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Stonehenge Version 2.0 Completed
Antarctic Lemur writes "The Stonehenge project previously mentioned has been completed near Wellington, New Zealand. This newer version utilises multiple ancient astronomical technologies (scroll down) and the BBC reports it is wired for sound."
There can be only one!
But.. the first stonehenge is just a bunch of rocks. What is it good for?
Tourism.
..can survive a /.ing, it should last as long as the first.
Before building it, remember that ' is feet and " is inches.
let's see how many people notice anything weird
Bleh, this is nothing compared to Car Henge in Nebraska.
Screw astronomy. It's about used cars, man!
Eddie Izzard will have to update his routine now...
You wanted it 18'???
But look here you wrote down 18"
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Stonehenge
;)
Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live
And they do live well
Stonehenge
Where a man is a man
And the children dance to
The pipes of pan
Stonehenge
'Tis a magic place
Where the moon doth rise
With a dragon's face
Stonehenge
Where the virgins lie
And the prayer of devils
Fill the midnight sky
And you my love
Won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time
To that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry
And the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how
Stonehenge by Spinal Tap
Sorry, couldn't resist...
.. and you're in or near washington state, you might want to check out the concrete version in maryhill washington. It was built as a WWI memorial by the 'eccentric' Sam Hill after he was mistakenly told that the original Stonehenge was used for sacrifices.
its not terribly accurate, and its not 'wired for sound', but its kinda cool none-the-less.
air and light and time and space
No, no. Us 21 century folks used to deflower virgins there. It's a circular, central location for, you know, services...and some summer solstice crap.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
But Google told me it was still Beta! Dammit Google, you and your subnet trial features...
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
It looks like it's made from plywood or some other material (not stone), from the pictures in the original wired article. Had they built the thing from real stone, it would last as long as the original Stonehenge - but given the price of such huge rocks, and the difficulty of building things with it, I can't say I blame them.
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
he would still wonder what in Sam Hill it was for.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Seeing as how we're not a barbaric society any longer, they should just send them my way.
right here under Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge
We're still apparently not too sure what the point of these stones is but it seems credible to think that it certainly has something to do with lunar and solar alignments. Right?
There is already a patent on stonehenge dammit. It is covered under international patent law.
America invented stone. And henges.
I want my own henge. I'll even settle for one made of cheese.
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Illegal? Samir, This is America.
Those are some good penis enlargement pills.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
hey asshole you forgot gypsies, niggers, lesbians and Gnome users. tsk tsk
...I read the book.
Mainly because my old local pub is smack in the middle of the circle. Ah, the days of sipping Wadworths 6X in the summer garden!
There are several circles similar to Stonehenge in the area around Wiltshire, one not so well known circle is Woodhenge, which is a few miles north east of Stonehenge just past Amesbury. The whole area is full of barrows and free-standing stones. A lot of them are in the middle of farm land which makes it difficult to get to, and there are a lot of ancient forts around too.
One funny thing I remember, walking past the entry gates to the stones one saturday morning walking the dog and there was a bus of American tourists doing the rounds, and I actually overheard one say "It's nice, but why did they have to build it so close to the road"...
Something that a lot of people don't realise about the circle is that a lot of the stones were moved around a lot during the early part of the 20th century. Six stones were set up-right in 1918 from their horizontal positions by the office of works and the stones were closed off to the public. They've also been moved backwards and forwards to London for inspection and maintenance a couple of times in the past, they certainly haven't been standing untouched for the last 3000 years!
Task Mangler
That way when humanity is dead and gone and the original stonehenge has crumbled to dust, the alien species that finds our planet will know that someone was here. They'll STILL conclude that there was never any intelligent life on the planet, but they'll damn well know someone was here!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
That's hillarious! Who modded it "-1, Redundant"? Should be "+1, Tickle-Tickle"
Driving past the original Stonehenge, one gets to see many hedge monkeys, you know the sort, unwashed and all that. I wonder if the replica with have kiwi monkeys instead?
Precession must have some bearing on Stonehenge, and it looks like one hell of a thing to have to calibrate.
What does this button do...
Stonehenge is one of those things i always like to see on discovery channel shows.
I think it's fascinating that it's hard to figure out what's the deal exactly. I wonder if this will happen with anything of our age in like 5000 years.
Sample this!
Did they include extra bugs to be fixed when we buy the 3.0 upgrade?
Don't need to mod me up there.
It's a silly article and I was replying in kind.
I am concerned about unwanted influences sullying its image.
You mean the image you just created of it? It sounds like an inexpensive replica of Stonehenge (the thing only cost about $40,000 US dollars to construct). It sounds more like a tourist trap than some kind of national treasure. If a bunch of hippies, wiccans, and new age nutters want to do a bunch of mumbo-jumbo at this place and they pay just like anyone else, who cares?
AccountKiller
Near Goldendale, Washington there is a full-scale replica of Stonehenge that's made out of concrete. It was built in 1918 by a concrete tycoon named Sam Hill as a memorial for those who died in WWI, and is said to be the most accurate Stonehenge replica in the United States. There's also an observatory nearby with one of the country's largest public-access telescopes. Pretty interesting place to stop if you are going through Washington in the summer.
/bin/date does it for me.
It seems pretty clear to me that the what is going to stump the archeologists in 5000 years is our skyscraper foundations and what's left of our amazing superhighways.
that building in the upper left corner of the model is a representation of the Amazon.com headquarters, btw.
Someday in the far future, people will worship this and marvel at the exquisite craftsmanship, while others argue whether the astronomical alignments are coincidences (as they must be, since they could not have known some of the alignments without advanced astronomical knowledge) or actual (because such precise alignments are impossible to be coincidences).
Maybe stonehenge 1.0 was the original prank meme?
What is definitely cool is that after it snows, the so-called "Avenue" is revealed. Here's one link: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/filestore/stone hengeinteractivemap/timetravel.html
when some archaeologists from 500 years in the future see this? What will they think of us?
Just a thought.
We gonna do Stonehenge tomorrow?
No mod points, no meta-moderating/Firehose/all the other free work Slashdot wants me to do.
It is a well-known fact that hippies, wiccans, and other undesirables congregate around the orignal Stonehenge in England, which is seen as a source of cosmic mystical power and other such mumbo-jumbo.
Sir, I invite you to take a World Religions course at your local community college. It might open your eyes a bit.
There are "undesireables", by which I hope you mean "people who use the name of the religion without understanding" in every religion.
As far as I am aware, no wiccans have ever gone to war and slaughtered entire civilizations over their religion. So whatever you may or may not believe in, saying that someone is undesireable because they prefer to visit a place of spiritual importance to them, is well, quite ignorant, and I am suprised you were modded up for it.
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...when stonehenge is being discussed, is that a few hundred miles away in Dublin, Ireland, there is a megalithic tomb that is far older than stonehenge and the pyramids, and still functions today as an astrological calender. It illuminates internally only twice a year, on the longest and shortest days of the year.
Certainly Stonehenge is impressive, I find it far more impressive that a 5000 year old tomb with clock function still works even today. resources
Maybe this is a bit off topic, but please do not visit the real Stonehenge. It sucks. I went there expecting to see these massive three story boulders, shrouded in fog and an aura of mysteriousness. Needless to say the "boulders" were significantly less than three stories high, there was no fog, and a sense of mystique was noticeably absent. Overall, i'd say it was an experience comparable to being kicked in the nuts.
The welsh were the likly culprits who erected the first stone henge (well THE stone henge) as noted hyah, hyah, and hyah (cartman)
.nz's are building one of these too...
5005 years ago.
Welsh builder: alrigh' butty, you see we is going to be building dis 'ere, ok now, tell me again, what the fuck are these big sticky out ones
Foreman: stones...
Welsh builder: aye, stoaoaoaones. we have some of them in the valley. OK, whose coat is that jacket?
Foreman: listen how long with this take?
Welsh builder: not long, I have to be home to watch the sheep dog trials you see. Want some lavabread?
Foreman: So I hear the
Welsh builder: what!? you don't say, well I'll finish this one first is my name is not daffydddd myffanwwwyy evans-jones.
Foreman: ok look, gerrard, how long is this rouse going to last, your NOT FUCKING WELSH.
Gerrard: eeeh, you fooking enleesh piiig. I speet on your choontree.
Foreman: choontree?
Gerrard: Cooon-treee.
Foreman: cooowwwn--treeez?
Gerrard: oh for pete sake old chap, country, bloody country, ok, fuck, i'd do anything not to be a plain old brit, this stiff upperlip is giving me sever jip.
