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The Al Naslaa Split Rock formation continues to baffle archeologists and scientific communities!
[Removed] Rule #4 - Misleadingi was searching the pic for an actual squirrel for longer than i care to admit.
Haha that's fantastic
How this comment doesn't have more upvotes is the true question. I snorted and choked on my beer xD
Out of the loop. Please explain?
The "squirrel" is question is Scratt from the movies "Ice Age". He's caused a lot of intercontinental damage because of his nuts/acorns. He once split the continents and causes the ice age (something like that or the melting of glaciers im not sure!!)
Anyways, google "squirrel ice age" and you should be given the correct info to understand the comment/post.
Thank you!
Archaeologists would not be my go-to for information on geological formations. Consult a geologist and they will likely lack bafflement.
You think they will crack the case?
They’ll at least split the difference
They better have some rock solid evidence
Gneiss!
I may be stoned…, but I appreciate this.
It's very humble of you to not take it for granite
Or you shale regret it?
That’s a strong sediment
I believe it was Mark Twain who said, "All you need in this life is igneous and confidence, and then success is sure."
I couldn't think of a boulder claim myself
That put me between a rock and a hard place mentally, gotta think about that one.
It’s a good sediment, to be sure
Dude, you rock.
That’s gotta be one of your boulder jokes
Right down the middle
It's sedimentary my dear watson
Better slate than never.
It’s astoneishing
As an archaeologist best I can come up with is fertility ritual
Don’t quarry! They can figure it out. But I’m sure they will appreciate the sediment.
We`ve known everything about this rock for a long time. OP is just baiting or didn`t even gave it a google search before posting this crap.
It's worse, it's a repost with a different title.
I googled, it seems there’s a bunch of theories but no final theory?
Well yeah that’s how science works. Without a time machine we won’t know exactly but we know the most likely means by which it came about
The commenter claims elsewhere that it’s an undisputed hypothesis and appears to know for an absolute fact that erosion was the cause. That’s not scientific to say we know something when we don’t. It could be the most likely hypothesis but you can’t claim it was absolutely that.
What? No… it is a formation that was eroded and those 2 pieces stood there, right in the split of the formation. Erosion. This isnt magic. Is just how rock works.
This is an undisputed hypothesis. Not a theory. You are using the word theory wrong.
Edit: 'The overall shape of the rock is due to wind erosion and the chemical weathering made possible by the moist conditions in the protected underside of the rock.'
Just, google better I guess...
This is a complete non-explanation.
"... was eroded and those 2 pieces stood there, right in the split".
That literally doesn't even make sense as a sentence.
I found loads of websites with different theories (you know what I meant by theories, stop being unnecessarily pedantic) - temperature related split, tectonic activity and erosion of course + more).
I wasn’t doubting you, I just don’t know anything about this topic and was hoping to find out who says this is an undisputed hypothesis? Articles are generally mentioning erosion as a possibility but not claiming to know that for sure, like most good scientists would that don’t know for sure. Doesn’t seem undisputed anyway.
Any good archaeologist carries around a spare set of baffles.
“Well, geology is the Kardashians of science,” Sheldon Lee Cooper, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Archaeologists hate this!
the wiki doesn't mention too much bafflement
No it sure doesn't
Baffling.
But people love the sensational "it baffles idiot scientists!" narrative.
Probably wasn’t written by archaeologists though
Probably not by geologists either
Maybe OP is just projecting his bafflement onto scientists
Usually when people say scientists are baffled by a thing, it actually means scientists are baffled about how to explain the thing to people that have zero scientific literacy and a 5 second attention span.
OP is most likely a bot.
Yeah, there is no bafflement. OP is just baiting or didn`t even have the mental capacity to give it a google search to know that we do know everything about this rock. And no cientist is baffled by not knowing how it came to be.
Well, I’m baffled. That has to count for something. Maybe they can change the headline to “…continues to baffle a few random people on Reddit.”
lmao Precisely
It does however state that ancient civilization cut it with a laser because they were more advanced
My favorite part of this wikipedia dive: "Joints are among the most universal geologic structures, found in almost every exposure of rock."
Doesn’t mention much at all tbh
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4 choices..
