Romulus the 2nd Wrote:
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As far as the staining is concerned I
> think everyone now agrees that it is some kind of
> stain made by some kind of fluid flowing from the
> shaft. IMO I don't think it's candle wax for the
> reasons Romulus gave. The flow pattern.
> No idea what it is other than it's a stain and
> it's been photographed on numerous occasions, over
> numerous decades, by numerous cameras, and
> numerous formats, and numerous lighting
> techniques.
> Ori's suggestion is the best, north facing, open
> shaft, open to torrential rain once every twenty
> years for a thousand years. That's 50 torrential
> rainstorms. It's gonna get wet.
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> I don't believe this. Even torrential rain is not
> going to cause huge amounts of water flowing
> through the shaft and create waterfall-like
> widening stains at the shaft opening wall. Only a
> small amount of raindrops will get in. Even with
> 50 torrential rainstorms every time small amounts
> of rain will enter the shaft. So "it's gonna get
> wet" but this rain didn't create these stains.

How do you think that hardened limestone slurry formed at the bottom of the DP, as reported by Edgar, If not from water flowing down from the main entrance? ("Passages" section 292)