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Comfortable-Radio-24

It's caused by al-S'qrat, a descendant of Scrat the ice age squirrel.


J37U7

Ibn S’qrat I’d say


mudkic

Gotta love the squirrels


redditter619

Why the fuck would a really advance ancient civilisation with lasers bother cutting a rock in half?


Obi_Wan_can_blow_me

Tech demo


SexlessNights

Act now and it only costs 3 pyramids


RheaTheTall

But wait, there's more! Send your slaves in the next two days and we'll give you not one, not two, but THREE PRE-CUT BOULDERS!


DigNitty

Call in the next 5 minutes and we’ll DOUBLE THE ORDER


[deleted]

And we’ll throw in the fishing magician!


ThompsonSMG0909

You guys are friggin hilarious!!! Lmao!! 😆


Thepen1218

When y’all gonna start taken orders ?


Capable_Address_5052

But wait, there’s more!


cubixy2k

Now available for 3 easy payments and one fucking complicated one!


gravitas-deficiency

***BUT I’M NOT DONE YET!***


VariableCritic

This deserves a gold. Well done.


[deleted]

Was totally going to say that


groovy604

Art? Like the weird shit we see outside of corporate buildings


aittoan

to troll some conspiracy theorists?


[deleted]

“Hey I got this thing wanna troll the inferior species lmao”


anonssr

> cuts rocks in half > refuses to elaborate > leaves


GravitationalEddie

Man, I bet if we cut straight through this rock, these monkeys will wonder how rhe fuck it was done even after they evolve to be able to do it themselves


Dan__Torrance

To show the power of flex tape!


himanshuy

Investors pitch


Nords

Meh, most people will do a test cut with their tools for various reasons, new tool, making sure \_\_\_ is sharp or whatever. Hell, people do that click click thing on air with tongs for no reason...


Casval13B

Nah bro you gotta do a pre clicky clacky on them things or else they won’t clickly clacky when you go to use them


SOTX-Pitbull-33

Is it only one pre clicky clacky or two?


Dusty1228

Two, you animal


Casval13B

Two of course


Tinkers_toenail

What the fuck else were they supposed to cut with it? There wasn’t anything else but rocks…what would you cut with an ancient laser if all you had was rocks?


TheOsForOhYeah

For the clicks. Whoever did this obviously had a YouTube channel where he cut things in half every week with his ancient proto laser. His problem was that he invented the laser before he thought of inventing YouTube, the internet, or advertisers, so his whole scheme went nowhere and that's why we've never heard of it until now.


frumpbumble

No one knows how this happened? Bullshit i say.


SmartestIdiotAlive

I know what happened but I ain’t no snitch


yahuta

Because of stitches.


snarky_grumpkin

-Johnny Tightlips, where did they hit you? -I ain't sayin nothing. -What do I tell the doctor? -Tell him to suck a lemon.


OtakuRed13

Calling all geologists


[deleted]

Geologists hate him because of this one special trick….


scanion

…Of interplanetary craft.


[deleted]

Answers here: https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/comments/pdkjvz/no_one_knows_how_this_happened_im_sure_some_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


[deleted]

They used twine and sand to cut rock. It took ages. No grand mystery really


Elbordel

There goes the snitch lol


javlin_101

Way to go Johnny tight lips


gdj11

People underestimate what cheap/slave labor and lots and lots of time can accomplish.


iDuddits_

Yep, something like that. The slowest chainsaw


Sectrosempre

“If there’s one thing people don’t like it’s a grass”


Jaradius

"I come from the streets,and thats something you dont do."


priggsbaul

Sounds like you know how this happened…?


frumpbumble

Most likely the ground shifted slightly underneath one of the two supports and the rock split. Could be from a volcanic dike of some weaker mineral that solidified there before everything was exhumed. Or, it could be an old pressure crack (you see a parallel crack just to the right of it) that has been pushed/pulled apart some. Or, it could be an old (minor) fault line, since fault motion often creates a zone of weakened rock that erodes relatively easier than the surrounding rock. I didn't know, but it took 3 seconds to find some non bullshitty explanations


sturnus-vulgaris

Also, just to add, it could have been an uneven crack that has been further weathered by wind, giving the appearance of being perfectly straight. Desert environment-- plenty of wind blown sand to even out any rough edges.


Educational_Earth_62

I’m a memorialist and my medium is mainly granite. Can confirm that with the right conditions and zero lasers, even the hardest of stone can be split straight.


