Certainly <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> On Salisbury Plain in England stands Stonehenge. Long before Oetzi began his final ascent into the mountains it stood as a very accurate timepiece created by multiple generations with increasingly complicated and varied functions. One of these is recording periodic lunar eclipses modern astonomy wasn't even fully aware of. It seems the observations to recognise this one phenomenon took a few generations just to figure it out! Some archaeologists get all constipated over the 'why' of some things. Was Stonehenge an agricultural calender, religous clock or ancient public works project to keep the economy robust? I don't care much. But I am fascinated by a society that could come together and do something like this instead of trashing the planet like some heir to his parent's fortune who just received the last $10,000 and runs back to the club to spend it. It seems to me we've pushed the Post Copernican mechanical model of creation about as far as our hubris can. Maybe humanity should 'goof off' for oh, a thousand years, let Nature recover while we build Stonehenges to talk to whales and the guys and gals on Alpha Centaurie: Throw the Ipods, Gameboys etc. into giant communal bonfires, sit down under the stars reappearing after the sick haze of artificial light finally dies and- talk to each other and tell stories <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />