My cat would go there and push it over…
There’s not a feline or a man alive who could move that without tools.
You understimate the sheer amount of “i-want-to-push-over-things-energy” of a cat.
If cats could read and open doors, they would collectively go to Finland to push it over with a huge mass of pure cat power.
With some levers, definitely doable. With just paws? Eh.
Also, cats can definitely open doors. Not all cats, but I know a few.
I’m talking doors to the outside so they can escape to Finland to knock the rock over.
I get that’s what you meant, but technically the way it was worded…
And the cats I know are cats who frequently roam outdoors and are Finnish. Perhaps they’ve just not seen this post, as outside cats rarely doomscroll.
Indeed they don’t doomscroll much. See my first point, re the fact that cats can’t read.
Being literate isn’t a requirement for scrolling though, although I do hesitate on how much “doom” applies to things like this.
But that’s clearly an indoors house-cat, so my hypothesis that outside cats doomscroll less is still valid.
The age sends my imagination racing, I wonder if there was a Proto-Indo-European name for it, as a remote curiosity/enigma.
“They say that somewhere up north, half a moon beyond the most remote village, there is a large stone put on top of another by the hand of the Earth Goddess herself.”
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Oh my god how have I never seen this game! Fucking buying and playing today 🤘 thanks for the name!
That game is sick, the mods are too, but I’d play fresh at first
I can’t believe it weights just 500kg! But what happened 11 years ago? Who put it there?
You reguegitated the top comment from Reddit, where this was posted 24 hours before it was posted here.
The tireless work of the repost police must be exhausting. You lone hero you.
I’m sorry that somebody wrote a similar post on reddit. I hope you’ll forgive me one day for having similar thoughts…
It’s bad enough that this post is a direct copy of a trending Reddit post (down to the weird number formatting), to find the comments are also just copy pasted highlights of stunning lack of originality
If you think that I go on reddit to copy comments you’re batshit crazy man. Find a doctor or something.
It’s pretty funny that you think it’s weird.
I think they just hate reddit.
Very impressive from that view! But more stable than that tiny contact point would suggest.
Is there a country that uses a different thousands separator based on unit?
I don’t care how long it been balancing there I wouldn’t dare stand that close to it, be just my luck it pick that moment to shrift.
Finland uses space for thousands (and comma for decimals), so an article in Finnish would have 500 000 kg
Yes, in a lot of places a period is used for order-of-magnitude separation and comma is used for decimal places.
In this title the use seems inconsistent.
It’s got something for everyone.
Right, i think he’s asking if there’s some culture where the inconsistency is designed based on unit. So, for example, period for years, comma for weight.
I think it’s simply an error. Maybe AI generated?
Either the rock weighs exactly 500kg to an impressive precision and has been there for eleven thousand years or it weighs five hundred thousand kg and has been there for exactly 11 years.
Neat. The trick rock has a pet tree
If that was a comma, it would be way more impressive…
In Europe generally commas are used for decimals and periods for marking thousands
Then, it’s a very light rock!
Ha, I didn’t even realised they used the systems interchangeably
Having exactly 500 kg up to three decimal places would still be quite impressive!
Yeah, that really makes those figures more significant!
Better keep it low profile, or some tourists will try some bad ideas.
RIP Sycamore Gap tree.
American Boy Scout leaders.
Or this more recently 🙁
Ruining historic natural monuments is somehow not first on the list of American Boy Scout leader atrocities 🫤
For anyone else out of the loop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_sex_abuse_cases
For anyone out of the other loop.
A stick of dynamite might offset it enough to roll.
I was thinking trucks
Not gonna budge with a truck but a large bottle jack or two might do the trick
I feel like if this was my town idiots would have done it long ago by all means necessary
The name “odd stone” is really deserved. There’s also a pine tree growing on top of the rock
When earthquake?
Finland is not close enough to the edges of tectonic plates, so if we get earthquakes here at all, they’re barely noticeable.
Not being close to a plate does not necessarily mean only small quakes.
There were a series of what today would be absolutely devastating earthquakes in the Midwestern U.S., far from any tectonic plates, between 1811 and 1812.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811–1812_New_Madrid_earthquakes
Being in the middle of the large and relatively stable Eurasian plate does help, though. The Mediterranean region, being closer to the edge region, does experience quite a bit more, though, and some strong ones have historically been felt all the way up here, too.
so if we get earthquakes here at all, they’re barely noticeable.
…and caused by the sea bed rising after it was compressed because of the weight of the glacier during the ice age
There is another of these in Lanesborough, Massachusetts, USA.
Can anyone tell me why the bottom rock is so smooth? I imagine people come and sit on it and touch them both frequently, and that they are two rocks from different places but they each look very dissimilar. I guess what I am really asking, is the bottom rock so smooth because of the big boy topping it?
Likely glaciation, the bottom rock was likely on the bottom of an ice sheet and millions of tons of ice moving over it over time had smoothed it out.
The top rock is probably from many miles away and was carried and placed there from the receding glacier. To me the top rock looks like it is a completely different type of stone then the bottom.
Awesome. That would make sense.
Or some aliens with antigrav guns were like “Hey you know what would be funny?!?”
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Rock is in the floor
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Ice age ends, water floods dirt around the rock away
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Rock either rolls down or stays
We have lots of these in Austria and at least here this is how they became like that.
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This is the rock that keeps the Earth right side up. If you knock it off we flip upside down and Australia gets to rule the planet.
