Earlier today news splashed all over about a 15 year old kid in Quebec who had found a lost Mayan city by matching up constellations to city locations :

<http://gizmodo.com/teen-discovers-lost-maya-city-using-ancient-star-maps-1775735999>

It didn’t take long for actual experts to debunk it (see updates at the bottom of that page) but it does spark some oBtravs:

1) a megacorp sets up some stores in a new market only to discover that no one will shop in them. Eventually they discover that they’re considered ‘bad luck sites’ because they do/don’t line up with some random geological or astronomical configuration.

2) The PC’s are hired by wealthy, crazy person to help prove his ‘theory’ that ancient sites are laid out according to some fantastically complex formula, and he’s certain that a huge one lies on one continent on the planet below. Which happens to be redzoned for an entirely different reason….(like whoops, it was an Imperial genetics research base until something got out of control and it’s now over-run with highly intelligent velociraptors with cuttlefish shape-changing genes who are able to teleport short distances) or (insert favorite DOOM level here…) :-).

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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