Maybe this is how Stonehenge was built?

[Ed Reed]

I thought this was interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7q20VzwVs&feature=related

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[bluesjunior]

I thought this was interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7q20VzwVs&feature=related

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A lot of people could probably jury rig some sort of system/contraption on getting big stones from the horizontal to the vertical but much harder to explain is how did they transport them to the site from the quarry in Cornwall or Wales where they originally came from?.

[Ed Reed]

The aliens flew them over there.

[MadFrank]

It was the Druids! knowone knows who they were... or what they were doing...

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[bluesjuke]

I heard that the contractor filed a lien that to this day still has not been satisfied.

[cinimod8791]

A lot of people could probably jury rig some sort of system/contraption on getting big stones from the horizontal to the vertical but much harder to explain is how did they transport them to the site from the quarry in Cornwall or Wales where they originally came from?.
That was explained in the first 60 seconds of the video. Little by little dude move 2 ton blocks about 300ft a day by himself. Imagine if there was a crew of people working on it.

[Sidney Vicious]

I heard that the contractor filed a lien that to this day still has not been satisfied.

:rotflmao

Cool video - no doubt early man was much more clever than we give him credit for. He was also very patient!

[spyeman]

Very interesting indeed! And he's nearby in Flint Michigan!!!!!

[dangeroso]

I heard that the contractor filed a lien that to this day still has not been satisfied.

I heard that too. I think the masonry sub never got his retainage.

[travisvwright]

Very interesting indeed! And he's nearby in Flint Michigan!!!!!I think it would be really cool for my 3 year old son to see something like this early in his life. Wish I was a bit closer.

[oldschoolguy]

There is an exact copy of Stonehenge near where I live. Unlike the original, you can walk around inside it. I don't think it was built like the video shows.

[John Coloccia]

You can't walk around Stonehenge? Is it fenced off?

[MadFrank]

You can't walk around Stonehenge? Is it fenced off?

It kinda needs to be...

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p69/chrisscarlett/rusty1.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p69/chrisscarlett/chevy-sh-2.jpg

:bonk

[Wolfboy1]

Nice video!!!

[todd richman]

Long ago, before the dawn of history...the Druids...Stonehenge was in danger of being trampled by dwarves! Spinal Tap...

[tapeworm]

Through my studies, this seems to be consistent or at least similar to the methodry used by the Incas to construct
Machu Picchu, Sacsayhuamán and other sacred sites of theirs. Along with man power of course, these rocks were transported often times hundreds of miles to the site where these structures were erected.

[Nurk2]

...but much harder to explain is how did they transport them to the site from the quarry in Cornwall or Wales where they originally came from?.

Pressure and time. That's all it takes, really. Pressure and time.

[Ben C.]

Through my studies, this seems to be consistent or at least similar to the methodry used by the Incas to construct
Machu Picchu, Sacsayhuamán and other sacred sites of theirs.
Sorta.
I can grasp sheer manpower and lost arts of leverage.

This though... this always bugged me. Not only is there tonnage, not only were they transported large distances... but the "carving" and fit is mind blowing. That's what gets me and makes me think there was some other lost art here that we haven't rediscovered yet.

http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/54n78xhsj3de/qdqyi5/incawallempiresouthamerica.jpg

[tapeworm]

Just the Incas and their elaborate ability to shape stones with whatever tools they had available. Even more impressive are the Inca roads strewn all over the countryside which are still in very good shape given their age. They were certainly an amazing and magical civilization of humans.

[Ben C.]

Just the Incas and their elaborate ability to shape stones with whatever tools they had available. Even more impressive are the Inca roads strewn all over the countryside which are still in very good shape given their age. They were certainly an amazing and magical civilization of humans.
Yep, have seen them :) . Fantastic masons for sure. Mortarless and irregular is the way to go for stability and longevity for sure. Point is though, even with the Giza Plateau, Ankgor Wat, Puma Punku, and such... it's not the labor, the length of construction time, the weight of the material that inspires the real disconcerting mystery. It's the precision. Literally, precision beyond what we consider military levels of tolerance, repeated multiple times and across cultures.

[EricPeterson]

Very cool video, while it may not be the exact way it was done, it certain shows it was possible for humans (hell one human) to have done it without an appeal to some other non-terrestrial source.

[tapeworm]

It's the precision. Literally, precision beyond what we consider military levels of tolerance, repeated multiple times and across cultures.
agree. i have marvelled at these structures many times in person and thought the exact same thing.

[Sadhaka]

Yep, have seen them :) . Fantastic masons for sure. Mortarless and irregular is the way to go for stability and longevity for sure. Point is though, even with the Giza Plateau, Ankgor Wat, Puma Punku, and such... it's not the labor, the length of construction time, the weight of the material that inspires the real disconcerting mystery. It's the precision. Literally, precision beyond what we consider military levels of tolerance, repeated multiple times and across cultures.

Agree II

I just learned that the Giza Pyramid is at the centre of the total area of landmass on the planet. Like if you had a piece of paper and put a thumb tack right in the centre. One more incredible 'coincidence'...

[Smakutus]

Very interesting indeed! And he's nearby in Flint Michigan!!!!!

I had seen this video before but didn't realize he was around here..

Jeff

[Ben C.]

Agree II

I just learned that the Giza Pyramid is at the centre of the total area of landmass on the planet. Like if you had a piece of paper and put a thumb tack right in the centre. One more incredible 'coincidence'...
If you like stats like that (which I find very interesting as well), and don't want to go the whole 'supernatural / alien' route, Patrice Pooyard's "Revelations of the Pyramids" documentary film would appeal to you. Beyond being somewhat sensational, it's got a lot of those types of interesting factoids without resorting to super-human explanations. Like how Pi and the Golden Ratio are clearly encoded into the Great Pyramid (long before we thought they were discovered and used), how it's a scale model of the dimensions of the Earth, how it's aligned to the compass points within 3 or 4 minutes of 1 degree (which would be incredibly difficult for us to do today), etc.

[fisticuffs]

I heard that the contractor filed a lien that to this day still has not been satisfied.
a-lien? alien? You might be onto something. Vonnegut supposed that gravity wasn't always constant but rather changed like the weather and that these stones, and the great pyramids, were built on days of low-gravity. Read Slapstick.