I think technologically we probably could, but realistically we wouldn't because it doesn't benefit private corporations.

Nah the modern ones would build half of it. Run it overbudget 3x and the abandon the project at about 65% completion due to increased costs and complications. It would take them 5 years to do it.

I grew up not far from stone henge, although Avebury is the better stone circle. It has a pub in the middle of it and I could cycle there from home. Been on a night hike around it too.

They are good at inading privacy

Surely they have to adjust it twice a year for daylight savings?

Aren't we all

Isn't the big mystery that the stones originate from across the country?
There's no professor under this clown mask so please fact check

Pretty similar to the people showcasing that you can just use rope to walk the mo'ai statues in to place.

It was also rebuilt perfectly in Esperance Australia as it would have looked when it was new

Building Stonehenge today would end up in an ill advised contract structure between public and private stakeholders which would be partially responsible for a cost overrun of ~175% and it would ultimately get cancelled after a decade and a half or so when only ~30% was finished.

Power tools disturb the spirits living inside the stone which causes them to depart and find different rocks to live in.

A structure like Stonehenge must therefore necessarily be made exclusively by hand tools.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa. I have to stop you right there buster. Stonehenge is not "religious nonsense" it is literally a way to keep track of celestial movement and track the solstices. This allowed for ancient peoples to track the change of seasons and properly plan their agricultural activities. It was entirely practical, and very good at its job as it still works today to an extent.

That's extremely not true though. It's what most people waste most time on of anything

Someone built a modern one in SW washington state, although I think it’s just cast concrete. Certainly doesn’t look as nice in person

Stonehenge wasn't religious, it was for a stone age equivalent of destruction derby

I love these videos. I watch them every couple years just to re-amaze myself at how very possible it was for like 2 people that simply understand how levers work to get 50 other people to do an amazing amount of stuff.

Now, if you want to accidentally turn yourself into a "conspiracy theorist," you can also learn about geopolymers, and make the extremely reasonable jump to ancient people in places with the right combination of salts could make water glass and both dissolve and form granite. Granite is an aggregate, so if you just take sand from places where people mined monolithic granite objects, you can use water glass to chemically melt the quartz, turn the sand into a soft polymer that takes a week to fully cure back into what looks like granite from the same quarry.

Works for limestone as well. So when you consider the likelihood that pyramid blocks were likely simply cast in place with readily available materials, it sort of makes you angry at the traditionalists that say everything was carved, and the ancient aliens people.

The dude fell into a vat of stupid as a child.

The french president called the british 'anglo-saxons' but that period of british history ended with the Norman and French invasion of the isles.

Because the polity that survived to form medieval England, and from there the British Empire and modern United Kingdom, considered itself Saxon.

Wessex, Alfred the Great. 'The Last Kingdom' - the only Christian kingdom in England that was not conquered by the invading Danes. Future rulers would emphasize their historical ties here as a means to gain legitimacy.

Must've been built by aliens then.

Try to build the Gherkin today. You can't.