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Building A Modern Stonehenge In New Zealand

Posted by timothy on from the where-else dept.

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!"

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  1. Units of measurement by delstar+dotstar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Before building it, remember that ' is feet and " is inches.

  2. Why they built them? by cioxx · · Score: 5, Funny

    It has been determined recently that Stonehenge was a giant vagina.

    1. Re:Why they built them? by antic · · Score: 3, Funny

      I refuse to be the first guy on here to suggest that, in that case, their more modern attempt at building the same thing be any smaller!

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  3. This time, build the road first by antic · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

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    'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
  4. The family trip by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Leylines by 91degrees · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  6. wired pulp vs. online.... by sjs132 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  7. Aliens by pklong · · Score: 4, Funny

    You do know that you are seriously going to confuse the aliens when you put stonehenge in the southern hemisphere.

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    Philip

    Signatures are broken

  8. Explains why stonehenge exists by kalayl · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  9. Re:Thank God by rthille · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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