Stonehenge core sample shows monument was largely quarried only 15 miles from site

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If anything, a modern person sent back in time would probably be less well-equipped to accomplish great feats of engineering with the technology of the era.

Not to mention that we’re also much lazier these days. For example I’m just gonna copy and paste this link rather that go through the effort to retype a point that I made 4 years ago.

Stupidly wrong but persistent tropes in books, plays, comics, movies and TV

Here’s a trope that gets to me partially because I’m an engineer who would be helpless if I was handed a slide rule rather than a calculator: Person travels back in time and/or to a less technological culture, and, using his advanced knowledge of modern technology and science, is immediately able to vastly improve upon whatever technology is available and use it in ways that seem almost magical to the locals. Some examples, of which there are many: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Cour…