Spooky rocks that move by themselves
Inside Death Valley National Park in Racetrack Playa you can find these interesting rocks that apparently move by themselves. They’re on the floor of the playa with long trails behind them.
Somehow these rocks move across the playa, cutting a furrow in the sediment as they move.
No one knows or can give a real explanation, and no one has ever seen them in motion.
Some of these rocks are really heavy, so how do they move?
May 10th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
thats not creepy they’re just weathering eroding and moving to ’sea level’ or lower ground
May 10th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Are you bored? Why did you moved the rocks?
May 10th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
ok the wind moves them on the glass like surface, but why are some in different directions?
May 10th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
The expansion and contraction of the ground would produce movement as the moisture content of the soil varied. The contraction and expansion of the soil would produce cracks as well as variance in the height of the soil.
May 10th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
The expansion and contraction of the ground would produce movement as the moisture content of the soil varied. The contraction and expansion of the soil would produce cracks as well as variance in the height of the soil.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Where did you find these pictures? Do you know where in the world this desert is? I’d like to investigate this further.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Weird!
May 14th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Faith can move mountains.
May 18th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Mohammed can move mountains too, apparently.
May 18th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I know how they do it.
But I have promised to keep it a secret!
lol!
May 25th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Faith must be pretty strong to move a mountain.
Or maybe she’s just lying. I’m going with the latter.
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
“Faith can move mountains.”
She probably could, but she’d have her husband Tim McGraw do the work, I’m sure.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:11 am
de rocks move by magic, de same force dat keeps de sun in de sky move dem rocks. U show me gravities and I show yous how de rock move from place to place. De rocks de know and someday u know too.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
well, faith and tim are at home now. haha. i saw their trucks in the driveway. so faith didn’t move them.
September 6th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080713.html
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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