Just what is Manhattanhenge?

[mrtrebus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14150550

 

[Legzman]

seriously?

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

The result of virgins having too much time on their hands?

 

[LukeEl]

I thought this was some megalith henge of some sort in Central Park.

 

[STDiva]

Gay

 

[monicasilver]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge

I guess I've seen similar in Manhattan. I it is pretty.

However, when I was driving in the UK and you see the real Stonehenge pop up on the horizon it is startling, even though you know that is where you're driving. Just to see it on the horizon is spectacular.

 

[StanScratch]

Thousands of years from now, archaeologists will be arguing about why that particular skyscraper row was built so the sun would shine through it at that particular time. And, as they are studying intently and close upon the answer, some cabbie will run over them, cursing their existence.

 

[feller469]

so it happens every year in the summer and again in the winter? Earth-shattering revelations.

 

[monicasilver]

Thousands of years from now, archaeologists will be arguing about why that particular skyscraper row was built so the sun would shine through it at that particular time. And, as they are studying intently and close upon the answer, some cabbie will run over them, cursing their existence.

awww, I can't rep you for that!


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