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To: potlatch
I'd rather see Car-henge. At least we know who built it, how they built it, when they built it, and why they built it. An old pile of stones surrounded by conjecture seems like a waste of time. I'd bring the Game-boy along also, if I were with a group going to visit Stonehenge. I think after a few moments I'd pretty well have seen it.
32 posted on 05/13/2009 1:00:53 AM PDT by ME-262 (We need Term Limits for the federal house and senate. We need new Bums up there.)
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To: ME-262; devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; dixiechick2000; JoeProBono
I mean no disrespect to you ME-262 and I'm thinking you may be very young and not yet thinking in terms of the history of our wonderful world. These are some of my thoughts;

Relics of ancient civilizations like Stonehenge, the giant head statues [Moai] on Easter Island, the Pyramids, etc, are wonders of the world.

There are standing stone circles all over Europe. Why were they built, how were they built, we still don't know. Those people didn't even have metal tools! How did they lift the pyramid stones?

I have seen and walked through acres of fields of pyramids deep in Tulum, Mexico and when you view these ruins you feel a solemn sense of ‘time’ and awe and think about the people who once walked there.

Carhenge, in Nebraska and Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas are curiosities to give a laugh. Like the local WalMart, we know when, why and how they were built.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/tx/TXAMAcaddy1.jpg

Remember the scene of the Statue of Liberty sunk in the sand in Planet of the Apes? That would be a relic of ‘us’.

These are NOT my pictures but show many scenes from the Mayan ruins in Tulum. They are much larger and impressive than the pictures show;

http://www.tequilarista.org/images/Mex_Vacation_2003/Mex_Vacation_2003.html

33 posted on 05/13/2009 11:00:30 AM PDT by potlatch
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To: ME-262; potlatch
LOL!


36 posted on 05/13/2009 11:08:37 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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