# O rly?

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**Created:** [August 28, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/o-rly/237192 "2007-08-28T00:31:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![squishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@squishy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/squishy)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/o-rly/237192/1 "2007-08-28T00:31:58Z")

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> **[Sailing stones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones)**
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> Sailing stones, also known as sliding rocks, walking rocks, rolling stones, and moving rocks, are a geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention. Instead, rocks move when large ice sheets a few millimeters thick floating in an ephemeral winter pond start to break up during sunny days. These thin floating ice panels, frozen during cold winter nights, are driven by wind and shove rocks at up to 5 m/min. Trails of sl...

  
hmmm… just thought it was an interesting read.:x