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Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of Rocks (Read 4522 times)
David Morningstar
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Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of Rocks
May 6
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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...
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Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R
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really... you'd think that would've happened a long time ago.
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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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Only another 500,000 years of slinging....? Tis a sad thing.
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My God! What will we do?
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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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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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orion-7 wrote
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Rockman wrote
on May 6
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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Darn, I typed that before I read ahead, I thought he was just some mental patient.
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David Morningstar wrote
on May 6
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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...
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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Re: Geologists: 'We May Be Slowly Running Out Of R
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Rockman wrote
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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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