How was Stonhenge built?

August · 03-27-09, 10:55 AM

This guy might have the answer!

GoldenRivet · 03-27-09, 11:02 AM

neat!

Digital_Trucker · 03-27-09, 11:15 AM

That

. Wish he'd been available the last time we moved.

FIREWALL · 03-27-09, 11:23 AM

Good find August

Might help in some way to explain Easter Island.

UnderseaLcpl · 03-27-09, 11:28 AM

Nice

I never figured the pyramids or stonehenge or anything to be much of a mystery. People just don't give the ancients enough credit.

clive bradbury · 03-27-09, 11:30 AM

Personally, I love this sort of approach to historical 'mysteries'. Wally is not necessarily correct, of course, but he does show one way it may have been done. Much more refreshing to use one's own brain and ingenuity to investigate methodology than to write a book claiming 'aliens did it'.

August · 03-27-09, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by clive bradbury

Personally, I love this sort of approach to historical 'mysteries'. Wally is not necessarily correct, of course, but he does show one way it may have been done. Much more refreshing to use one's own brain and ingenuity to investigate methodology than to write a book claiming 'aliens did it'.

Exactly!

clive bradbury · 03-27-09, 11:38 AM

A few years ago the BBC (I think) made a TV series with this practical approach to history to attempt to find out how things were achieved. One of the best was the episode on the ancient catapult. They built one in Scotland - you should see it throw rocks!

joea · 03-27-09, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by August

Exactly!

But it was aliens!

@ Clive, yes I saw that show, very cool it was too.

SteveW1 · 03-27-09, 07:48 PM

nah they had black magic and there magicians just wiggled there noses at the blocks.

goldorak · 03-27-09, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

Nice

I never figured the pyramids or stonehenge or anything to be much of a mystery. People just don't give the ancients enough credit.

knowing some elementary astronomy goes a long way in understanding why these sites (stonehenge, the egyptian pyramids, and other pyramids in central america, etc...) were built that way.
Today we underestimate the "human potential" to construct these sites.
The pyramids were built by thousands and thousands of workers over the course of several decades. The great wall of cina is the same, milions of workers over the course of centuries. That wall was built just using raw manpower. No need to call in the aliens to explain its existence.

UnderseaLcpl · 03-27-09, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by goldorak

The great wall of cina is the same, milions of workers over the course of centuries. That wall was built just using raw manpower.

I can attest to this. There is no feat which cannot be achieved with proper and sufficient application of Lance Corporals.

August · 03-28-09, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

I can attest to this. There is no feat which cannot be achieved with proper and sufficient application of Lance Corporals.

But only with a good Sergeant to direct their efforts.

Kapitan_Phillips · 03-28-09, 07:15 AM

Wally Wallington is an awesome name.

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UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Nice I never figured the pyramids or stonehenge or anything to be much of a mystery. People just don't give the ancients enough credit. __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

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clive bradbury Captain Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: stoke-on-trent, UK Posts: 492 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	Personally, I love this sort of approach to historical 'mysteries'. Wally is not necessarily correct, of course, but he does show one way it may have been done. Much more refreshing to use one's own brain and ingenuity to investigate methodology than to write a book claiming 'aliens did it'.

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clive bradbury Captain Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: stoke-on-trent, UK Posts: 492 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	A few years ago the BBC (I think) made a TV series with this practical approach to history to attempt to find out how things were achieved. One of the best was the episode on the ancient catapult. They built one in Scotland - you should see it throw rocks!

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SteveW1 Watch Officer Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 331 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	nah they had black magic and there magicians just wiggled there noses at the blocks. __________________

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Kapitan_Phillips Silent Hunter Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Swansea Posts: 3,903 Downloads: 204 Uploads: 0	Wally Wallington is an awesome name. __________________ Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into.