Just Ordinary Rocks

Commenters skeptically dismiss the featured item or phenomenon as merely ordinary rocks or stone, comparing it to mundane materials like dirt or sand and questioning its novelty or impressiveness.

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US CO2 NB wikipedia.org IIRC rocks stone stones rock sand space dirt geothermal mineral boulder

Sample Comments

tastyfreeze Jul 1, 2025 View on HN

It is stone. So whatever you do with stone.

nthcolumn Mar 20, 2017 View on HN

Yeow. Only good for rocks then.

Luc Feb 18, 2018 View on HN

Hard to get a sense of scale from some rocks...

ako Mar 24, 2024 View on HN

The link includes some pictures and a video, there it looks like paper, not stone.

lutorm Apr 18, 2012 View on HN

It's a rock. Just drop it in chunks of suitable size.

sidewndr46 May 9, 2022 View on HN

Wouldn't dirt, sand, or rocks work just fine?

jldugger Dec 11, 2023 View on HN

Is this any different than the sailing stones of death valley?

passwordoops Oct 7, 2024 View on HN

Not all rocks (at least using human strength)

PaulDavisThe1st Dec 21, 2021 View on HN

or rock ... or dirt ... or glass ...

platz Jun 6, 2015 View on HN

Yeah, that would take some stones for sure