Foreman: right, look lively, lovely jub.
Gerrard: cockney fucker.
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Of course, this transcript from the discovery channel has not been verified, but the maxell cassettes did look old.
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In ancient times
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people
The Druids
No-one knows who they were
Or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock
Of Stonehenge
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
...as half of the saying goes.
Wiccans are no better or worse than any other fools and charlatans who are too shit scared of the realities of life to take or accept responsibility for themselves.
Whether you believe in some guy in a toga floating somewhere above the clouds, or in spirits which reside in the rocks etc, or any other such nonsense, it makes no difference: it's all utterly loserish.
But hey, if you want to play witchy-poo dress-ups like some six-year-old, then whatever. Just don't preten that you're not emotionally impaired in a massive way.
Unfortunately it was ever thus. There are some really ancient monuments on Malta and Gozo which are far more impressive - the Maltese one even has some of the carving still visible. Last time I was there I was really upset and embarrassed because I had to tell a group of US tourists to stop climbing on the stones. They had no idea how to behave on archaeological sites, or that they were doing damage.
At one time it was seriously suggested that the real Stonehenge be closed off to the public and replaced with a concrete replica. Perhaps this is the answer to all valuable ancient monuments: make accurate replicas for tourists, ban the general public from the real sites and only allow access to people who can prove, perhaps by taking some sort of test, that they have a bona fide interest in the subject and understand that monuments must be treated with care for their own protection.
Does it go to eleven?
That's probably because Wicca didn't exist before the 1950s. Actual pagans, i.e. the people who lived in Europe prior to spread of Christianity, were just as brutal and violent as anyone else. The pagans of the British Isles and Scandinavia were very much a warrior society, hardly the vegetarian tree huggers that make up modern 'pagan' groups.
If a bunch of hippies, wiccans, and new age nutters want to do a bunch of mumbo-jumbo at this place and they pay just like anyone else, who cares?
First off, I like to make clear, *sht has the right to practice ANY fucking religion he wants.
I just wonder about when the religion involves murder. (At what point does an American holocost justify Christianity)
*ush & Co. should move the party from Bohemian Grove to (where is this new stonehenge thing located? Damn I need to RTFA again...)
After all he isn't Christian if he's practicing drudic ritual at Bohemian Grove.
sidenote: fuck skull n bones
OTOH - at least the hippies, wiccans don't lie about their beliefs.
Hi, I'm George Bush, I am a Christian, that's why I send your fucking young kids to be slaughtered in iraq for a bullshit fucking war that was a big fucking lie about WMD. That's why I keep all you measley fucking pesants terrified. That's why I am lowering taxes for my billionaire friends, that's why we are pounding the middle and lower class into the fucking Concrete Red Mist. It's why I shread the constitution with the patriot act. And it's why Diebold, ES&S, and Sierra are doing so well. You poor fuckers will never have a vote count ever again unless you get rid of the unauditable electronic vote machines, and their insecure networks. Satan Loves Me. I'm his minion! Muahahahaha
There's no difference between Red and Blue, except for the red mist. Republicans are Demoncrats.
America was too lazy, too trusting, and now it's going to pay. The NeoCon Death Cult is going to take it out of your ass and your childrens ass.
*Start deep mysterious voice*
"This is God speaking... did you know you can get a 2 for 1 Big Mac meal at the Stonehenge McDonalds. Hurry - offer can't last!"
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I haven't worn a watch or cared what day it is let alone what time it is for the past 19 years. It amazes me how many folks I know that don't know how to look up at the sky or at shadows and tell what time it is. If you want to know what time of the year it is, stand outside for a few minutes and sense the weather, the air, the brush... Maybe the important of Stonehedge is to get folks to pay more attention to the world around us and less to the overwhelmingly growing 40-65% of net income being spent on rent or a huge mortgage.
--- Old Time NeXThead
This thing may have all sorts of unlikely stellar alignments in it, but that too is almost certainly nothing like the original, which has a few solar alignments.
3/10. Must try harder.
TWW
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Yes, but does it have a built-in FM radio?
I present to you: Cheesehenge!
archaeologists will puzzle over the following facts: ... puzzling!
1. the muliple existences of several similar yet different looking henges (that carhenge.com is cool!)
