If you torture the numbers, they'll tell you anything you want.
MrHeuvaladao
"Within a few inches" and gives an exact measurement.
KillianTwew
If you input 8008 into a calculator it spells boob. This would suggest that ancient mathematicians used boobs as a starting point.
justinchinchen
Dudes gonna pull a hammy stretchin like that.
BonnScott
"Jamie, pull up the video of an orangutan fighting a mile."
jimbaker
If you measure approximately, and divide by this, and multiply by that, you sort of get one mile 😂
DS-xgkf
Another case of drawing the target around the arrow. How can you talk about the diameter "WITHIN A FEW INCHES" and then get to something as precise as "105.6'"?
capify
But miles weren’t used in those times. A mile was created because it’s how far a Roman legion could mark in 1 hour. They would have to hit 6 markers while marching for 1 quarter of a day, spending an equal amount of time setting up and dismantling camp and equal amount of time of both resting.
It’s why we use miles per hour to measure speed and have 24 hours in a day.
It’s a Roman measurement so how was it used in Britain 2, 000+ years before the Romans invented it.
anthonybariek
If you take 105.6 and multiply by 11570.161 the answer is Lincoln's birthday 12/2/1809. Also, from above the stones are arranged as if you're looking at Lincoln's hat from above. Coincidences,
Schri
Dude literally said "within a few inches" and then multiplied the number twice 😂😂😂
kclmnop
This is what it looks like when you are walking a tight rope between reason and psychosis.
jacobwrona
"Within a few inches it's 105.6ft" well then it's not 105.6ft lol
dkfromthebay
What's even crazier is if you take 10 and multiply it by 2 you'll get 20. Add 1 to that and you'll get 21. Add the 2 and 1 and you'll get 3. Add just 2 more to that and you get 5. There are 5 fingers on each hand. Think about that.
HooksBill
The mile is an old roman unit, often used to measure distances for military marches . They rounded it off at a thousand paces, which is around 5 feet each. If you look at your own feet and take some measurements as you walk, your findings will probably be similar. The term "mile" is actually a derivation of the term *mille pes*, which literally means thousand paces. It was later redefined as eight furlongs, the distance an ox could plow a field without rest, as a furlong was estimated to be roughly 625 feet, and thus almost a perfect eighth. It later turned out that the German feet used to measure a furlong were slightly longer than the original units, so it was amended to have that extra 280 feet in the original units. Since then it's been tweaked, standardized, conformed to metric, etc.
All of which is to say, this guy is full of more crap than a septic tank
GregFirehawk
He got his degree in statistics. You can make numbers mean anything.
Kiel-
“All the math adds up if you ignore the math”
jeremycoffen
The downside to that theory is that the mile definition was changed in our recorded history so it couldn’t be based upon the same origin. We know that the Romans originally set it at 1000 paces. In medieval times it was 5000 feet. In the 16th century Queen Elizabeth increased it to accommodate many physical landmarks that were “defined” as increments of a mile but were over 5000 feet increments when using 16th century surveying. The new definition was settled at a multiple of 8 x 660 feet. 660 feet being the classic block definition of an acre used for centuries (a rectangle of 660 ft x 66 ft). Which allowed a square mile (640 acres) to be quartered into 160 acres, and sixteenths at 40, and then again into neat 10 acre squares consisting of 10 blocks laid side by side (the latter is what the U.S. still uses as surveying blocks today). These values were created strictly for the British empire to maintain accurate land ownership rights on maps.
But as we know our definition of these numbers changed based on compromises on mistaken measurements, they cannot be based on the same thing. And this all happened long after Stonehenge was built.
And if you’re thinking “well maybe Stonehenge was based on the common origins of the acre”… nope that was defined around the 10th century based upon the amount of land one man could plow using 8 oxen using the newly available iron mould-board plows (ideas mainlyimported from trade with Asia).
LogicalNiko
Wow! That's one hell of a fishing trip you're on 🐟
timschliskey
“What does that suggest?”
I’m still trying to figure out where you got 50 from?!?!?
teveV
Only to be understood if you are wearing a tinfoil hat with a propeller on the top.
