Post by: gunug on May 28, 2008, 08:47:07 AM
QUOTE
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
-- Archimedes
-- Archimedes
In a week that saw the original Stonehenge vandalized I think it's refreshing to see a guy who is trying to build his own, on his own, without power tools:
http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/po...oving_big_rocks
While I always supposed that it could be done this way, because it was, I'm still amazed to see the technique in action!
Post by: Gregg on May 28, 2008, 12:13:50 PM
QUOTE
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
-- Archimedes
-- Archimedes
...don't think he quite figured out where to place the fulcrum!
Same question on building Stonehenge, then and now: Why?
Post by: Highmac on May 29, 2008, 02:49:38 AM
QUOTE(Gregg @ May 28 2008, 06:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Same question on building Stonehenge, then and now: Why?
I think this makes it pretty clear.....
Post by: gunug on May 29, 2008, 04:04:50 AM
I didn't post the link at the time, and won't now, but there was another video I found in a similar place about an Italian gameshow or something where the shovel of a diesel back-hoe was used to undress a model (if you look it up she never is more undressed than she would have been in a one piece bathing suit). That was what I would've asked "why" about but the answer was probably that the audience had a lot of Italian men in it!
I think Stonehenge was obviously about social and religious issues so the why goes deep into the culture of that time. I think the fact that it still exists and is a icon in our time is reason enough for a guy named Wally to try and duplicate it using something like the technology that the original was built with. As obsessions go I think it beats car racing or stripping a young lady with a back-hoe all to heck!