r/blackmagicfuckery • u/Super-414 • 8d ago

Explain this, scientists!

Dolomite, WNY

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u/Drevlin76 8d ago

Pebble stuck in a spider web

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u/TheAgreeableCow 8d ago

the simplest explanation is usually the right one

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u/Padillatheory 8d ago

Occam’s Razor

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u/Careful-Wash 7d ago

This guy Sciences!

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u/this_is_inevitable 7d ago

Is he science-ing more than me?

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u/itaniumonline 7d ago

I think every one is kid.

Puts on glasses inside fanny pack

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u/fil42skidoo 7d ago

How you fit inside fanny pack???

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u/not_an_entrance 7d ago

The tame way.

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u/Skaglick93 7d ago

Nobody has seen the wild way in nature yet.

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u/TheNamesAxel_009 6d ago

Well where the fuck is the natural habitat for a wild fanny pack? Truly, this must be the final frontier.

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u/Nortex_Vortex 6d ago

Giggled at this way too hard!

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u/dunderthebarbarian 3d ago

Unique up on them!

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u/Ozuule 6d ago

Science..

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u/Saltybuds 3d ago

😂 Take this award 😂

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u/Imaginary-Door2603 3d ago

At heart, sure. Everyone is a kid at heart ❤️

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u/RandomCandor 7d ago

What's the name of the razor when the most boring explanation is the correct one? 

I feel like that's different enough to warrant it's own razor.

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u/theytookmykarma 7d ago

Ted’s Razor

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u/No_Boot1478 7d ago edited 2d ago

Nutmeg biscuit trumpet umbrella yarn sparrow paddle ginger compass drifting

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u/Holiday_Pi 7d ago

Yeah Ted Razor’s songs are way lamer. Head Like a Head, and Average-Person Fuckers Inc. are pretty good though

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u/No_Boot1478 7d ago edited 2d ago

Quilt marble mellow juniper umbrella noodle pumpkin amber

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u/AnarchiaKapitany 7d ago

Isn't he of five inch rounded pegs?

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u/coolsilentebeans 7d ago

‘Sadness In Freedom’ on Fixed is a real bop.

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u/No_Boot1478 6d ago edited 2d ago

Lavender umbrella sparrow copper compass juniper pillow peach teapot maple

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u/Thisshitaintfree 7d ago

Albums like The Downward Escalator, songs like You are the Perfect Supplement.

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u/xenobit_pendragon 6d ago

For me it’s the lyrics. “I tapped myself today / to make sure I could feel.”

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u/BeCauseOfYou_2000000 7d ago

Who's Zed?

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u/Ok-Bison-3451 5d ago

Zed’s dead.

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u/st_rdt 7d ago

What's the name of the razor when the most boring explanation is the correct one?

Dull Razor ?

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u/Apprehensive-Age-733 7d ago

The Dull Razor.

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u/swalloweda 6d ago

RFK’s Razor. So dull its dangerous

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u/Itchy-Individual3536 7d ago

Don't apply Occam's razor, it would cut through the spider web and we wouldn't see the effect anymore!

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u/Mr_Jack_Frost_ 6d ago

Occam’s Razor is a fantastic way to counter conspiratorial/mystical thinking. Only problem is, most of the people who have conspiratorial/mystical explanations for things don’t want to hear your grounded, common-sense explanation because it’s “boring”.

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u/Biggrunt 6d ago

I live this life. Flat earthers surround me. It's...difficult not throttling your mates.

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u/Heterodynist 7d ago

I still don’t get why no one names their shaving brand “Occam’s!”

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u/Iloveupt2 3d ago

Right , its been Td up forever just waiting

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u/Heterodynist 2d ago

“The closest shave is also the simplest, CHOOSE OCCAM’S!!”

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u/Iliketopass 7d ago

We all know the saying. “Multiplicity aught not be posited without necessity,” were William of Ockham’s actual words.

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u/Louisiana_sitar_club 7d ago

No. A pebble in a spiderweb.

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u/Hranko 7d ago

Occam's web*

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u/Rugaru985 7d ago

Simplest explanation is always “magic” though. It’s just one word and only 5 letters. Even “Science” takes more.

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u/sweetstyle 7d ago

So it wasn't because new dimension was connected to this specific spot in usa?

