We FINALLY Know How Stonehenge Was Built
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Few people know that before Stonehenge there was Strawhenge and Stickhenge...but a Big Bad Wolf came along and blew them down.
That tickled me mate. Very good🤣
bigby wolf how could you !
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And are they not actually finding evidence of pre Stonehenge like, Stonehenges? You might be right!
This comment was not nearly appreciated enough.
Well done.
Heh heh heheh heh
guys when time travel gets invented, lets go back in time build these, to mess with ourselves.
Lool😂
That's probably what it was.
If time travel will ever be possible, it probably already is.
This is what happened
I got my pebbles I’m ready to pivot
I think one major mistake modern people make is to severely underestimate people from prior eras. Humans are extremely capable and always were.
And not to mention looking at history Everytime we have a severe Cosmic Ray the world kind of restarts. All electronics, Radios collapse when these happen.. next ones due around 2100-2200.. 😉
@@janboblarry brother there would be evidence of those
if a few dozen worms can bury it in a 1000 years surely 50-100 people can build it simply for the sake of "Look what we did!" and "Now we can exact funds for warship and parties!!!"
Exactly! Just because we don't how, doesn't mean it's impossible.
@@peabrain6872 That depends on what happens during that restart, doesn't it?
I feel like we tend to not give ancient civilizations enough credit. Like we have the same biology and have built sky scrapers, yet treat our ancestors like a town of Patrick Starrs
I’m 31 and tried to show off to a single mom by helping her kid with first grade math and couldn’t complete the problem. It was a trick question to be fair.
Then again who needs math when ur built like Paulo costa
Bruh how u gonna rain dance without clucking like a chicken
I think the same about our pre-industrial revolution ancestors. We're told they were poor and oppressed. But the reason they had to move away from the country and into he cities was because of the Enclosure Act and they lost their access to land and grazing. Their self sufficiency was stolen from them by greedy landlords salivating over coal seams.
A town of Patrick stars is an equally hilarious and terrifying thought
Imagine spending your whole life building a monumental structure, only for aliens to take the credit.
Egypt would like to drink to that
Or the worms to sink it.
You can’t explain how they build these structures but you’re so confident to say they did it!
@@terryfuldsgaming7995 But how did transport the stones?
@@terryfuldsgaming7995 how did they line it up with the movements of the sun and moon?
I was watching some stuff about politics, saw this video, and decided this is more important
👍🏾
Sadly you made the right choice my friend
You could have watched 2 girls 1 cup and realised it's more important than politics
I cut away from LastWeek Tonight
Hey man, I love politics myself, both national and Geo, but I have to take a break from it sometimes. Gives me news fatigue
Thanks for giving Wally Wallington the credit and coverage he deserves. I teach Anthropology and Archaeology at Community Colleges in the US, and have included a short video about Wally in my classes ever since I first heard about him and his backyard Stonehenge. No aliens needed.
What an exciting job. Being in the field of archeology would be amazing.Lots of schooling involved, though.
I think your web episodes are truly special. Not only are they educational and funny, there is a sense of optimism and honesty that makes the viewer feel welcomed. Ay least that's what I get. 🙏 For continuing to make these and I hope you have as much fun making them as we do watching them.
One of the tiresome chores for the locals is to realign the stones for Daylight Saving Time and then putting them back in the fall.
I love this.
Lmaoo..right!
@@recinese Realigning Stonehenge is far more labor intensive than resetting sundials. Heck, I do my sundial myself!
UK doesn’t use Daylight Saving Time. Only one time zone.
@@iralee1180 no we still use it.. I "lost" an hours sleep un spring 😒 it was supposed to be scrapped but we didnt get round to it.. like many other things 😆
Back when my family were giants we used those stones as laundry racks. The way the sun is positioned in contrast to stonehenge really makes the difference when drying.
and people say the giants weren't
very smart....
@@volpeverde6441Why would that be when their heads are always in the clouds?? 😂
Real English answer just be cynical and passive aggressive while being totally useless to society. Probably your looser unemployed lads find you funny, soon all of you will be gone and this fine country will be under Muslim law.
If you erected 'Any' large stone or stones in your back garden, they would all 'Align' with the sun and the moon at some point in the year. It is the specific 'alignment at the solstices that make Stonehenge special.
Plenty of brilliant people way before us.
We eventually created better equipment that made it easier to build large things and now we can build skyscrapers. Of course it didn't happen overnight. We stand on our ancestors shoulders.
I've always said the same thing. A broken clock tells the correct time twice a day. So what does it mean to line up with the sun and the moon? Still, I would love to know why the ancients built these amazing structures.
Hi. How? I'm glad you mentioned Archimedes. Shifting the stones was probably done by slip-slap-slopping the ground over which they were to travel with greasy mud, then applying leverage from both sides, using "leverage posts" put in both sides of the path every few yards. The path would be carefully surveyed and made smooth in advance before the mud was added immediately prior to moving the stones. The Egyptians used a similar technique.
