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Stonehenge mystery solved?

For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, people have been trying to figure out how primitive people could build huge structures such as Stonehenge and the pyramids out of stone blocks weighing thousands of pounds. Scientists have been stumped.

Then along comes a normal guy - a retired Michigan construction worker - and he says well, I would do it like this. And he does. This guy uses the simplest tools known to man and shows how simple and easy it would have been to create Stonehenge.

This is a really great video clip. Amazing how this guy could figure out something that has confounded scholars for centuries. And not only figures it out, but demonstrates it!

This guy could build a replica of Stonehenge single-handedly, while a committee of 20 or 30 Civil Engineering professors from leading universities would be debating how it might be done.

"Stonehenge Reloaded". You have got to see this....

http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/moving_big_rocks

A lot of times the highly educated miss out on the simplest of explanations. As a Georgia Tech educated engineer myself, it's amazing to me how often my high-school educated factory employees can come up with a simple solution to a problem that I rack my brain for hours and hours to try to solve...

At least unlike many of my colleagues I am not too proud to solicit advice from good workers.

That was incredible. So truly simple - how did noone figure this out before?

Kudos to him. I hope he keeps going.

Wow, it seems so simple that I can't imagine no one has thought of it.
Instead of the mass amounts of wood thought may have been used to roll the blocks it can be done only using two small stones, amazing.
I have spun myself about on a pebble a time or two.
Gesh almost unreal how simple.

Way to go.......

The people who work for a living - the engineers who actually engineer on a daily schedule - have a major advantage, which is that they've learned exactly how to do their job. While some higher-ups might debate on how to do something, these people often have tricks that they've picked up along the way.

He doesn't show how to do it in the video, but he did raise a block on top of two others - I wonder how, though.

Pretty impressive.

As a guy with a civil engineering degree the construction world is full of guys like this and you learn very quickly you have a lot more to learn from them than they do from you.

Everything done singlehanded! That's pretty impressive.

This is a terrific example of one of those things that looks really obvious once someone has pointed it out to you. Very clever.

Will Durant wrote: "It is easier for the ignorant than for the learned to be original"

I think that it should be named "Wally-Henge"

I think what we fail to comprehend is that the people of Stonehenge were as smart as we are. They had the same brain capacity and all the wires were already connected. They only didn't have the tools that we have but their brain power allowed them to master the techniques necessary to build this structure.

To me this makes more sense than aliens coming to help or that Jesus sent an emissary.

The same applies for the Egyptians, Aztecs, etc.