4) Also related to the two previous points: because the link to the theoretical predictions (and therefore to the fundamental question) only comes so late in the manuscript, it did not become clear to me how much is already known about the link between interaction forces and spatial arrangement.
While the museum is not generally known as a repository of musical manuscripts, it does have other scores by Cage, including "Solo for Voice, No. 2" from 1960, along with examples of artist-illustrated scores by Braque, Bonnard and Calder.
However, it could not be used to develop the warning system and to carry out the elaborations accounted for in this manuscript, because it does not provide the exact timing of triggering of each landslide, which is a mandatory information to develop, calibrate and validate rainfall thresholds and warning systems (Guzzetti et al. 2007; Rosi et al. 2015).
One page is strangely dated 1733, but the handwriting remains fairly consistent throughout the manuscript, and it doesn't have the feel of something that was worked on for seven years.
I suppose this is not surprising, given that the senior author on the PLoS One paper is also a co-author on this manuscript, but it does concern me that much of the other results of this paper are not really that new or surprising.
The authors of the current communication cannot understand how such a claim can be made or proven, since demonstrating the completeness of a search strategy would require proving that there are no relevant manuscripts that it does not identify.
My main issue with this manuscript is that it does not go any further than the demonstration of an interesting technique.
We have added this information to Table 1 and have removed Table 2 from the manuscript because it did not add to the Results.
The benefit of the technique presented in this manuscript, however, is that it does not require any pre-treatment of the hASCs.