Why? Calling it an "astronomical observatory" overstates its use, but it was used as a calendar to fix the seasons. These devices tell us they were agricultural people, and needed to know when to plant, so that the crops were fully ripe before autumn turned to winter, and the crop turned to mush. The trouble is, there are 12 solar months in the year, but confusingly, there are 13 lunar months. Many moons ago people measured time by "moons", but to succeed as farmers they needed to work by "suns", in which fixing the seasons is harder. These devices were preceded by "woodhenges" used the same way. ("We got it right chaps, it works year after year, and never more than five minutes out!. Now, let's build an absolute doozy that'll last forever".) Good solid British engineering at its best. Well done! Cheers, P.R.
The guys who made them probably just wanted to troll future historians
"Im going to flex on the future so hard"
@@crap_bag_trust lol
Merlin= Hey Arthur wanna pull a prank that will make Y2K shit itself.
Arthur= Y2 what?
I knew you were gonna say that!
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"Who in their right mind would devote substantial time to standing up tons of stone?"
Construction Workers: >:I
say no more! *rolls up sleeves*
Egyptians lol made some cracking triangles
Cranes are usually used.
My gaggles go blop blop on me skibbie
I mean why does anyone do anything illogical for their entire life, we see people eat literal stone for the hell of it, so why not build something unique for the sake of uniqueness itself.
I read about the last guy not too long ago. His methods of moving and setting large stones were revelatory. I had never realized how big an object one man can move if he thinks about what he's doing and doesn't get in a hurry.
Thoughty2, I actually read in a book by Manly P. Hall, that Stonehenge was a temple, with a roof and it was much more elaborate than what remains of it now. Incredible engineering went into building it, knowledge of astronomy was of course as you mentioned, very important and precise, just like with pyramids around the world.
The stone henge is where cybertron is supposed to penetrate the earth as explained clearly in the transformers movie
Such a good Documentary.
what are you doing steptron?
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I find it hard to believe they didnt have wheels but they could figure out pully systems, rope, a frames and fulcrums not to mention astronomy. I think we often discount how smart early folk were.
We did but those things are made of wood there’s no buildable wood structure that can support carrying a 25ton rock without the wood crushing
they didn't use a pulley system - first known system was not used until 1000 years later by the Egyptians (500 after the wheel)
they moved the earth around the standing stones till ground level was top of standing stones, placed stones on top, then removed the earth to reveal the structure
They were probably so worn out from building Stonehenge that they didn't bother creating the internal combustion engine.
@@velvetbees i’m too tired from
being homeless to become a millionaire.
I also believe we downplay their wits!
Always love your videos man, super refreshing and insightful! Thank you for doing what you do best Thoughty2
So stone henge is basically just ancient Lego blocks… neat!
Stonehenge was built using Thoughty2's mustache as an alignment tool with the sun.
i laughed so hard at this my shit came out harder, and toilet water splashed onto my butt
@@mirilondondrift Good Heavens!
@@mirilondondrift Yep, handle matches comment
Using his suspenders for pulleys.
And we all lived happily ever after.
The Druids got the idea for locking the stones together from LEGO.
Druids didn't exist yet.
Also, clearly it was Duplo. LEGO is smaller.
Sounds legit
😂😂😂 🇩🇰
The LEGO® Story" på UA-cam
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They copied fortnite
I just like your sense of humor. You make history so interesting. I just love the subject and with a teacher like you we can go miles.. Keep up the good work...... 😅
Thanks for doing your videos. Always a good watch. You rock!
Why’s it so hard to believe that ancient civilizations had technology that was lost for a long time in history?
True, we have lost technology from just a 1000 years ago.
Because such things leave evidence. Think about how much trash there is thanks to modern tech.
@@juanfrancisconavarrorodrig567 modern tech uses lots of plastic and therefore leaves a lot of lasting trash
There has been ancient tech discovered out of materials that degrade and therefore wouldn't leave much if a trace
Even ancient batteries, ancient doesn't mean stupid nor does it mean no technology.
Not saying they had super advance technology though.
It depends on what you mean. All so called "primitive" cultures in the present and in the past are far more advanced than popular opinion tend to give them credit for of course but if you want to go beyond that, there are two reasons:
a) there is no credible evidence there ever was such an ancient advanced civilization and
b) there is plenty of evidence there wasn't.
@@juanfrancisconavarrorodrig567 plastic, iron, steel and glass are easily destroyed within or more than 10000 years where most ancient civilization is older. Without human maintenance most of our buildings and civilization will have nothing left (except solid concrete and stone) within 100+ year.
Yeah, Stonehenge is mysterious, but here's a real mystery.
Where is Thoughty1?
He's dead.
LOL
@Ben Siener you are describing the character progression of Majin Buu from Dragon Ball Z, and if I'm not mistaken at least one if not more Greek Gods but I can't name them off hand
@@SwiftCreationStudio first it was 41 and he evolved into 42
He definitely forgot the password to the Thoughty1 account lmao
Wow !! What an amazing Video !! And the Info you researched to put this all together must have taken quite a bit of time . Thank you for sharing this !! I feel like I just had an Engineering Course . Stay safe . 😎
42 dude you and your team are keeping me informed. Watching from Scotland peace and love to all
And here I thought the mystery was why is his name Thoughty2 when he clearly says "Hey 42 here"
It's because he answers questions with questions like meaning of life is 42
Its becouse his accent
@@andrewsavino1241 damn sherlock! you must be fun at parties.