2. each henge while similar is different in construction material
3. while religion may have played a part in their construction, astronomy was most likely the major reason for its construction
4. only one of the henges are accurately aligned, the rest are
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Kooky paranoid President-bashing word salad rendered in bold italic isn't any more impressive than kooky paranoid President-bashing word salad rendered in normal text.
The University of Missouri at Rolla has a half-scale version of Stonehenge on campus. (See http://web.umr.edu/~stonehen/) This one is constructed from solid granite, not easily eroded sandstone (like the original), nor wood, drywall, and sprayed concrete (like the one in New Zealand). Sam Hill built his version of Stonehenge in Maryhill, Washington before anyone knew much about the original and so it has no astronomical alignments; UMR Stonehenge has additional features and alignments beyond the original.
Nothing for 6-digit uids?
There already is a Stonehenge II, in: Hunt, TX
Astronomy is the oldest of sciences.
It's not the oldest profession though.
Don't worry, since it is in New Zealand, it is upside down and won't work.
AC, Stonehenge you will find is in Old Europe! FB!!!
We use the same logic to explain you upside down screwed-up Northern Hemispherites. :-)
And it still can't run Longhorn.
I like the idea of creating modern wonders- equivalents of the pyramids or stonhenge for today. We've got all of our technology and power, but we've built very little that is absolutely monumental. ...But the execution of this one seems a little lame. Why merely imitate an existing structure? And what is it made out of? I think James Turrell's work in Roden Crater in Arizona is much more interesting...
Stonehenge was nearly crushed by dwarves...
(for all us ST fans out here)
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and look upwards, and seek my peace, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear them, and will forgive their blindness, and will heal their saddened hearts, and their land.
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Just wait a few years - maybe 10 or 20 years from now they will be claiming they had the first one and the one in England came later. Think I'm nuts? They are trying to steal the first flight from the Wright brothers. Everyone knows that everything came from America and was brought back to Europe. You do realize I'm kidding about the last part don't you? Just everything since the 1950's.
The original Stonehenge indestructibly stood up to the test of thousands of years. This new one can't even withstand a single slashdotting.
I guess they just don't make 'em like they used to.
68.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Maybe this is how pyramids and other monolithic structures propagated throughout the world? Let's say some poor Mayan or Aztec ends up in a position to see the great pyramids in Egypt. He travels back to his land and inspires his people to build a similar structure in homage to the Egyptians. When their civilization collapses we are left with the mystery of why pyramids sprouted up in different places around the world.
When our civilization ends (by my reckoning in about 20 more minutes) the next one that sprouts up will try and connect Stonehenge in the UK with the newer one in New Zealand. Clearly the work of aliens...
We as a species have forgotten more than we know
theres an older creation called woodhenge, which i made the mistake of visiting. complete waste of time though cos wood rots. so i drove an hour from stonehenge to see concrete stumps in a field of sheep. quite the let down. yes this is off topic mod me down
A Curious Phenomenon
Recently there has been a discovery of a curious phenomenon deep in the deciduous woods of Southern Illinois. In the midst of the underbrush there is a clearing revealing a circle of short wooden tree-stump-like structures. In the middle of that circle there is a post-and-lintel structure. The entire circular configuration is oriented toward the exact point at which the sun rises on the day of the summer solstice.
Who built this structure? And for what purpose? To what end? A primitive calendar? A center of worship? A lost tribe?
Woodhenge: A mystery that continues to cloud the American brain.
Let me see if I got this straight - we've managed to slashdot a bloody great pile of concrete and chicken wire.
Or was it merely trod on by a dwarf?
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Better make sure your altitude stays below 2,000 feet...
...and where are the dancing dwarves?
Of course no Wiccans have gone to war over their religion, seeing as Wicca is simply an amalgam of ancient European polytheism, 20th centtury new-Age blather, and a dash of eastern philosophy thrown in for good measure. Before hailing Wicca as a peaceful religion, please note that it's only been around since the 1920's.
Near Natrual Bridge, VA is a Foam version.
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http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/VANATfoamh
that Stonehenge 1 is, itself, a reconstruction, right? It was just a pile of tipped and fallen stones until a bunch of British archaeologists got together and rebuilt it according to their best guess of what it originally looked like.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
That Jack Brennans at it again.
