Moving Rocks

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[JOEMMONSTER]

of course, the rocks do have life, im a rock and i found this very offensive :D

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What if the rocks are staying in place while the earth plates or ground is moving?

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Bitch please le wild sponge bob did it

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[MrDanielFields]

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[NatDuv121]

I admit it, I'm the douche bag who moves the rocks in the middle of the night.

[AMRRA12]

RAIN= SLICKS MUD AND WIND = MOVING ROCKS ...DONE!

[cryptoboy2]

This rocks.!!!

[2dittoz]

prolly some naked dude runnin around in the desert moving the rocks screaming "ima believer!" flailing his arms in the air while holding a wet burito in the right hand

[curtsher11]

gusting winds, ice cold temperatures and rain (ie just the right conditions) create a thin layer of ice with which allow the rocks to be blown across the flat relatively frictionless desert ground.

[MrTarzan1962]

@curtsher11 If there is an ice sheet around the rocks, then how do you explain the splash patterns along the trails ?

[curtsher11]

@MrTarzan1962 You really think there is a different explanation than this?

[MrTarzan1962]

@curtsher11 Absolutely. The soil type, the presence of water, and the freezing temperature are all available for the formation of ice lenses, A.K.A. frost heave. The stones are not sliding uphill, they are sliding downhill along with the playa surface. After the ice lenses melt, the entire south end of the playa settles back with the south end lower, and the trails appearing to run uphill.

[XSilverful]

That frustrates me, they have NEVER caught video of them moving? Of all the rocks there they've never just stuck a camera out there and just let it run until something moves. Pft. -.- Time for me to get a camera and head to Death Valley.

[NovocaineNumb]

@XSilverful They have, just unofficially.

It's here:

/watch?v=u1hoiHvOeGc

[MrTarzan1962]

@XSilverful Don't go in the summer, or you won't see anything move.

[robertsalka]

Quantum physics states that object are like molecules and look to find the place with the most amount of energy(closer to the center of the earth) but with the valley being flat and no possible way of lowering themselves they search blindly for the lowest possible are in the flats

[GRUNTMASTER1212]

It's Chuck Norris's pet rock looking for him. Durp.

[Ebvardh]

They move because they want to. What? You got a problem with that, hater?

Sliding rocks all up in this mofo!

[ASTiGBA]

chuck norris did it!

[AnonSation]

Jesus, why hasn't anyone just left a camera watching one of these? I mean like a military grade camera with a generator connected to it? Something like that.

[pokemonkiller20]

you guys the answer is so simple. It becomes hot, so the rocks migrate. DOH

[MykeMetyll]

The pioneers did it.

[ipatchi002]

@MykeMetyll ROFL



[MysticMuncher]

how come no one has setup a video camera or at least a still camera that took photos every hour or once a day or something so we could see the before and after shots.

[KingKongsFingers]

There's a seasonal lake nearby, strong winds push water over the incredibly flat and impermeable ground. Temps drop to freezing at night, an ice crust forms, the water and ice retreat back to the lake dragging the rocks with them. Not so supernatural

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@KingKongsFingers

YEAH Right... Whatever

[PatrikCOH]

@KingKongsFingers The water would destroy he tracks. You don't think the sientists would've thought of that?

[tosgem]

This video just has text copied and pasted from wikipedia, and images taken from google image search put into a slideshow. Nearly 100,000 views later, I guess I can't criticise, eh?

[313gwar]

They Are running Away from Chuck Norris

[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?

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[KilllaCaleb]

magnets do it

[Mr1in1000000]

it was chuck norris



[bluehazedotcom]

its the wind that makes the stones move......the wind is to strong there that makes the the stones move.....its in death vally i guess....there are no such things as moving stones...

[spimovie]

It’s really a natural phenomenon but there’s no mystery about it. All living things move naturally. In the case of the rocks moving or seems like moving can be explain on a simple term. Solid rocks naturally expand during the day, heated by the sun and contract by cold night. The landscape is flat soil the very ideal surface, so as the time went by, day in, day out, expands, contracts, you have a moving solid rock.

[gri650]

ha this is an easy one......all rocks have a grain that runs one way....ok with that known they said it gets really hot during the day....so the rocks heat up so much during the day they expand...in that area it gets freezing at night...been so flat and with a light due to help friction the rocks contract back to normal and having the grain smooth one way and rough the other way they move over the night as they cool down......just like the scales on a snake.....this explains it...

[swstryker]

@gri650 If that was so easy Einstein, explain how these rocks which weigh as much as a human actually turn over during this "expanding and contracting"???

