Bart Bear's Blog

Here's my globe-tottering oldies at a place called Stonehenge in England. This is a place they are interested in because it is one of the oldest astronomical calculators in the world, and both my oldies are astronomers. Stonehenge was build about 4000 years ago, around about the time the Egyptians stopped building pyramids. The stones are set out in patterns that show things like solstices and equinoxes, and can even predict eclipses. Great stuff for the ancient British astronomers who only had years of eyeball observations to work from. They were pretty good engineers as well. Imagine moving those heavy stone blocks cross-country from the quarries to the site and then putting them together in exactly the right spots. Our ancestors were really clever people.

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