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Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What happened 11,000 years ago?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

it was actually around 11025 years ago. i first heard about this in 1999, and it was 11000 years then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Ice age

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

You're not gonna believe it.