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Chainfire

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1. There were engineering geniuses a long time ago.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2021, 08:31 PM

Feb 2021

We tend to think of the people of the time to be less than sophisticated than today. It is just not true, they just didn't have the extra few thousand years of experience to draw on. If the species is still around a few thousand years from now, it would be interesting to know how they would view us. Between us and 5,000 years in the future, there is likely to be another dark age that could wipe out most of our history.

Assuming that the future folks will be able to put together the pieces of the puzzle they will say, "Those dumb bastards poisoned themselves. They must have been a sub-species of idiots."

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Stonehenge may be a rebuilt stone circle from Wales [View all] left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 OP

There were engineering geniuses a long time ago. Chainfire Feb 2021 #1

Very few modern people have anywhere near the understanding of sky and nature... lagomorph777 Feb 2021 #6

that's right Chainfire. We will have to rediscover and reinvent the technology of moving large Nitram Feb 2021 #8

I suspect that the builder of the Coral Castle in Miami could have given us some pointers. Chainfire Feb 2021 #9

When at Stonehenge in 2015.... ProudMNDemocrat Feb 2021 #2

Same here. tavernier Feb 2021 #5

Though it is always cheaper to build a new 33-MegaLith circle than upgrade an old slow one... TomVilmer Feb 2021 #3

I have always wondered how they moved wnylib Feb 2021 #4

That's what I've been saying for years, but nobody would listen to me. Nitram Feb 2021 #7

Your grandfather was Welsh? left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 #10

I saw a documentary on YouTube bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #11

"I saw a documentary ..." left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 #12

Yeah, either the same documentary, or they overlap quite a bit /nt bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #13

Truly fascinating! ailsagirl Feb 2021 #14

Stonehenge fascinates me. Seems there's a lot BootinUp Feb 2021 #15

I think Ylvis said it best Archetypist Feb 2021 #16

Egyptian wife's thoughts on Stonehenge. Loki Liesmith Feb 2021 #17

... left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 #18