World's Greatest Mystery SOLVED
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All I could think about was “The pioneers used to drive these babies for miles.”
SpongeBob?
Oi
@@angela7014 Yes. Krusty crab pizza episode.
@@Bob-Bob1is the pizza for you and me.
You beat me to it lol
There is ALWAYS a sensible explanation. Sometimes it just takes a lot to figure out what is actually really simple.
There usually is! That’s why it makes my blood boil when people automatically jump to aliens, ghosts, the paranormal etc. 😠😡
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You must admit, that those rocks really moved in mysterious ways.
Yup, and the explanation is always a natural one, rather than supernatural
@@user-mm4nq3xi8lSame here. People usually lack imagination. So they jump to aliens, ghosts, gods, etc
@@CorbCorbin It’s only mysterious when it’s unknown. Once we know it just seems like it was obvious all along
This is a small scale version of how glaciers work. Its fascinating
That is how Long Island got placed.
Not really. Glaciers are streams of ice flowing under gravity.
Glaciers ARE conveyors for rocks, though.
@@HotelPapa100 I was more talking about the effect glaciers have on the land than on what they actually are. It is somewhat similar in that sense too though. I probably should have made that more clear.
Glaciers don't move by wind blowing. They move by gravity
@@yoshiperspectives4880mate i don’t think he was stating the process is a 1:1 recreation of the same effect, they’re just similar man
"It's not just a boulder! 😁😭> IT'S A ROCK!"
The pioneers used to ride those babies for miles
The rock is a seed!
Its not a rock it's a mineral
rocky won the race
My new favorite comment on the internet 😂
You just destroyed dozens of paranormal investigators’ careers
Yup it is.. disrespect and idiotic professional
This is old info.
You could say that they iced it
@@nelsonx5326So is the Earth being round, most conspiracy’s bros don’t actually research things lol
Don’t worry about them, they’ll always find something new, and their followers will swallow it whole.
Turns out it was the third brother, Chuck who was moving the rocks.
And yet the most talented brother could have been Cooper.
With his thoughts of course 😊
He was moving these rocks when he is sleeping
Actually, chuck wasn't moving them. Instead, he dared them to stay still.
;)
So Funny 😁🙂!!
It’s funny how there is always an answer if one ACTUALLY tries to find it, but instead we have so many people go “nope, no need to scientifically look into it, I think it’s aliens therefore it is” 😂
“So, after rain or snow the rocks ‘mysteriously’ move….YUP, definitely aliens!” 😅
One untenable answer deserves another. It was aliens. But, why would they waste their time dragging rocks around, or flashing lights, or etc!
That's exactly what we'd expect an alien to say. We're onto you.
I absolutely love to think the rocks were just uncomfortable and moved to a better spot
All of your followers are hoping for your recovery. We miss you.
I don't know what happened, but I saw similar comments on a video from 6 months ago... what happened to her?
Okay, I just had to go one yt short backwards... I feel terrible about her condition, but she seems to have good spirits about it all. She seems very strong.
Basically long Covid. She has been horribly debilitated. Last I have seen she is recovering an inch at a time.@@AllyMind5Star
@@AllyMind5StarComplications from long COVID.
@@nilssonakerlund2852she has ME/CFS, a form of long covid. It’s a very disabling condition that unfortunately few fully recover from. Praying for her (I have the disease myself)
Speedy recovery for you 🙏🏼
If truly sick I pray for a recovery as well, but speedy has already passed. I'm almost 50 years old, so speaking from experience in what I'm about to say. I honestly worry that at this she is grifting or depressed.
Perhaps she just got scared of the world after the pandemic and the following societal unrest, falling in to a deep depression (been there for other reasons). Or perhaps she went though some sort of psychological issues as a result of getting married; the timing to too perfect to logically dismiss this possibility. Or perhaps she just loves how much her husband is pampering her after getting sick. Honestly at this point, because of the rarity of this combine with her popularity; only 100's of pages of medical test results and reports would begin to convince me.
Then to get Destin, the sweetest man on TH-cam, to speak on behalf of her; seemed suspicious. If this, never goes away and there is no way to treat; I'd think the media would be screaming this.
I'm not trying to discourage anyone from supporting Diana; I'm just stating why I would find it difficult to support her.
bad take, keep it to yourself next time@@AutisticThinker
@@AutisticThinker
Delete this. You don't know either of these individuals, and you have a very cynical view of the world apparently.
