heavy breathing
All hail noita
Oh my god how have I never seen this game! Fucking buying and playing today 🤘 thanks for the name!
That game is sick, the mods are too, but I’d play fresh at first
Better keep it low profile, or some tourists will try some bad ideas.
American Boy Scout leaders.
Or this more recently 🙁
I feel like if this was my town idiots would have done it long ago by all means necessary
This is the rock that keeps the Earth right side up. If you knock it off we flip upside down and Australia gets to rule the planet.
Very impressive from that view! But more stable than that tiny contact point would suggest.
Let’s hope it doesn’t get destroyed by idiots.
I’m going to destroy it
Lame attempt at a troll. If you’re going to at least try to troll be creative. You’re boring, shallow and unimaginative.
aw man, this is like the cooler version of the jug rock.
Jug rock is a better name though. I don’t know what that name translates to so maybe im wrong again. I hope not.
I would never go anywhere near that rock
I don’t care how long this has been going on, I ain’t fucking around near that thing.
Is there a country that uses a different thousands separator based on unit?
Yes, in a lot of places a period is used for order-of-magnitude separation and comma is used for decimal places.
In this title the use seems inconsistent.
Finland uses space for thousands (and comma for decimals), so an article in Finnish would have 500 000 kg
The age sends my imagination racing, I wonder if there was a Proto-Indo-European name for it, as a remote curiosity/enigma.
“They say that somewhere up north, half a moon beyond the most remote village, there is a large stone put on top of another by the hand of the Earth Goddess herself.”
I can’t believe it weights just 500kg! But what happened 11 years ago? Who put it there?
You reguegitated the top comment from Reddit, where this was posted 24 hours before it was posted here.
The tireless work of the repost police must be exhausting. You lone hero you.
I’m sorry that somebody wrote a similar post on reddit. I hope you’ll forgive me one day for having similar thoughts…
It’s bad enough that this post is a direct copy of a trending Reddit post (down to the weird number formatting), to find the comments are also just copy pasted highlights of stunning lack of originality
If you think that I go on reddit to copy comments you’re batshit crazy man. Find a doctor or something.
If that was a comma, it would be way more impressive…
In Europe generally commas are used for decimals and periods for marking thousands
What happened 11,000 years ago?
it was actually around 11025 years ago. i first heard about this in 1999, and it was 11000 years then.
The ice sheet covering northern europe started to melt away, and with that we got what is called “glacial erratics”. Rocks had traveled from once place to another, and then settled. In Sweden we call those “giants throw”, because it was assumed that the only way those big rocks could be where they are was if a giant had thrown it.
In Finland those are called siirtolohkare (moved boulder) or hiidenkivi (devil’s rock)
I think we have the same terminology then, we also call them “flyttblock”. Is there a story behind them being called Devil’s rock? It sounds very finnish to me to be honest.
Well “hiisi” translates to “devil” but that’s very much a political translation as far as such things existed back then.
Translating “Hiisi” as “the Devil” is quite a fuck-the-pagans translation.
Hiisi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈhiːsi]; plural hiidet [ˈhiːdet]) is a term in Finnic mythologies, originally denoting sacred localities and later on various types of mythological entities
Hiisi was originally a spirit of hill forests (Abercromby 1898). In Estonian hiis (or his) means a sacred grove in trees, usually on elevated ground. In the spells (“magic songs”) of the Finns the term Hiisi is often used in association with a hill or mountain, as a personage he also associated with the hills and mountains, such as the owner or ruler of the same. His name is also commonly associated with forests, and some forest animals.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiisi
I think “the Fae” would be a more accurate translation, theology-wise.
I’m not convinced that weighs 500 tons, that’s the same as at least 65 of the largest African elephants or 2.5 of the largest blue whales
Morning, yes, I’ll have 65 of your largest African elephants please.
After some googling, some of the heavier rock types are 3g/cm^3, which is 3000kg/m^3
If we use the person as a rough ruler of 1.6m, the rock is about 5 person wide, and 3 person high (eye measure), give or take. And if we say it’s 3 person deep, then it has a rough mass of 5*3*3*1.6*3000 = 216 000 kg, which is in the same order of magnitude.
Close enough to check out, I’d say.
Edit: I realized since the actual ruler we use is 1.6m (assumed), it should be multiplied by 1.6 three times (one for each dimension/length), not just once. If we do that, we end up with 921 600 kg instead, putting 500 000 kg well within the range of possibilities from a quick calculation.
Edit 2: as pointed out below, the actual correct estimation would be 553 tons
Can anyone tell me why the bottom rock is so smooth? I imagine people come and sit on it and touch them both frequently, and that they are two rocks from different places but they each look very dissimilar. I guess what I am really asking, is the bottom rock so smooth because of the big boy topping it?
