the technological reach of a seventeenth century scientist.
Perhaps someone at the The Institute of Egypt (founded by those scientists under Napoleon)found a way to make the vase lighter than air.

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okay just read thru the backlog

sooo
do you use the feather to make the feathered end of an arrow?

and do you get some sort of twine or string from the hopi dreamcatcher?

and would it be a lance from napoleon's lancers?

an arrow?

>String from The Hopi<

An easy +3points for fluffy.

Re: the klaxon. I'll think about it.

Re: stand up etc - that was just to discourage any kind of kneel down drop the vase 1 inch off the floor" kind of answers. The vase drops from a height approximately 6 feet was the point so quite likely to smash - except that it doesn't reach the floor.

I don't know if they perfirmed this trick in the 17th century (technically there's no reason why they couldn't) but the pount was the other item you need emerges into history during the egyptian campaign via on of those scientists he took with him. Bright fellows y'see - always inventin' stuff....