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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!"
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Am I the only one who is glad New Zealand is on the other side of the planet, and faaaar enough away from any 'normal' civilisations??
"Mexicans to Americans"? Do Australians really thing of themselves as being like Americans? Dude, sorry, but that's hysterical! Australains are nice, but man, you've got one backward country there! It's like a giant sandbox full of bugs! Of the two places, at least New Zealand has nice scenery! Australia is like a board with dust heaped on it! The United States of Australia! HAHAHAHAHA! Dream on!
Stonehenge -- astronomically significant?? Naawwwwww. I coulda swore that this is where the Pagans congregated to have leisurely man sex with the devil. Then again, I also thought the Chinese built the Great Wall for shits n giggles.
Next month I'm planning on redoing the Sphynx. Seriously...
"[I] came up with the idea of [Sphynx] because it doesn't matter who you are -- everyone looks at the Pyramids and [the Sphynx] and structures like that (and asks) who built them, why did they build them?"
My purpose for rebuilding the Sphynx (which makes just as much sense as the quote in this topic): because NoThumbsForMe wanted to touch the rainbow...
now stand up and smell your chair...
Recently discovered evidence suggests that Claudius did not invade Britain to distract the populace from their unfavourable views on politics and the state of the Roman economy, nor as commonly thought was it a play to gain control of a large quantity of the worlds mead.
Narcissus and Polybius pointed out to Cladius that the Britains were actually harbouring WMD's, and as such represented a threat to the known world(then largely under roman control).
Later this was not found to be completely true, although based on sound olfactory evidence from multiple sources.
After the invasion and occupation it was discovered that rather than running the worlds nastiest chemical warfare program; the smell was due to the ancient Britains reluctance to bathe.