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Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max 1
#22205400 - 09/08/15 12:47 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ancient civilizations and their building capabilities have received a bit of attention on the forum lately. For the enthusiasts, it may be interesting to hear about the discovery of 'superhenge': patterns of hundreds of formerly erect stones up to about 15ft in height placed at the Stonehenge site between 4600 and 4000 years ago. Apparently in a straight line as well as in a circle with a 1-mile diameter.
Let's hear some more ancient alien theories
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: koraks]
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megalithic structures indeed
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: koraks]
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massive propitiatory offering to alchemy/mathematics/science.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: akira_akuma]
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: koraks]
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I thought this was gonna be some joke about the member Stonehenge 
If anything, I think stonehenge was probably a ritual/religious place.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: Achillita]
#22205437 - 09/08/15 01:02 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm confident he'll post in this thread at some point 
And yes, that's the hypothesis for now, a place for rituals. Makes sense too; as the foundations of a huge football stadium it seems a bit underdimensioned.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: koraks]
#22205438 - 09/08/15 01:02 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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tee hee, almost forgot eh? and look at us louts, not even telling you. oops, sowwy.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: Achillita]
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Just think of the world like minecraft. You got nothing but time, and theres no capitalism yet. What do you do? You build cool shit. That's what all these structures were, just people building cool shit.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: akira_akuma]
#22205465 - 09/08/15 01:09 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah, i agree; like i said:
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: koraks]
#22205602 - 09/08/15 02:32 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anyone notice the lone 'shroomer' over the guys right shoulder in the distance at 1:10. Looks like some prime 'lib' hunting territory.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: koraks]
#22205611 - 09/08/15 02:42 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Stonehenge: created by locals after first contact with extraterrestrials. They're markers, shrines, built on the locations of early [authentic] crop circles.
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Wow.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: Arctic W. Fox]
#22205625 - 09/08/15 02:55 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I thought most of the empirical evidence pointed toward some kind ritual landscape covering a great deal of land in the area and showed signs of like thousands of people there prob doing mad wierd shit.
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They're set up with the way the sunrises actually i think they're closer to a giant sun dial for agriculture
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: Konyap]
#22208012 - 09/08/15 03:42 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I am kind of super aren't I? I love those ancient places with all their mysteries. They still don't know how they built them and this happened thousands of years ago.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: Stonehenge]
#22208072 - 09/08/15 04:01 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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There are a bunch of ancient megalithic structures all over Russia up in the Ural mountains.
China has a lot of weird stuff too.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: Konyap]
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Konyap said: They're set up with the way the sunrises actually i think they're closer to a giant sun dial for agriculture
dewd theres alot better was to make acrazy crop calander these dewds were on another level wit shit
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dewd theres alot better was to make acrazy crop calander these dewds were on another level wit shit
People these days built the LHC. So, it's the sort of thing people still do, it's just even cooler these days.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: LSDreamer]
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We don't even know how they built the pyramids. It would be a major construction job today even with giant machines. We are supposed to believe they did it all with primitive bronze tools, ropes and animal power? Maybe they had a levitating machine or two the aliens left off?
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: Stonehenge]
#22208426 - 09/08/15 05:40 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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That is one thing that always amazes me about a lot of ancient megalithic structures.
Many of the huge stones would have been hard to move even with today's technology.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: koraks]
#22208544 - 09/08/15 06:05 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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really you jack my thread idea? why not just post in mine? I made it like a day or 2 ago why create an exact copy?
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: makaveli8x8]
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: LSDreamer]
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Is that Bruce Jenner?
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: Arctic W. Fox]
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no, this thread will tell you who it is
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/22203043
oh and for some reason I feel like this should be posted again, and again, and again, and again, forever

every single post should have this picture in it
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22208717 - 09/08/15 06:41 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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look a=man ne one thats cool noes whats happenin stone henge i mean come on.
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Obligatory.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: JoeP83]
#22211239 - 09/09/15 08:47 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I believe they found the stones using a form of ground penetrating radar, much like treasure hunters use. It can easily distinguish between soil and solid rock.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: koraks]
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Pretty awesome stuff!
