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Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge...
#7381375 - 09/07/07 09:56 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Maybe it was a bunch of Druids from Flint, Michigan...
Seriously, this guy is doing some pretty amazing things, in terms of low-tech methods to move and position incredibly large concrete blocks all by himself...
It made me go
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Papaver]
#7381425 - 09/07/07 10:05 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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That guy is awesome. I saw him on a Discovery Channel show once and was just sitting in awe the whole time.
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Papaver]
#7381433 - 09/07/07 10:07 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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wow thats pretty amazing and incredibly simple
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Rebirtha]
#7381595 - 09/07/07 10:36 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I taught him everything he knows.
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: HybridFlash]
#7381994 - 09/07/07 11:41 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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that was awesome.
his name is wally wallington
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Tangerines]
#7382124 - 09/08/07 12:27 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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That shit's crazy.
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Tangerines]
#7382138 - 09/08/07 12:33 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I would go so far as to venture to say, that if we put Wally Wallington, Les Stroud, and Mike Ditka on a desert island vs. Gene Simmons, Bear Grylls, and Bill Walsh, that the Wallington, Stroud, Ditka team would win!
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Papaver]
#7382160 - 09/08/07 12:40 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quite amazing.
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Papaver]
#7382164 - 09/08/07 12:41 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Papaver said: I would go so far as to venture to say, that if we put Wally Wallington, Les Stroud, and Mike Ditka on a desert island vs. Gene Simmons, Bear Grylls, and Bill Walsh, that the Wallington, Stroud, Ditka team would win!
I believe you would be right. They would kick their ass.
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Toddo]
#7382276 - 09/08/07 01:19 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yes, they would seriously Pwn!
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Papaver]
#7382891 - 09/08/07 08:48 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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That was freaking amazing dude. I was especially impressed by the barn! 
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Papaver]
#7382914 - 09/08/07 08:58 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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When I got really high on some high grade weed, I saw how the stoned henge came to be.
A bunch of rocks from some mountain gained awareness and flew to Wiltshire (themselves ).
seriously.
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Merkin]
#7383580 - 09/08/07 12:32 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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wow. that was quite fascinating.
but im not convinced that stonehenge was built with this method. i dont see how the people back during that era were advanced enough to discover that method, and actually utilize it
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: hoopershroomer]
#7383591 - 09/08/07 12:36 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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they didn't need no 5 gallon buckets filled with contrete, or ropes, or wooden jacks, or midwest accents.
all they had to do was apply the knowledge that sruvived the destruction of Atlantis.
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: hoopershroomer]
#7383624 - 09/08/07 12:50 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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hoopershroomer said: wow. that was quite fascinating.
but im not convinced that stonehenge was built with this method. i dont see how the people back during that era were advanced enough to discover that method, and actually utilize it
Most of that knowledge would be a matter of common sense and discover by trial and error. If you were to extrapolate such discoveries over a long period of time -- generation after generation -- I think you could end up with all of those same simple machines and physical concepts in application (or different ones, which would be just as effective)...
Archimedes certainly catalogued and explained "simple machines" mathematically, but such concepts in application had probably already existed for thousands of years in diverse cultures scattered around the globe -- based on need and desire -- much like ancient astronomy did, to predict planting times, harvest times, and floods.
Sadly, there is little (or no) recorded history from neolithic times, and therefor, we know very little about such cultures, but I would imagine that some of those people had a common sense grasp of some concepts that would impress the average high-school graduate who can't seem perform simple math without the aid of a calculator...
Polynesians, for example, could navigate quite successfully without the European invention of longitude and mechanical clocks...
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Papaver]
#7394364 - 09/10/07 10:56 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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wow. that ALSO was quite fascinating.
thanx
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: hoopershroomer]
#7394429 - 09/10/07 11:21 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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it's my personal belief that they used the fiery spirit of their dense redheaded population to build stonehenge.
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Papaver]
#7394556 - 09/10/07 11:54 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I saw a tv show a couple of years ago where they did something similar with obelisks like they have in Egypt. Massive ones which people have wondered how they lifted into place. They experimented using parachutes with ropes attached in the desert. There was enough wind power to lift those multiple-ton obelisks right into place.
They weren't claiming this was how it was done just how it could have been done.
Ancient people were much smarter than we give them credit for.
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: zorbman]
#7394592 - 09/11/07 12:06 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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zorbman said: Ancient people were much smarter than we give them credit for.
No shit! They survived thousands of years ago without a Ralph's or a Safeway. That's better than I could have done...
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Re: Maybe Flying Saucers Didn't Build Stonehenge... [Re: Papaver]
#7394630 - 09/11/07 12:17 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Papaver said:
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zorbman said: Ancient people were much smarter than we give them credit for.
No shit! They survived thousands of years ago without a Ralph's or a Safeway. That's better than I could have done...
Only because you were raised with the luxuries we enjoy today. Had you been born in that era you would have done fine I would imagine as long as you didn't succumb to ilness or die in battle.
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