What's up with moving stones?

[SamePendo]

What's the deal?

And how come there isn't any documented video or whatever on this phenomenon? It's not as if it were something in the bottom of the ocean! There should be some info on this, but, there is no explanation!

 

[SamePendo]

Also called sailing stones.

I was surfing yesterday and found pictures of this on area51 sites, looked it up, and turns out, there is no real information on it.

 

[piranha45]

maybe its gods way of saying we should believe in jesus~




/sarcasm

 

[Deep Dish]

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[horaholic]

I have been to a playa, (the Burning man Playa, not the one in the picture)and I know firsthand how hard the wind blows out there. The playa is basically four hundred miles of dried prehistoric fish-shyt. Its very fine and soft, but it is a sun-baked crust, which means it could be a hoax. One could drag the rocks, and not leave footprints. That seems more likely than the wind blowing them. I think if the wind did manage to blow them, it would be on top of the crust, rather than leaving a trail, as though they were dragged. Who knows, though. Maybe they do move, somehow. WTF do we know?

edit:

Now that I've read a little more of the wiki page, I can sort of see how its possible. If the ground is very smooth, and if it is wet, and frozen, and 90MPH winds hit the ground, and concentrate the force of the wind on the first few inches above the ground, like a hovercraft almost, the rocks can almost slide like an airhockey table.

Someone should call mythbusters.

 

[Alle_Gory]

Also called sailing stones.

I was surfing yesterday and found pictures of this on area51 sites, looked it up, and turns out, there is no real information on it.

You need to read the article again. The part about ice sheets and high speed winds moving the rocks over a period of years.

Just because you didn't read it, does not mean that it's not there.

 

[Desert Fox]

i can do this in photoshop in about 5 min.

does that make me jesus