Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/22/astonishing-giant-circle-o.html
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Let’s get this out of the way:
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Ah - so maybe that’s where the demons dwell and the banshee lives?
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Dents left by the legs of the flying saucer.
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They’re the remains of an earlier attempt to build a stone circle. The builders made a mistake and made it 12 times bigger than was originally intended.
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That’s what you get converting your plans from one CAD system to another when each one uses its own interpretation of the DXF “standard”.
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The woodhenge prototype?
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And the straw henge left no trace at all, due to a bronze-age big bad wolf we can only surmise
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They obviously didn’t “measure twice and cut once”.
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Given that it was intended to mark the summer solstice, the ice henge was particularly ill-conceived.
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That one took a sec to sink in. I guess Gary Larsen in alive and well then.
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That’s totally like my hinge henge that keeps closing on itself
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You want to go down a wikipedia hole? Check out this giant pit…
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ok…what is different here from what is already known about “Superhenge”? This from 2016:
So they excavated in 2016 and found holes. Now they used ground-penetrating radar and found…holes? Just like they already thought were there? Not exactly astonishing.
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Eventually they’ll figure out that the whole thing was part of an ancient Burning Man site.
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I’m going to speculate that Sarah Winchester had an ancestor who lived in this area and was really wealthy. (Their fortune was from inventing the Leaf-Shaped Flint knives and arrowheads.)
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Archeology: it’s the pits.
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