@@steveyme1996 feeling better now?
It's because he is a HHG fan 42 "the meaning of life the universe and everything"
TH2: Who in their right mind would devote substantial time to standing up tons of stone?
Literally every human culture: . . .
i mean back then the only REAL job was watching plants grow or building a house. so if everyone has a house then yeah there was a lot of down time.
Pretty sure it wsnt the only rea job
And stone is a great building material because like, the whole world is made of it. Just find some exposed or dig down far enough and you'll always find it. Having said that, sure, we could deplete easy to quarry sources I suppose.
A note on Coral Castle - I lived in that area... he said he used Ley Lines/Magnetics. When the Ley Lines shifted - which also led to many beached whales, he moved the entire thing - folliwing the ley lines
When we look at what ancient people achieved we find it amazing because we cannot imagine the committment, time and energy it took to build something like this. What is really amazing is that at a time when society/culture is considered to be rudimentary at best, someone came up with this idea and then persuaded a lot of people to build it.
Just look at what was axhieved by Aztecs/Myans, Greeks, Romans etc etc etc. The culture and communication of our ancestors must have been so much more advanced than we can imagine.
merlin: "i have magical powers, what would you wish for me to do?"
uther: "ooooooo.... move those big rocks"
merlin: "r.. really? i can do anything you wish"
uther: "nahhhh.. move those rocks"
merlin: "errm.. okay, you sure? i can do literally anything you wish"
uther: "yeah. move those rocks"
makes sense.
Merlin and The Knights of the round table don't even originate in England..so, no they did not do it.
@@jebatman756 they didnt??
@@jebatman756 where did they originate then??
@WildSandwich that was actually an honest question.. did they really not originate in england?
I read your comment with Ozzy man's voice in my head. Very funny!
I find it fascinating how we can think so little of the intelligence of ancient humans.
No no, it's not that we think little of their intellingence, the thing is that they did not have the technology that we have now days, so... how in the hell could they make things that would require such?
@@jestfullgremblim8002 Because they were smart. ( and worked hard)
@@sparkysmalarkey yeah yeah but again, how can you do something that requires a technology that you still do not have? It doesn't matter how smart you are, it just doesn't make sense.
@@jestfullgremblim8002 It does if you allow yourself to believe sometimes our assumptions are wrong.
Just because we believe something "requires" a technology, doesn't mean it can't be done the old fashioned way.
Hard work and determination. Rinse and repeat until you are winning.
@@sparkysmalarkey how do you believe they could have done it? Cause even our strongest men now couldn't do it by sheer force alone
when I'm moving something too heavy for me I always 'roll it over' one way or other is what it boils down to. or 'walk' it. If you've got a great big heavy block, say. If you can get one end off the ground a tiny bit then you can lever it forward a tad. putting something under it so's it doesn't come down. keep levering that end forward till the thing is about 45° to how you started. Then go to the other end and lift and lever it forward until it first comes level and then sticks forward making 45° again. Keep doing that. Call that 'walking' it.
When you've got both ends lifted you can sometimes stick something in the middle under it that will act like a swivel and make the levering easier.
If you're going downhill it'll maybe slide on what you put under.
On level ground you just walk it.
On uphill you have to make smaller steps and drop each end to earth after each move, to stop it sliding back.
That's not really 'rolling over' but kinda is if you think about it.
For real 'rolling over' you just do exactly that. Turn the thing so's you're going across the width rather than the length and roll over.
Like I don't usually move rocks, though I have, but usually I just move furniture that is too big for me. Like a great big oak cupboard 2m high and 2m wide and 0.75m deep say. Fairly typical representative problem. Far too heavy for one bloke to lift. Even a struggle for two blokes and no room anyway. You walk it upright as much as you can. till you get to a doorway perhaps. Then you drop it on its side and have to skid it through the door. That's the same as the 'lift and lever' sort of thing.
You do whatever you can. You can I'd guess always get some movement out of anything and you just keep working on that.
I'd guess that's what they did. i.e. whatever they could.
"I can't figure it out, so it must be impossible" - every researcher that isn't an engineer.
Lmao thank you, I’m not an engineer just a short/small man, I’m not saying I I’ve moved giant boulders but I have move rather large objects( ones even a strong person wouldn’t be able to pick up) not trying to toot my horn here but if you know how to move it and put some hard work into it you can probably move it.
Imagine someone made a presentation about you and listed your job title as rock fetishist
Ok
@@michaelpacinus242 you didn't get it, right? Go to 13:23
Ancient Times :
constant need of farming to feed the people and that’s barely enough
Ancient People :
sToNes
It's an incredible misconception that ancient people didn't have enough to eat. They had enough that they usually had to throw food out. And they had a ridiculous amount of free time, that they used to go put up stones. And still had free time. Modern people have chosen a time overwhelming wage slavery over that.
@@LeoStaley we made seven - eight billion people; we spend our time trying to keep most from starving now.
