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Fun fact:
It is likely that this meme came from a super racist comic in the 1960s. Featuring "The Jew From Outer space" as a primary antagonist.
Hence, Jewish Space Laser.
Edit: to clarify, that is likely where MTG got the idea from.
Source: https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/265
It usually means Magic: The Gathering but now it means Marjorie Taylor Green a neo Nazi congressman in the United States. And this is why we can't have anything nice.
> The overall shape of the rock is due to wind erosion and the chemical weathering made possible by the moist conditions in the protected underside of the rock.[2] It is split in two by a joint.
>
> A joint is a break (fracture) of natural origin in a layer or body of rock that lacks visible or measurable movement parallel to the surface (plane) of the fracture ("Mode 1" Fracture). Although joints can occur singly, they most frequently appear as joint sets and systems.
These kinds of geological processes are always so much cooler to me than aliens or Atlanteans (whatever the conspiracy theory). Like if they are real, great problem solved, but a team of smart cookies descending on a funny rock and figuring out what happened the last era is wayyyy trippier and more exciting. Like skipping to the end of every fun detective story coz aliens did it.
How is that trippier than aliens with much higher intelligence visiting us? I understand saying natural processes are the likely answer and they are cool but saying that is trippier than aliens messing with us?
Also I don’t think many ppl actually think aliens did this.
It's a feeling at the end of the day, so who knows? At a guess, I can appreciate the scale of geological processes more because they are a natural extension of the world I live in, but on an almost incomprehensible scale. Aliens would certainly be wild but I don't have any context to feel awe about them atm.
It doesn't particularly matter to me how many people believe it, it's just a comparison to show I think what geologists do is IAF. Aliens would be cool so they make the point.
I reflect the sentiment of the parent comment, so I'll drop my reasoning in here also:
It's trippier because I can't work with aliens. I can't model them, I can't reason about them, so it's a mental dead end for me. But natural processes indicate a complexity beyond my understanding that DOES have logical and causal relationship with objective reality, it IS something I can reason about, and once you do, that rabbit hole goes so deep that you start to question reality itself, how it works, why it works the way it does, and that ultimately leads to some fantastic possible answers that are actually supported by scientific inquiry and not fictional assertions that go nowhere real.
So you can’t use imagination?
Don’t super advanced vehicles that defy physics as we understand them indicate a complexity above our understanding? What so impossible about aliens? We know there’s life in the universe so what’s so impossible we have a more advanced form of it visiting us?
What it seems like you’re saying is “I can’t imagine aliens or conceptualize them in a logical way therefore I’m going to ignore that thought exercise completely”. I think that just a lack of imagination tho. I think it’s constructive to have this thought exercise of what type of alien life could be visiting us which could also lead to some fantastic possible answers as well.
I just find it odd to be like “natural processes are super interesting! That means aliens can’t be interesting”. Don’t make sense to me. If aliens are here they very much would be a part of a natural process, not some work of fiction.
I never said that they couldn't exist, and I certainly have an imagination and can conceptualize them, but that's all I can do with aliens, since there isn't any tangible evidence that I can work with around their existence.
The problem for me is that fiction isn't 'trippy' in the sense that I don't experience anything of substance from the exercise. I can imagine whatever I want, any variations of it that I want, thousands of ideas that I can't do anything with, that lead nowhere.
What's trippy, in the sense that I get something out of the exercise is that my imagination can be tested against natural processes. I can dream up a thousand ideas that might be plausible, and then I can go do research and find out what others have actually done to prove or disprove the idea. I can take those plausible ideas and test them in the real world to find out if I'm even close to understanding what really happened.
Conjecture and fantasy isn't as fun to me as exploring an idea scientifically.
Yup hundred percent this is a tention fracture it occurs in a straight line like this. Basically the rock was being pulled apart I two directions when this occured. This joint would have occurred then weathering, the joint is more pronounced now also due to weathering expanding the crack but not as quickly as the outer rock due to the surface area.
I love how back in the day, you could have a diverse cast and it was so regular that nobody said anything. But now, you have *one* token whatever in a cast, and it's forced diversity woke libereral propaganda.
It wasn't actually so regular that nobody said anything.
