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Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of Rocks
May 6^th, 2010 at 6:49am

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"A rock can take millions of years to form, but it only takes a second for someone to skip a smooth pebble into a lake, and then it is gone." Dr. Kaiser said. "Perhaps these thoughtless rock-skippers don't care if they leave our planet completely devoid of rocks, but what about our children? Don't they deserve the chance to hold a rock and toss it up and down a few times?"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/geologists-we-may-be-slowly-running-out-of-rock...; Grin

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BrianGrubbs Funditor Offline Joined May 6th, 2008 Posts: 559 Alabama Gender:	Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R Reply #1 - May 6^th, 2010 at 7:22am really... you'd think that would've happened a long time ago.
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Rockman Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1267 Lima, Peru Gender:	Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R Reply #2 - May 6^th, 2010 at 10:04am I´m not sure it this article makes any sense. It seems this geologist has never heard about volcanos, which are producing volcanic type rocks at this very moment.
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wolf197 Descens Offline Posts: 182 All over SouthCentral Alaska Gender:	Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R Reply #3 - May 6^th, 2010 at 10:06am Only another 500,000 years of slinging....? Tis a sad thing.
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13678 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R Reply #4 - May 6^th, 2010 at 10:21am My God! What will we do?
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R Reply #5 - May 6^th, 2010 at 10:51am lmao - but all the rocks in lakes (and I've skipped my fair share and somebody elses lol) haven't gone off planet. eventually the lake will dry up and another will form somewhere else and the rock moving will start again. Rocks don't disappear they just get moved about a bit
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Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R
Reply #6 - May 6^th, 2010 at 10:58am

Rockman wrote on May 6^th, 2010 at 10:04am:

I´m not sure it this article makes any sense. It seems this geologist has never heard about volcanos, which are producing volcanic type rocks at this very moment.

Its from 'the onion'. if you take any of their articles seriously...
Its one darned funny site!

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Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R
Reply #7 - May 6^th, 2010 at 11:27am

orion-7 wrote on May 6^th, 2010 at 10:58am:

Rockman wrote on May 6^th, 2010 at 10:04am:

I´m not sure it this article makes any sense. It seems this geologist has never heard about volcanos, which are producing volcanic type rocks at this very moment.

Its from 'the onion'. if you take any of their articles seriously...
Its one darned funny site!

Damn, you beat me to it. Wink

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timann Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2504 Norway Gender:	Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R Reply #8 - May 6^th, 2010 at 11:42am I think future slingers should be safe if we are careful and avoid crushing the nice rounded rocks when we use them and move them about. Where those future slingers find those rocks should be a minor theme in the greater scheme of things. timann
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Rockman Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1267 Lima, Peru Gender:	Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R Reply #9 - May 6^th, 2010 at 12:41pm Ha! I should´ve known it was a prank news. The idea of running out or rocks is so stupid I feel stupid for taking it seriously.
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wolf197 Descens Offline Posts: 182 All over SouthCentral Alaska Gender:	Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R Reply #10 - May 6^th, 2010 at 1:13pm Rockman wrote on May 6^th, 2010 at 12:41pm: Ha! I should´ve known it was a prank news. The idea of running out or rocks is so stupid I feel stupid for taking it seriously. Thats alright, it put a smile on my face.
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Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R
Reply #11 - May 6^th, 2010 at 2:51pm

Ummm does he not know how those rocks get there in the first place??? Any rock you throw into a lake for one will likely be carrried out eventually by a small river that exits the lake, which will end up on a riverbank, which will get skipped. It's when they get out in the ocean that they might stay there a little longer as I think around here the tides tend to pull em out. Also, all those little pebbles are made from larger rocks and even pieces of boulders or mountains, therefore new ones are always being mad due to falling rocks breaking, rivers running over them, and sand blowing over them.

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LukeWebb Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 801 New Brunswick Canada Gender:	Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R Reply #12 - May 6^th, 2010 at 2:52pm Darn, I typed that before I read ahead, I thought he was just some mental patient.
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Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R
Reply #13 - May 6^th, 2010 at 3:43pm

David Morningstar wrote on May 6^th, 2010 at 6:49am:

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"A rock can take millions of years to form, but it only takes a second for someone to skip a smooth pebble into a lake, and then it is gone." Dr. Kaiser said. "Perhaps these thoughtless rock-skippers don't care if they leave our planet completely devoid of rocks, but what about our children? Don't they deserve the chance to hold a rock and toss it up and down a few times?"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/geologists-we-may-be-slowly-running-out-of-rock... Grin

oh sure, don't mind about the water that we skip over with rocks, we still have it, but it's darn heck polluted.

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orion-7 Tiro Offline Slinging Radishes! Posts: 48	Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R Reply #14 - May 6^th, 2010 at 6:32pm Rockman wrote on May 6^th, 2010 at 12:41pm: Ha! I should´ve known it was a prank news. The idea of running out or rocks is so stupid I feel stupid for taking it seriously. In fairness, i was taken in by the first onion article i saw. They're too convincing!
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