@@LeoStaley but but... Tha tv said so
Ancient people weren't that hungry especially outside of winter, Most of their problems were killing each other, getting diseased, being cold, getting killed by wolves and shit, falling off trees and cliffs, burning in fire, eating some berry of leaf or something they found on the floor that turned out to be not so edible. etc.
@@alexanderelsen9397 hunger is the number one thing humanity has ever had to deal with. Have you never even met a human?
"and by many, I mean none" has to be your best line ever uttered on this channel, absolutely love it, so I had to comment on a 2 year+ old video...
I always thought maybe instead of lifting them up, you could find an area with good ground; dig holes to drop the vertical stones; then place the capping stone over to hold them stable. After all are placed, excavate around them.
It's amazing what humans can accomplish without television.
Facts
You mean out of boredom
Without television...humans accomplished television.
Ok boomer
@@The-Narrators r/woosh
I can easily see the news title " Florida man builds castle out of stones"
Makes you wonder how with the technology they had back then. It just boggles the mind.
Look up coral castle if that's not what you're talking about!
He already did look up coral castle
Easy
Hahahahahahahahahaha
You are a master story teller. This one is worth knowing for several reasons
There are some of these standing stones also in Israel in various places in Israel they are usually ignored, and in some cases the area in which they reside in are considered dangerous because the land underneath hasn’t been secured properly so it’s usually cord off so that people don’t accidentally step in because while the megaliths are there the earth underneath it is not secure as in one which is a new school and they check every year to make sure the school is earthquake proof and doing so they check the land around as well when they found that the area where this megalith was was not the earth was not very sound. They put a fence around it very high fence. I know about this because my daughter went to school here, and, there’s an elementary school and she’s something of a rambunctious climber she used to be anyway and she had a habit of going in there too get balls that got kicked over the fence. She was always very careful because you help unsafe the area once but there are other areas which off a safer but again people don’t notice some really yeah, they’re out of the way, but usually there’s so much shrubbery and other wild growth around it. The people don’t notice it. Or they just don’t care.
"Who in their right mind would devote substantial time to standing up stones."
That basically describes the vast majority of buildings prior to the mass production of steel and glass. lol.
I mean... Even to this day, the bigger has the bragging rights.
If you live at the top of a skyscraper, you want to be on the tallest one.
But, think of the number of stones that need standing up and the size of the potential work force !! And then, if some genius creates money..........
Isn't astronomy plenty of reason? Weird question.
@@williamturner6192 what to tell the time of year
Most buildings were(and still are) made of wood and earth/brick not stone.
it could be argued that log rolling is a type of "wheel" system.
You said it
Yeah, I think they knew about wheels but didn't really know how to make them and then apply them onto something where they stay.
@@ericbogar9665 I would say an axle is a separate invention from the wheel, which they had apparently already thought of.
I was thinking the same thing!
I believe when people reffer to a "wheel" they mean it to be attached to a moving vehicle.
People used round tubes and and round stones way before the wheel was invented.
What wheel has allowed to do however, is that there was no more need to grab the rotating part and having to place it under the moving unit perpetually until you get to the destination.
Intresting vid! I also remember reading about a Druïde who could brew a drink that would give one super human strength for a while. It was said this drink also was drunk by builders building them piramides in good old Egypte. The Druïde's name was Panoramix. Fantastic fella !
Anyway, Cheers y'all ✌
Your story telling 10/10 👌🏼I bet you could read the back of a take-away menu and make it sound like a captivating enchanted tale❤
Everyone: omg guys it’s aliens
Aliens: These people are dumb they made it
😂😂😂
Aliens now : these poeple are so dumb they still don't realise they made it lol
Aliens: We want nothing to do with humans.
Pfft, you are poking fun of aliens. I bet you are not believers.
@@jomen112 are you joking
"Those wiggley bastards" I see someone is finally using the scientific term for once
One thing that gets me is that it was estimated that it would have taken 30 000 000 man hours to build... That equates to 3425 years (rounding up), working around the clock. That's a really long time to stay committed to building a structure. Unless there's something I'm missing...
You divide that by the number of men on average doing the work,
1-24 I love how the Ring of Brodgar has a cuddly Teddy bear at home in it.
I wasn’t interested in much when I went to secondary school, it all seemed so bland and boring but if you’d been my teacher I would have been a model student - you make it interesting and fun and explain things in a way that’s relevant and informative!! I am a primary teacher but I’m finding I’m learning more from you and the topics you cover than I ever learned in school! We need people like you in the profession to make learning interesting and fun again! Thank you for being you! 😎😎👏👏👍💞
A lot of teachers are just so monotone and don't even really seem excited about what they're teaching you. I did have one teacher who was monotone like that and wore the same exact outfit since my mom was in school. I guess that was his uniform or something. Was also my cross country coach. He somehow made it interesting teaching geography. He would have tons of slides from his vacations and just for the area and have tons of cool stories about places and the geography of our area. He seemed interested, and that was the difference I think even though he never spoke but in the same tone.
