[TheForge] Mechanics of Stonehenge

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Seems several different methods could have been used.
Perplexed at the perceived difficulty.

Mike Linn wrote:
>  This is very interesting
> 
>  For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, people have been trying to figure
>  out how primitive people could build huge structures such as Stonehenge
>  and the pyramids out of stone blocks weighing thousands of pounds.
>  Scientists have been stumped.
> 
>  Then along comes a normal guy - a retired construction worker - and he
>  says well, I would do it like this. And he does. This guy uses the
>  simplest tools known to man and shows how simple and easy it would have
>  been to create Stonehenge.
> 
>  This is a really great video clip.  Amazing how this guy could figure out
>  something that has confounded scholars for centuries.  And not only
>  figures it out, but demonstrates it!
> 
>  This guy could build a replica of Stonehenge single-handedly, while a
>  committee of 20 or 30 Civil Engineering professors from leading
>  universities would be debating how it might be done.
> 
>  ' Stonehenge Reloaded'.  You have got to see this....
> 
>  http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/moving_big_rocks
> 
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