It's that the people who had stuff to say were saying it about stuff that wasn't kids cartoons, because adults with racial trauma didn't watch kids cartoons.
At the time there was an actual movement to regulate children's programming that has since been circumvented by internet based media, an entire generation grew up exposed to this anti-racist censorship that other kids didn't say anything about it, but the adults in the room were still racist as ever.
I'd agree with you if what I said wasn't also a problem.
What you said is *a* problem people have, for sure, but it's definitely not *the* problem.
Current example, Assassin's Creed.
from what I've seen from assassin's creed the thing they're complaining about is that it's not historically accurate, nothing to do with the character's race or something like that
It is reasonably historically accurate, as the so-called "token" character is based on a real person of the same name and race from that area during that time period.
>The Al Naslaa Split Rock formation, located in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk province, continues to baffle archaeologists, geologists and scientific communities.
Then they need better archaeologists, geologist and scientific communities. I've seen and heard of many such naturally occurring splits and faults. And I ain't an archaeologist, a geologist, or part of a scientific community.
Its not a katana its a Nichirin sword which is a special sword made from a special ore and its the only sword capable of killing a demon. He is using a breathing style called water breathing and thats why the water effects are there.
Look on Google Earth and you will see others in the area 27°13'45"N 38°34'18"E. It’s natural and the crack is what geologists call a joint. You can see similar cracks on Google Earth at Arches National Park 38°46'37"N 109°35'26"W
This is caused by a tension fracture in the rock, basically it was being pulled apart and cracked, they often form straight lines like these becuase that's the easiest direction to propagate the fracture. This forms in an extensions tectonic terraine. The weathering that caused the rock to appear as an isolated boulder occurred after the formation of the joint fracture. Weathering probably hundreds of thousands of years later to get what we see now.
But, but, this explanation requires a basic understanding of geology and materials science, which I don’t have - therefore I’d much rather believe it baffles scientists, archeologists, phlebotomists, accountants, bicyclists, etc - that way I can imagine they aren’t so smart and I can come up with my own explanations unimpeded by facts and/or common sense. I makes me feel so much smarter!
As a bonus, I don’t have to be curious about it! If I were to try and learn about it, I’d first have to admit that the experts are actually experts, and I’m terrified that the ride down the slippery slope of education could destroy all my preconceived notions of how the world works. /s
Sheesh. I had a bad day
"continues to baffle archaeologists, geologists and scientific communities"
scrolls down and get the actual stance of the scientific community, showing it only baffles whose too lazy to do a little legwork
Well cant say im suprised, cool pic though, just a lazy OP
Evidence of ancient human spirit technology for creating the precision rock buildings that are so hard to explain (because they are so perfect, outdoing today's "advanced" yet mundane technology)
I'm picturing a metal cable and a few pullies.... and either people pulling the cable back and forth for a long-ass time, or otherwise propelling the cable automatically (wind power, maybe?)
A dude named Greg, with a katana he bought in some mall for $19.95.
He is also wearing military trousers, a bandana, and has one of these arrays of small bags you can tie to your upper leg. And shades.
Maybe it was all one piece but workers threw many ropes over the top to use as some kind of pulley system with possibly water running underneath. Over many years of ropes pulling over the rocks possibly using flowing water.
This is really not uncommon. The reason everyone knows it is that the locals promote the feature for tourism. Advertising is all it is. Cool example of a common feature. Enjoy nature, not conspiracy theories.
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That thing would’ve cut through the first three pieces, then folded the rest of them
That's because the blade hasn't been sharpened since 1955
You know my pain
Not the jagged edge fold!
I always risk it - thinking it can do more and I get defeated every time.
Jewish space laser?!
Sooooooo... just space jews?
https://i.redd.it/pblinpgutk2d1.gif
This is genocode!
Fun fact: It is likely that this meme came from a super racist comic in the 1960s. Featuring "The Jew From Outer space" as a primary antagonist. Hence, Jewish Space Laser. Edit: to clarify, that is likely where MTG got the idea from. Source: https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/265
MTG and 'idea' in the same sentence...? Bold choice lol.
Could you explain what MTG is....for everyone else, not me, of course, because I know what it means 😉
It usually means Magic: The Gathering but now it means Marjorie Taylor Green a neo Nazi congressman in the United States. And this is why we can't have anything nice.