@@ericbogar9665 Totally agree, it is the Teacher's attitude that counts...To the majority, it's just a job, not a Passion. Same goes with your Boss IME
If the Library of Alexandria haven't gone down, we could've known.
Mate isn't that the most tragic event ever. Burning that Library down was the dumbest decision Romans ever fucking made.
Or it had secrets that the Romans did not want people to know
real men don't make backups! and they also didn't wear pants.
Eh, all jokes aside all the knowledge that was "lost" in Alexandria was available elsewhere in other libraries, Alexandria would have simply most likely been the single most comprehensive repository, and building burning down aside, the scrolls that information was written on at the time had a shelf life of 50 years and there was already by that time more texts than the librarians and scribes could have copied by hand while new information was continually being deposited for archiving increasing their already impossible workload, aka more information was being lost by neglect than by arson
In addition, most of the information there was just basic administrative records which would have given us a nice picture of daily life and civic affairs, but, that's information we already have from other records preserved from elsewhere, and the scientific knowledge was again also preserved elsewhere, especially in the middle east where Islamic scholars notoriously made advances in science, medicine, and mathematics (including the invention of algebra), which was brought back during the medieval period (because believe it or not the crusades weren't 100% political warfare fought under a religious pretense, there was academic and cultural exchange not to mention a renewal of trade happening), this exchange of rediscovered "lost" information is what allowed universities to rise in Europe and the eventual build up to the renaissance period
Also Spanish inquisition
The smaller stones were local, the Saracen stones (the big ones) were brought from Wales on barges.
the easter island moai walked to where they stand. easter islanders just carved them with rounded bottoms and weebled them from the quarry to their place on queue. weebles wobble, but they don't fall down, unlike some of the moai that were then abandoned where they fell. i have moved chunks of autos i cut up that weighed 6-700lbs. by rocking them side to side and pivoting them when they were on edge all by my lonesome quite easily. getting them started rocking without falling over was the hardest part. once i got them started though, momentum made the rest easy peasey.
I drive past the Corral Castle every single day on my way to work and have lived in the same city most of my life and I saw more of it in this video than I ever had before.
Oh man? You should go in and look. I believe there's more to it than said here. I read the book. A simple pulley doesn't explain how he moved blocks, only how he lifted them, (and I don't believe that either).The biggest block in Coral Castle is estimated at near 30 tons, the block and tackle Skalnin had would have trouble lifting a car engine! Anyway, you live in Florida, so get the vacine and vote De Santis out! Good look from Ireland.
Not unusual. I have friends that have lived their entire lives in New York City and have never seen Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, The Metropolitan Museum of Art etc. Some people consider places like that tourist traps.
@@Temulon I can beat that! Haha, I know a family here in Wexford Town Ireland, 7 brothers and 2 sisters and none of them has ever left the the town, except one. Regarded as the black sheep of the family he took his 2 sons to Oakwood theme park in Wales. Get the ferry from Rosslare (in Wexford), to Wales, then a bus to Oakwood, then back, the whole mission accomplished in one day, and you'd think to listen that he'd climbed Everest.
@@cunobelinusX31 - That's hilarious!
@@Temulon It doesn't stop there, our intrepid explorer actually made it as far as Letterkenny in Donegal, nearly 200 miles from Wexford and a 4 hour bus journey. He existed there for 18 months on social welfare. His family believed he was dead until he re-appeared one summers day at the social welfare office in Wexford. Great were the celebrations upon his resurection !! Take care my friend.
Q: How did they move such massive rocks without the aid of modern technology?
A: They had whips! Massive, massive whips.
Nice story but doesn't explain why there arev the exact same circles of stones at Cydonia Mars just outside to the east .."face on mars "
Mordern technologies would struggle to do this
@@jellyfishi_ the anakim?...no I don't believe that
Imagine a government deciding it's worth pouring any amount of resources into doing this. We can go to mars. Surely we can build stonehenge very easily.
@@jellyfishi_ giant brains and balls
There was an old cartoon about Stonehenge.It depict 2 characters dressed in prehistoric animal skins, one was the foreman and the other is management. The balloons on top said "either we get our raise, or the site stays like this".
The first circle to be depicted is Castlerigg, an awesome setting nestling beneath some of England's highest mountains. I am fortunate to live here. Ad altiora!
Pfffft yall just dont understand it right, all they did was plant some pebbles into the ground, gave them fresh water and grew them into the size they are today, simple
Underrated lmao
FBI! Stop right there!
stone farming you say?
makes sense
Patientce
Spelling sorry
@@howmuchbeforechamp patience*
As always, interesting and entertaining. One question keeps creeping into my mind though. Who the heck was Thoughty1 ?
That would be me , I am Thoughty1 (No 41..! ) not Thoughty2 But I did not come before Thoughty 2 , No.! I am not merely a number 1, I am a man with a number 1 in his name.
You may need to be a fan of The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, to understand thoughty 2's user name and what it means.
Don't forget that before Thoughly, you need Entelechy: the potential for existence, hence Entelechy0 (original potential / original thinking).
It's obvious the answer, thoughty1 was his father.
