New Theory On Stonehenge Mystery

BBC ^ | 12-3-2004

[Textide]

Doh! A full ten minutes too.

[DannyTN]

Couldn't believe it. What makes it better though is that blam posted both articles.

[BobS]

"Mr Pipes is planning more experiments on Salisbury Plain next summer in an effort to prove his suggestion."

I was there. Took the bus from Salisbury to there and nearby, Bath, the Roman Baths.

Wasn't that place full of trees hundreds of years ago? Before they were harvested for shipbuilding? I remember there was a war where a forest was burned between there and Inverness. Vague, distant memories of knowledge I didn't pay much attention too when I should have.

BTW, Those rocks are now fenced in because a bunch of idiots spray-painted graffiti all over them at one time.

[narby]

Looks like he's now trying to sell the videos of his work. Which more power to him, he's got more common sense about working with large heavy objects that any dozen Egyptologists.

I didn't see the video segment on his site now. Probably was too much bandwidth. But it was awesome. He could move the really huge block one "step" length in just seconds with one hand.

The ancients had lifetimes and generations to figure this stuff out.

[BenLurkin]

What mystery?

[BobS]

"I have the answer...During the last ice age.."

Not necessarily a joke. There was a civilization prior to ours. The ice age seperates time. 10K years of entropy leaves no trace. Except for a "?".

[maestro]

Jesus' angels moved giant stones all over the world.......'go roll a stone' when nor lifting or flying them,......use all six wings technique....

[andy58-in-nh]

Hold my mead and watch this...

And you my love
Won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time
To that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry
And the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how...

[scouse]

They have tested his "stone-rowing" theory

I sure hope he doesn't live in a glass house, for as we all know:"People who live in glass houses shouldn't row stones".

[ken5050]

I'm trying to stay incognito..Hillary and Bill don't know me by my Freeper identity..

[DustyMoment]

Oh, for God's sake, this is idiocy!!!

Scotty beamed the stones in place and Khan tried to destroy them.





(Didn't these people see that episode of Star Trek?)

[RightWhale]

Yes, this can be done. The fulcrum, or fulcrums have to bear the weight, kind of a grinding action, and they can be attached through a pivot to the lever so the mechanism can be moved easily. Balance would be important, but a couple of rollers could absorb any out of balance weight up to a point. Get the weight off the ground in the first place and then you are off and running. Well, maybe not running. Slow, but faster than sitting and staring.

[JasonC]

Yep. I was going to point others to it, but you already have. A practical builder was the sort to notice it, not an ancient maven or prof.

[Bandaneira]

Everyone knows this...

The rock was carved out of the deepest, darkest jungles in the Seychelles by teams of compliant Yetis and Bigfoots who were being directed by the Urantian Commander Asimov The Third from the Planet Zardoz in 7422 B.L.R.H. (Before L.Ron Hubbard)

They were then transported on the Kon Tiki Raft by Australian Aboriginals and Polynesian Maoris to sail half way around the world. Through a magical crystal levitation method adapted from the Raelians combined with early environmentally friendly freight techniques, the rocks were transported to Stonehenge. Before they were erected a special ceremony by the local illuminati, founded by the ancestor of Brian Boru, was conducted whereby chickens were swirled around the head of the participants and kabbalistic chants were uttered by the local kohanim and the local villagers spoke in their local dialect of broken drunk after they had consumed copious amounts of mead.

The stones then supernaturally erected themselves with the help of the Druidic handlers, (the old Druids of the area had many spells which helped them with fast erections) and lo-and-behold, "Stonehenge" was born.

[blam]

"There was a civilization prior to ours. The ice age seperates time. 10K years of entropy leaves no trace. Except for a "?"."

Yup. Things were hopping on Sundaland during the Ice Age...and then it went underwater and everyone scattered all over the world.

[Chances Are]

The old theory was always Druid levitation, wasn't it?

To those in the know, that remains the only theory!

CA....

[BobS]

Not that way. The magnetic fields and spatial orientation of our planet's axis was different at one time. You can't get fish fossils in mountains otherwise.

[ThreePuttinDude]

They are saying that this is a new idea?

A couple of years ago the History channel had a special, showing just this idea. They had a crew of about 50 or so people using winches and levers to tow the stones over logs from a quarry many miles away.


Whats up with these guys......need they're 15 minutes I guess

[TXnMA]

He has more common sense than these certified Stonehengineers and their ilk combined

We may have discussed this on an earlier thread, but I totally agree about Wallington -- he would have made a heck of an engineer -- if the profs didn't ruin him! '-)

I have his videos here on my laptop, and every time I see him effortlessly roll that square-section counterweight stone along the top of the big stone, (using his "round road" [sinusoidal track]) I can't help but laugh at his brilliant ingenuity!

[exnavy]

Darn, why didn't I think of that?