26 points bookofjoe 3 days ago 17 comments
dmichulke 1 hour ago | parent
25-tonne stones for 18km in case you wondered
robertlagrant 1 hour ago | parent
For anyone confused, British people would generally use tonnes (or tons, but maybe not know the difference exactly) and miles.
nickt 46 minutes ago | parent
Or about 3 double-decker buses for the length of 171 footy pitches.
gnufx 20 minutes ago | parent
That's not dimensionally correct! Double-decker bus is a unit of length, and footy pitch is too prosaic to be an approved unit: https://www.theregister.com/bootnotes/2026/05/31/the-reg-onl...
blater 3 minutes ago | parent
to clarify for those of a nautical bent - that's about half a blue whale for about 4/5ths of a dozen nautical miles
SECProto 34 minutes ago | parent
Or 3928 stone stones
ChrisRR 1 hour ago | parent
Imperial is confusing at the best of times, but couldn't they have said 24.5 tons instead of 55,000 lbs?
masfuerte 1 hour ago | parent
That's the way they like it. American road signs have mad shit like "No trucks over 15,000 lbs".
thechao 1 hour ago | parent
That's because we measure weight in tonnage.
close04 13 minutes ago | parent
In the EU and UK the weight of the vehicle is on the signs too [0], or the weight per axle [1].
[0] https://hgvlgvtraining.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/weig...
walthamstow 40 minutes ago | parent
Surely they don't actually like drill bits measured in fractions of an inch, do they?
cjs_ac 1 hour ago | parent
Also, Stonehenge was built (partially) from parts of other stone circles, from as far away as Wales: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56029203
hashim 16 minutes ago | parent
The word for this structure is apparently a menhir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhir. The article calls it the tallest in the UK but its Wikipedia page calls it the second-tallest. This is the actual tallest, interestingly also in Yorkshire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudston_Monolith.