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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!
Tourism.
Yeah!
I've been waiting for 2.0 for a long time now!
Finally out of the RC stage!
Being in danger of being crushed by dwarves?
What's it good for? It's a practical joke that takes 4000 years to hatch. I'm sure we can all respect that. Imagine what kind of nutty stories they will come up with. "The people of the early 21 century used to sacrifice virgins here." Haha, it is the funnay.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Before building it, remember that ' is feet and " is inches.
let's see how many people notice anything weird
Eddie Izzard will have to update his routine now...
Unfortunately, Micro$oft already had a patent on it.
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...
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.
I wonder how heavy the security patches are.
Ahhhhh, STONE! HENGE! Whaattt is it good for? Absolutly Nothin'! Say it again y'all!!!....
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.
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.
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?
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?
Did they include extra bugs to be fixed when we buy the 3.0 upgrade?
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?
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.
Does it go to eleven?
*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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Surely this is arse-about-face: what is needed is to replace the tourists with concrete ones!
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I present to you: Cheesehenge!
Astronomy is the oldest of sciences.
It's not the oldest profession though.
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.