MYTERY: Finland's Balancing Rock Defies the Laws of Physics

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jarasan — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:47:15 GMT

Static dynamics could explain it, if the vector analysis could be precisely measured. Find the exact center of mass.... probably not where it may "appear" to be, 3D static problem, rock density also is not uniform which of course throws another unknown to the answer.

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rdgrnr — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:23:07 GMT

They would have found a way to knock it off of there.<br />Or they would have spray painted graffiti all over it.<br />Democrats destroy everything.

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eddessaknight — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:20:29 GMT

Our eyes and brains tell us that this rock should not stand the way it does in the forest outside Ruokolahti, Finland

Original Blog Entry: MYTERY: Finland's Balancing Rock Defies the Laws of Physics

eddessaknight — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:13:10 GMT

Our brains are pretty good at physics. For instance, you can watch somebody kick a soccer ball in front of you, and you can run to the spot where you and that soccer ball will intersect, taking into consideration the speed of both you and the ball so smart! Not only that, we can look at one object balancing on another and tell how sturdy it is without so much as touching it.

But sometimes our brains make uneducated mathematical guesses, and one of these is Kummakivi , the balancing rock in Ruokolahti, Finland. If it was up to your brain, Kummakivi which means strange rock in Finnish wouldn't exist. It's a boulder resting on a lump of rock in a position that, to our monkey engineer brains, appears impossible, or at least dicey. Extremely slap-dash and temporary work, at best. And yet Kummakivi sits quietly in its Scandinavian forest, racking up the centuries. Millennia, even.... [ More ]