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: koraks] 1
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I live right by stonehege. It seems to me that the whole Salisbury plain area definitely has some kind of significance.. There are lots of stone monuments in this area, not just stonehenge, all dating to around the same period in history.
I can't really speculate on the purpose, but there is definitely something "magical" about this bit of England.
It's unsurprising to me that there is more to stonehenge than meets the eye. I reckon the whole site has been used as a place of worship for a lot longer than 4000 years. When it's mushroom season the whole area is one of the best places in the UK for picking, and it's in relatively close proximity to ancient hubs of civilisation.
I also believe that in the absence of mindless preoccupation (internet, tv, accumulation of wealth etc), why wouldn't humans just create art for the sake of art? Why not leave something behind that is going to mark your cultures existence on the face of the planet?
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: Cepheus]
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There is a lot more to ancient civilizations than most people realize. They found proof that the ancient Egyptians knew how to electroplate and discovered that some objects they thought were solid metal were just plated. That means they knew how to produce and use electricity and who knows what else?
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: Stonehenge]
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Stonehenge said: There is a lot more to ancient civilizations than most people realize. They found proof that the ancient Egyptians knew how to electroplate and discovered that some objects they thought were solid metal were just plated. That means they knew how to produce and use electricity and who knows what else?
Electroplating isn't very difficult, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if one or more ancient societies figured it at. Even during the Englightenment, electromagnetism was considered a curiosity and most didn't think it was likely to be useful for anything substantial.
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Re: Siewhange: Stonehenge to the max [Re: LSDreamer]
#22213441 - 09/09/15 05:35 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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what if the pyramids were just museums for all the old shit that they found
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Re: Siewhange: Stonehenge to the max [Re: LSDreamer]
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Many things are easy if you have the know how. Years from now they may say we had all the materials and technology to make fusion reactors and anti gravity devices, we just didn't know how to put them together properly. If they could electroplate, which we didn't know before, what else did they do that we still haven't found out about?
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Re: Siewhange: Stonehenge to the max [Re: Stonehenge]
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how do they know someone didn't just steal the real solid gold shit and then electroplate a fake one then claim it was done by them to cover up the fact that they stole pounds and pounds of gold
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Re: Siewhange: Stonehenge to the max [Re: Stonehenge]
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Stonehenge said: Many things are easy if you have the know how. Years from now they may say we had all the materials and technology to make fusion reactors and anti gravity devices, we just didn't know how to put them together properly. If they could electroplate, which we didn't know before, what else did they do that we still haven't found out about?
That's true, but there's evidence that societies at least that old were at least aware of how to build a very crude battery and, I believe, speculation that it may have been used for electroplating. If it is true there are artifacts that were electroplated, which requires less assumpptions? That this relatively crude use of electricity was used for electroplating was stumbled upon by people experimenting with chemistry, or that an undocumented outside source imparted the knowledge?
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Re: Siewhange: Stonehenge to the max [Re: LSDreamer]
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Crude? You can make a crude battery with a pile of different metals having the right chemicals between them. But none of that is intuitive, it takes a lot of research to get that far and they end up with something having no apparent use. You need an industrial society or at least a fairly sophisticated one to do the work needed to go from that to electroplating.
It sounds obvious to us how to do it since we grew up with that stuff but its like saying why didn't they have cars a few thousand years ago since they were able to smelt metal.
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Re: Superhenge: Stonehenge to the max [Re: koraks]
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I highly recommend listening to the Stuff You Should Know podcast episode called "How Stonehenge Works"
It truly is mind blowing and there is really no explanation for how it was possible to build megalithic structures on this scale in the fucking stone age.
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Stonehenge said: Crude? You can make a crude battery with a pile of different metals having the right chemicals between them. But none of that is intuitive, it takes a lot of research to get that far and they end up with something having no apparent use. You need an industrial society or at least a fairly sophisticated one to do the work needed to go from that to electroplating.
It sounds obvious to us how to do it since we grew up with that stuff but its like saying why didn't they have cars a few thousand years ago since they were able to smelt metal.
no you dont its just a bunch of stuff thats sitting around, its really not that complex. It could have easily been discovered serendipitously. Ton of people jus fucking around with shit for generations much stranger shit has happened.
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