wired.com — The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern. The rocks are each 16 feet tall, with four of them weighing more than 20 tons apiece.
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vaiperApr 20, 2009
Weird. I have never heard of this. It almost seems like fiction but for some reason I'm glad that it is real.
uptwolaitApr 21, 2009
The tracking device must have fallen off in Maryland. The microchip is still in your hand though.
mtgn37Apr 21, 2009
That is what I was thinking. Shouldn't he have them locked away in a safe or something?
zelf24Apr 22, 2009
It's a trap!<insert Admiral Ackbar ascii here>
zelf24Apr 22, 2009
It's a trap!<insert Admiral Ackbar ascii here>
willthewayApr 23, 2009
Get a life! How's that, troll?
salmongodApr 26, 2009
Perhaps 500 million is a pretty low number, but I don't want to live on a planet that's consistently at max capacity. Above all else, the thought breaks my heart daily that my children will likely grow up without an intimate connection with or understanding of nature. I think a world with more people than trees is going to be a pretty miserable place to live, probably riddled with mental illness as if we aren't already... but that's where we're headed.
memaffettApr 26, 2009
I first visited the stones about 1983. This is the most complete article I have encountered concerning the known facts about this monolith. The stones remain a true mystery and may always remain one. To answer several queries, granite is the hardest and the most durable of the building stones. Yes, they will weather, but more slowly than any other natural material which can be worked at this scale. The message has grown more grounded with time as the human race seems to be racing steadily toward a future of decreased expectations. Such apocalyptic pronouncements always provoke the extremists, the fanatics, the kooks, and the downright insane. Let us hope that they also stimulate rationality. What more can I say? Time will tell.
javajApr 30, 2009
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."Not quite Rosicrucian... The quote is from Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law...
crunchyeyeballMay 6, 2009
"...they'll weather away in a couple of hundred years, maybe less..."Not a chance. I don't know if anyone saw the documentary "Life After People" a while ago, but they looked at what would happen if people suddenly became extinct. They pointed out that the last evidence we were ever here would be Mount Rushmore, because granite is incredibly hard-wearing and would last at least 20000 years, long after all other traces of our presence had disappeared.
ukshortbreaksMay 9, 2009
Has anyone Google Earthed it?? Please post a link! :-)