[ThePatricio116]

@Beowolf322 you are the stupid here... most people know about it. death valley california

[david18861886]

only happens during winter low temps, with high 90mph+winds, i would put money on ice & wind. or else its faries, or aliens, or whatever you want to believe

[fancygg]

"it doesn't rain very often in Death Valley, but when it does, it does so with a vengance. Four inches of rain fell overnight before this photo was taken. Much of the national park was closed due to FLASH FLOODS and SOFTENED SANDS." .....just google the quoted part,and click on the article ,you will see the photo too, with some rocks in the water ...btw mostly these movements happens only in winter

[Insomn]

TREMORS DID IT!

[lookalooey]

strap some camera's to them, get a couple inmates from a random prison that were sentenced to life and make them stare at the rocks for a couple of years and give them cell phones and chargers to call it in incase they start moving. lol idk im bored -_-

[Casey5693]

I had never heard of moving rocks before today. They remind me of that episode of Spongebob Squarepants where he and Squidward drive a rock to deliver a pizza.

[wintercat2]

@Casey5693 - you must have been living under a rock no pun intended for your whole life.

[Casey5693]

@wintercat2 I must have. You learn something new every day.

[xoxAshh137]

@Casey5693 LMFAOOOOOOOOOO HAHAHHAHAHA hardest i've laughed all day

[Casey5693]

@xoxAshh137 Was it really that funny?

[xoxAshh137]

@Casey5693 haha yes, cuz i completely forgot about that. and its so trueee (: hah

[Casey5693]

@xoxAshh137 The Spongebob Squarepants thing or the learn something new everyday thing? I'm unsure about what you think is so hilarious.

[emodolltrash]

just read wikipedia, they HAVE monitored the rocks!

[PiRaTe1o1]

There has to be an explanation to this geological phenomenon, I'm positive that the reason has to be either something related to the tectonic movements of the plates in the asthenosphere or the magnetic effects of the molten core of the earth. I'm in love with this phenomenon, it's amazing, beyond words!

[MrTarzan1962]

@PiRaTe1o1 It's been a while since I've been here, but I can tell you that the reason the stones slide is due to frost heave. The temperature gets cold enough, the soil type is right, and there is water available from the springs. The stones are not sliding uphill, it just seems to appear that way because the southern end of the playa is sliding downhill along with the stones.

[Smokie181]

If you look at the rock in photo 0:53 you can clearly see a waterline mark made by the dessert sand. Looks like the water will reach...3-5 inches?? If so, that would be enough water to give some buoyancy and then maybe with the wind and water together it can move the rock?

But given Archimedes' principle (that a fluid will exert an upward force on an object immersed in it equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object)...a rock getting any buoyancy in water is unlikely :/

[Smokie181]

You would need gale force winds..even then I highly doubt it would move the rock. Also if it was wind the rock would 'tumble' and not slide. As for ice...well that is possible I guess but researchers have put wooden stakes in the ground and the rocks move while the stakes remain untouched. By looking at the photos the grooves are very consistant. Also if you look at the edge of the groove the edge is also very consistant. Given that, it looks the ground was pretty wet while in motion.

[Double2Seven]

I know people that are dumb as rocks and are even slower than this fenomena,,,,So nothing special here :)

[astroanu2004]

those rocks are some sort of life forms. they walk with their lil feet.

[ihmen]

they have put cameras to film the rocks but the next day they are always either destroyed or missing

[MattBaumann777]

@ihmen Do you have a link to the article that says the cameras went missing?

[zipang102]

add: doesn't heat also expands matter. But base on the tracks, it could be wet.

The ground expanding beneath our feet is hard to detect.

[zipang102]

I think the rocks move when the soil is moist or wet and then freeze thus the ground expand making those rocks on top move. Now depending on the consistency or types of the soil would moisture or wetness turn into ice thus some of them move to opposite directions. Wind coldness and direction might also be a factor as to which part of the ground freeze first. I think this can be experimented in a miniature to test if that is really the case. I am not scientist.

[KamilahAngel]

It's angels playing some ancient rock moving game like our Curling. Whoever moves the biggest rock the farthest and fastest wins. Sounds good to me.

[mv4eva]

Gnomes!

[567ziodbergZJFDIGAIJ]

has anybody ever tried looking at the rock trails from above maybe that will answer my question of WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!!!

