Posted on 06/20/2021 4:23:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Today the Sun reaches its northernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, many cultures mark this date as a change of seasons -- from spring to summer in Earth's Northern Hemisphere and from fall to winter in Earth's Southern Hemisphere. Precisely, the single time of solstice occurs today for some parts of the world, but tomorrow for other regions. The featured image was taken during the week of the 2008 summer solstice at Stonehenge in United Kingdom, and captures a picturesque sunrise involving fog, trees, clouds, stones placed about 4,500 years ago, and a 4.5 billion year old large glowing orb. Even given the precession of the Earth's rotational axis over the millennia, the Sun continues to rise over Stonehenge in an astronomically significant way.
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So ... Where are the mobs of dancing Druids / Pagans / White Supremacists of yore? Still in COVID alas!
I think stonehenge was a drunk joke many years ago. No one would erect something so stupid looking seriously,.
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Chevy Chase would beg to differ. :-)
“So ... Where are the mobs of dancing Druids / Pagans / White Supremacists of yore? Still in COVID alas!”
Saw a picture of it a while back that showed it fenced off.
1) It was jumbled pile of rocks which British antiquarians reassembled it in (IIRC)the 1800s.
2) Easy to say. You live in a world with steel and concrete and plywood. You don’t have to dig with a stick or shape rock with another rock or drag enormous slabs of rock for 50 or 60 miles.
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