Death Valley's Racetrack Playa, The Sailing Stones

[crashingtingler]

Does anyone know who plays this song?! its damn good.

[kinanfahham]

@crashingtingler The band is called: What The Blood Revealed.

The track is called: Evolution Is Not A Theory.

[StevenSukovich]

I want somebody to leave a big round stone out there and see what it does. 

[fredy4312]

i solved it!... those are Chuck Norris's pet rocks! xD

[Xsellent]

It has to be some magntic force

[makalalli]

i've got just one question... where the hell are they going :D

[nakamine1713]

cool tunes

[Jacob2011M]

What is the name of the song?

[beautiqueen081]

im gonna go lazy about moving the camera

[Nega888]

Good Soundtrack

[ECaps1000]

I want one as a pet!!!

[danieljanca]

yea, why not put a bunch of cameras and devices even for years there.

[TheMylarProductions]

It's called the sailing stones because it's actually sailing...

[drulli6]

why doesnt someone put down a camera and some measuring devices (wind - magnetic and such) and leave it there for a year to find out why they move.

[Xiphos151]

@drulli6 because that would actually be helpful

[L33W41K41]

Wiki and you shall find the answer.

[mcdonkey500]

I call bullshit on this

[MsSweaters]

Wow so how does this happen? and why is the ground like it is? Was there ever a lake there or what

[danh002]

@MsSweaters

More like a seasonal pond that freezes. High winds push the ice that is floating on the pond and has frozen to the tops of the rocks.

As the wind changes, the captured rocks are drug along the bottom of the pond making the groves.

[canonxsi79]

this place is awesome 

[nintyceo1]

What song is that?

[cowbellpeaceprize]

I wonder why no one has set up a web cam there to see what happens. The ice theory sort of makes sense, but why not see it live via webcam?

[guitarlawyer75]

Please, tell me which song is this. It's quite hypnotic

[KingKongsFingers]

Solved, as usual nothing supernatural about it

[Flabbergast101]

SHIT! the humans are back! quick! everyone stop moving!

[jordan91619]

Can you please give me this song?!?!

[TafTabTah]

"The rocks move over years at a time. Some only move once a decade and others every winter. Studies have shown that the rocks only move during the winter and not during the summer" It would be sweet if the stones did this on their own...but they don't...

[gunchibaiyya]

The mystery has been solved. When the snow melts, or there is a rain on the mountains, a lake is formed that rapidly moves. It freezes at night, and the ice flows shifting the rocks. This is not my theory, but as depicted in the following video:

watch?v=u1hoiHvOeGc

[helltrackrider]

These rocks move every time Chuck Norris sneezes.

[5q]

@helltrackrider Wow, I can't even imagin' when He fart... :D :D :D

[DamonSaesee]

Someone just pushed it across people. I can't believe everyone.

[madmax2069]

/watch?v=u1hoiHvOeGc&feature=r­elated

[JYK1002]

does anyone know how fast these things go or how far they travel in a year somthing

[artconva]

@JYK1002 I've heard they can go as fast as 15mph in a good day with optimal conditions !

[sashecrowell]

Its almost as if the stones are "going" some where. I think its an unexplained supernatural, magnetic phenomena. Call me crazy but I love stuff like this.

[glowgrl67]

Can anyone visit there?

[darkangelblood]

is it possible that the ground shifts up and down in some places causes the stones to move at a downward angle then it shifts again causing the stones to move in another direction? just wondering if anyone has tried putting a level there and checking for consistantcy in the grounds base or anything?

[SSkotte]

@darkangelblood The ground would have to shift close to 45 degrees to break inertia. Unlikely.

[DjLumbee]

If the rocks were gliding on a layer of thin ice, as some theories suggest, then I don't think there would be such a deep impression in the dirt. That's just my uneducated opinion though. :)

[CassiusChrysanthe]

well maybe someone has anti-gravity device of some kind and his only fun with it is this aplication. and let's world know about it this way. who knows... but deffinitely an interesting phenomenon.

[ddpro666]

ffs just record some rocks with a video camera and you'll understand you thick science c**ts

[Ampora]

said to be solved (with interesting comments)

=> onemansblogDOTcom/2007/09/06/d­eath-valleys-sailing-stones-my­stery-solved/

[tipmaster]

proove this one science.....

[rbishop]

Big deal, it's cool from pics. It's just the heavy strong winds pushing the rocks on very wet, slippery, and icy mud. Remember how strong wind can be? It carves mountains and valleys. This is nothing, although it's cool in a way. But big deal.

[princesskathryn28]

@rbishop water carves mountains and valleys 

[1Heretic]

Its very simple, they have legs! XD

[louiscarr899]

alien chess

enough said...

[mikeypoo86]

i have two theries as well.

1 the rocks move because there is a larger amount of magnetics under neath the surface of the land.

2 THEY ARE IN HELL and that hell is a third demention. when you die you go to that demention and time slows down. they have to push rocks in the hot sun forever. and it just so hapens the end of the world is near so yeah hell is the earth it's just hell. is the future earth. when everything is dead and nothing is left but our souls. scary huh?

[onimotoko]

@mikeypoo86 Uh...yeah.

[Lockerz4us]

probably its the moon's gravity effects them and make them move just like it effects seas "Tide"!!

[Pepsier]

well you can tell it happens on a wet day because the ground looks pretty hard and they cant make tracks unless the ground is wet ?

[Otispuss2]

This is a great video - thanks for posting. It really gives a sense of perspective on the length of the "trails" and the size of the rocks, adding to the mystery of the phenomenon.

[selty]

Magnetic, perhaps? Is it because of a very light vibration in the ground that cannot be detected?

[aixem]

I just found out about this phenomenon, and it keeps my intereset.... maybe another solution would be the obliquity of the earth at this area ....is it really flat ? or maybe its like a very small hillside and with some wet mud even a rock with several tons will slide upon this surface.

[artconva]

hey kinanfahham,have you visited "La Zona del Silencio" in Mexico ?

[DeadEye757]

they move becuz when it rains there the dirt makes a really slick mud then the wind actually pushes the rocks.

[artconva]

Then the same thing would happen in other places with similar ground and wind conditions.

On the other hand,it's unlikely the wind moving rocks that weight several tons.

[Otispuss2]

@DeadEye757 this theory was "busted" by a researcher from Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. Some of these rocks weigh up to 700 pounds. This group of researchers couldn't budge the rocks in mud even pulling on them with ropes.

[incompleteinsanity]

@DeadEye757 Bravo -_-U

[artconva]

does this phenomena happen in other deserts ?

[kinanfahham]

Death Valley is the only place with sailing stones according to the various internet resources I saw within the past few days. I'll comment back if I find anything.

[artconva]

I watch a video that assures that the rocks move because of the water flow created when the winter ice melts,but that explanation doesn´t make much sense to me.How could such a weak current move a several tons rock ? Plus,the rocks make paths in all directions and not only in the water current direction.

[artconva]

I have 2 theories about the rocks' movement :

1.-Unnown or unexplained magnetic phenomena

2.-Supernatural phenomena

[kinanfahham]

From my limited knowledge, all theories are plausible. Maybe Myth Busters should get involved in explaining this phenomenon ;-)

[SSkotte]

@artconva So what you are saying is that you have no theories at all then.

[artconva]

@SSkotte My theories are that they move because of the ice melting or because of supernatural reasons.I'm aware than the second one seems foolish or ridiculous, but I've witnessed so much weird stuff , that i've become very open minded.lol

[furykanec]

@kinanfahham

There is a few huge sailing stones in Russia. One of them is called Sinj-kamenj. It even walk out to ground when christians throw it to the lake..