Aboriginal Sundial Pre-Dates Stonehenge 145
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from the back-in-the-day dept.
from the back-in-the-day dept.
brindafella writes "Look out, Stonehenge, here come the Wurdi Youang rocks in the Australian state of Victoria. The semi-circle of stones has been examined by an astrophysicist from Australia's premier research group, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), who says this arrangement of rocks is a carefully aligned solar observatory that may be 10,000 years old. It would have been created by local Aborigines, the Wathaurong people, who have occupied the area for some 25,000 years."
Re:Amazing, now let's peer-review the science! (Score:4, Funny)
What's that you say?
Then that's not science, it's a bullshit claim by one guy who for all we know throw down some rocks in his back yard and took a picture of them. [citation needed]
In other words an outcrop circle.
Re:Sloppy Half-circle (Score:4, Funny)
Hard to believe that rocks will just sit in the same place for 10000 years
I found this hard to believe at first too. I've been sitting watching this rock for over 25 years now though, and no sign of movement on the micrometer. I'm starting to have my doubts.