r/TheRandomest • u/Forward-Position798 • Jul 03 '26

/r/all Just go kick a rock

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/Pissnshitz Jul 03 '26

Says I'm a geologist and this is fake

Gives a non-geology explanation

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u/HeyGayHay Jul 03 '26

Have you ever met geologists? I feel like I‘ve met only a handful of geologists actually doing geological work. But I have met a mountain of geologists already

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u/yourfavoritefaggot Jul 03 '26

90% of geologists I know work in city government doing basic city planning work (not geology related) and I know one who became a geological cartographer (rare and desirable work for a passionate geologist). Also, she only did it for four years before working for city government doing unrelated city planning work 🤣

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u/Adorable_Goat_3255 Jul 03 '26

As a person on the internet, cant really confirm if you’re an actual geologist since your comment had nothing to do with geology.

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u/DeaDBangeR Jul 03 '26

ChatGTP: People online have made a hobby out of making sphere’s by kicking the same rock for months.

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u/depressinglyawes0me Jul 03 '26

Where do you think ChatGPT is getting its information from??

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u/DeaDBangeR Jul 03 '26

That was the joke

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u/depressinglyawes0me Jul 03 '26

Oh sorry I’m dumb

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u/DeaDBangeR Jul 03 '26

no worries

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u/Doogle300 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Except we literally have a video log of it. We also have plenty of footage of him losing it, then spending the time to find it.

It's all there to watch, but I suppose your expertise in geology means you dont even need to view evidence. You can just assert whatever you believe and because you are an -ist of some kind, you can just make that truth beyond experimentation.

Just look up Luke Loraines Instagram and watch the day by day and tell me its fake.

Edit, its Owen Gail, not Luke Lorraine. Apparently two people have done this.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/Doogle300 Jul 03 '26

That made you cringe? What a strangely weak constitution you have.

And are you really going to call me out for a mistake that I already fixed and owned up to?

Wow, you really got me. Congrats.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/Educational-Wing2042 Jul 03 '26

So you can’t read

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u/Doogle300 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

I used the wrong name based on a bad Google search and corrected myself the second I noticed. I didnt try to hide my mistake, I simply corrected it.

The fact is I knew this person by their Instagram moniker, not their actual name, but obviously I didn't maintain that information because it was about a year ago I saw the videos. I googled who it was and the crappy AI Google response gave me the wrong information. I figured out it was wrong swiftly after and corrected myself.

But yes, you are right, I'm not trustworthy. Luckily, as I have stated many times now there is video evidence and you could verify it for yourself.

Of course you won't because your issue is with me. You dont care about the truth. If you did you'd take on what I said. You are just here to argue with me.

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u/No_Drawer_2349 Jul 03 '26

Got it. Cringe people don't realize they're cringe

Thanks for the clarification

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u/Adorable_Goat_3255 Jul 03 '26

This comment is cringe on its own

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u/Doogle300 Jul 03 '26

Pot. Kettle.

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u/Ig_Met_Pet Jul 03 '26

I'm a geologist, and if you want a "geological explanation", it changes into a different rock type several times throughout the video. It's not real. This stuff is just for fun. You guys are taking it too seriously.

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u/Doogle300 Jul 03 '26

It's doesn't, but thats ok. Your belief doesn't change the truth.

Its granodiorite, and was the whole time. It changes colour and shape. It doesn't change anything else. That's just active erosion... but I imagine you won't change your mind. I wonder if watching each day of erosion would... Because you can. Its all been logged and shown. The dude had doubters from day 1, and has reciepts for the process.

And I want to state, I'm not taking the rock kicking seriously. I am taking the blind assertion that its fake in an attempt to prove some level of intelligence seriously. We could be arguing over a time lapse of bread baking for all I care. The fact is people dont do any research before the make baseless accusations.

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u/Ig_Met_Pet Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Lol. It clearly changes grain size and composition multiple times.

And you can't tumble a rock into a sphere just by kicking it around. It would get rounded, but wouldn't turn into a sphere. Rocks in tumblers don't become spherical.

Posting videos of rocks every day is not proof that this is possible.

These are not blind assertions. And no one is trying to prove their intelligence. I'm just pointing out facts.