Further, you fail to understand that this is a rare condition, and it shows because i cannot think of another person on any social media or that i know in real life that is suffering how she is.
Get some therapeutic help.
@@AutisticThinkerDude she has me/cfs, a lot of people have had it and it’s well documented how it affects you. The probability that she would fake the entire thing is negligible.
@@AutisticThinkerplease educate yourself first about long covid. It’s a physical illness. This week a study came out in the Netherlands with evidence that it’s indeed physical. I myself have long covid for the last 3,5 years and I’m not depressed. Nobody want to lay in bed all day. Please don’t make assumptions, it hurts a lot!
Before explanation : How the rock moved?😮
After explanation : How the track remained intact? 😮
The water evaporated. That can still leave the track behind.
@@faxmine still the "track" is the bigger question then "rock". My point is she should explain the "track" also. 😊
@@patrioticram5979 think about it for two seconds and you can arrive to that conclusion.
Do you... need someone else to tell you that the water evaporated in order to get there??
@@faxmine so, you need someone to tell you the rock just moved. Ok.
Why would the track disappear?
I can't wait for her to get better and back to teaching us amazing stuff. Miss you physics girl
It's not just a boulder, it's a rock
The pioneers use to ride those babies for miles
Hahaha you know that is the only episode that squidward stood up for SpongeBob I believe
It's a shrock.
@@sunflowergrl79asmr86 It's rare but there were more times. When the dutchman wanted crabs soul and when squidward wanted to see that weird lily that plays the clarinet when it blooms. 2 episodes where he tried to stick up for him again. There are other episodes but I can't immediately think of them.
@@Bob-Bob1 oh ok
Love the CLEAR and FAST explanation on this. When I looked into this months or years ago, they always say it's because of the water flow itself without any mention of ice!
yeah it seems like no one even tried untill these people tried lol
Dessert,ice,wind AND melting. We know that un India the produced ice. Is this how they moved huge rocks for early construcción.....hint hint
It’s a really more complicated explanation. To get to this step, she says some little girl was involved, even. Her TH-cam channel has the full story. And, yes. The solution is so recent as to not be ‘common knowledge’ yet.
@Nastyn1nja808 yea scientists don't know as much as they claim lol they are biased as well
So this is why/how creepy mannequins seem to follow me everywhere, but never move when I'm looking at them. Hah, the more you know!
They're all wrong. I moved them.
Not only that explanation, but the morning dew is often quite prolific, and the moisture creates enough of s sheen on the mud to allow the wind to move the rocks like a sail! My grandfather used to tell me about the sailing rocks of Death Valley when I was a 5 year old. He even took me out to the valley floor and we watched the amazing sight in person. That was nearly 55 years ago, in another El Niño year!
The moisture and wind can sail the rocks? Have you measured the speed of those winds,, am just curious about it
Then the mud composition must have a slimy film of clay or similar that's rare, or this would be happening all over.
Also the wind must not have a dominant direction, or rocks would be predominantly deposited along one border of the flat, where they'd keep each other from being blown out again.
Oh! Oh! Aliens or spirits are STILL essential: somebody has to move the rocks out into the middle again without leaving evidence, right? What. Just stating the obvious. Occam's razor.
@@somerandomuserfromootooob It seems like there would be more factors than significant wind speed.
The pioneers used to ride those rocks.
Keep getting better Diana
Finally a big brain in here.
I remember back when this was still a mystery, and in class I remember being asked why the rocks were doing this, and one of the kids in the class said it was a sign of God.
@@netherman1325 everything unexplainable (yet) has always been entrusted to godly beings. That's how humanity has done things since we started speaking to one another.
@@robertwolfganHell, even things that are _so_ explainable that entire fields of science use the explanations to make accurate _future_ predictions (e.g.: evolution & heliocentrism), and make technology that _directly benefits_ all of us in the present day - people _still_ say it's really the gods casting magic spells, or Sătân playing tricks. 🤦
I’m glad someone thought of the SpongeBob episode
Sending love and hope to you and your family ! You’ll get thru this ❤
My pet rock grew up and moved on. I'm proud
Mine too ! I'll never forget Herman
Hope he had a happy life😘
Omg I interned for Dr Richard Norris’s micro paleontology lab my senior year of high school! Such a trip to see him pop up in a YT shorts vid so many years later
Did you happen to ask him if he's related to Chuck Norris?