Its even "wired for sound" I mean, back in the day all barbarism meant was bizarre pagan rites and human sacrifice.
In the 2.0 world it means overcommercialization... I can see it all now: paying $5.49 for a "Stonehenge-dog" and being able to buy T-shirts, lunchboxes, and all sorts of other 'Henge memoribilia. And don't forget how the kids will love watching that adorble plush mascot "Mr. Hengie" in his zany new Saturday morning cartoon show. Barbaric, isn't it?
BTW, Some of us live "off campus" others live "off topic".
-- Just another unsolicited opinion... from the Peanut Gallery.
If you follow the line of Winter Solstice sunrise out of the chamber of Newgrange, it will eventually intersect with Stonehenge. What's more, this line continues through megalithic sites in Malta and on towards Giza . . . More at: http://www.newgrangeireland.com/
You can walk around inside the monument, if you make reservations .
I did this with some friends, and we got some AMAZING photos of the monument with the sun rising through it. Of course, we had to sign a release, stating that we would not publicly reproduce the photos due to copyright ownership, but that's another topic.
When I went to Stonehenge (courtesy of Mad Max Tours) some loon (I mean that in the best possible sense) was flying in powered paraglider with an oversized fan attached to its back. He appeared to be steering with his elbows as he snapped pictures like a madman. He got close enough that I was sure that he was going to lose control of his craft and turn Stonehenge into Stoneunhenged.
On this same tour we also saw Avebury, and I do agree that it was more enjoyable. I never did see the devil behind my shoulder, however.
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So, have you checked that inept religious scholars tout him as a citizen of Nazareth, a city not in existence during his purported lifetime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazareth
It is far more likely that, because of his association with "John (Yochanan) the Baptist", he was a member of the Jewish "Nazarene" sect http://www.nazarene.net/nazareneh.htm and ignoramuses munged that into his being from the yet to be founded town of Nazareth. Sorry, if they can't get these simple historical facts straight, how can anyone assign credibility to their more outrageous pontifications?
P.S. Apologies to the originator of this argument, I was unable to find him/her in my searches. Fortunately, I was able locate some supporting references and used them here.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
That is an excellent example of making baseless assumptions, that might even be true, whough there's no evidence. (Where did I state my religion?)
Although the above did give an example of an argument tangentially related to my previous post it doesn't seem to directly answer the assertion that there may be a religion that encourages independent thinking.
And my last point, about whether we make many decisions of any kind not based on fear and hope of some kind was entirely unanswered.
Would you like to try again? If you have a real response to my actual previous post, I truly would like to read it, whether I agree with you, or not.
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
> Winter Solstice sunrise
..
The rising sun, especially at winter solstice, is at an angle to the horizon. At NewGrange it may be only 30 degrees. It is thus possible to claim that 'the line of sunrise' is almost anything within a few degress depending on what hills form the horizon and where the observation point is.
For example the compass bearing of the sunrise on that day from Stonehenge may be different by a degree, more or less, because the horizon is higher or lower.
Almost any random line drawn across England is likely to intersect several significant sites. In this case they have drawn a line through Stonehenge at the angle they have chosen for the winter sunrise and found that it goes by NewGrange. Big deal. A few days later the sunrise line will go through Knowth, or Carrowkeel or
Dear Anonymous Coward, The actual point of sunrise is an azimuth, it is NOT an angle to the horizon. The observation point is the central chamber of Newgrange - it does not move as you contend. Also, we're not dealing with compass bearings, but true readings. Do you really think such an alignment was accidental? There is huge precedence to believe such a thing was intentional. Many many ancient sites are located along imaginary lines. And yes, the Sunset from Newgrange over other local sites is significant too, including Knowth as you mention. See the map of known or suspected astronomical alignments at this link: http://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/alignm ents.html
Hey, you don't have to start acting like a witch just 'cause somebody made an offhand remark about your religion!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Wiccans themselves however would not be prone to war, its a very non violent "vegetarian tree hugger" religion.
If you don't believe it is possible for a religion to exist in peace for an extensive period of time, perhaps a brief history of Buddhism and Hinduism is in order?
~Rebecca
Boy oh boy, did all of you get snagged or what? Are you actually taking any of this seriously? Neither you nor the mods get it. Anyway, I thought it was hilarious.
they should have a concert there like the Who did (or was it the stones?)
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