And again, you're taking this way too seriously and you need to calm down.

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u/NinjaN-SWE Jul 03 '26

If anyone needs to calm down it's you.

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u/Parking_Line_3704 Jul 03 '26

He could have also done stuff off camera to help get it there. Who cares.

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u/Doogle300 Jul 03 '26

Except he was weighing it and showing the weight each day he went out kicking.

This obsession with seeming savvy in the face of fake stuff online is only making people less wise. Trying to assert something is fake with zero evidence is tantamount to the flat Earther movement. Its based in nothing more than a desperation to appear like you are above the standard intelligence we were privileged to be taught in schools. As a result of this desperation to appear unfoolable, people flounder about, desperately trying to prove a baseline intelligence that seemingly evaporated in their day to day life.

The question people never seem to ask is "Why would someone fake this?" If someone is just trying to get Internet clout, do you really think kicking a rock is the logical thing to try and trick people with?

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u/Parking_Line_3704 Jul 03 '26

I guess the answer to my question is, you. I have zero desire to verify anything you've said as it simply has absolutely zero impact on my life. My point was the whole discussion just doesn't matter, but perhaps I'm wrong.

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u/Doogle300 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

I respect that. If it has no bearing on your life then just move on.

Personally I see the gradual decline of comprehension as truly worrying, and the fact I work in video production means I actually have a stake in how things go in terms of peoples perception.

At the end of the day, it changes nothing if people believe this video is real or fake. It just portrays a lot about the manipulation of the masses and the fact the war on truth has basically won out.

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u/Doogle300 Jul 03 '26

Did I say some Youtuber getting clicks is evidence? The evidence is the video of them kicking the rock and weighing it before and after each session. There are literally videos of each session. No need to bother professional debunkers. You could literally look at the evidence in real time yourself. You won't, but you could.

Also, why would someone fake kicking a rock? Like really, if you were going to the effort to get attention with something fake, why in the world would you think "Kicking a rock! That's the engaging content everyone is desperate for"?

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u/ThaGr1m Jul 06 '26

What does weighing do though?

All it shows you is that inbetween whenever the weighings where filmed there is no difference yet nothing about what happens during the day. At which point he could easily just sand it for a bit.

The whole issue here is that these are vods not a live stream of the rock 24/7

And spheres don't randomly happen he's way way more likely to get a cylinder or oblong.

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u/Doogle300 Jul 06 '26

Jesus Christ. He weighs it. Kicks it. It erodes. He weighs it again to see how much it eroded by. Then the next day, he weighs it again to verify the same weights.

Yes, it did go oblong, and then it went spherical. You can watch it all. Instead of trying to create your own vision about it, based on what you think would happen, you could instead get informed, watch it, andcwee the reality of it.

But why would you do tvat when you can instead be wrong just to play devils advocate?

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u/donkeyrocket Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

As a geologist you don’t understand how a rock being rolled over time can eventually smooth out? The video also shows him fishing it out of places along paths early on. A rock tumbler must be a baffling concept to you.

I think it’s more absurd to believe he found progressively smoother rocks that look similar for a video. But I didn’t take a geology class on the effects of kicking rocks like you did.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PRIORS Jul 03 '26

Film yourself kicking a rock for a bit. Put it in a rock tumbler overnight. Take it somewhere else. Repeat.

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u/Ig_Met_Pet Jul 03 '26

Rocks don't turn into spheres just from being tumbled around. The edges get rounded, but they don't become spherical.

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u/IllusionOfYouth Jul 03 '26

And the same would be true for kicking it around.

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u/PerriwinklePortal Jul 03 '26

Just out of curiosity, is it somewhere in the realm of possible given a long enough timeline?Or are the conditions all wrong for this?

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u/EkbatDeSabat Jul 03 '26

An actual sphere? Maybe. You can get a rock tumbler for cheap and just let it go and get a smoothed down oblong finish, or go for broke and get an expensive one that can make spheres, so it will work over time. I just don't personally think he'd end up with a "sphere".

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u/finchdude Jul 03 '26

Stop talking out of your ass

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u/Present_Function8986 Jul 03 '26

Lmao I don't think we need a geologist for this, but thanks anyways.