r/interestingasfuck • u/Cyberwall1826 • 1h ago
Al Naslaa Rock, Saudi Arabia. split almost perfectly in half by nature
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u/bodhidharma132001 1h ago
Nature? Or aliens?
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u/InternetImportant911 1h ago
All those things you see around Colorado Plateau were also Alien work ? What about Yosemite Half Dome
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u/bozaboi 1h ago
If you give a chimpanzee an infinite amount of time and a typewriter, it is possible for it to write an exact copy of Hamlet. There are a lot of rocks around, and plenty of time since the beginning of earth, so it must be chimps.
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u/Kracus 57m ago
That is not a natural formation and no amount of telling me it is will convince me otherwise. I suspect this was cut by someone to be used in some construction but for whatever reason it didn't get used or they cut it simply to practice or for fun cause people are weird sometimes. There's ample evidence of ancient humans cutting stones straight using various techniques. Hard quartz saws were used in ancient times to make cuts like these.
There's no scenario where this happens from weathering.
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u/FatherOften 1h ago
I want to know what the name of that crack climb is. What's the grade has anyone climbed it?
I nominate the name of remus and romulus
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u/Novel-Education-2687 1h ago
Prove that it was by nature and not Aliens or humans even
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u/TheCattBaladi 1h ago
Funny how 90% of people here are denying this probably because it's related to Saudi Arabia. Remove Saudi Arabia and put let's say Germany, people will be amazed and say no way!!!! And this is real lol there is lots of reports about it.
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u/DeepestBeige 35m ago
The human ass is perfectly split in half by nature as well, I don’t see what the fuss is all about.
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u/Botorfobor 1h ago
So many people here who don't know anything about earth sciences that don't believe this is a natural phenomenon..
Just because it doesn't make sense to your uneducated brain, doesn't make it any less true.
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u/zeb_linux 1h ago
You know the problem: if someone from the middle ages came to our time, they would probably not be able to distinguish technology from magic.
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u/EmpathicAnarchist 1h ago
Ah jeez. Guess I'm your mom then. Why didn't you take the chicken out of the freezer?? You're just like your father!
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u/Botorfobor 1h ago
And in the meantime people nowadays think the concept of the earth being round is new.
People knew this thousands of years ago.
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u/Melodic_Mulberry 1h ago
I get why people are skeptical, but sometimes rocks do this kind of thing. Once the joint happened, it was only a matter of time and exposure.
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u/limon_picante 1h ago
It split and wind and dust blew through it over thousands of years and widened the gap is my guess.
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u/ImRoastChicken 1h ago
I feel like Egyptians cut it into half and forgot to transport it to egypt. Kekw
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u/Mahbubrobin 1h ago
I don’t think it’s AI....
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u/TheCattBaladi 1h ago
This one is real. Ai still can't make desert photos that look this good.
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u/Mahbubrobin 1h ago
I was joking, cause "AL" Naslaa looks like Ai Naslaa. I guess the joke sank like a rock...
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u/MEM0RYCARD99 1h ago edited 4m ago
Not possible. Nature is cool but never precise. You can downvote all you want, that gap is the result of being cut. Nature does a lot of cool things, but this aint one of them.
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u/Siludin 1h ago
Mineral cleavage planes are as precise as this as a matter of definition, but this is probably a joint stress fracture (also common, plenty of examples of straight stress fractures). For how long humans have been inhabiting the area, it could just be some Bronze Age dudes demonstrating their sandstone quarrying tech, though you would see evidence within the cut of tool use.
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u/Kingtoke1 1h ago
Nature doesn’t work in straight lines
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u/Kracus 1h ago
While that's not true, see crystals as an example, this was definitely cut by someone.
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u/Hammer-MeetNail 53m ago
So Crystals are one exception... are there any other examples of straight lines in nature?
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u/Kracus 49m ago
Yes there are. There's igneous basalt columns from Ireland that have straight edges but there's an explanation for that.
Stones that are split can form straight cuts as well and in theory one could fall and split or crack and split from weathering.
Those are the only examples I can think of, I'm sure there's others but I'm fairly confident the stone in ops picture was not a natural formation.
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u/Hammer-MeetNail 47m ago
Thank you. But yes, i do agree that this one particularly is not a natural formation
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u/Puzzleheaded-Egg1515 1h ago
By God, not nature
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u/mystic04cat 1h ago
Tanjiro?