Just realized I've been telling people the wrong rock story for years

During a hike in the Badlands, I saw this giant dark boulder and got convinced it was a meteorite. I told all my trucker friends about my space rock, but a park ranger set me straight-it's just a glacial erratic. We still laugh about how I was so certain, and it's my go-to funny tale from that trip, lmao.

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nguyen.elizabeth7mo ago

Had a rock in my desert photos for years, swore it was petrified wood. Showed a geologist friend who just goes "that's a weirdly shaped river stone, Liz." Felt so sure, right? It's funny how our brains lock onto an idea. Your Badlands story is the best kind of campfire tale.

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adam_nguyen77mo ago

Geologists are the ultimate buzzkills for amateur rock hype. You spend years building a whole story around your special petrified wood, and they just drop the "weird river stone" truth bomb with zero ceremony. The human brain is basically a conspiracy theory machine for random objects.

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robert947mo ago

Eh, it's just a rock, right?

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