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Huge city was built as a solar worship/mid-summer calculator shocker!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14150550
Posted : 14/07/2011 3:02 pm
how incredibly underwhelming
"sun shines down street with tall buildings"
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americanists will get excited about anything ...
Posted : 14/07/2011 3:04 pm
edit: damn, wrong topic
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Posted : 14/07/2011 3:06 pm
"Manhattan is one of the most fascinating places and this is such a unique event."
Similar "henge" phenomena also occur in other cities with large numbers of skyscrapers and long straight streets - such as Chicago, Montreal and Toronto.
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This is the sort of dumbed down science that appeals to people who don't understand that it would be impossible to lay out a grid of streets at that latitude without having the sun either set or rise in line with them at least one day of the year.
Posted : 14/07/2011 3:13 pm
Cracking photos though.
Posted : 14/07/2011 3:16 pm
Scientists in job justification shocker. Who pays these people anyway??
Posted : 14/07/2011 3:56 pm