Stonhenge revisited

[Lan Barnes]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:41:47PM -0800, Mike Marion wrote:
> Quoting Neil Schneider <pacneil at linuxgeek.net>:
> 
> > demonstrated moving very large stones with this method. He also plans
> > to  try a demonstraton near stonehenge to move a stone of approximate
> > size to the megoliths a large distance in a single day, something like
> > a half mile.
> 
> That sounds a lot like a show I saw where they tried to prove how the Easter
> Island heads were created and moved.  They made a head, then used trees
> (which they had to bring in from elsewhere as there are no trees on the
> island[*]) and used them to move the head.  Standing it up was the hardest
> part.
> 
> [*] They actually had a theory that the creation of the heads is why there
> were no trees left on the island, and that it lead to the end of the creation
> of the heads.

Economists actually use Easter Island as an example of what happens when
a culture cashes in all its natural resource chips in one generation.

Kinda like us ...

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