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Build your own Stonehenge!
« on: May 28, 2008, 08:47:07 AM »
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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
-- 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!
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« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2008, 12:13:50 PM »
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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
-- Archimedes


...don't think he quite figured out where to place the fulcrum!

Same question on building Stonehenge, then and now: Why?
« Last Edit: May 28, 2008, 12:14:22 PM by Gregg »
Ya gotta applaud those bunnies for sacrificing their hearing just so some guy in Cupertino can have better TV reception.

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« Reply #2 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.....


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« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2008, 04:04:50 AM »
Thank Highmac!   rofl.gif

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!
« Last Edit: May 29, 2008, 04:24:59 AM by gunug »
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