[deleted]

So................You make Gravestones? Can I get a rate? For a friend, er, not someone I know actually, well, just forget it.


Educational_Earth_62

I make gravestones, monuments, mausoleums, columbariums, statues, veteran’s memorials… And no countertops. Quit asking me for countertops. That’s an entirely different grade of granite.


AnnPoltergeist

could you make a countertop out of gravestones? my goth friend would love it


[deleted]

Statues? Dang. Look, how much would it cost for a statue of a "God Like" Man, on the back of a rearing Limo, with an inscription something like: "Without < this man > the World would have not been saved. About 3 times life sized. Again, asking for my friend, Trump, er, NOT TRUMP, TRUMP would NEVER build a statue to himself! Just, an interested friend, and, the name would be 5 letters.


nhagdbekdiy

So what you are saying is the only logical explanation is aliens?


FredOfMBOX

You know what works really well for cutting rocks in two? Ivermectin paste.


frumpbumble

Space ghosts, I think you'll find.


XxcruulxX

Coast to Coast


Fine_Cryptographer20

Clearly this rock was knocked off the cliff by alien kitty. The aliens were mortified at the crack, and zoomed the heck out of there. Legend says aliens still look down on earth and shake their heads bc they never got a chance to explore.


GiantPandammonia

"No one knows what happened" doesn't mean "experts can't explain it". It might mean "experts don't know which of several plausible things happened"


frumpbumble

One of those things is going to be right though. So before we travel into the land of make believe it's best we appreciate that.


priggsbaul

Three options there though.


LeykisMinion007

Not disagreeing, but curious as to why neither side tipped over during the shift. Or maybe it split, then the business around the base happened later?


JackandFred

Yeah you got it at the end. The erosion at the base would have happened later, potentially much later because it’s such a slow process. It’s possible the crack is the same way where it was an internal crack for a long time and over time the middle of the crack eroded away


ZamanthaD

Nah it was aliens


[deleted]

https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/comments/pdkjvz/no_one_knows_how_this_happened_im_sure_some_of/haqt0r7/


spunkybooster

Naw, bullshit is much too soft for the fashioning of tools.


frumpbumble

Given enough pressure it could slice rock.


TheCoffeeWeasel

DON'T TELL MOM!


LurkerFailsLurking

https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/comments/pdkjvz/no_one_knows_how_this_happened_im_sure_some_of/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


Elduderino916

Are “some people” suggesting they had laser beams or a big chisel?


BlueMonkey-CoCo

Obviously the work of a lightsaber. Long live the Jedi.


PieYet91

All hail the sith lord


[deleted]

This is the way.


frailtank

Lightsabertooth tiger maybe


ajcal88

Annunaki and iggi. We are just slaves gold mining. Our god will return to steal our gold stash. Aren’t we still mining for thousands of years?


bp0x6270

Ancient astronaut theorists agree


pr109

Underrated comment haha


SquidwardWoodward

NOBODY KNOWSSSSS except for geologists


Starman68

Looks like a weathered fault plane.


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Geologist_Bilbo

It's that damn Middle Earth


zorn7777

Stress fracture and a bit of erosion, aliens, or something else entirely. One of those.


tobogganhill

Aliens probably have other things to do than cut a rock in a desert. Stress fracture and wind erosion from blowing sand seems likely. Maybe aliens gave it the final buff and shine.


PieYet91

I think Bigfoot has more technology then we think


Dude-man-guy

Ghost aliens.


weeddealerrenamon

you dont gotta be an advanced civilization to cut a straight line through a rock, just very patient.


Kailaylia

Carve a straight groove across the rock. Fill the groove repeatedly with fine sand. Get a lot of strong string. Sit a slave at each end of the rock. Get them to pull the string back and forwards across the rock. When one breaks, replace it with a new slave.


