[Geysers] RE: re: Re: People on Minute Man

[David Goldberg]

     Paul makes an excellent point.  A federally mandated, NPS conducted survey should have been done by trained cartographers.  At the time most of the field work was being done by a couple of eager, but mostly untrained SCA's.  That's more a criticism of the GIS project though.  As for the photos in question, I suspect that they were intended as propaganda.  Look at the GIS team hard at work.  Much the same thing you would find on college campus advertisements.  One a pack of zealots like us would even realize there was anything wrong with them.
     So my real problem is why couldn't we have written a respectful email to the site operators explaining why the pictures were improper and left it at that.  The moralistic bandwagonning ad nauseum is both unproductive and smack of hypocrisy and frankly envy.  After all most of us harbor dirty little fantasies about seeing things not visible from the trail.  These people had permission to tromp wherever they felt necessary in broad daylight no less.  Then they had the audacity to flaunt what they got to do in publicly available pictures.  The nerve.
     As to the question of why both people are on the cone, I'll set the scene.  X and Y both have permission to stand wherever they want.  X takes GPS thingy onto cone and says, "Cool, you can see it churning inside."  Should Y go stand on the cone?  Absolutely not!  Is Y inevitably going to go stand on the cone to see the neat stuff X is talking about.  Heck yeah!
     So I agree that the pictures are stupid and should come down.  What I object to is the barrage of redundant posts clinging to some supposed moral high ground as though we're all afraid of being judged unclean if we don't sing with the choir.
 
David Goldberg
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