The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42
Hahaha this reminds me of a move I perfected when I worked retail, which I dubbed the “Shipper Shuffle.” 😂
If I had a big box or shipper that was too heavy or cumbersome for me to lift (I’m small), then I would either tilt it back & slide it forward, or I’d rock it from side to side, sometimes tilting it onto a corner, to slowly move it across the floor 😅
Though it was game over when I realized that I could push it with a shopping cart 😂 #RetailLife
When my father passed away - I asked about getting a granite pillar. They were able to make them a hundred years ago, but in 2008, they didn’t have the knowledge to do it. That was only a hundred years - how quickly humans forget when they don’t use a skill for a few years.
8' granite pillars start at $560 US. Custom pillars at $1200 US.
Why can't anyone understand, the Stonehenge was able to be built because the ancient humans were using cheat codes.
The codes that were lost to time itself? Yeah, I've dedicated my life to it but have only uncovered the first number 4.....
I just realized I've saw you everywhere so
Unorthodox way of thinking, I recommend you check out Tier Zoo on UA-cam.
Hahahahaha
More like civilizations back then understood how to build things and make them last.
"What in the holy hell is that Latvian lunatic doing over there?" - Florida Man
@@ginagina5452 i saw the footage of the guy making it in an episode of Ancient Aliens, besides the math, does coral not weigh much at a certain point when taken out of the ocean, but gets heavier? is that a thing?
My family are from the Isle of Lewis me and my cousins use to play at the callanish stones and my first job was at the callanish stones in the visitor center. Beautiful place rugged.wild and ancient.
They ought to try and move the original stone henge now and place it in a museum type building. Recreating it from something where it stands now so it’s still there forever and can be repaired periodically ect. They’d soon find out how to move and lift them that way and it would preserve a impressive and important site
Wheels had certainly been invented when Stonehenge was built. They just weren't called wheels.
Ikr, They were called "rolly-pollys"
Aliens have always been on earth. They just weren't called aliens. There, is, how, stupid, you, sound. The commas are for you taking a break between each word so it can sink it, just in case you missed comma day at school...
@@Vezerai You don't have to be a dickhole, every, single, time.
@@Vezerai why are you so rude
Yeah. My great, great, great ×42 had a very successful tire shop back then on Salisbury plain.
"The man was a lunatic...he handed out pamphlets all over town with his opinions on things...." - Says the random guy on UA-cam handing out his opinions to the world that I listen to.
Dennis Chanay dare you besmirch Emperor Norton?!
I must admit that some of his content is a bit biased, but he is such a good storyteller!
Sounds like Twitter.
@@bytossen10 Everyone is biased to some degree.
It was me alright
0:17 : "I mean, who in their right mind would devote substantial time to standing up tons of stone?"
Humans : * build castles, skyscrapers, statues, dams and art *
I found that guy's UA-cam channel years ago where he explains and demonstrates all the techniques he used. Pretty interesting
You failed to mention the fact that it was rearranged in the late 1920's and totally rebuilt in the late 1950's, of which there are about 100 photos showing this entire process.
as in the current arrangement isn't how it was??
It was rebuilt several times over the centuries.
Thats why we can only theorize that it was used for a calendar because we have no idea what the original placement was , fortunately there are other circles that weren't "restored" so we can verify that those line up with
There wasn't built thousands of years ago we created them in the 1900s
@@rightofrevolutionisnow7282
No they have been on that site for thousands of years but they were largely buried, sunk into the ground and barely visible.
So at the turn of the century they dug them out and "reassembled" them.
And that wasn't the first time it was done either.
We don't know the original positions, we don't know when the tongue and groove system was carved ( was it an original feature or was it done by a restoration effort?)
The site is so adulterated by at least three restoration efforts over the last 400 years that we can't really say anything definitive beyond.
1. When the stones first arrived.
2. Where they were quarried from.
Fortunately there are other equally ancient stone rings that haven't been screwed with so we have a pretty good guess at what its original function and shape was
1. None of the stones were stacked originally, in all likelyhood, all of the stones were standing straight up and then someone took the stones in the outermost ring and placed them atop the middle ring.
( The outermost ring is now completely gone)
2.The tongue and grooves were most likely done by whoever reconfigured the original stones into archways.
(And that was done sometime in the last 1700 years)
The " Restoration" done 100 years ago was the worst because they used heavy equipment and didn't document anything.
Its the main reason we can't determine where the stones in the middle ring were originally placed because they dug up the soil and graded it to make land level.
The site really is ancient but its been screwed with so much that it's largely just a tourist attraction now ,.
@@glennchartrand5411 oh I didn't know that!! Makes sense, I always wondered why they couldn't figure it out as it seemed pretty easy to investigate and get a reasonable conclusion from the evidence that should have been there, but the evidence was pretty much destroyed 😅
We Finally Know How Stonehenge Was Built: A WIZARD DID IT!
Spoilers!
Nope it was a groupe of poeple that build it to attract other poeple that would pay em food and shit to see that crap.