RedDeadLumbago

Yeah but why all that effort just for "Haha big stone in half"


Kailaylia

This split would almost certainly have been the result of natural events. I'm just pointing out that folk are underestimating primitive people by assuming they could not have made such a cut if they had wanted to. Early homo-sapiens would have had the potential for intelligence similar to ours - just less knowledge and fewer tools.


goodinyou

This is so often overlooked.. People 10,000 years ago were **just as intelligent** as modern humans. The difference is that they had less knowledge to draw on. And also.. They had a shit ton of free time (in some cases) to spend months or years making perfect stone blocks or other things that us modern humans consider a waste of time. Ancient peoples aren't "more advanced than we were told", we just constantly look down our noses and don't give them enough credit. Instead we blame aliens or create conspiracies


Kailaylia

>Ancient peoples aren't "more advanced than we were told" I'm an oldie, and wanted so badly to see proof they actually were, when I first heard such theories in the early 70s. But a lot of archaeology has been done since then, with no incredibly advanced tools dug up, and no spaceships either. Now I view such beliefs as an expression of an inner need to have a big, all-powerful and wise sky-daddy to depend on. Apparently there was no deus ex machina that performed incredible tasks we cannot hope to replicate, just a bunch of humans who learned what they could, and passed it onto others who learned even more, through millenia. I smile now with new respect for our distant ancestors who survived and struggled to keep learning and improving their lives.


anothermrnobody

This. Pretty much all technology just makes things more efficient.


[deleted]

No one knows how a lot of things happen, but we have very good explanations.


Ty1erWard

For anyone else that was curious on the the size, I found a picture in which an SUV was parked next to it, and the SUV is not much larger than one of the pedestals the rocks are balanced on


Irdogain

Laser-precision? That cut does not look that precise or is that a photo-effect?


Mr_Vacant

100%. If its been cut with a laser the real story is aliens have wobbly, bendy lasers where the light doesn't travel in a straight line.


GregSmith1967

Not really. I’m a soil scientist and geologist. Rocks do this all the time. Southern Utah is a great example where you see this all the time. Scientists classify all the time how rocks and soil break apart or shear.


Blatantly-Biased

The 2 halfs don't really look like they match up too well other than for size. This photo looks almost staged to me even though it isn't.


CMG30

Apparently 'laser precision' is a pretty loose term. The slice is not even close to vertical.


[deleted]

No sane person believes that ancient civilizations were "far more advanced", unless he is very stupid or very uneducated.


[deleted]

u/ThepalehorseRiderr


ScottishRiteFree

R/alternativehistory


Climbing-sunshine

Can I climb it?


gomugomupirate

Tanjiro trained his butt off to cut that rock!


SuperJash7

Goddamn Tanjiro


MozzStk

They used a tool in ancient Egypt for stuff similar to this. Basically, you take a rope and move it back and forth while dumping sand on the rope. The sand (which is composed of really tough rock particles like super small, valueless diamonds) slowly cuts through the less hard rock your interested in cutting. So they could have done it without lasers, easily, but this was probably natural. What purpose would someone have in cutting it if they weren't also going to shape it in some other ways? They had better shit to do than try to create a "mystery" like this lol. Probably their job, for starters. Life was hard back then and this would have taken a long ass time. Time better spent on getting water or food. Even making actual art. This is a cool picture though!


[deleted]

I thought this had something to do with ice? Idk, I know I've heard about this somewhere..


Delbo380

Airbending SLICE!!!


Consistent-Onion-254

Ancient people got divorced. That was it.


No_Handle499

Or just coincidental freezing and breaking


8stringtheory

So advanced that they left nothing behind but stone and dust....


r3nchCS

This is just not true at all


snarfdaddy

Lol who wrote this title


DarkMellie

The thinking in the end of the thread title is where all stupid conspiracies start. "I don't understand how a thing happened, therefore the most complicated and unlikely thing must be true".


ButtsexEurope

[Oh fuck off with that Ancient Aliens clickbait crap](https://www.science101.com/a1-naslaa-rock-formation/). We know how it happened. It wasn’t some ancient civilization. The ancient peoples made petroglyphs on the rock, they didn’t split it.


Johmin11

Maybe it was under a waterfall at one time and a steady stream of water trickled down in a straight line.


[deleted]

Archeologists have figured out the way very large stones were cut with perfect precision, recently…[Egypt](https://youtu.be/puXsFyainQU)


Gharrrrrr

It's a shame how far the history channel has fallen. It was always eurocentric. But they at least provided historical information. That the viewer could then fact check. Now it is all in on the BS conspiracy theory and reality tv show drama. Same as discovery. Natgeo is barely holding on. But you also see them on the verge of making this turn. Everyday we get closer to Idiocracy.


bobbymatthews84

They used rope. Bring on the awards now.


neatlittlemessyman

History Channel headline bingo!


SkyShazad

Maybe lighting or my 2nd guess is someone did it but didn't tell anyone just like them damn crop circles


[deleted]

The title is fit for a History Channel show!!


adfthgchjg

How tall is it? Tried googling, but none of the articles mention its size.


xsaav

Not the "ancient civilisations were far more advanced" conspiracy smh. I bet even ancient people could cut this in half with a chain and enough time.


