Krishna's Butterball

[Stripe]

Two questions about this rock:

How did it get there?

How long ago did it arrive?
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[patrick jane]

Amazing. It looks split in half, where's the other piece ? Also, it's just a matter of time before it rolls down that hill.

 

[User Name]

How did it get there?

It was either put there by space aliens as a prank, or perhaps more than likely it is "a glacial erratic that got stranded in a serendipitous position on the hill," and is now "held in place by static friction and the stability of its lopsided shape" as Slate and someone on Quora puts it.

How long ago did it arrive?

Whenever the last glacier flowed through that area.

 

[Stripe]

Whenever the last glacier flowed through that area.

Do you know how glaciers work?

 

[GuySmiley]

It was made by a huge dung beetle?

 

[Stripe]

Here is a cross-section of a glacier:

Here is the product of a glacier:

And here is a post-glaciated landscape:
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[User Name]

Do you know how glaciers work?

Sure. What do you want to know?

Here is the product of a glacier:
http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/hi...ns/5_khumbu_end_moraine_cres_+_ama_dablam.jpg

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_erratic

 

[User Name]

Also of interest to this thread are "balancing rocks": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balancing_rock

...although not all balancing rocks were caused by glaciers, as you will see if you look at the article.

 

[Stripe]

Glacial erratic

So you're convinced this is from a glacier?

 

[Stripe]

Also of interest to this thread...

You're yet to answer the second question.

 

[OCTOBER23]

It looks like Rocky 10.

 

[User Name]

So you're convinced this is from a glacier?

I'd say it's the most likely explanation, but I'm certainly open to evidence for other rational explanations.

You're yet to answer the second question.

How long ago did it arrive? I don't have enough info about that.

 

[musterion]

Follow up question.

Can Krishna make a rock so big that he actually exists?

 

[George Affleck]

How did it get there?

Same way the other boulders beside it got there.

How long ago did it arrive?

Same time as the other boulders around it.

 

[Stripe]

I'd say it's the most likely explanation.

Based on what?

 

[User Name]

Based on what?

See here for info: http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/19/12/article/i1052-5173-19-12-4.htm

 

[Stripe]

See here for info:

That link has nothing to do with the rock we are looking at.

You think there was once a glacier in southern India. What are you basing this idea upon? How long ago was this? How did the glacier move on flat terrain? How was the rock rounded? How has it remained in place in the period of transition from ice age to today?

 

[rocketman]

That link has nothing to do with the rock we are looking at.

You think there was once a glacier in southern India. What are you basing this idea upon? How long ago was this? How did the glacier move on flat terrain? How was the rock rounded? How has it remained in place in the period of transition from ice age to today?

Could have been rolled/moved there by a horde of men as some sort of worship??? Kind of how they got the stones for stonehenge by transporting them there, if they rolled the stone it would account for the round shape & it may have had a piece break off along the journey. Just a thought???

 

[musterion]

Could have been rolled/moved there by a horde of men as some sort of worship??? Kind of how they got the stones for stonehenge by transporting them there, if they rolled the stone it would account for the round shape & it may have had a piece break off along the journey. Just a thought???

That's not what happened.

 

[rocketman]

That's not what happened.

:chuckle: Nice!