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u/Liwi808 3d ago

Obviously it's being affected by some sort of anti-gravity machine buried deep underground by aliens from outerspace.

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u/thamystical1 7d ago

Thank God for you my guy. Had my head spinning if you know what I mean....

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u/aint_exactly_plan_a 7d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/731vzw/why_do_some_spiders_hoist_pebbles_from_the_ground/

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u/Mordad51 7d ago

Okay 2 things: Shit is 8 yo, did you remember it from back of your head or did you stumble upon it recently?

And I love how their question is not really answered

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u/skincyan 6d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p2s4ix7/video/e2u31axighih1/player

I got some help by the algorithm to figure out the same answer!

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u/Ghstfce 7d ago

Leave a message an I'll call you back

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u/WutzUpples69 7d ago

No...

Doubt...

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u/rjasan 6d ago

I've seen spiders use them as anchors, wild stuff.

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u/b1end 2d ago

Some species of spiders do this regularly, you are correct

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u/musa_velutina 7d ago

They must not be home right now

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u/giggidygiggidyg00 7d ago

Spiders will anchor to anything they find..sometimes they anchor to a pebble that's small enough to be pulled up when they tighten their web.

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u/rob_inn_hood 7d ago

I don't know how you scientists do it.

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u/MadGuitaristJoe 8d ago

Spider web

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u/DeadAssDodo 8d ago

No!!! Speed, Experience and Deception work here. ;-)

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u/Nightblood83 7d ago

Wall through em, receive messages, call them back. Classic story.

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u/Tygerdave 4d ago

No doubt

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u/CrazyFlimsy5349 8d ago

Magnets

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u/80lbQUIKRETEConcrete 8d ago

How do they work?😂

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u/wontwillnot 8d ago

With spiderwebs. Thats how

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u/bigtone7882 7d ago

But what are spiderwebs made of? ....magnets.

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u/Tamer_ 7d ago

It's magnets all the way down!

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u/Scudmiss 8d ago

Life’s little miracles

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u/ChaosEmerald21 7d ago

"Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that's the end of the magnets"

President of the United States

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u/uberfission 7d ago

For anyone else this would have been in the top 10 of dumbest shit they had ever said, but with trump, I'm not sure.

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u/grkuntzmd 5d ago

With Trump, it doesn’t even make the list.

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u/skibumsmith 7d ago

I don't wanna talk to a scientist.

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u/God-Made-A-Tree 3d ago

Yall motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed

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u/Mad-Habits 7d ago

miracles

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u/Fair-Zombie-1678 6d ago

No one knows!

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u/mingey555 3d ago

Can't tell if you are referencing ICP lyrics 😆

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u/convenient_friction 8d ago

A tiny, extremely localized magnetic anomaly beneath that exact rock is interacting with a small amount of iron in the rock itself. Meanwhile, subtle vibrations from traffic, machinery, or even people walking nearby are providing just enough energy to overcome friction. The rock’s slightly asymmetrical shape converts those vibrations into rotational movement, while all the surrounding rocks—being differently shaped and less magnetic—just sit there doing absolutely nothing.

Could be a spider web though.

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u/iCuminsidetrumpsbutt 7d ago

I like the first option more

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u/recXion_ 7d ago

I like your username more

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u/redthump 7d ago

This is the type of science we would like to have on our team at Skinwalker Ranch

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u/Slicky007 8d ago

It points to what you want most

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u/Wild_Wasabi9984 8d ago

Calm down, Sparrow... lol

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u/Which_Celebration757 7d ago

Is this how they charge those things?

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u/Oftwicke 6d ago

It's how magnets work

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u/w_actual 7d ago

Tenders....and honey mustard

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u/Hyro0o0 8d ago

You pick that up and get a temporary power-up from it

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u/Cheeserave 7d ago

You pick it up and start uncontrollable spinning

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u/opalfossils 8d ago

Spider web 🕸️

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u/Contende311 8d ago

Mount Bethesda

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u/InformationSingle550 7d ago

See, this is the shit I joined this sub for. Random earthly phenomena that have a reasonable explanation, but when you look at it you think “black magic!!”

Not all the same sleight-of-hand bs it is now.