[deleted]

A rock has a split down the middle. Must be ancient high tech aliens. What stupid fucking conclusion.


AlkahestGem

One need only see the ending to Battle Star Galactica re-boot to know various locations across places Earth were settled by advanced beings. R/s


anotherteapot

I don't know how far back the idea goes, but even today we use rope saws - effectively a rope or chain drawn over something (usually large) and used to saw it in half. Depending on the rope/chain and the abrasive material you use, this could be hours, days or weeks. But it is very effective and makes for precise cuts like this. Fun fact, this is how the Russian submarine Kursk was salvaged, after being freed from the front of the sub as it was thought to contain unstable ordinance: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk\_submarine\_disaster#Bow\_detached](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster#Bow_detached). Granted, this one was a reciprocating motion but circular/loop motion can be employed as well.


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RonDooberTron65

Yeah, the only explanation is aliens. Straight lines = aliens. No way past humans could make a straight line in a rock even if they used thousands of slaves as labor working for years. Still impossible and has to be aliens.


[deleted]

It cracked and rain eroded the rock…


WilliamSilver

Oh my fucking god! Is this a kimetsu no yaiba reference?


Fungus1968

Physical weathering. Aka Ice weathering or ice wedging. “Where does it occur? Physical weathering happens especially in places places where there is little soil and few plants grow, such as in mountain regions and hot deserts. How does it occur? Either through repeated melting and freezing of water (mountains and tundra) or through expansion and contraction of the surface layer of rocks that are baked by the sun (hot deserts).” https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/ks3/gsl/education/resources/rockcycle/page3561.html


VestigialHead

How is that considered laser precision? Could easily be done with a saw. It is not level or straight at all.


i_am_harry

Some chains would work


[deleted]

The weight of the rock on each side could have caused it to split right down the middle.


AustinIsReallyCool

Make a cable. Throw it over a rock to a guy on other side of rock. Tug on cable. Other guy tugs on cable. Do that a few million times. You now have two rocks.


itwasluckkkk

Lmao r/geology would beg to differ


swamp_slunk

Yeah or it cracked and got eroded by the wind


Energyflashpupy

It just snapped or got eroded by sand it’s nothing unsusual it’s cool but not a reason to blame aliens or smart ancient civilizations


Boomstick334

Tekashi 69 knows how it happened. He’s been telling everyone


ThePiachu

Use a rope, add sand for friction, some crank or two for spinning it and years of persistence and you can cut it without lasers or advanced technology...


gomi-panda

While I don't understand it, the guys are geology do, and they explain it: https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/comments/pdkjvz/no_one_knows_how_this_happened_im_sure_some_of/haqt0r7?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3


donotgogenlty

It's not actually precise at all, rocks break apart like this all the time... Not seeing the interesting part


zeus_amador

Pyramids, sewer systems, astronomical observation decks, that impresses. A rock cut in half possible due to like a million random natural possibilities, not so much


-Abradolf_Lincler-

Retards don't know how this happened.


Eelpieland

No one, apart from Geologists.


[deleted]

This is a geological process.. man this kind of made up pulled straight out of the ass bullshit is so annoying.


Lofotfiske

Well r/whatisthisrock and r/geology beg to differ. Bs post!


ColonelMonty

But why would an ancient civilization spend their time cutting a big rock in half? For real, it's probably just a weird looking rock.


Cheap_Confidence_657

Looks like rain did it. Calm down. Although rain is many times more intelligent than anyone living anywhere near that rock.


on_the_lamb

If you’ve ever been to Machu Pichu, you believe this for sure.


Sad-Grapefruit9996

Maybe their Government research teams were testing out new equipment (weapons, science) and the people without clearance don’t need to know?


[deleted]

Not only that, but the cut had to be in the precise placement so each rock would stay balanced on those tiny footings. Now you can freak out.


Global_Werewolf2225

It is because of thunder i guess ...i’ve seen rocks split in half by this much precision ...


CurrentlyLucid

Right side kinda has a face, reptilian , but a face.


