7,000 Years Ago, a 1,200-Ton Boulder Was Dropped on a Pacific Island -- Now Scientists Know How It Got There [Maka Lahi boulder, tsunami]

The Debrief ^ | June 4, 2025 | Micah Hanks

[SunkenCiv]

Tonga's Maka Lahi boulder, which was deposited at its current location 7000 years ago by a tsunami.

Credit: Martin Köhler, et al, University of Queensland

[Red Badger]

In before it was Aliens guy....................

[SunkenCiv]

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[Paladin2]

Rocks float?

[SunkenCiv]

You’ve never heard of Guam? ;^)

[SpaceBar]

That’s a part of the world where every now and then an island is atomized.

[Leaning Right]

Interesting article. But as Red Badger alluded to, it would have been way more interesting had aliens moved that big rock.

Oh, wait. Maybe they did.

[Red Badger]

Ancient Egyptians did it. They were just lost..............

[piasa]

Some volcanic ones do...

But anything can be pushed by the force of a tsunami the same way ordinary floodwaters smash into and move walls, gravel, boulders, heavy equipment, bridges, and other things that don’t necessarily float.

[fidelis]

"In before it was Aliens guy...................."

[Getready]

Boulderdash!
Clickbait.

[Candor7]

50 meter high wave:

[dayglored]

> Rocks float?

Very small ones. (Monty Python reference.)

[FreedomNotSafety]

Bolders being bolders.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/2013-12-13-huge-boulder-crushes-house-kills-two-utah-landslide.html

[frank ballenger]

Earlier explanation was Babe the Blue Ox said to Paul Bunyan:
“Butterfingers.”

[Hieronymus]

Well played.

Now do Aliens way more or less than a duck?

[Colt1851Navy]

There is a Boulder in Colorado that fell from outer space, it had clingons that are the biggest problem though.

[SunkenCiv]

[singing] everybody’s gone surfin’...

[SunkenCiv]

Well, used to be. :^)