Aliens
Tectonic plate downshift
Ice water formed along a Crack for millions of years and split it.
Rock split along its strata.
Are we voting? I pick aliens.
Lol.. that rock is 480 million years old I think.. aliens might be viable... but for what reason would aliens come down to just cut a rock and leave? To fuck with humans 400 million years later...?
I’m sure there are humans who would do something like that to fuck with aliens, so why not?
Somebody did that shit 2000 years ago cuz they got bored or tried to impress a girl.
Now I’m picturing the guy who built Stonehenge pleading with his girlfriend, “What, you don’t like it? I’ve been working on it for months!”
Archaeologists might be baffled by it—it’s not their area of expertise. So I don’t blame them.
However, as a geologist, I can say that this doesn’t appear to be particularly baffling. A rock split down a structurally weak joint and was then heavily eroded by wind and other weathering factors.
These pedestal-like structures aren’t actually all that uncommon. The surrounding rock is eroded and since the rock protects the bottom from the elements slightly, the underside is weathered less severely.
That is also not 4000 years old. It’s likely a type of sandstone so it could easily be 400 million to a billion years old.
Archaeologists might be baffled by it—it’s not their area of expertise. So I don’t blame them.
But they are not "baffled". Archaeologists need to be experts in identifying geological features from human intervention. That's a pretty important part of their whole thing. Mixing them up is a tell-tale sign that someone is not a trained archaeologist (*cough cough* Graham Hancock).
As with any title claiming experts are "baffled" by something, it's 100% clickbait BS.
Also the mention of "laser beams" wink wink
Yeah, in reality, they are very closely tied to each other. Much like geography. It’s a shame my university didn’t have that many archeological courses available. I really would’ve loved to take a few.
This type of protection of the underlying softer rock by a harder rock on top can also give rise to some spectacular “pyramids”. Here are some examples from North Italy (South Tyrol) https://www.suedtirol.de/reisefuehrer/s/sehenswuerdigkeiten/erdpyramiden-in-ritten.html
Run away destructo disc.
Tanjiro wuz here.
What’s there to be confused about, there was obviously an anime battle between 2 swordsmen that happened there
Looks like someone started a statue, and those are the bottoms of bell bottom jeans.
Take that, Dibble!
Smells like a bot in here
"Continues to baffle"
No it doesn't...
Roronoa Zoro was there…
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4,000 years old? Are they saying the crack is that old, the rock art is that old, or the rocks themselves are that old?
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It's a bot. They post divisive things like this because it encourages engagement by people who need to prove the poster wrong.
Bunch of fucking sheep commenting on bot posts. That covers almost every post in this sub because it's one of the big 5 spam subs and almost nothing original is posted here.
Aliens.
Oh, here we go again with this. "We can't explain it, so it's gotta be aliens!"
It's clearly the work of the lizard people!
No, it's definitely the Jewish Space Laser that made this cut.
No, this clean a cut was made by a bleach blonde bad built butch body
Space Babes from Outer Space
Hey, you can't prove it wasn't aliens
Gotta be. No other explanation. 👽
Clearly chuck Noris was there
He dropped one of his pubes on it
That is the result of a rouge strike in an epic ninja battle.
did the stone split and then the water made the gap bigger?
I like to imagine a bunch of ancient stonemasons bragging about their craft. They got a bit drunk and one blurted out : "Hold my ale and watch this!"
I bet there's perfectly good explanation for this.
Look at the way it's proped up. It split under is own weight
Aliens 👽
Steve from Minecraft
I mean it looks pretty obvious like it split at some point then the bottom eroded away.
5.9
Imagine if it was a couple of drunk blokes that did it for a laugh.
Giorgio Tsoukalos has entered the chat and.... you're not gonna believe this...
That kid did it🤣
It’s aliens fucking with us.
Clearly this was done by a T-Rex with a big ass chainsaw.
I thought it was two pictures.
i always hate when people use children for scale. it's like using a miniature banana.
Like 2 stone tablets. Where have I heard that before?
This was definately the work of a anime protagonist.