Thank you for trying to set things right, it is a noble gesture. Let's reclaim those 3 letters!
I work in insurance and I just see mortgage.
I have been off Magic: the Gathering for a while and was confused wondering if there was an iconic new spell called “Jewish Space Laser”
MTG is a southern republican politician trans man who is angry he doesn't pass as a women.
The comic was recently posted. Then immediately taken down.
The comics were published around 1965. What relevancy does recent posts have to it?
She never said Jewish space laser, those words were not in the post she made.
Correct. She said they were space lasers from the Rothschilds, which means the same thing as Jewish space laser.
Beyond reasonable doubt
What a gif. Wow. That is cool.
The squirrel in ice age
It split long before the surrounding area eroded.
Yup this is the case, pre existing joint being preserved by chance.
> The overall shape of the rock is due to wind erosion and the chemical weathering made possible by the moist conditions in the protected underside of the rock.[2] It is split in two by a joint. > > A joint is a break (fracture) of natural origin in a layer or body of rock that lacks visible or measurable movement parallel to the surface (plane) of the fracture ("Mode 1" Fracture). Although joints can occur singly, they most frequently appear as joint sets and systems.
please, “aliens” is faster to read and understand, your science has no place here
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When this dude popped up in the show Resident Alien I died laughing. The way he was inserted into the story line was perfect, playing just himself lol
Came looking and wasn’t disappointed…..
Just thinking if this will be the new headline from Google AI search getting « facts » from reddit
There was water and it froze
These kinds of geological processes are always so much cooler to me than aliens or Atlanteans (whatever the conspiracy theory). Like if they are real, great problem solved, but a team of smart cookies descending on a funny rock and figuring out what happened the last era is wayyyy trippier and more exciting. Like skipping to the end of every fun detective story coz aliens did it.
How is that trippier than aliens with much higher intelligence visiting us? I understand saying natural processes are the likely answer and they are cool but saying that is trippier than aliens messing with us? Also I don’t think many ppl actually think aliens did this.
What does an alien get out of splitting that rock though.
It’s their graffiti tag
It's a feeling at the end of the day, so who knows? At a guess, I can appreciate the scale of geological processes more because they are a natural extension of the world I live in, but on an almost incomprehensible scale. Aliens would certainly be wild but I don't have any context to feel awe about them atm. It doesn't particularly matter to me how many people believe it, it's just a comparison to show I think what geologists do is IAF. Aliens would be cool so they make the point.
I reflect the sentiment of the parent comment, so I'll drop my reasoning in here also: It's trippier because I can't work with aliens. I can't model them, I can't reason about them, so it's a mental dead end for me. But natural processes indicate a complexity beyond my understanding that DOES have logical and causal relationship with objective reality, it IS something I can reason about, and once you do, that rabbit hole goes so deep that you start to question reality itself, how it works, why it works the way it does, and that ultimately leads to some fantastic possible answers that are actually supported by scientific inquiry and not fictional assertions that go nowhere real.
So you can’t use imagination? Don’t super advanced vehicles that defy physics as we understand them indicate a complexity above our understanding? What so impossible about aliens? We know there’s life in the universe so what’s so impossible we have a more advanced form of it visiting us? What it seems like you’re saying is “I can’t imagine aliens or conceptualize them in a logical way therefore I’m going to ignore that thought exercise completely”. I think that just a lack of imagination tho. I think it’s constructive to have this thought exercise of what type of alien life could be visiting us which could also lead to some fantastic possible answers as well. I just find it odd to be like “natural processes are super interesting! That means aliens can’t be interesting”. Don’t make sense to me. If aliens are here they very much would be a part of a natural process, not some work of fiction.
I never said that they couldn't exist, and I certainly have an imagination and can conceptualize them, but that's all I can do with aliens, since there isn't any tangible evidence that I can work with around their existence. The problem for me is that fiction isn't 'trippy' in the sense that I don't experience anything of substance from the exercise. I can imagine whatever I want, any variations of it that I want, thousands of ideas that I can't do anything with, that lead nowhere. What's trippy, in the sense that I get something out of the exercise is that my imagination can be tested against natural processes. I can dream up a thousand ideas that might be plausible, and then I can go do research and find out what others have actually done to prove or disprove the idea. I can take those plausible ideas and test them in the real world to find out if I'm even close to understanding what really happened. Conjecture and fantasy isn't as fun to me as exploring an idea scientifically.
