Miniature Stonehenge Discovered In Wiltshire, UK 152
CmdrGravy weighs in with exciting archaeological news, "one of the most important prehistoric finds in decades" according to the article: a miniature Stonehenge a mile from the famous site. "Bluehenge," as the find is being called because of the assumed color of its (now-missing) stones, is believed to have been put up around the time of Stonehenge, 5,000 years ago. "All that remains of the 60-ft.-wide Bluehenge are the holes of 27 giant stones set on a ramped mount. Chips of blue stone found in the holes appear to be identical to the blue stones used in Stonehenge. The four-ton monsters, made of Preseli Spotted Dolerite — a chemically altered igneous rock harder than granite — were mined in the Preseli Mountains in Pembrokeshire and then rolled, dragged, and floated the 200 miles to the site on the banks of the Avon in Wiltshire."
Whistle while you work (Score:5, Funny)
Miniature Stonehenge Discovered In Wiltshire, UK
Built by dwarfs, I would presume.
Spinal Tap references in... (Score:2, Funny)
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What do you mean, the "actual" piece? (Score:5, Funny)
Artist: Look, look. Look, this is what I was asked to build. Eighteen inches. Right here, it specifies eighteen inches. I was given this napkin, I mean...
Ian: Forget this! F**k the napkin!!
Re:Recent Stonehenge Excavations (Score:0, Funny)
Ancient Gods (Score:3, Funny)
No one knows what gods they worshipped, but the alignment of Stonehenge to the solstice shows that the Sun - and maybe the Moon - was important.
Looking at the monument and knowing what it would take to build it, I think it's obvious.They may have worshiped the Sun, but they prayed to Joe Pesci.
Re:Spinal Tap references in... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Recent Stonehenge Excavations (Score:4, Funny)
What do you sell to the ancient dead?
The fabled gift shop (Score:5, Funny)
4 Tons vs. 50 Tons vs. 1100 Ton (Score:4, Funny)
Four-ton stones are miniscule compared to the 50-ton trilithons at big Stonehenge or the over 1100-ton Stone of the South [vejprty.com] at Baalbek in Lebanon.
It boggles the mind that primitive people would want to erect such monumental structures when smaller stones would have been orders of magnitude easier to cut and transport. As the Romans, the Aztecs and the Maya have shown, it's possible to create impressive monuments with smaller stones. In my opinion, some among the ancient priesthoods had secret knowledge of a technology that allowed them to levitate and transport huge stones over great distances. Too bad they died without leaving a record of it. I have excellent cause to believe that the secret of levitation will be uncovered soon.
There is clear evidence that we are swimming in an ocean of clean energy, lots and lots of it. A new form of transportation and energy production technology will arrive soon, one based on the realization that we are immersed in an immense lattice of energetic particles. This is a consequence of a reevaluation of our understanding of the causality of motion. Soon, we'll have vehicles that can move at tremendous speeds and negotiate right angle turns without slowing down and without incurring damages due to inertial effects. Floating cities, unlimited clean energy, earth to Mars in hours, New York to Beijing in minutes... That's the future of energy and travel.
The Problem With Motion [blogspot.com]
Before Stonehenge... (Score:5, Funny)
Before Stonehenge, there was Woodhenge [wikipedia.org] and Strawhenge. (But a big bad wolf came along...)
- Eddie Izzard
Blueprint (Score:5, Funny)
It's blue and it's a small scale of the real thing.
That's what we call a "blueprint".
Re:Logistics (Score:3, Funny)
It's only a model.
Keeping Up With The Joneses (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Before Stonehenge... (Score:2, Funny)
It was claimed that Tittyhenge was discovered, but it was a bust.
Re:4 Tons vs. 50 Tons vs. 1100 Ton (Score:1, Funny)
anyone follow that link? his response to comments on his blog is illuminating
I had no idea the timecube guy had a separate blog and posted on slashdot
IBM? (Score:2, Funny)
Bluehenge? sounds like IBM made
Re:Recent Stonehenge Excavations (Score:5, Funny)
You seem to have started on 'aristocrat', gone via 'edwardian mill-owner' and ended up on 'hackney carriage driver'.
Re:Recent Stonehenge Excavations (Score:5, Funny)
What do you sell to the ancient dead?
Life insurance.
Re:One of the most important finds ? have a look : (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Builders (Score:5, Funny)
slashdothenge more like (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What do you mean, the "actual" piece? (Score:2, Funny)
No the mini one was the original spec.
StoneHenge is the the version with feature creep and user input.
Re:Builders (Score:2, Funny)
But these were not the druids you were looking for...