Comments on: The mystery of the rolling stones

By: Mike Byrne

Mike Byrne — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:58:59 +0000

I’m the photographer mentioned here and here’s what I do know for fact : The lakebed is really slimey when it gets wet, something to do with the composition of the soil. The rocks fall from the adjacent cliff/hillside from errosion and earthquakes, then tumble to the surface… The wind blows hard here, hard enough to knock you on your arse! When the slime arrives, with or without ice present, the phenomenon is most likely to occur. Have I seen it? No. Have I slipped on a slimey lake bed? Yes. I think it’s likely the notion is true…then again I like the alien explanation too! A small correction in the write-up, I’ll be 49 in a few months and I have to credit the following folks for being with me on the photo safari: Steve Mendenhall, Sandy Redding, Roger Morehead… Thanx for the interest, Cheers!

By: Nick Austin

Nick Austin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:01:52 +0000

Nopke said “.. unless a huge river all of a sudden develops there in the middle of the night”

The Racetrack Playa is desert but has two rainy seasons delivering up to four inches of rain a year. This causes flooding and It’s also cold enough at night to make the water freeze. Unsurprisingly there are no volunteers to be out on a windy nighttime freezing flood to observe the rocks.

By: ExeterGeoff

ExeterGeoff — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:54:15 +0000

I bet it’s the same little guy that moved the markers in Labyrinth.

By: AlanC

AlanC — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:08:36 +0000

I reckon it must be the same people that do them there crop circles, you know the little green men from outer space in their flying saucers. Either that or they are not actually rocks but a strange undiscovered creature called the rock sloth and it moves ever so slowly due to the incredible heat and lack of food.

By: helen

helen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:18:01 +0000

can someone go and see if they are mossy…?

By: Nopke

Nopke — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:16:11 +0000

Yeah, I know this story. Amazed me too .. the fact that it has not been explained makes me think it is a hoax. It’s not that difficult to study it via camera’s etc. And if they don’t .. well, a hoax.

Oh .. wait … it is not stones ofcourse .. it’s vehicles of aliens … thousands of those little aliens in there … running and running (like mouse/rat in their wheel) …. only by night, and only if you don’t watch ..

There’s no way that such heavy stones on flat surfaces could move .. unless a huge river all of a sudden develops there in the middle of the night boosted by strange powers .. ehehe ….

Or are they magnets … but that could have been checked all the time already ..all the options that people came up with.

A hoax in a hoax in a hoax in a hoax ..

By: Lady Claire

Lady Claire — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:54:56 +0000

I love something that everyone struggles to have an explanation for, bit like crop circles in that respect……

LC x

By: Stacey

Stacey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:31:20 +0000

Edit.
“Photographer Mike Byrne, 40, has spent years pushing rocks through the desert.”

hehe

By: Jesus

Jesus — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:18:34 +0000

Why not just set up a camera? That, or, set up a heavy object and place a bunch of gizmos (sensor, cameras, etc) on it to record its movement

By: roz

roz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:17:49 +0000

papa was one…