Hope she’s doing ok. Here’s to a speedy recovery
nah it was actually just me, i was moving the rocks
I hope you’re getting better everybody’s rooting for you
She's better! As you can see in the video! She sounds a little bit more lethargic than normal but wow such a huge recovery in so fast!
@@kagaika she’s been very very sick for a long time. I don’t think she’s gonna make a new video for a little while. Ask her husband.
@@AtticusHimself It's old footage
@@AtticusHimself
It's an old video from before. They just reposted it. But I really hope she gets better and goes back to normal.
@@AtticusHimself
It's an old video from before. They just reposted it. But I really hope she gets better and goes back to normal.
That is the same reason there are rocks the size of a small car in the middle of fields of Illinois. 66 million years ago giant ice glaciers pushed the car size rocks. When ice receded the rocks stayed in place.
Yes, it happens in all glacial fields. I knew that it was ice that was causing these rocks to move since I was young (I was extremely into geology (and still am) growing up. I’m just shocked it took anyone this long to actually confirm that’s what was causing it. It’s literally the same exact type thing.
Not same at all. The playa rocks gets pushed by winds mostly, even the little ice that coats the surface. Glacial debris gets scraped along the bottom of hundreds of meters of solid ice that move from their sheer weight.
Erratics
The fact that ice is causing this desert phenomenon is, well… phenomenal 😍🤩
Perfect troll laugh as he runs away
I love the full version of this video so much! Sending Dianna, her husband, and her loved ones extra strength. 💖
Get well soon Dianna, we love you!
This is so fascinating because I learned about this playa in my college geology class in 2009 and that it had never been solved. Just 5 years later it was solved!
Wow well done for finding out the simple explanation for this strange phenomenon
You got this Dianna! We're here for ya😊
Nature moves the rocks, while Dianna moves our hearts and minds.
❤
And this is world's greatest mystery, LMFAO!
Saw it many years ago on discovery, finally you cleared mystery
I remember reading a book in my elementary school that explained this phenomenon. That was back in 1979. It was one of the many reasons I drove to Death Valley many years later.
“It couldn’t have just grown legs and walked away!”
no, it would have left footprints not tracks 😂
We miss you Physics Girl. Get better soon.
Well, Patrick's rock won a marathon.
Just found this incredible channel and unfortunately also about Diana’s illness. She seems like an incredible person and hopefully she’s going to be back doing what she loves in no time. ❤
Back in 2009 I came to know about the death valley rocks and now it came to me with this simple explanation.
Get well soon ❤
We love you Dianna! Hope you’re feeling better every day ❤
Having been well-aware of the effects of wind shear on ice on northern Minnesota lakes to the extent that the ice occasionally bulldozes homes dozens of feet away from the lake shore, this was the first thing I thought of.when I saw a dried lake bed.
This is an awesome story.
I hope you are feeling better. You rock.
Prayers on a speedier recovery
Get well soon @physicsgirl!
Thank you Physics Girl. I didn't ever think of that and wonder why those occurred.
This feels like one of those mysteries that, when you don't know the answer, you feel it's a serious mystery, but the moment someone says it, you just go "...well duh."
Moving Ice Sheets helped shape the World during the Ice Ages using rocks to sculpt the landscape we are surrounded by today, sometimes people look for more complicated reasons/explanations for an event then what happened, but it was a really good idea to put GPS devices in the rocks and Cameras out to record the movement of the rocks and show them moving as it happened, Well done to all involved
Wishing you well Diana, fam, and team
This was theorised in the 80's.
Good to see someone has nailed it down using GPS and camera to catch the moment🎉
I’m equally fascinated that the tracks are actually visible and survive all the movement and they don’t just disappear like footprints in a snowstorm
Get well soon!
These reruns are the best. Keep them coming.
i love how you explained how water gets cold, then turns to ice.
This is the world now.
It seems so logical on hindsight! Bravo on them for finding the answer.
Love this short, a quick reminder to the mystery. Get well soon, Diana.
Wishing you healing 💜
Me: Stares intently at pet rock
Thanks for all the useful knowledge Physics Girl! Hope you are well!