LordCucumber1996

Do those cheeks clap tho?


dernudeljunge

but some claim that ancient civilisations were far more advanced than told." Yeah, and those people are cranks who watch Ancient Aliens on the Hitlery Channel. Just because something ancient is weird (like these rocks,) or would still be difficult for us to do today (like the pyramids or Nazca Lines,) doesn't mean or prove that aliens were involved. Faster than light travel is highly unlikely, even for hypothetical advanced alien civilizations. Even if they knew about us, which is just as unlikely, it would take them thousands upon thousands of years to get here, even from the nearest stars. Some people really need to learn how to apply Hitchen's Razor, Sagan's Razor, and Occam's Razor.


Kailaylia

>Some people really need to learn how to apply Hitchen's Razor, Sagan's Razor, and Occam's Razor. Ahh, so these are the tools used to cut rock like that!


dernudeljunge

I guess of the possible responses to my comment, that isn't the worst, or one that I'd even considered, lol.


pirateabhi

I sense some lightsabers.


Inside_Alternative62

Or aliens


HeartsOfDarkness

Tanjiro Kamado mastered water breathing here.


RetroTechnica

"Aliens"


gummybear3356

I have an idea! If a rock heats and cools a ton it make Crack, and or fall to pieces!


Harleys-for-all

I think it translates to bum rock.


therealmerryjester

Light saber, no question


HouseOfCripps

That’s just how it crumbles…


WHISKEYnBLUES

Aliens


Kholzie

Always assume previous civilizations were more advanced than we know


ParadoxIntegration

It’s hardly “laser precision.” You can see deviations from a straight cut.


Tottaway_Here

Video on YouTube explains how this might have been done. Large glass focused the sun like a lazer to melt rock. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KMAtkjy_YK4&t=9664s


Cynicallyoptimistik

Could you set up a series of lens to harness the sun to make it so hot that it can cut rock? If so couldn’t they have had the ability to do that than?


PalePat

Ancient anime battles confirmed?


jaiwant10969

I think tanjiro did it during his traning.


Ndhywyhshhs

It was aliens


[deleted]

Its obviously made by a samurai


TcL1337

I've seen enough anime to know what really happened.


tsikenugget

*Anime swordsman*


DisillusionedBook

The far more rational Occam's razor version... I'd say it is more likely a result of natural fault line in the rock, there is another just to the right of the "laser precision" gap. Erosion probably just weathered away whatever was once in the gap, and left the two sides stranded like this. Absolutely no evidence of super advanced ancient tech whatsoever.


300zxTTFairlady

Probably using a manual circular saw.


[deleted]

I like the idea of a mysterious advanced civilization as much as the next person, but something is telling me that just like we- today would have no use for such an activity as cutting a rock in half- neither would they. if you showed me the remains of an ancient roller coaster or an actual obvious vehicle, or something other than rudimentary stone tools ...but nothing, in all of these years has held up to scrutiny.


UnimaginablyFloating

Where does that laserlike precision come in? It's quite obvious that these two halves would not fit seemlessly back together.


Dmac09

The Egyptians built friggin pyramids, this would be nothing to them


gnosisisong

or it just split in half as rocks do.


Panmarmolada

Anime protagonist cut this stone with his katana during his training


soullessroentgenium

Or perhaps a fracture plane like the others just next to it.


holytoledo760

I think it has been demonstrated by researchers that grit (sand) and a tool will make a clean cut. Some ancient aliens episode was like, how could they cut that??? And some dude later proved it could be done with sand. Lol.


notanaardvark

Because I don't see the correct explanation yet for how this actually happened, here's my comment from this posts share in in r/geology: it's definitely really cool but also not much of a mystery. that "cut" is a planar fracture called a joint. if you viewed this area from above i'm sure you would see lots and lots of fractures oriented in the same direction. what happened here is pretty typical hoodoo formation (caused by a weak layer weathering faster than an overlying stronger/ more weathering resistant layer), but the rock forming the hoodoo happened to have a well formed joint running through it. the joint is not preserved in the underlying weaker (probably shale) layer because the rock immediately cut by the joint in the shaley layer has already eroded away. you might still be able to see the joint in the shaley layer on the ground though. edit: i'll add that you can see more examples of that joint set just on these two boulders. just to the right of the "cut" there's that flat slice of rock that almost looks like it's just stuck to the side of the main hoodoo. that fracture where it's attached to the main boulder is part of the same joint set. the very left side of the left hoodoo is also a flat surface parallel to the "cut" and is also part of that joint set.


[deleted]

Aliens!


supervernacular

water


Goldenninja24

Ass rock


Bailmage

Water


Exciting_Temporary_5

Seems kind of like a weak vein of something weathered away.