Imagine if Stonehenge wasn’t a prehistoric marvel of lost engineering talent, but rather a problem to be solved by Swedish ingenuity!
That’s what the Hënj is, as composed at How To Be A Retronaut, where you can also see the latter stages of construction.
(via Neatorama)
Wow, no matter how intense I think any hobby of mine will ever be, it will never be as intense as maneuvering 20,000 pounds of concrete into a replica of Stonehenge.
It’s a cool idea to “teeter-totter” it up there. And I’ve heard dumber ideas about how they built Stonehenge (the Far Side comic was my favourite). I guess this proves the rule that if you have a lever long enough, you could move the world.
(via Atomic Robot)
