While this My Post might seem a be way of base, there is an underlying point that I wanted to make about Balance. Lets for the sake of stability, move our instrument onto dry land. If we are on a relatively flat surface the tripod legs are all about the same length. On sloping ground at least 1 leg must be longer or shorter that the other 2 and conditions most likely require them to be 3 different lengths. By the way, We are not just talking about being level. That sounds like what you did on the barge Carbob, but it is not enough to be level, we must be level over a point or we have no horizontal component to our survey. We also need a Back-sight point of known location or direction to get our Bearing. So in my daydream, I envision this tiny portal through which the numbers can be seen coming to the Stargate. To get a glimpse through the portal the, optical plummet in the instrument must be looking at the cover on the portal. I am trying to set up directly over the portal in both a horizontal and most critically vertical position, because I think that I have to be in perfect alignment to get the glimpse I want. Not to get to technical or deep into surveying history in the Olden Days the only way to know that the instrument was over the point was by a plumb bob hanging from the bottom center of the instrument. In order to set-up you had to be almost level over the point and the head of the tripod had to be almost level or you could not get the point of the plumb bob over the point. Today the instruments have optical devices that look out of the bottom of the instrument perpendicular to the balance of the instrument or have a laser pointer that projects the line to the ground. This completely changed the set-up process. Instead of a physical device that had to be close to get there, now you could set up the instrument at any level and get to the balance point.
Bare with me here, just a little bit more about the set-up. Now to set over a point, the operator looks into the optical plummet or watches the laser point on the ground while holding 2 legs of the tripod off of the ground. When the optical plummet or the laser point sees or hits the mark, the other 2 legs are set to the ground. At this point the vertical axis of the instrument is pointing at the portal; but the instrument is not level. In fact it can be significantly out. The instrument itself has 3 leveling screws at it's base for fine leveling over the point. As a surveying instructor, I showed students how to set-up. the instruction included this demonstration. After the instrument was set on the tripod looking at the point, One of the legs was shortened until the instrument was 30 to 45 degrees out of level and guess what. The instruments optical plummet or laser point was still pointed at the point. The instrument bubble that tells me the instrument is level is pegged to one side. Even if the fine adjustment could correct a 30 degree imbalance, by the time you leveled the instrument at this point the lazer or plummet would be far off of the portal point. You can see the laser point move off of the point as you turn the screws on the instruments fine adjustment. The only way to complete the process is to adjust the legs to get int the range of the fine adjustment on the instrument. Adjusting a leg does not move the laser off of the point, it his tied to it like a hinge. As the legs are adjusted the instrument travels in an arc with the laser pointing at the center of that arc which happens to be the portal point. Once the legs are adjusted to a point where the instrument is near normal, the fine adjustment finishes the process. But you are not done. As i said any fine adjustment moves the laser point on the ground. So the instrument is loosened from the tripod head and slide (without rotation) over the point.
So what does this have to do with the Lottery? Other than what seams a chemical induced illusion, is there any real connection?
Here's what I think. The 3 Tripod legs are our systems and more specifically Filters that we use to get the glimpse. It just so happens that 3 filters is the minimum required number to get the numbers combinations to a reasonable playable level. So the Filters don't necessarily need to be balances, but when all are combined the head needs to be level, or the fine adjustment won't work. Each leg can be a single filter or a combination of filters to level the head. Picture this. after the instrument is level over the point, replace the laser or optical plummet with a shot gun. Now load your shell with the numbers left after the filter process and fire at the portal. Load as many numbers in the shell as you can afford and fire away.
Good Hunting.