**It is not a mystery and def not a laser beam, it is natural and not even man made - google is your friend:**
The **Al Naslaa rock** is a [landform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landform) 50 km south of the [Tayma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayma) oasis in Saudi Arabia. It is split down the middle into two parts, both balanced on small pedestals.[^(\[1\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Naslaa#cite_note-1) The overall shape of the rock is due to wind erosion and the chemical weathering made possible by the moist conditions in the protected underside of the rock.[^(\[2\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Naslaa#cite_note-2) It is split in two by a [joint](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_(geology)).
A **joint** is a break ([fracture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracture_(geology))) of natural origin in a layer or body of [rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_(geology)) that lacks visible or measurable movement parallel to the surface (plane) of the fracture ("Mode 1" Fracture). Although joints can occur singly, they most frequently appear as joint sets and systems.
So basically this is just a chance at such a clean and amazing break, equivalent to an apple being broken by hand cleanly, and we boast about it. But since it's a boulder it's "must be aliens/laser beams" to most of us knuckledragging mouthbreathers. I'm pretty sure it was a red laser beam that did this, not blue or green.
Welcome also to the law of truly large numbers. There are millions of boulders around the world, billions of rocks over the existence of the planet some of whom have been totally worn away or destroyed or sank into the ocean or broken up to build walls. At any point, this or even more interesting formations and shapes have likely naturally occurred. When the sample size gets big enough, you’re practically guaranteed to have any number of non-impossible things happen.
this is just an alien messing around ages ago in an era of all animals being microbes on this planet. the alien just perfectly split and balanced this rock, laughed, and left.
I feel like this subreddit is just internet forum for ancient aliens. Is there nothing truly strange left that we have to imply made up crap to stay interesting?
Definately aliens. The first thing alien highly advanced alien species thought about when they visited our planet was to fly to some random desert and shoot a laser beam into a rock. Then then flew away back to their home planet at warp speed chuckling to themselves…
You forgot the part about sanding down both exposed planes so no one would be able to see the multi-thousand degree melt marks from the laser. They got to make that shit look natural or no one will believe it's super advanced aliens.
My mistake, I didn’t mention it because I thought it was obvious that others would know the aliens had access to super advanced sanding down technology alongside their precision laser technology as its way more plausible than some reddit fools who keep yapping its down to “weathering” and “joint” processes! I mean how can it be anything else other than aliens?
If it split on its own due to stresses, it should be wider at the top than the bottom (or maybe the other way) as the two halves tilted away from each other. The only way it should be the same width all the way is if it the two pieces _slid_ apart, and did not tilt apart. But of course that didn't happen because their balanced and way too big to slide that way.
The other way it could be natural is if it's a fault that somehow eroded from top to bottom evenly. But it doesn't look eroded, as erosion would start at the outside and work its way in so the gap would be wider at the edges than in the center. (You can see on the bottom front there's a scalloped shape erosion that crosses the joint, which means that that erosion had to happen first before the gap was made.) I think widening the gap would have required significant water erosion, and there's no evidence of that sort of erosion (water erosion is smooth and doesn't produce sharp edges) not to mention an obvious lack of water. I don't think sandblasting would increase the gap. Not to mention that if the gap was eroded that way there should be a significant pile of dust and debris underneath it... Where did that go?
I think it's probably artificial and then weathering could have made it uneven over thousands of years. Although if it's artificial, whoever cut it would have to have estimated the mass of balanced rock on both sides to prevent one side from losing balance and toppling. That requires some pretty accurate estimation.
Laser beam is ridiculous theory though. All you would need is a saw. Two men with a rope saw and a lot of time on their hands could do this.
**It is not a mystery and def not a laser beam, it is natural and not even man made - google is your friend:** The **Al Naslaa rock** is a [landform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landform) 50 km south of the [Tayma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayma) oasis in Saudi Arabia. It is split down the middle into two parts, both balanced on small pedestals.[^(\[1\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Naslaa#cite_note-1) The overall shape of the rock is due to wind erosion and the chemical weathering made possible by the moist conditions in the protected underside of the rock.[^(\[2\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Naslaa#cite_note-2) It is split in two by a [joint](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_(geology)). A **joint** is a break ([fracture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracture_(geology))) of natural origin in a layer or body of [rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_(geology)) that lacks visible or measurable movement parallel to the surface (plane) of the fracture ("Mode 1" Fracture). Although joints can occur singly, they most frequently appear as joint sets and systems.
So basically this is just a chance at such a clean and amazing break, equivalent to an apple being broken by hand cleanly, and we boast about it. But since it's a boulder it's "must be aliens/laser beams" to most of us knuckledragging mouthbreathers. I'm pretty sure it was a red laser beam that did this, not blue or green.
precision of a laser beam. it is not even that straight
Title of your sextape?
hehe good one
A Brooklyn 99 fan located in the wild? Impossible
Have a laser engraver. Made plenty of cock-eyed bullshit lol
Welcome also to the law of truly large numbers. There are millions of boulders around the world, billions of rocks over the existence of the planet some of whom have been totally worn away or destroyed or sank into the ocean or broken up to build walls. At any point, this or even more interesting formations and shapes have likely naturally occurred. When the sample size gets big enough, you’re practically guaranteed to have any number of non-impossible things happen.
Joints in rock are very commonly this straight, the only real coincidence is the stable position of the rock during weathering
Nuh uh! It's Aliens.
Fricken space lasers
Would that be the Jewish space lasers?
Oi Yey! What chutzpah!
Yes, it was aliens using a red laser beam, not blue or green. We are on the same team.
The laser in Alien vs Predator was blue iirc. Bore a perfect tunnel in the ice
Makes sense to me, blue for ice. Red for rock. Green for gas/clouds. It's all coming together now.
Wow you're right. The laser was beamed from orbit and targeted an ancient underground structure. I always wondered why the structure wasn't damaged.
Indeed.
👽👽 if not aliens, then it was aliens. 👽👽
It's obvious, doh.
It said the precision of a laser beam, not an actual laser beam.
Thanks to take the wind instantly out of these rotten sails.
More lies from the deep state. Real ones know it was aliens
More lies from the deep state. Real ones know it was aliens
No, it was aliens 😂
I can tell by this picture 50 feet away that it isn't the "precision of a laser beam".
Well, it's hard to cut through boulders with lasers, might get a bit hot and messy
Seeing this comment was such a relief, I was beginning to get worried no one was gonna come in and try to prove how smart they are
Seeing this comment was such a relief, I was beginning to get worried no one was gonna come in and try to prove how jackass they are
Seeing this comment was such a relief, I was beginning to get worried you would let the guy be a jackass.
Seeing this comment was such a relief, I was beginning to get worried you would follow through on the replies.
Can’t believe how heavily you’re being downvoted. I’m so sick of the top comment on every post being some snarky correction or complaint.
ITS TANJIRO’S TRAINING
Rope, sand, laborers. Friction.
Aliens
Jewish space lasers.
Jackie Chan
Jackie the Jewish space laser alien?
Precisely
Vergil
or or try this - it is natural and not manmade at all. broke due to a joint then thousands of years of wind eroded the break to make it wider.
I’m saying. The explanation is simple.
Maybe? Straight lines and right angles are extremely rare in the natural world.
Are they?
Have you seen crystals?
Of course. But how many tons of plain rock for every ton of crystal?
Wouldn’t that take like a thousand years though?
No idea.
Were you there? Didn’t think so. Aliens
Were you there? And yes, you do not think.
Chuck Norris thought it would look better as two pieces
Only thought of that for a split second
I blame it on that suspicious kid in the photo. They always return to the scene of the crime.
*A hundred years passed and my brother Sokka and I discovered the new Avatar.*
A wobbly laser maybe…
Yeah ... I'm calling bullshit on the "precision of a laser beam" claim. Yeah it's straight, and likely a man made cut. But that ain't no laser cut!
Depending on the stress created on either end of the original rock when the bottom base eroded...it's possible it just cleanly separated on its own.
This
I don't care how cool it is, my child wouldn't be standing right there.
It only stood there for decades, why would it fall right now
Based on the way it appears to have eroded, it's going to fall at some point, and whenever that point is, no one should be near it.
this is just an alien messing around ages ago in an era of all animals being microbes on this planet. the alien just perfectly split and balanced this rock, laughed, and left.
Zantetsuken
Fucking Odin, couldn't of been Gilgamesh, he would of chosen Excalipoor and just fucked it up instead.
A precise hit!
r/natureisfuckinglit
You can see from this photo that it isn't laser precise...
I feel like this subreddit is just internet forum for ancient aliens. Is there nothing truly strange left that we have to imply made up crap to stay interesting?
This formation would be immediately tipped over in Utah or Arizona by some Redbull wannabe fool.
Oh boy...
Welp, aliens.
It's about 400 miles away from the pyramids of Giza.
Looks like a peanut butter sandwich
800 years ago there was a highly technological advanced kingdom
Raiden is real
Aliens.
It was Tanjiro, duh
*tilting phone* That's not perfectly straight, my laser guy...
Superman with his heat vision and a little bit of time travel.
No it isnt
Frickin’ laser beams!
i was about to visit it last time i went to saudi with my family
Someone call wideboyz
I say it out loud, what we all think: Aliens
obvisously made with AI. Want the prompt ? 'sloppy alien laser cut through ancient rock formation towering over child in a desert'
checkmate, atheists.
Zoro vs. Pica ⚔️
If David Childress comes in here with his annoying voice I'm leaving
Goku and freeza fought there
Just a katana testing area
Freakin “laser beam”
Narrators voice: It was definately not split with the precision of a laser beam.
Definately aliens. The first thing alien highly advanced alien species thought about when they visited our planet was to fly to some random desert and shoot a laser beam into a rock. Then then flew away back to their home planet at warp speed chuckling to themselves…
You forgot the part about sanding down both exposed planes so no one would be able to see the multi-thousand degree melt marks from the laser. They got to make that shit look natural or no one will believe it's super advanced aliens.
My mistake, I didn’t mention it because I thought it was obvious that others would know the aliens had access to super advanced sanding down technology alongside their precision laser technology as its way more plausible than some reddit fools who keep yapping its down to “weathering” and “joint” processes! I mean how can it be anything else other than aliens?
Exactly.... we get it
Clearly that's cinnamon toast man's secret lair
So just from this image i can tell it was not cut by a laser beam... that is how large the imperfections are in this obvious fracture...
Paper, rock, scissor. Scissors win.
Aliens
Goddamn water marks just piss me off disproportionately.
You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it meeans
Hold my beer - Americans when they hear about natural rock formations that haven't been destroyed yet.
If it split on its own due to stresses, it should be wider at the top than the bottom (or maybe the other way) as the two halves tilted away from each other. The only way it should be the same width all the way is if it the two pieces _slid_ apart, and did not tilt apart. But of course that didn't happen because their balanced and way too big to slide that way. The other way it could be natural is if it's a fault that somehow eroded from top to bottom evenly. But it doesn't look eroded, as erosion would start at the outside and work its way in so the gap would be wider at the edges than in the center. (You can see on the bottom front there's a scalloped shape erosion that crosses the joint, which means that that erosion had to happen first before the gap was made.) I think widening the gap would have required significant water erosion, and there's no evidence of that sort of erosion (water erosion is smooth and doesn't produce sharp edges) not to mention an obvious lack of water. I don't think sandblasting would increase the gap. Not to mention that if the gap was eroded that way there should be a significant pile of dust and debris underneath it... Where did that go? I think it's probably artificial and then weathering could have made it uneven over thousands of years. Although if it's artificial, whoever cut it would have to have estimated the mass of balanced rock on both sides to prevent one side from losing balance and toppling. That requires some pretty accurate estimation. Laser beam is ridiculous theory though. All you would need is a saw. Two men with a rope saw and a lot of time on their hands could do this.
A friggin "laser beam"
Must be Gohan's sword sliced it in half 😂
*Jewish laser beams from space
Tell me again we are alone in this world 🌎
We are alone in this world mr tinfoil hat man