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Cool Rocks

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Minerals are cool, too.

Be gneiss to each other.

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What Is The Biggest Rock? - Onion Talks - Ep. 4 | The Onion Talks - Youtube (Invidious link) (inv.nadeko.net)
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With so many rocks, which one is the biggest? Professor of Mathematics Arima Nayar explains the science behind big rock discovery, and where the hunt could take us next.

The rocks you have found are TINY compared to the ones I have found. Go home amateurs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO0TUI9r-So

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well I guess I don’t need to look for The biggest rock anymore. Maybe now I can spend time with my family.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ha, doubt it, I know you can't resist the thrill of the hunt.

Ya a vibrant loving family is DEFINITELY going to replace that hit you get from finding a cool rock.

Sure

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a hilariously massive erratic boulder near where I live. It's literally the size of a house and it doesn't even make any sense. Seeing that thing in the forest being almost as tall as the trees around it looks so bizzare. Almost like it's out of this world. It's probably 4x as large as the second biggest one I've ever seen. I have a picture of it somewhere too but I can't find it now. I'll update this if I do.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Big boast buddy, better back it up

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This picture doesn't really do it justice. I should pay a visit to it someday and bring my drone.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Clearly you used the AI app "Rock Enlarger" on this photo!

The only way a rock that big could be plopped down there is if a HUGE MASSIVE glacier covered the entire landscape in an ice sheet hundreds of feet thick and the rocks were transported during a period where earth was dominated by cold and ice and every once in awhile the glaciers erratically deposited huge rocks brought along and smoothed by the movement of the ice sheet as it grew and shrank overtime.

No way, clearly AI!