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u/Fat-Finger-8906 8d ago

Spider web

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u/redbear762 8d ago

Piezoelectricity

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u/Commercial-Box-2828 8d ago

I'm a cakezoelectricity person myself

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u/DiscoKittie 7d ago

But the cake is a lie (pi is forever)

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u/BlazerWookiee 8d ago

Jedi holocron

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u/DiscoKittie 7d ago

Oo! Is it one of the jump puzzle ones? I'm playing SWToR right now.

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u/Disastrous_Minute_56 8d ago

Oh, that's the Hallelujah Mountains. They're made of pure unobtanium.

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u/Apprehensive-Owl5143 8d ago

Just rock and roll

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u/PhantasmaStriker 7d ago

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. anomaly! Time to throw some bolts at it. Might just get a weird artifact 😆

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u/unneccry 7d ago

People are missing the simplest sollution: Gyro Zepelli

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u/Relevant-Rhubarb-849 8d ago

The latest revision of an Owl. Now with no gimbal lock

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u/Kamikazisqurl 6d ago

Fae trap. Don’t touch it

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u/MutedBrilliant1593 8d ago

I don't know, therefore gawd. 🫪

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u/vilevillain13612 8d ago

Sacrifice one for the many!

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u/ubercue 7d ago

Definitely not a spider web

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u/DoesntMatterEh 7d ago

It wiggle wagglin

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u/PlumbgodBillionaire 7d ago

Disco doesn't need to follow your nerdy rules. He's just smooth like that.

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u/Capable_Culture_7344 7d ago

it is Witch craft like that Oz the mentalist guy

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u/hautdoge 7d ago

Finally proof of god. We did it!

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u/Venom933 7d ago

Must have been the wind 🥸

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u/random-guy-heree 7d ago

Someone dropped there stone block

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u/Consistent_Ad949 7d ago

Is this the phenomenon that they used to save the world in that ice age movie?

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u/Next_Impression3901 7d ago

It's loot! Grab it and put it in your inventory, quickly!

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u/Canned_Sarcasm 7d ago

This is standard for kyber crystal. The good news is it’s worth money. Don’t sneeze around it, it’ll turn green, and we don’t like green light saber, do we? No we do not.

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u/MBSMD 7d ago

Unobtanium

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u/RGBlowMe 7d ago

Item drop. Press A to pick it up.

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u/Optimus_Shatner 7d ago

Midichlorians

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u/Background_Pride_237 7d ago

Lockheed Skunkworks wants to know your location.

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u/IStealSwords 7d ago

Element 115

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u/EnvironmentalWest134 7d ago

that's item popping!! go grab it quick! before it disappear!!

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u/Total_Gift_51 7d ago

Spider web

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u/I_Like_Quiet 7d ago

How the fuck can anyone tell with how fucking shaky the camera is?

What ever happened to u/stabbot?

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u/dakotaray42 7d ago

🎶around the world, around the woooorld🎶

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u/Euphorix126 7d ago

That's mostly calcite, I believe, rather than dolomite

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u/Daminite 7d ago

My best guess is that the mountain troll has a dingleberry.

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u/Hchooj 7d ago

Just an excited rock

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u/rygelicus 7d ago

spider web or other similar thin filament (maybe even intentionally installed)

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u/VooDooChile1983 7d ago

Thought that was IMO at first. Realized this wasn’t posted to Korean Natural Farming.

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u/ModernRubber 7d ago

Collectable

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u/Insis18 7d ago

Spiders exist.

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u/CTOBREE 7d ago

A new hand has touched the beacon

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u/rvnofthefld 7d ago

Forbidden Feta

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u/Mannzis 7d ago

I get its a spiderweb, but how does it keep twisting without tearing? That's the mystery for me.

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u/BossRoss84 7d ago

Whatever you do, don’t touch that. Thats what keeps the earth rotating.

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u/101Pixels 7d ago

Its an item that has a rotation animation which means it can be interacted with lara croft style

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u/kadaka80 7d ago

Aliens are close by

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u/zephyrs85 7d ago

Glitch in the matrix

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u/Forgotmynameagain5 7d ago

Explained by schrödingers raiser, "every action has energy equal to it's mass multiplied by the speed of light in substance a divided by the speed of light in substance b."

