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Sliding Rocks Bemuse Scientists
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists can't figure out why these rocks — weighing up to several hundred pounds each — slide across a dry lake bed. The leading theory proposes that wind moves the rocks after a rain when the lake bed consists of soft and very slippery mud.
I saw this on TV once! It was this documentary about these very things! They're called Hortas and their intelligent. Apparently they can be taught to mine.
Anyone who has seen an M Night Shamylan movie or been involved in a Usenet discussion about UFO's can readily see that there is one glaringly obvious answer...
IT'S ALIENS GUYS!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!
I got a catholic block.
...nature's version of desert curling?
These stones don't want to gather any moss.
'mmmmmmmmm.... forbidden donut'
GAH! MY EYES!!! Put a warning on that link, geez.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
... that the rocks slide because the lateral forces exerted on the rocks exceed the static and dynamic frictional force cause by the gravity induced weight of the rock acting across the mud-rock interface. I guess I could be wrong and there are worm-holes involved.
----- There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend; those with loaded guns, and those who dig.
but he does hold magnets under the surface of the table, moving objects on top as if by magic, just to bemuse and entertain us
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
is that posting this article in Slashdot is sure to produce a definitive solution to the mystery...
or rather, 100 of them.
Actually, it's caused by the continential tilt. It causes all the loose cannons and nuts and bolts to roll towards California.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Clearly the Flying Spaghetti Monster is moving them with his Noodly Appendage.
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Obviously, the rocks were casually lurking on Slashdot, when they read "Move along, nothing to see here..."
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because teutonic plate theory was just too crazy to accept...
... although it replaced the even more silly Gaulish plate theory, quickly discarded by history.
"All these years believing you're the signified monkey, only to find out you're just a big hunk of nobody cares."
Ironic rock is worse than rai-e-ain on your wedding day, or a free-ee ride, when you already paid.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Yeah, I mean heaven forbid tourists actually come and spend money at their tourist-related businesses. I can imagine they're so glad when all that money goes back where it came from! Then their hotels can be nice and empty like they should be.
---- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"
Rick Rolled while Reading about Rolling Rock Research, by a link Represented as Relevant.
I Require you Rectify this Rankling Repugnance.
Regards,
Ryan
Just -1, Troll talking to another.
In soviet desert, rocks move you?
I'm a satanic clam.