tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post6581692220927813910..comments2024-01-30T06:35:10.103+00:00Comments on www.Sarsen.org: How technology, not spades, revealed what lies beneath Stonehenge Tim Dawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667360714222841797noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-36485090752090124722017-01-10T14:34:34.221+00:002017-01-10T14:34:34.221+00:00I do wonder just when efficient ox yokes were inve...I do wonder just when efficient ox yokes were invented. If such were available at the time of the building of Stonehenge, then the problem is merely how you control a few dozen beasts pulling a sledge with a stone on it.<br /><br />The control could come down to one person per ox; with the stone on a sled, the whole operation being conducted in the dead of winter when the ground is relatively soft and slippery. Even on manpower alone, shifting sleds is much easier on soft, wet ground.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618328278732100203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-60121572928378563132017-01-06T23:35:22.485+00:002017-01-06T23:35:22.485+00:00and with advanced software they will even be able ...and with advanced software they will even be able to work out how to lift huge chunks of stone, move them and embed them in godforsaken places - just like Wiltshire...which, btw, when will the big stone moving event take place at All Cannings? Richard Bartoszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15367500849154120275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-27241559753277006862017-01-06T17:27:45.815+00:002017-01-06T17:27:45.815+00:00I have heard that working gastrobots are out in th...I have heard that working gastrobots are out in the field - gastrobots use microbial digestion of grass (or similar) to power themselves as they wander about - bit like sheep.Tim Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10667360714222841797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-80859422536652554362017-01-06T13:28:15.210+00:002017-01-06T13:28:15.210+00:00To be honest, I am waiting for the first archaeolo...To be honest, I am waiting for the first archaeological surveying robots to become available, which should become possible with the advances in obstacle avoidance being made in the disparate (but with similar problems) fields of autonomous vehicles and robot vacuum cleaners.<br /><br />At some point then, it should be possible to put a survey bot into a field, possibly even with livestock in the field and no foreknowledge of where the fence lines, ditches, trees and other obstacles are, and let the thing simply get on with surveying the field by its self. Solar panels would make this process even easier, although such a machine would likely spend quite a bit of time sitting still recharging its batteries.<br /><br />The point of such systems is this: very little ground has been geophysically surveyed anywhere, simply because doing so is very expensive. Imagine what is out there waiting to be discovered. Dirt-cheap surveying equipment would enable many new discoveries to be made.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618328278732100203noreply@blogger.com