Stonehenge Reloaded
Wally Wallingford, retired construction worker, Flint, Mich., unlocks the secrets of the ancient world: “Gravity is my favorite tool.” Wally’s also fond of leverage. Combines them to roll, teeter-totter multi-ton objects into place.
Hat tip my old man, himself a great engineer who designed and oversaw construction of projects worthy of the Pharoahs, only a lot more useful.
Prior re Stonehenge: Party Town Rocks
Topics: engineering, prehistory
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:09 pm on Sunday, February 17, 2008
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February 17th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Cool! Mayhaps he can get those blockheads in Congress put in their rightful place.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:45 am
A very clever guy.
If you’re ever down in Miami and have some spare time, I would suggest a trip down to the Coral Castle in Homestead. It was built by one person over a 30 year period (who was more than a little nuts) and he must have used similar techniques to move the blocks around and get them into place.
February 18th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Sort of gives the back of the hand to those idiots who insist things like Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids had to be built by extraterrestrials because primitive humans just weren’t smart enough.