Dromberg looks great and Stonehenge is definitely far too crowded with tourists[0] but with respect to age Dromberg is considered to be 3000 years old [1] versus Stone henge being 5000 years old [2]
I will resist the temptation to joke about time travelling aliens
0 - Why do the tourists have so many Disney shirts, hats, and backpacks???
My attempt to answer question 0 - apart from the most obvious answer, that it's a global megabrand present in every culture that is connected with the global mainstram, so it's like asking why do so many tourists drink Coke and eat at McD's - underpinning a great deal of what Disney does creatively is a collective longing for myth, magic, mystery and timeless stories that reach back through the ages. People who like that kind of stuff (i.e. an awfully large percentage of humans) and who happen to be passing through that part of England will be inevitably drawn to those big ol' stones rising out of the mist...
There's a line between "consumerism" and living a good life. I believe that many people in HN think that well made construction kits with parts that last for decades like Lego are part of having a good life rather than simply 'mass-martketed mass-producted plastic'.
Lego lasts much, much longer than most electronics these days. And that's not just because of stupid lightbulbs that stop working when the company shuts down their servers.
Its a lifestyle that glorifies plastic and results in the mass production of it. Its marketed so well that many just refuse to see it. Its like the tobacco of plastics. One brick can last 1300 years. Do you REALLY need your toys to last 1300 years?
True creativity can use a responsible sustainable medium.
Have you seen toys? The vast majority are plastic (although some good wooden ones are available), and of those most probably won't last more than a year or two (both in terms of physically surviving, but also in the child's interest).
Lego however is a long-term toy that generally does not break, retains interest form kids for years, and is very frequently passed around between friends and family. One set might last years and years and years and go through multiple families and eBay auctions and Craigslist giveaways etc. Lego themselves even run a recycling program.
Sure don't buy kids cheap plastic tat that only lasts an afternoon or two, but investing in quality educational toys is worthwhile IMHO, both in terms environmental impact and educational benefits.
I think you could watch some of the youtube videos the Professor Shawn Willsey has posted about the Icelandic volcanic activity over the last 6 months. As well as lots of cool stuff about the actual volcanoes and lava floes there is a lot of information about the magma chamber underneath the peninsula that is filling up and raising the land in a very measurable way. That's over a time scale of months. I think you'll see it's very plausible that over decades and centuries the level of land can change dramatically with respect to a the local 'base' level.
I understand that land can change levels over time due to magma. What is harder for me to understand is land doing so in a uniform way that maintains a flat floor and leaving intricate mosaic patterns intact. Especially when you take into account the earthquakes that would also be a part of a magma shift like that.
It's obviously possible, but hard to understand how the tensions would be spread evenly as the level raised up and down.
I know nothing about this specifically. To me, it makes sense if you think about just how big these fields are and how slow of a process it is. Changes that take place slowly over a large area are more likely to cause shifts that seem relatively flat at the scale of a house. Another way to say it: at the geologic scale, a tile mosaic may as well be a point on a plane. Unless there is a fault line at that exact position, I can see how the area would move up and down relatively uniformly.
What I’d like to know is how long of a process was it really to lose a city into the bay. It would have happened while people were around, so is there some kind of historical record?
"Assembly Instructions - how to build a Blossom. In our experience, this takes about 2-3 hours for first-timers once you have all the parts cut and printed."
This is just my opinion but I feel it would be clearer if you wrote something like:
For a first-timer who can crochet or knit it might take:
1. 1-2 hours to cut the wooden parts
2. 1 hour to print the 3D parts
3. 2-3 hours to assemble the 'skeleton' of the robot
It's a probability game isn't it. There's a chance of that super super bug given normal antibiotics. But also chances are that any super super bug is going to have a downside that stops it spreading unhindered through other hosts or something like that.
There's always the possibility of a microbe/prion/other that can attack and consume all DNA based life forms. Or a 'nearby' gamma ray burst that sterilises everything within 200 light years.
I will resist the temptation to joke about time travelling aliens
0 - Why do the tourists have so many Disney shirts, hats, and backpacks???
1 - https://www.tuatha.ie/drombeg-stone-circle/
2 - https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/...