Rooting for you! Blessings and strength from Seattle!
One of the interesting aspects of this is how one of our cognitive biases, the agency bias, is linked to this. We tend to infer as a result the rocks must be moving because they are either living in a way we don't recognize or that somebody or something is moving them when we're not watching, when it is simply a case of a natural phenomena we previously didn't understand.
Yeah, I think this agency bias is very interesting. I think it comes from how it is be better to think there is agency (because it could potentially be a predator) than not so we are biased towards agency. I think this agency bias is where all the god characters come from. For the good agents I think it is because as social animals we feel we need to give back when someone is nice or gives something to us so if for some random reason something good happens to us we have a tendency to think there is agency behind it, that someone did something to help us, so I think that is why many cultures had a god of the sea who they would thank when the sea is calm and would try to not anger him so he doesn't bring the storm.
But something WAS moving them when we weren't watching... it was the wind.
Was it the wind? I would say it was the ice.
If it’s not the ice because the wind was moving the ice then it’s not the wind because the sun was what was moving the are to make the wind.
So maybe it was the sun.
@ecospider5 The wind created the force that moved the ice, which the stones were on/in.
@@castleanthrax1833 The Sun created the thermal gradients that power the wind.
Rock: (makes progress)
Dr: let's put him back where it were
I'm glad that mystery was solved. It was keeping me up at night. 😁
We love you Dianna!❤
I used to read a series of books back in my high school years, I forgot the title (all about real life mysteries). One of them talked about this mystery. It baffled me for years since then. I'm happy to learn that this was finally solved 😊
I read about this from a science catalog around 12-13 years ago, pretty cool
The same things happened during the ice age. The ice grew up from the north (and south) and pulled huge rocks alongside itself. Thus forming huge scaurs and lakes, namely Ladoga lake in Russia and mostly all of the thousands of the lakes in Finland, when if finally melted ❤
I wish you a fast and speedy recovery. God bless.
We love you hun get better stay strong
Wishing your deepest desires and wishes come true!
Obviously the rocks sprout legs when no one is around
You rock, and we miss you
Patrick was onto something fr
You mean SpongeBob?
There’s always a logical explanation. Sometimes, it just requires a bit of effort to unravel what is fundamentally quite simple..!
"These rocks move on their own"
*proceeds to explain how they dont move on their own"
We love you Diana, you are awesome! Hoping you heal fast! ❤
Do you realize how nonsensical it is to say this? Why would she suddenly heal fast?
@@HoD999x I did not say, that she will. I said that I hope this. It makes sense to keep hope. Hope and good energy is the state of mind that promotes healing, in my opinion. Also "fast is relative" fast can be years, if that's the fastest possible. Lastly, you are being difficult for no reason. That is just a way of expressing wishes of recovery and my desire for her to feel better, as fast as possible.
Saying words from the heart is not a science that has to make perfect sense...
Get better soon, we need you back!
My algorithm has been so weird lately, I was afraid this was going to be something about the earth being flat. Thank God it's actually science.
Wow,I have been wondering about this for decades. Thanks for giving me another answer to a Jeopardy question 😂
But, like, how heavy are the rocks man?
Lighter than giant sheets of ice
Keep getting better!
Everytime Chuck Norris breathes, the rocks move...
We love you Physics girl.
Everything still crossed for you ❤
“It’s okay rocky, you go when you feel like”
Fantastic Explanation 👍
No, it's true
We miss you and pray for the best!!!❤❤❤
Miss you Dianna! Keep fighting and we all hope to see you when you’re better. Don’t rush though. We’ll be here no matter what
Some scientists will say we are descendents from rocks as they can move. With a higher protein diet, we started to move faster😅
the weeping angles 😂
Get well soon Diana...❤
This was a great video
Truly one of the mysteries of all time
Get well soon, we need more science from you!!
Love you, Dianna!
Miss you lots! Get well soon!
When no one is looking I go out and drag rocks for exercise
Those are not rocks, they are minerals. DEAN NORRIS 😅
The Pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!
Bro I'm from Iraq and I could've bought a house with that 😑
Today is 20/01/2024
and 1 dollar is equal to 1306 iraqi dinar so 2 dollars is 2613 iraqi dinars
So you can build a house with that🤔.
I would be delighted if you reply.