Floating rocks
Robyn Miller has been following the odd phenomenon of floating rocks.
Floating rocks are an event rarely captured on film. Very little is known about them, other than they float only for a short time, sometimes only minutes, before slowly returning to the ground.
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Riiiight.
Slow boing day?
At first I saw the headline and thought "pumice", then I saw the photo and I facepalm'd.
I can tell by the pixels
You are a week late.
Jedi training area.
Then you'll see, that it is not the rock that floats, it is only yourself.
Not fake, is real. I know 'cause I saw them while riding on my long horse.
Ive seen a few pixels in my day.
Reminds me of photographs by the great Jerry Uelsmann of Florida!
It must be real. It was on teh internets.
From the two rounded cheeks at lower left it is obvious that this is the far rarer phenomenon of the self propelled rock.
Note that all the vegetation beneath has died.
This photo reminds me of the great children's book series The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart with amazing illustrations by Chris Riddell. Sky pirates on galleons propelled by giant floating rocks!
That's what Wonder Woman gets for parking her jet in an avalanche area.
Oh, come on, this is an easily explained phenomenon. Naturally-occurring helium leaches into the rock from the ground. Once the build-up reaches critical, the rock levitates for a short while, until the helium is able to escape.
But, if you put one of these rocks inside an elevator, would it be harmed if the elevator crashes?
Clearly miraculous. I mean, you can even see Jesus' face in the third one.
Looks a lot like Brimham Rocks, down in Yorkshire (http://www.dave-ford.co.uk/Brimham_Rocks.htm). I went there as a kid and a few of them were looking pretty thin around the base; I guess this one just wore all the way through. Damn, that means I owe my sister a fiver.
Wow. Yet another slow news day.
I am about ready to sign this site off.
Too much filler.
This reminds me of Rene Magritte's painting "Castle in the Pyrenees." I guess the phenomenon has been around for a while...at least since the sixties. Heh.
Mr_Orion@17: John 11:35
Even the Bible has filler!
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Believe it or not, helium is exceedingly rare on Earth since once it's released into the atmosphere it'll literally rise all the way up and into outerspace.
And we currently can not manufacture it, we will eventually run out. Which is why when the LHC broke down and lost a great deal of liquid helium, it was notable since it's becoming more and more expensive.
Also that picture was taken in Australian the instant the rock started to fall (since they're on the bottom of the earth, their sky is actually ground and their ground is the sky).
This could be the biggest cavorite discovery in many years.
I tried to reproduce this in photoshop...I could not do it. This must be real!
Fortunately, the brilliant comments for this post polish out the mediocrity.
hey, watch it or I'll hit you with a rock.
But he's not Tim Allen...
She's a witch! Burn her!
isn't it some 9 days late?
So .... this is how Jesus escaped!
It's not the rocks rising, you fools! This is more evidence of global sinking.
@Slicklines To discover the truth, we must journey to the center of the earth!
I think this post rocks!
The only floating rocks are in this guy's head.
@#23,
Don't worry about runnng out of helium. The NIF will be online any day now and then you'll have all the He3 and He4 you want --- as a byproduct, yet!
It's not that they're floating, you see. If you could see them in geologic time, over periods of thousands of years, they're actually bouncing, just very slowly.
I think a Dave Lister quote is especially poignant right now:
"Rimmer, there's nothing out there, you know. There's nobody out there. No alien monsters, no Zargon warships, no beautiful blondes with beehive hairdos who say, "Show me some more of this Earth thing called kissing." There's just you, me, the Cat, and a lot of floating smegging rocks."
:-)
they're coming back, you know.
Aelfscine FTW! Very slow bouncing indeed.
i was for sure i'd click this subject and see crackrocks in space.
Damn you for ruining my morning.
Anyone here got children of a suitable age to believe Aelfscine's explanation? It's *just* the kind of awesomeness I'd inflict on my kids, if I had any.
Myster Robyn strykes agayn.
I like how the face from the shroud of turin (sp) is placed in the middle image.