Stonehenge is something that has fascinated many of us for most of our lives. How was it built by a primitive people? How has it withstood the test of time? Was it really an elaborate calendar and stellar observatory?

We can only guess at these questions, but one man thinks he’s found the method employed by those ancient people.

That said, the power of the mind continues to astound me. Wally Wallington, using just his own muscle power and gravity, can easily move 100-metre long barns and Stonehenge-sized rocks. Oddly enough, he’s just a retired worker who loves finding simple and creative solutions to some of the questions that plague us when thinking about how to move heavy items. While this might not be the actual method employed by the ancient people of Stonehenge fame, it has certainly gotten quite a few intelligent people thinking about the subject once again.

This is a great argument for using the power of the internet to scour for ideas. Not only for answers to our difficult questions (”How can I build my own Stonehenge on a shoe-string budget?”), but for answers to almost everything that we can’t immediately think of ourselves. There are billions of people on this planet, each with a different way of looking at problems. By tapping into the pool of human ingenuity, we can find better solutions to the problems that plague our world.

  • How can we continue to feed the coming generations?
  • What can we do about the limited fresh water supplies that will soon become war-triggers?
  • What can we do to scrub carbon from our atmosphere and eject it from the Earth? (Carbon sinks are foolish)

These questions, and millions of others, could be asked and answered on the internet. Thanks to the power of modern search engines, it’s pretty easy to find these solutions, as well. The biggest problem, of course, is knowing what to ask.

What do you think of Wally Wallington’s idea? Is this a plausible method for building a Stonehenge?