[nathanjedwards90]

way to rip off wikipedia

[thedragonb0y]

How strange. Its not impossible that something like this could happen. So don't say "its not possible" because then your head is more closed than a space ship in space. The question should be "why are they moving". That is a question that will actually get you a real answer. So therefore to get us somewhere to start with, we come up with a theory based on what we know so I'll say "magnetic field" (which was proven wrong I think) and go from there. To discover things you need an opened mind.

[thedragonb0y]

@thedragonb0y But not too open because then your brain would fall out

[JTmedia01]

omg what is wrong with people...it has been a well known and documented fact that the nocturnal animals in this desolate habitat have been using this dry lake bed& its 'stones" as a community Ouija board for centuries.. when scientists pick up any stone they usually find the words "no" yes, or maybe,or possibly a letter or symbol of some sort, Often the stone is mysteriously accompanied by small arrangements of animal "pellets" nearby as if the animal was surprised or startled by revelation.

[motokeefe43]

ok.... you guys found out... i Move the rocks

[pvtoast2]

could have been faked

[hemy1555]

i heard that the water far below freezes and the rocks might side easyly

[bakedbeans1010]

word for word from the wiki

[xxXghislainXxx]

everything is conscious, from an atom, to the universe itself.

The earth, planets, stars and galaxies are conscious beings.

Mountains and rocks are conscious just as trees and plants are.

[b1locat]

@xxXghislainXxx I know I'm wasting my time with you or maybe you're just kidding. But no. Everything is made of atoms but not everything is conscient. You need a brain for that. I'm sure you have a weird persective outside the box type of thinking, but that's your right.

[xxXghislainXxx]

@b1locat plants and trees don't have a brain but they are conscious, you can communicate with them if you want. I said conscious, not conscient

[b1locat]

@xxXghislainXxx Look up the definition of consious.

[Ashlez12He]

we learnt about it today we heard that the wind moves it

[ukhan491]

I dont think you understand how many ants are required to move that much weight. You clearly dont have an understanding on the subject so please stop trying like you know. I dont know nothing of these moving rocks but I do know ants cannot consistently drag a rock of that size for that much distance. Common sense, so yea your theory is flawed.

[philzgreat]

Can Ice heave really explain the different behaviors of the rocks. And the trails left behind? Would they still be there if the rocks were lifted by ice? Are they moving all the time? seismic activity during the rain?

Because that would explain one rock moving while the other does not... I don't know, just thought I'd see if someone thought of that.

[Orbit915]

i love things like this, mysteries that just don't seem to make any sense.

[MrTarzan1962]

The reason the stones move is due to a common phenomenon known as frost heave. Ice lenses form beneath the playa surface creating slopes for the rocks to slide down. Any rainfall while ice lenses are present is enough to set the rocks in motion. The frozen subsurface explains why the trails of the rocks are of a roughly uniform depth no matter how much they weigh. An ice lens forming directly under two stones would cause them to take off in opposite directions.

[howardkevinm]

Ice???? Dude its death Valley its like 130 degrees there year round (whence its name).

[MrTarzan1962]

The Nature channel said it best when they said "sometimes, Hell freezes over." Besides that, the Play is in the mountains, not in the valley. Why do you think some geologists have hypothesized that ice sheets are moving the rocks ? In addition, the valley itself is NOT 130 degrees year round. I have spent time in the desert southwest, and I can tell you, it can get very cold.

[howardkevinm]

sure it gets cold there fine. but death valley gets about 1in of rain a year, how can u possibly get water lol. if there was water it wouldnt be a desert

[MrTarzan1962]

It rains and snows in the desert. Just not as much as other places. Do some research on flooding in Death Valley. You might be surprised at what you find.

[sorenti]

'desert' comes from 'desertum' - an abandoned place. "deserted". it says nothing about water. time to get that cartoony picture of yellow sand and aladin and whatever else out of your mind. most of the world's deserts are quite different. and just another example - in estonian the word for desert - "kõrb" - originally meant big areas of forest with no human settlement for kilometres.

[rentatrip1]

physics of wind & weight explain the movements-

as a low pressure area builds behind the rock ... where wind deposits sand granuals- in front of the boulders high pressure removes sand as wind increases around the rocks- thus the rock is continually moving down a constant micro "hill" and nudges along the wind determins the direction - and as the rock slides down a mini slope it has sand building up behind it... this was discovered by Jack Lambie in the 1980's...

[easrth]

@rentatrip1 who is jack lambie exactly?

