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Building A Modern Stonehenge In New Zealand
Flexagon writes "Wired News is reporting that a group of astronomy enthusiasts in New Zealand is building its own version of Stonehenge in a little more than a year. Why? "We came up with the idea of Stonehenge because it doesn't matter who you are -- everyone looks at the Pyramids and Stonehenge and structures like that (and asks) who built them, why did they build them?" says Richard Hall, president of the Phoenix Astronomical Society. Yet another reason to book a ticket!"
Before building it, remember that ' is feet and " is inches.
It has been determined recently that Stonehenge was a giant vagina.
Discover our erected rocks!
Months ago, there was talk of burrowing a road underneath Stonehenge at great cost and it raised great concern amongst many.
How about this time they put the road in, and *then* place the stones?
However many hundreds of years on, surely we've learnt something about planning!
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
Yet another reason to book a ticket!
Husband: I know we've been flying for 13 hours to get here but let's go right to see Stonehenge Aotearoa.
[later]
Wife: This is it? It's a bunch of rocks!
Husband: No, no, you don't understand. This is astronomically significant!
Wife: [reading plaque] "Time to harvest the kumara" What's a kumara?
Husband: It's a sweet potato.
I imagine at this point the wife will sacrifice the husband on the pagan altar, or whatever they install at this thing.
Despite our clear, dark sky we have the hell job getting funding for modern observatories here in New Zealand, so we might as well build something that can be claimed to have an astronomical use!
Come on! A stone circle built in NZ isn't going to work properly. Stonehenge on its own is just a pile of rocks. You need a properly aligned networks of temples and natural features to generate the correct psychic energy flows.
You know this new stonehenge is actually a new network hub..
Once again, no reason to renew my subscription to the pulp version of wired when I can get it free online, just a few weeks later...
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Every thing is foreign at some point - even the pagan cults surrounding Stonehedge probably draw from older pagan cults who appeared and developed outside of Europe ;)
Yeah, and those pagans all came from Africa. :P
If that hurts your feelings, then you shouldn't read about how the Maori kicked the English's arses.
You do know that you are seriously going to confuse the aliens when you put stonehenge in the southern hemisphere.
Philip
Signatures are broken
SCO claimed ownership of the Stonehenge design and announced a lawsuit aganst the Phoenix Astronomical Society for copyright infringement. "Stonehenge was clearly an early computer, and as such, it might be used to run an early version of Unix. Which we own."
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Of course, 4000 years ago a bunch of scientists were probably sitting around, staring at a decaying set of rocks 8000 years old, called someotherhenge. They were asking themselves who built them and why, which is when they decided to replicate someotherhenge and build what we now know as stonehenge, in england.
... will you be hated by anthropologists and archeologists. Think about it - after any writing is worn away, someone will dig it up and compare it to the original (which is a National Treasure of Some Sort (TM), so it'll be safe).
At that point, they'll wonder if we're still pagans, or if pagans survived and migrated, or what... After all, they'll be able to date this one to 2005 AD, and the other one is thousands of years old.
Thanks.
Stick Men
Richard Hall, president of the Firefox Astronomical Society?
andr0meda, shut the hell up. Pay no attention to him. NZ is a vast toxic wasteland. Pretty much unlivable. Never go there.
:-)
At least that's what I told people when I came back from spending 3 months bike touring there. Hate to have it inundated with the unwashed
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