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Sliding Rocks Bemuse Scientists

Posted by kdawson on from the no-footprints dept.

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.

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  1. Another possibility by suso · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe this is what moved them.

  2. Re:Any word on magnetic influence? by orclevegam · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually, it's caused by the continential tilt. It causes all the loose cannons and nuts and bolts to roll towards California. Well, the nuts at any rate.
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