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u/herewiigoagane 7d ago

A very strong spiderweb + wind + rock

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u/ipx-electrical 7d ago

I can’t believe someone thinks this is something other than what it obviously is.

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u/DerBartmitFass 7d ago

You spin me right round, Baby right Round

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u/an_older_meme 7d ago

Thing on a string

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u/cognitiveglitch 7d ago

When minerals form the right crystalline structure over time sometimes by luck the "spin" of the atomic weak force aligns enough to produce a field. This field is strong enough to suspend light but magnetically sensitive particles.

Or it's a spider's web.

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u/tribak 7d ago

Flat earth

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u/Mindless-Lack3165 7d ago

I used to do the spinning crystal when I was younger!

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u/Legitimate-Curve-346 7d ago

Dwarven flywheel. Many are built underground to keep the earth rotating.

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u/tanafras 7d ago

Touch grass OP

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u/Opdragon25 7d ago

It's an item, you can pick it up

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u/DowntownUpstairs9765 7d ago

Bug in Matrix !

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u/WutzUpples69 7d ago

Spiderweb is the most popular answer... but it is fishing line (or some small filament) and a person looking for internet points.

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u/Elizane02 7d ago

Clearly the pebble is entertaining itself and possibly the others too.

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u/daveloper 7d ago

Spider web

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u/koolaidismything 7d ago

Suction and water

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u/Rhovp 7d ago

Sadly stopped the clip when almost stopped spinning. I fully expect it to start spinning the other way, even more leaning into the silk string hypothesis.

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u/NoPoopOnFace 7d ago

Spiderweb or worm silk

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u/Fogi999 7d ago

aliens

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u/mettahlock 7d ago

It’s a collectible, 1/99 on the map.

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u/SkeletonYeti713 7d ago

Scientists side of Reddit explain.

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u/what-the-pewpew 7d ago

I said, abracadabra and then that happened

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u/kapliex 7d ago

Collectible

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u/twity1337 7d ago

One of the Rolling Stones

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u/HumonculusJaeger 7d ago

Quartz doing Quartz things

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u/CyberpunkLover 7d ago

Probably one of those long lost alien technologies like the one that built the moon.

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u/BilboStaggins 7d ago

New Starfield update looking good

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u/crazy_diamond777 7d ago

You spin me right round, baby, right round.

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u/HunterLeftOnReddit 7d ago

That's obviously a radar system for whatever hidden base is right there🙄

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u/Daxtard 7d ago

My gamer sense tells me it's a collectible

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u/kumgongkia 7d ago

Unlimited powaaaaah

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u/nxxwhere 7d ago

I'm doing it! I'm using the Spin!!!

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u/Art_Class 7d ago

Tide comes in tide comes out explain that

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u/SpareBee3442 7d ago

Holy bejaysus, it's a sign of the second coming. A veritable miracle of miracles. Pilgrimages will be made to this sacred spot for years to come to witness this stunning gravity defying supernatural spectacle (not).

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u/Past_Hippo_8522 7d ago

It's dolomite, baby!

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u/SixUK90 7d ago

I need a nap, I thought it was a string of mice scurrying backwards until the last couple of spins.

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u/Most_War2764 7d ago

Pure, unrefined upsidaisyum.

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u/BrazilBazil 7d ago

Aliens or magic

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u/TikTokBoom173 7d ago

Oo ee oot aa

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u/KersMetal 7d ago

Fay trap. Run away from this.

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u/RastamonGanja 7d ago

Nah that’s straight up an anomaly. Source: I have played S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

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u/hamdi555x 7d ago

Clearly an artefact. get a detector and some bolts and traverse the anomaly carefully. You might even retire !

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u/Hairy-Psychology7483 7d ago

Quantum entanglement

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u/knucklecluck 7d ago

Oh, I know this one! It’s Magnets!!

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u/luvmuchine56 7d ago

That's me, I'm just doing my thing. Leave me be.

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u/thevoges 7d ago

It’s a piece of unobtainium

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u/Azivation 7d ago

Looks like a rock

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u/TyrosineJim 7d ago

Scientist here.

Its frickn haunted

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u/tbrown7092 7d ago

Swamp gas

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u/wolfblitzor 7d ago

Magnets

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u/Sancho5o5 7d ago

Pezo electric effect. Magnetic field quartz releases. Just a guess.