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ternaryoperator • today at 7:15 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Is a 50-ton boulder rare or super-rare?


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waltbosz • today at 8:38 PM

I thought the same thing. My back yard is full of huge rocks. Nothing quite that large, maybe 1/3 of that size. A few doors down there is a boulder twice as big as the O'Hare one.

I'm speaking in volume. I'm not sure of the mass of these boulders.

crisnoble • today at 8:00 PM

In chicagoland, yes. For someone who moved there from California, it was strange that rocks hardly larger than a human warranted school field trips and plaques. Perhaps it is geologically cool, but I was unimpressed as a 6th grader. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53236492797_60069bde90_b...

hoppyhoppy2 • today at 7:31 PM

Dunno, but I haven't ever come across one on my property.

Yizahi • today at 7:44 PM

Medium-rare I would guess

tptacek • today at 7:28 PM

Not from the look of it.