10 Things Absolutely Nobody Knows The Answer To

8. How Sailing Stones Move

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson gets around...we dunno, on a private jet or something? A private jet with a jacuzzi and an executive chef who's tired of "can you smelllllll" jokes? Anyway, that's how The Rock travels, but we don't know how these rocks manage to move. See what we did there? Because these are actual rocks.

They don't have legs, or anything to push them, because they are rocks and they exist in the desert. And yet these so-called "sailing stones" will slowly, over a period of years, drag themselves across the desert floor, leaving a trail so you can trace their path. It's happened most notably in Death Valley National Park, California, where the phenomenon has been tracked since the early 1900s, and yet still has no firm explanation.

Plenty of hypotheses, but no concrete answer as to how in the heck stones are managing to move, seemingly without interference. Unless it's a family tradition passed down between generations of Jawas or something. The movement of the stones appears to be completely unpredictable, too. Sometimes rocks will travel with each other for a time, only to split of and go in different directions. Oh yeah, and they don't necessarily move in a straight line; their paths diverge constantly.

Some geologists have posited that winds following rain help shift the stones through the wet ground, whilst others have suggested that many of the rocks in question would be too heavy for that. Some say it's got something to do with ice somehow. We're gonna guess aliens. It's not like anybody can tell us we're wrong for sure, right?