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Monday, December 22, 2025

Explanation: Yesterday the Sun reached its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere and from spring to summer in Earth's Southern Hemisphere. The featured image was taken just before the longest night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge in United Kingdom.

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... There, through stones precisely placed 4,500 years ago, a 4.5 billion year old large glowing orb is seen setting.

Even given the precession of the Earth's rotational axis over the millennia, the Sun continues to set over Stonehenge in an astronomically significant way. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-22 12:29 PM | Reply

Stones erected over 4,000 years ago, and they still have the Solstice timing correct?

You have to admire that level of intelligence.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-22 08:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Meh... ancient intelligence is frowned upon these days; apparently it's considered a total coincidence that knowledge from 4,000 years ago could in any way be relevant today.

It's the conceit of modernity.

www.google.com

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-22 08:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

... It's the conceit of modernity. ...

I agree.

The "they knew nothing back then" syndrome.

Yet, the article, and its photo, seems to pose a differing view.

And, if I may be so bold to ask...

What artifacts are currently being built by humanity that might last for 4000 years into the future?

What might the Stonehenge we are building be?




#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-22 08:51 PM | Reply

I can think of a few candidates...

strip mined lands, plasticized oceans, unbearable climates, exploitive dirty energy... AI Masters of the Universe?

Nothing like Stonehenge comes to mind.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-22 09:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

[sigh] One of the few channels I willingly communicate with:

FULL FUNCTION OF TEOTIHUACAN PYRAMID COMPLEX - LIQUID MERCURY GOLD & SILVER EXTRACTION: EPISODE 177 The Land of Chem 7.3K views 2 days ago

Just an update.

#6 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-22 09:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

RLR

One of my college profs, anthropology I think it was, worked at the digs in Teotihuacan in the 1970s, and brought back paper scroll copies of the murals and language images that were found there... we moved all the desks and would roll them out on the floor to study.

It was very cool at the time.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-22 10:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#6 ... TEOTIHUACAN PYRAMID COMPLEX ...

Related ...

Teotihuacan
en.wikipedia.org

... Teotihuacan (/teotiw'kn/;[1] Spanish: Teotihuacn, Spanish pronunciation: [teotiwakan] "; Classical Nahuatl: Tethuacn Classical Nahuatl pronunciation: [te.otiwakan] ") is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley[2] of the Valley of Mexico, which is located in the State of Mexico, 40 kilometers (25 mi) northeast of modern-day Mexico City.[3]

Teotihuacan is known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas, namely the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon. Although close to Mexico City, Teotihuacan was not a Mexica (i.e. Aztec) city, and it predates the Aztec Empire by many centuries. At its zenith, perhaps in the first half of the first millennium (1 CE to 500 CE), Teotihuacan was the largest city in the Americas, with a population of at least 25,000,[4] but has been estimated at 125,000 or more,[5][6] making it at least the sixth-largest city in the world during its epoch.[7] ...


#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-22 10:14 PM | Reply

@#2 ... Stones erected over 4,000 years ago, and they still have the Solstice timing correct? ...

Yeah.

Wow.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-22 10:17 PM | Reply

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