Phonehenge–one version

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A rock-and-roll-themed amusement park near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina includes this curious structure, entitled Phonehenge, as part of their British Invasion section. Of course this is not the only type of phonehenge out there–cell phone henges made at home are another interpretation of the subject matter.

It was touch-and-go at first, but we have slowly come to realize that we like this structure despite its obvious failings. It’s only a half circle, making room for the performance space and yet in a whimsical gesture they include three inner trilithons. And there’s something about having each ‘stone’ be a contained space that one could enter . . . perhaps more could be done with that idea.

But we digress. 6 ½ druids for this quirky henge!

The smallest henge?

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Scientists at the National University of Singapore, testing out a process called silicon micromachining, chose to make this Stonehenge microstructure with a proton beam writer. “The proton beam writer, housed at the NUS Centre for Ion Beam Applications, can focus proton beams to diameters of less than 50 nanometres (about 2,000th the diameter of a human hair).” Why they chose to make a Stonehenge replica is not mentioned on the site, but we’re glad they did!

This pseudo-Stonehenge, created on a silicon wafer, gets our highest score yet: 8 druids!