AI tourism
. remember they have the time travel thing that Ironman build? hulk use it to travel back time and put those stone there.. due to BOREDOM.. 😂
Desel. You are not far wrong. The sorcerer, the magician, ..the shamans were the designers of the astronomically oriented megalithic monuments. The workforce did not use tree logs, as it is impossible to steer a 30 ton stone on wood rollers uphill, that soon goes out of control and slips down, crushing the transporters. So they used wooden sledges instead. The blue stones were not transported via water, but on sledges.
Hello Future Me!
I do recall reading a Sci-Fi short novella decades ago where by a couple of scientists thought they had invented a 'Time Machine'.
Where to go? Well, one was a archeology enthusuast and wanted to go see Stonehenge being built and to ask the builders "Why"?
So, of they jolly well trouped to Salisbury Plain. They got out of their Time Machine to see nothing there, except a gaggle of astonished local people.
They got back in their machine and came back to present day knowing why Stonehenge had been built.
Locals had seen 'The Gods arrive in their midst' and so built Stonehenge as a place of worship.
Such a welcome presentation: smart, informative, interesting, humorous and charming.
"I will give you the answer to life, the universe, and everything." 42
Too old
It always equals zero haven't you done your calculus.
As I read this, there are 42 thumbs up on this comment.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who hears 42
You misspelled Thoughty2
What a shame, many years ago I went to Ireland to visit relatives and they convinced me to go on an extended fishing tour of the UK. One stop on the list was an area near the Stonehenge but they were only interested in fishing, arguing and getting drunk, I completely missed the opportunity. This is now more than 60 years later and I still regret not visiting it. Their basic attitude at the time was, "there are more than enough old rocks allover the bloody place, just be quiet and pass me the bottle".
Its not to late my friend
You in ur 70s? Damn
@@bluesclues10 Yes, unfortunately; and it's been a wee bit of an undertaking but I've learned that no matter what else happens, I have absolutely no control over that clock that just keeps on ticking. Perhaps it's a Timex, I don't know ... You'll see what I mean when you get there .
Damn, sorry Chuck.
Beet to late but why DON'T y2k visit Ireand and visit Newgrange. It is actually older
Another Brilliant Video, very entertaining and informative 😉
your content rocks!! Pun intended, I watched your Shakespeare video last night. Your content is amazing. So interesting and your humour is top tier 😊 new subscriber
A quote from PBS spacetime "It's never aliens, until it is."
I got a good laugh at the thumbnail.
question: can someone explain how the rounded pebbles under the boulder works? i get the concept of the pivot moving it forward, but wouldn't the pebbles be wedged into the dirt providing the ground was softer than the weight of the stone?
i highly doubt he just used one or even a few pebbles. unless they were extremely strong pebbles, and the ground was solid rock, yeah... definitely shattering some pebbles or getting them embedded in the dirt.
think of a 'bed of nails' facing the ground made of pebbles. the combined surface area of the pebbles vs the "surface tension" of the dirt beneath the boulders allows some give. not to mention each pebble rolling, rotating, and even sliding as well.
obviously, a good amount of pebbles would get stuck in the dirt just considering the weight of such massive boulders. however, you wouldnt need every single one. just enough. you'll know when you dont have enough pebbles beneath the boulder, i tell you what.
And how would you get the pebble underneath it in the first place?
ua-cam.com/video/uYQBDhkBfr0/v-deo.html Here's how he does it.
@@amaccoy man thats so much more impressive looking at it. i wouldve guessed that a simple lever system would let you get a pebble under there, or rock it back and forth, tossing the pebble in there. amazing things simple physics can do.
There's a few videos here if you search for Wally Wallington.
Underground studies showed rivets where the stones either were supposed to go or originally were standing but knocked over and repositioned at other places. It was more or less a winter summer solstice calendar. A month and year type of 'sundial. The smaller stones of different rock may have been added at a later time.
I grew up in the area near coral castle. It’s a pretty cool place. Giant coral rock doors weighing tons you can push open with one hand.
When the History Channel was good, they had at least one program that did this. They hypothesized a rolling log system for moving the stones from the quarry.
They should try recreating their "theory", then they would know it's impossible
@@jebatman756 he did try it, the only thing is they only moved it a few meters before deciding they were satisfied
Now everything aliens.
I got to visit Stonehenge when I had a short stay in the wonderous and mysterious land of England and it was a really surreal experience to be near a 5-millenium architecture.. Well if it weren't for the other pesky tourists of course.
The really close highway and gift shop....kills it! Shame
Australian here,
Cant wait until a McDonalds is built in the inner circle......theres already an McDonalds at Dachau railway station.....jus sayin'
It was the security which ruined it for me :/
I find that a problem in lots of places, I travel there, want to look at it and it's full of tourists.
I want to see how the stones were loaded onto boats and propelled to destination . That’s some boat !
Love listening and learning about most of the topics you cover. I listened to this one, on the way home from a long, unusually difficult day of work. Thank you for that. I think you and “ze Frank” should get together and do one. Look him up. His “true facts” videos are great also.
Thoughty2 cracks me up at least once in every episode.
I used to do guard duty in northern Germany every 2 or 3 days. In a few days Even the least observant person would realize the sunrise moves to the right or left depending on the season...then moves back in the opposite direction at the end of the season. So its easy to see a person would want to mark the progress with stones or sticks and they would by the start of the new year realize they could now predict the seasons...moon rise etc..
Could give a fuk bout what’s the in sky when I was addicted to fentanyl and crack
Logical
The biggest mystery to me is the top stones. It makes sense the lower stones had used a see-saw type of mechanism to place them upright.
Theory on the top stones: After all of the lower stones were in place. A team of people grabbed dirt from another location and covered the lower stones to the point they had a dirt hill and the lower stones were completed covered in dirt. What was left was taking the top stones and pushing them up the hill and into place. Once that was completed, you remove all of the dirt back to its original elevation. Now all your bottom stones are in place and the top stones as well. They build the notches to ensure they would stay in place.
Some would say this is a ton of work. But so was moving each stone 120 miles. So clearly a ton of people were working on this.
Thoughts???
Does make sense, you could also use the same see-saw mechanism to lift large objects, lift one side like a see-saw but then place a brick under the lifted side. Continue to repeat this process on both sides over and over. This technique is still used today to to move houses, only nowadays we would use jacks
Pretty good possible explanation imo
No it would have been easier to just use wooden logs in a pyramid format to slowly ease up level enough to the top of the stones and push it
sounds stupid. im glad you were born in todays age and not 3000 years ago
I saw a documenty were they use trees with grooves cut in the middle put round stones in them and move the blocks on top of the stones.
Like a wooden railroad system.
From a study of some old writings, the average person thousands of years ago was an average of 5 feet tall. The 'giants were reportedly 12 to 16 feet tall, not totally huge as people make them out to be and they oddly had huge 22 to 25 inch feet. There are old 2500 bc - 8000 bc underground mining tunnels in south Australia that have huge steps and tunnels barely explored for thousands of years with indented 22 to 25 inch feet.
Which giants are you talking about?
"Let's build a giant stone circle over at Salisbury Plain."
"Good idea, but where will we find a middle aged chap from Michigan?"
There were no middle aged chaps for nearly 5,000 years.
@@dr.lexwinter8604 Au contraire. Most humans (who survived to adulthood) likely lived to a very old age. Below are some links I found with a quick search. I am sure that you could find a lot more with a more extensive search.
www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/life-expectancy-myth-and-why-many-ancient-humans-lived-long-077889
paleoleap.com/why-cavemen-didnt-die-young/
@@Tim_Sviridov Don't forget that middle aged people always existed, which may or may not have been 15 at one point but still middle aged for the time.
lol
I dunno man, I'd probably start looking somewhere in Michigan if it were up to me.
Lmao
Being someone who knows quite a few hippies, I can assure you that there is no occasion necessary to dance naked. Usually a little music will do the trick.
Like a.....ROCK band?😂🤣
@@malkavianloner8808 Or a full moon, a sunny day, or the first summer rain...
Having grown up in the home of a hippy in the 70's I concur. There is never a reason NOT to dance naked if you're a hippy 😂
Living in the most hippy part of canada I can confirm
LOL
Fun fact, Stonehenge is also the world wonder most likely to be taken out by a drunk driver. The thing is right off the side of a major highway from what I understand.
Thank you. It’s always a pleasure to watch your videos.
Thank you for the knowledge, it bothered me for my entire life.
Now I can ponder on the other mysteries : Where is Jimmy Hoffa, what happened with the missing Malaysia airlines Flight 370, and who was the Somerton Man ?
I thought Hoffa was buried under Stonehenge
@@simonholyoak8869 Between a rock and a hard place ?
Check out Mentor Pilot for what happened to 370.
@@mrurchu4812 Jay Electra?
Dan cooper
The original title was "We Finally Know How Stonehenge Was Built", see you in a few days when he inevitably changes it.
He alr did
Why would he change the title?
@@lightergass I've seen a few of his videos pop back up in my recommended with a different title, like the honey one from a week ago for example.
Honestly his videos are so good and entertaining that I don't care about his cringe clickbait, youtube forces you to be this way.
He does that? In two years of watching this is the first time I have been there when it posts. I am headed into work so I must pause for my shift.. you had better not make the classic mistakes that I expect you likely will 42..
I theorize rather than pullies, they used a wooden wedge system. You build a platform underneath the stones, wedge new pieces of wood into each corner, re-position the base another inch higher - and they moved this thing upward inch by inch very slowly by repeatedly cramming wooden wedges underneath, then jacking it up another mm.
14:13 This pebble idea only works on a modern solid road, ancient muddy fields would be totally out the question.
Any hard surfaces, I think you missed the point it’s not about the road or the boulders, its the technique if you find your pebble is sinking into the dirt get a bigger pebble or extend the feet, could even figure out a way to flatten the bottom surface of said pebble to help prevent it from sinking into the dirt. Not to mention assuming they used the same path multiple times this would harden the dirt, for example my grandmother still had dirt floors in her house when I was growing up the floors where so packed down over years of walking on them that they were hard and smooth like cement.
And remember, everything can be used as a tool and every tool has multiple uses
I never cease to find myself in awe by Thoughty2's dedication of going out there and filming everything.