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- sillygato, on 09/22/2008, -5/+36Can we not bring politics into this? I mean, really - an article about Stonehenge & you have to bring up Palin? There are plenty of politics-related articles on digg where you can rant :)
Back on topic, I'm fascinated w/ Stonehenge - I'd love to have the opportunity to travel there someday - mojoel, on 09/22/2008, -2/+30In ancient times...
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people... the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock... Of Stonehenge - RogueGenius, on 09/22/2008, -0/+26All I know is it's in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.
- bicyclethief, on 09/22/2008, -0/+24http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ie= ...
- gavinhudson, on 09/22/2008, -0/+23I'm looking forward to reading more about the results as the study progresses.
- dajuggernaut, on 09/22/2008, -0/+21"Stonehenge…one of the biggest henges in the world! No one has ever built a henge like it since... No on even know what the ***** a henge is."
-Eddie Izzard
"Before Stonehenge, there was Strawhenge, and Woodhenge but a big bad wolf came and blew them down. So three little piggies were relocated to the projects."
-Eddie Izzard
just in case: http://michellejuan.multiply.com/video/item/11/Edd ... - MacBookForMe, on 09/22/2008, -5/+21That's my favorite spooky site in Britain:)
- TeamWasabi, on 09/22/2008, -0/+16Carbon dating? Thats not exciting at all. I expected them to find "Made in 2300 B.C." etched into one of the corners.
- tylanga, on 09/22/2008, -0/+13How these stones were stacked on top of one another that long ago gets me every time I see this picture.
- brokendalek, on 09/22/2008, -0/+12That's really pretty cool. I visited Stonehenge last year, and it's really interesting.
- FishRHuman2, on 09/22/2008, -0/+12A three-hundred year difference is interesting and cool to know, but I just want to know what it was used for.
- nostartnoend, on 09/22/2008, -0/+12Stonehenge! Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge! Where a man's a man
And the children dance to the pipes of Pan - hillaryj, on 09/22/2008, -0/+10yeah, but can they figure out john mccain's birthday?
- mvndrvrt, on 09/22/2008, -1/+11So did Fred Flintstone drive the dozersaurus?
- defectDS, on 09/22/2008, -0/+9Center of healing?
http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs22/i/2007/331/4/a/Sto ... - trpnblies7, on 09/22/2008, -1/+10Sometimes I think that ancient civilizations had a really good sense of humor and built random things like Stonehenge just to mess with us.
- inactive, on 09/22/2008, -1/+9Ever been there during the summer solstice? A bunch of druids n ***** dancing around and mooning everyone.
- snurfle, on 09/22/2008, -0/+7You would ***** bricks
if it said "Made in 2300 B.C.E." - illDecree, on 09/22/2008, -0/+7Dugg for the dig
- barstegry, on 09/22/2008, -0/+7Couldn't they have just asked Joan Rivers?
- Gutterpunk, on 09/22/2008, -1/+8Stonehenge? Spooky?
I guess, if you find empty fields with odd rocks spooky. The highways bordering it from each sides are more spooky than the site itself. - username7410, on 09/22/2008, -0/+6Do you think one day a future civilization will carbon date one of our 7-11's to see when it was built?
- palehorse864, on 09/22/2008, -0/+6I figured they would lift one of the stones and find that etched on the bottom, next to the "made in China" label.
- FKnight, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5I guess my question would be: how does carbon dating tell you when a rock was relocated and stacked atop another one? Wouldn't carbon dating simply tell you how old the rock is?
I'm quite certain they didn't build Stonehenge the moment the rock solidified from the Earth.
Unless it was the tombs nearby they did the carbon dating on, that would make sense, although that doesn't necessarily tell you when Stonehenge was built -- just when people started to show up.
But I'm not an archeologist. - Gutterpunk, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5Stay away from it if you are fascinated, lest the fascination get lost with the cars darting on the highways on each sides of it
- slimkevi, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5I kind of thought it would be more of a big deal than a pile of stones on the side of a regular road
- drewbe121212, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5Yeah; It looks so desolate out there.
- richw, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5I don't understand how testing samples from the rock tells exactly how old it is. I mean sure, it could tell you how old the rocks actually are, but that doesn't mean the day these rocks were formed, they were hauled off to stone henge. These rocks could have been sitting there for hundreds of years before they were ever moved to create stone henge.
- JGib, on 09/22/2008, -0/+5Spinal tap, any one who fails. Obviously your not quite up to the 11 standard
- snafflepaffle, on 09/22/2008, -0/+4They're just making that up. A couple months ago another group claimed it was the burial place of kings.
- DuffyDirect, on 09/22/2008, -0/+4ive been there -- hope u like the smell of diesel exhaust!
- protogenxl, on 09/22/2008, -0/+4I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.
- Butter66, on 09/22/2008, -3/+6it says in the article probably a healing center
- lpferris, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3Can I raise a practical question at this point? Are we gonna do "Stonehenge" tomorrow?
- liljay2k, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3Tower of London.
- jimmycurN, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3Have you ever been to Stonehenge? The triptychs are 20 feet high, you could stand four men up them!
- avaugha4, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4Nice! As an archaeologist, this is an exciting time. I have been following this since they opened up the new excavations, and it seems to have been a model of how the archaeological process is supposed to work. Of course, with such an iconic site, the PI would have to be exceedingly careful and by the book.
- inactive, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3stonehenge sucks Newgrange is better http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange
- rootsm3, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4I saw Stonehenge in person. It's huge!
- fcrow, on 09/22/2008, -6/+9So does Homer Simpson think that dinosaurs where used to lift the stones into place?
(usage: So does think that dinosaurs where used to lift the stones into place?) - Hypnotoad8, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3How do you carbon date rocks? Isn't carbon dating just for living things?
- fluxion, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3lol...i had no idea there were so many theories still...
i actually saw a convincing show on discovery of how it was perfectly lined up with events like the summer solstice, and so was likely to be used for religious rituals/calender like mentioned by Wakkyweed - Vodd9, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3I just want to know how they stacked the top rocks. Gah!
- nathron, on 09/23/2008, -0/+3Cool! I just checked that one out. Here's a better page:
http://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/newgra ... - Wakkyweed, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4It was an early attempt at a calender. Unfortunately, it wasn't very practical to hang it on your wall.
- jamaph, on 09/23/2008, -0/+3Exactly you "think" it's not an accurate measure of time.
Better leave the thinking to educated scientists, Bud. - SilentRamble42, on 09/22/2008, -0/+318 inches is not that big.
- Lone1, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4and the little people of Stonehenge... what would they say if they were here tonight?
- cLamm, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3thats kinda sad...how close the highway is to it.
- RealmDown, on 09/22/2008, -0/+2Hand me the pliers.
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