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POLL: Who built Stonehenge?

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Jaguar, Apr 8, 2004.

  1. Jaguar Gems: 27/31
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    Who really built Stonehenge?

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    This poll contains 1 question(s). 66 user(s) have voted.
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    Poll Results: Who built Stonehenge? (66 votes.)

    Who built Stonehenge? (Choose 1)
    * Aliens - 8% (5)
    * Druids - 35% (23)
    * Egyptians - 0% (0)
    * Greeks - 0% (0)
    * Leprechauns - 2% (1)
    * Phoenicians - People from an ancient maritime country at eastern end of the Mediterranean - 2% (1)
    * Picts - A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times. - 14% (9)
    * Stonehenge was just a Lego set for giants - 14% (9)
    * No one will ever know - 11% (7)
    * Other - 17% (11)
     
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    Jan des Bouvries. :D
     
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    Why not throw in pyramid and the easter island head statue thingy altogether?

    (my english and memory are not good) Isn't there a rule like when in doubt look for the simplest explanation? You guys can construct every posssibility that these were built by human. i cannot see how these are simpler explanation than aliens.
     
  4. Alavin

    Alavin If I wanted your view, I'd read your entrails Veteran

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    Ockam's Razor, isn't it? I'm not quite sure of the spelling.
     
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    Do you mean Occam's Razor?

    I thought that all of the choices were perfectly logical. Well, as far as my logic goes anyways. :D
     
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    The guys before Celts, it's not clear what exactly they were. Something close to Iberian autochtones, but it's not like anything is sure about them. The assumption in work here is that Stonehenge is too old to be Celtic.
     
  7. Takara

    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    Did you know that Atlantis was supposed to be beneath the Irish sea? It's true. That's why nobody is allowed to do a survey of the ocean floor.
     
  8. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Takara, what exactly is your definition of the word 'true'? :confused:
     
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    Yeah, this one hasn't been figured out yet. Could've been a bunch of pre-historic treehuggers. Druids.

    Either way, I pretty much accept that they were star-watchers. Which is most intelligentous. Spherical geometery and mechanical engineering and all that.
     
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    It was an American, because EVERYTHING of significance, grandeur, and mysterious importance in this world was built by Americans.

    :grin:
     
  11. Takara

    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    @harbourboy
    True: Anything heard in rumour, speculation, one's opinion, on a website, found in a turnip patch, or occasionally a fact.
     
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    couldnt have been druids, it was built before they even existed. it was built by the people who lived around Salisbury Plain in England
     
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    Shell Awww, come and give me a big hug!

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    Bob the Builder of course, everyone knows that.
     
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    Them aliens did it, not the ones with the anal probes though.
     
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    OK guys we can get into a HUGE! debate about this, but it is really impossible to say who exactly did it, it is like one of those mysteries of life (but it is very interesting to research and ponder) but i have to disagree with Erebus about the aliens idea :toofar:
     
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    I think I should start adding smilies when I'm being sarcastic or something of the such.
     
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    i know you were being sarcastic Erebus, sorry for not implying that, but i just think went a bit far with the anal probes... put me off my easter chocolate is all (yes i know you said the ones without the anal probes, but the mentioning of them just.....isnt good) just my opinion
     
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    Elvis Presley
     
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    Stonehenge is only strange and unique because the stones used in its construction were too large for people to plunder and use in their own buildings.

    The robbing out of henges and carns to obtain building materials was still widespread in the 50s in Ireland. Mechanical diggers have only served to accelerate the process. In 2002 a four foot high stone thought to have been a bronze age monument was taken from a field in Northern Ireland. There is speculation that it may have been wanted for a collector's garden ornament. This is only one example of the currently ongoing and unreported destruction of monuments all over the country. I'm assuming that the fate of southern England's monuments has been no different, and that many of smaller, older henges that preceded Stonghenge have been recycled, thereby removing it from its commonplace context.

    Since Stonehenge is only important because all the other henges have been used for landfill, the question isn't so much 'Who built it?' but rather 'Who will dismantle it, shunt it into a folk park out of the way and allow that flat building land with good road access to be profitably utilised?'
     
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    good point Bluin, i reckon we should make use of the land instead of leaving a bunch of pointless rocks there
     
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