There was an anime battle here a long time ago but was long forgotten
Aliens. The same ones who built the pyramids. Obviously.
laser cut
A dude with an angle grinder and a whole lot of time on his hands.
Frickin Laserbeams
Yes
Oh, hey. The rock Moses hit with a stick that water poured out of.
Zero amazement about the rock. Zero.
Maybe the rocks are magnetically opposing poles?? Or I'm stoned?
ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORISTS SUGGEST…
Perhaps in a similar way to this forming
Then again, we all know it was some ancient aliens with a light saber
Why would archeologists have interest in this?
Fucking cultivators
Laser cut
Prehistoric lasers, of course.
I think you mean geologists (who absolutely know how this was formed)
Archeologists study ancient humans through items they leave behind like pottery, clothes, etc.
No doubt this would baffle them, it's not their field!
Ask a geologist - they have a better grasp of these things.
UFO did it! ImET cut it in half.
Matias de Stefano speaks of these times and in fact they apparently used to sing in certain frequency to move and manipulate rocks. To cut them was used with water but I forget the process he mentions. Worth looking into him, he’s great.
Jewish space lasers..?
Cut with Lazer beam, why is that a big deal?
What’s the mystery? Clearly space lasers
It took me a few seconds to register the title and realize I was not, in fact, looking at two side-by-side images
There was one person who just had an itch to do something odd and different. Like a hobby, just meticulously creating some odd cut in some rock because it was fun and entertaining.
Now we ponder.
Moses
Just aliens again trying to impress humans with their advanced technology. Probably jealous of us since they can no longer procreate outside a lab. Said they regret the loss of their sexual organs over time through nonuse.
Precision? I can see the inaccuracies from here.
obvious case of zantetsuken training
Probably a lightning strike years ago
Nasa: We arent sure what it was that made this natural formation
Sokka-Haiku by LawAbidingDenizen:
Nasa: We arent
Sure what it was that made this
Natural formation
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
An anime character swordsman/swordswoman leveled up here.
Laser
Ropes
Wave
Water pressure
Not that impressive. Obviously magic was used.
Space laser. Duh.
The angel Gabriel split the rock to mark the ages of ignorance and the enlightenment the prophet Muhammad has brought to our Muslim land
Alien technology
My guess, water
Shardblade
It does not baffle geologists or scientists. And why should archeologists be bothered?
We need flint dibble on the case.
That's some nice cleavage
Try asking geologists instead. They know everything about the rock.
Jeez, this is like asking astrologists about the next lunar eclipse.
Looks like the rocks got bored and tried to smooch. The one on the right looks like it can run for the president.
It doesn't, but who cares about accuracy when you can have clickbait.
Baffling. I feel baffled
"Biologists baffled about nuclear physics!"
yeah, archeologists don't know shit about rock formations. geologists though, they're not baffled at all.
A Lasgun did that. The fremen are known to use Lasguns to destroy spice crawlers.
That was Tamaboko Gonpachiro!
I'm amazed no-one has posted "alien orbital laser" yet
What's more baffling is how the left side is still balanced on that teeny tiny pedestal.
Couldn't they just knock them over so people won't be baffled anymore
Sokka-Haiku by MarsHover:
Couldn't they just knock
Them over so people won't
Be baffled anymore
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
Well it sure as shit ain’t baffling me
I don't get what they big deal is...
You either believe it naturally cracked in half or you don't, after it cracked, over tens of thousands of years the rock around it is worn away.
Fyi; I have zero education in archeology or geology.
One day it will fall over and it will be a big news story
Graham handcock would say that is man made
When the couple say “We still live in the same house but we are not together”.
No it fucking doesn't god damn just stop with this fucking stupid bullshit already
This could be done with a wet rope. Fabrics become much stronger and more resistant to friction when they are wet. They could wrap the rope completely around the rock and slide it back and forth while dousing it in water to slowly and evenly wear down the mostly soft sandstone.
The guy who cut that has a very steady hand
Look on Google Earth and you will see others in the area 27°13'45"N 38°34'18"E. It’s natural and the crack is what geologists call a joint. You can see similar cracks on Google Earth at Arches National Park 38°46'37"N 109°35'26"W
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That fucking squirrel