[rentatrip1]

Jack "was" the Godfather of modern Hang Gliding - google him... he has endless credits from building the first human powered airplane to designing the first full streamlined 18 wheeler to being the first to ride a "tandem" bicycle around the world - to holding several human powered vehicle records- he helped design the Honda CiviC - he held several records with the soaring society & navigated a VW powered motor-glider to Peru to photograph the Giant Condors-

also flew Planes in movies

[Jenny1954]

BUT...last night on the History channel they had a program called "How the earth was made" and they focused on Death Valley and the moving rocks and all the Geologists said the rocks are moving UPHILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rentatrip1]

Yes the geographic terrain may be so-

however we are looking at a very minature micro "hill" because the sand accumulates directly behind the rock as the wind causes a "low" pressure area there.... the micro hill is exagerated because the "high" pressure area on the front face of the rock causes the sand there to be blown away and evacuated -

this micro hill is not noticeable except by very close examination -

[MrTarzan1962]

The only problem I can see with your theory is that the microhills would be forming on the uphill side, making it even more uphill. Did you think about that at all.

[MrTarzan1962]

The rocks are not going uphill when they move. Ice lens formation, otherwise known as frost heave, is capable of lifting houses and fracturing foundations. I have a picture of an isolated area of frost heave where the lens is at least 18" thick. The southern end of the playa, however, is an ice lens generating machine. The surrounding terrain features shield it from the sun in the winter, and all of the necessary elements to promote frost heave are there.

[etherbingedotorg]

Then they were incorrect. This kind of dry bed is one of the flattest terrains that naturally occur. The lake does flood periodically, and when it freezes the rocks can be lifted up a sufficient distance that, as the ice melts, they slide "down" and forward slightly. The precise mechanics of this are still fuzzy, but only because there are restrictions on staying out there for long periods of time, or installing instruments which would ruin the still quite pristine area.

[monomachine]

the shamman ruled with this song

[lucktr8]

then u better learn to spell "thursday"

[nickkabuletmior]

I have a presentation next Thirsday about it. =))

[Geistertramper]

HAHAHHAHA! ha....ha.......hsafoafawfo....­HAHAHHA! you really believe in this ? damn...last week the remote control of my tv vanished. yesterday i found it 13km away in a bar ...in a glass full of beer

[drdotdeath]

Apparently the Rocks have changed speed sorta into turbo mode after the "Roswell Crash" and they say that these are the left over remains of a phrehestoric alien crashing into a rocky mountain being in-tombed for years and finally breaking free to find it's becon

[etherbingedotorg]

Nonsense.

[drdotdeath]

@etherbingedotorg then your a tool :D you dont have to believe go do your own research and find out yaself

[etherbingedotorg]

@drdotdeath I have been there.  Have you?

[Dangerousgal911]

well i will say what i want ..if u dont like it then dont spend ur precious time replying my comments..

optemoz. ok mr. smart if u think spending years trying to know how a rock could move would help science go and spend ur life in desert studying rocks instead of sitting in ur room hugging ur guitar like dumb and making videos and praying that one day u get famous u old loser

[Rocketman837]

i just wanna say nice information from wikipedia almost all the words, just like school i bet except your teacher never caught on

[DEATHBYFLYINGCDS]

Judging from the profile picture of this video poster, I highly doubt he used wikipedia when he was in school. No offense to the video poster, but judging by his picture, the internet didnt exist yet back when he went to school.

[Rocketman837]

yes your right , i had not even looked at his pic,i withdraw my first comment. but that shit still is from wikipedia

[DEATHBYFLYINGCDS]

Yep it is.

[Dangerousgal911]

ur so obsessed ..why would u spend years trying to know how rocks move .leave them alone ..they r in the desert... it's not like they r going to move to ur home

[zebwalshe]

yeah!

[sjsawyer]

Well if it was an unknown force, then the laws of physics could completely fall apart!

[porkyminch01]

if an unknown force, becames an object of study that HUMANS can manipulate or simulate in a experiment, then these forces are not unknown anymore, the flaw whit the scientific metod, are the limitations of the humans themselves

[DEATHBYFLYINGCDS]

You do know that this phonomena is being looked into by many people. This video poster very likely simply copied all his information from wikipedia. I would hardly call a person copies and pastes stuff from wikipedia obecessed.

[optemoz]

thats really a dumb thing to say... u dont have any interest in science or unexplainable things?? nobody devotes their lives to this.. but hell if i had the opportunity i would investigate it too... if everyone was like you we wouldnt have figured any of lifes mysteries out yet

[tatertruck124]

happy new year

[13AJJONES]

u absolutly could film this over a long time. why not. ur an idiot 2 think it cant b fimed.....that guy spent 7 years studiing it

but aint smart enough 2 buy a camera.