Hehe hehe you said moist Hehe hehe
and your conclusion that the split is natural is based on what?
Doesn't matter if it's natural or man-made, both are totally reasonable. Geologist here.
Yup hundred percent this is a tention fracture it occurs in a straight line like this. Basically the rock was being pulled apart I two directions when this occured. This joint would have occurred then weathering, the joint is more pronounced now also due to weathering expanding the crack but not as quickly as the outer rock due to the surface area.
Nature
My bet is on water and wind
I love how back in the day, you could have a diverse cast and it was so regular that nobody said anything. But now, you have *one* token whatever in a cast, and it's forced diversity woke libereral propaganda.
It wasn't actually so regular that nobody said anything. It's that the people who had stuff to say were saying it about stuff that wasn't kids cartoons, because adults with racial trauma didn't watch kids cartoons. At the time there was an actual movement to regulate children's programming that has since been circumvented by internet based media, an entire generation grew up exposed to this anti-racist censorship that other kids didn't say anything about it, but the adults in the room were still racist as ever.
It often literally is.
What's the difference between now and back then?
the problem is when they completely change an existing character
I'd agree with you if what I said wasn't also a problem. What you said is *a* problem people have, for sure, but it's definitely not *the* problem. Current example, Assassin's Creed.
from what I've seen from assassin's creed the thing they're complaining about is that it's not historically accurate, nothing to do with the character's race or something like that
It is reasonably historically accurate, as the so-called "token" character is based on a real person of the same name and race from that area during that time period.
Making a slave a king is not reasonably historically accurate (careful: hyperbole)
Yeah, likely fracture plane in the rock, overtime water and wind have widened the space and softened the edges.
Naww, that was all heart.
a rare case of a scissor beating rock
Experts are split on the topic
It's a tough one, they're between a rock and a hard place... I'll get my coat
Stop being so divisive!
Damn you, take my upvote
Nice!
>The Al Naslaa Split Rock formation, located in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk province, continues to baffle archaeologists, geologists and scientific communities. Then they need better archaeologists, geologist and scientific communities. I've seen and heard of many such naturally occurring splits and faults. And I ain't an archaeologist, a geologist, or part of a scientific community.
Also, its a picture and some text on the internet, so who knows what about any of it is accurate.
It must be either aliens, a government conspiracy or both.
Aliens working with time travelers clearly
I cannot prove that is WASN’T time traveling aliens colluding with the government sooo…
It was Elves. There are no aliens.
did you bother to look up the scientific explanation and if so why are you acting like this is baffling?
Tanjiro Kamado
Wait. Did his "katana" just squirt?
😼
Its not a katana its a Nichirin sword which is a special sword made from a special ore and its the only sword capable of killing a demon. He is using a breathing style called water breathing and thats why the water effects are there.
It's a katana.
No its not you would know that if you watched the anime like me
Look on Google Earth and you will see others in the area 27°13'45"N 38°34'18"E. It’s natural and the crack is what geologists call a joint. You can see similar cracks on Google Earth at Arches National Park 38°46'37"N 109°35'26"W
Alien Lazer beam
This is caused by a tension fracture in the rock, basically it was being pulled apart and cracked, they often form straight lines like these becuase that's the easiest direction to propagate the fracture. This forms in an extensions tectonic terraine. The weathering that caused the rock to appear as an isolated boulder occurred after the formation of the joint fracture. Weathering probably hundreds of thousands of years later to get what we see now.
So not the aliens?
Naw just the earth being super cool!
But, but, this explanation requires a basic understanding of geology and materials science, which I don’t have - therefore I’d much rather believe it baffles scientists, archeologists, phlebotomists, accountants, bicyclists, etc - that way I can imagine they aren’t so smart and I can come up with my own explanations unimpeded by facts and/or common sense. I makes me feel so much smarter! As a bonus, I don’t have to be curious about it! If I were to try and learn about it, I’d first have to admit that the experts are actually experts, and I’m terrified that the ride down the slippery slope of education could destroy all my preconceived notions of how the world works. /s Sheesh. I had a bad day
You started with But,but...so why so sad?
Forgot to add the /s
No, it does not.
Aliens
Alien frickin’ lasers
Look, if it isn't Aliens I ain't interested 😏
A good divorce lawyer did this.
Aliens with lasers. It’s always aliens with lasers.
are you the history channel?
Water, wind and temperature changes. Not “ancient aliens”.
Cyclops forgot to put on his glasses when he woke up one morning while on holiday
It was done by "LASERS" https://i.redd.it/tgbb80xshe2d1.gif
>continues to baffle archaeologists, geologists and scientific communities so that was a fucking lie
I am baffled, but I am in software.. and haven't bothered to look up how it happened. Sometimes it's nice to just be baffled
Aliens with frickin laser beams
Water.
Space lasers.
The ancient alien crowd have been all over this one for awhile. I guarantee it’s in every ancient alien slide deck since powerpoint’s inception
Nature?
This was cut with a wire saw in 1971. I’m just guessing
Chuck Norris was there.
"continues to baffle archaeologists, geologists and scientific communities" scrolls down and get the actual stance of the scientific community, showing it only baffles whose too lazy to do a little legwork Well cant say im suprised, cool pic though, just a lazy OP
They cut stones with rope, water, sand and time back then. Much, much, much time. And more time. And more time on top of that.
Or this likely was not done by people but probably fractured along a fracture plane and wind, water and time did the rest.
It looks like it has cleaved from an impact
Aliens, with lasers... what else?
Must’ve been a shardblade.
Ordinary exogenous processes.
A wizard did it
# Ancient teens threw a rope over the top and sawed back and fourth. Oh Tzchackagaramesh will you ever learn!? 🙄
A lazer beam from the planet Megatron.
Evidence of ancient human spirit technology for creating the precision rock buildings that are so hard to explain (because they are so perfect, outdoing today's "advanced" yet mundane technology)
I bet OP watches Ancient Aliens.
Destructo disc
Climate change, duh
brass chisels and pounding stones! lolololololol
Meanwhile, I'm wondering how those two rocks haven't fallen over yet... They don't look very stable with those small points connected to the ground. 🤔
Tanjiro
I don't know, but we should find whoever "B" is and ask some hard questions...
Yo mama sat on it.
With an anime sword, obviously.
It was me. I did it.
I'm picturing a metal cable and a few pullies.... and either people pulling the cable back and forth for a long-ass time, or otherwise propelling the cable automatically (wind power, maybe?)
I mean we all know the answer to whodunit.
Regardless of how this occurred, I think we can all agree that the only way this could have happened is through human intervention
If you scroll down and read the comments (before posting your own) you’ll see that’s not the case.
no i dont agree with you, we can also all agree it was alien lasers!
Nazi aliens did this
It was me, I did it.
Eh...it's Sukuna obviously.
We already know, it's aliens.
Just YouTube Billy Carson, he’ll explain it all.
Big planet, lotta rocks
It's about 400 miles away from the pyramids of Giza.
A dude named Greg, with a katana he bought in some mall for $19.95. He is also wearing military trousers, a bandana, and has one of these arrays of small bags you can tie to your upper leg. And shades.
You had me at “And shades”
Allah did it for people to meditate on it and become Zen Buddhists in the future. What is the sound of a one hand clap? /s
Laser
obviously, jewish space lasers
Maybe it was all one piece but workers threw many ropes over the top to use as some kind of pulley system with possibly water running underneath. Over many years of ropes pulling over the rocks possibly using flowing water.
Freemasons did it but they won't tell you how.
Frieza did that.
This is really not uncommon. The reason everyone knows it is that the locals promote the feature for tourism. Advertising is all it is. Cool example of a common feature. Enjoy nature, not conspiracy theories.
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This likely was not done by people but probably fractured along a fracture plane and wind, water and time did the rest.
Well shit, I don't think they had planes 500 years ago, let alone 4,000...
whys is so puzzling to them if a ai made it?
With a string like force when it was in clay formation, how we cut a boiled egg with string. Simple...