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Couple sentenced for dropping rocks on interstate

A young couple charged with dropping rocks onto more than a dozen passing cars on Interstate 5 entered guilty pleas Tuesday and were sentenced to four years in prison.

Apollo moon rocks lost in space? No, lost on Earth

Attention, countries of the world: Do you know where your moon rocks are?

Yosemite hotel reopens after boulders strike

Yosemite's historic Ahwahnee Hotel has reopened following rockslides that forced its evacuation.

Apollo lunar rocks still offer clues to scientists

Forty years after the Apollo 11 astronauts made their historic lunar landing, the rocks they collected are still helping researchers learn more about the moon, the solar system, even about how life on Earth began.

Rock threat danger closes part of Yosemite lodging

An unstable cliff prompted officials Friday to permanently close some cabins in a popular Yosemite National Park lodge complex that has a long history of rockslides.

Researchers: Quebec bedrock may be Earth's oldest

A traveler walking along the eastern bank of Hudson Bay in northern Quebec can stand on the oldest bedrock known on Earth. This ancient section of the planet's crust may be as much as 4.28 billion years old, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

Uganda's children work on dangerous rock pile

Stephen Batte works in a quarry under the blazing sun, chipping rocks into gravel with a homemade hammer. It's tiring, boring and dangerous.

Earth's Inner Heat Keeps Cities Afloat

If it weren't for the hot rocks down below Earth's crust, most of North America would be below sea level, report researchers who say the significance of Earth's internal heat has been overlooked.

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Real-life rolling stones creep across Death Valley in California
Source: Telegraph

Amid the eerie silence and the intense 50C heat of California's Death Valley roaming rocks appear to patrol the desert. The rocks, some as heavy as 250lbs, move unaided in bizarre straight line patterns across the ultra-flat surface of the valley.

McCain The President Wannabe

John McCain is just oozing with envy because Obama won the office of the presidency which probably explains why he tries at almost every turn to criticize the president. John McCain may be looked upon as a war hero but to me he's a Republican zero.

'Lucky to be alive': Boy buried up to his neck by ton of rock that fell off cliff and on to beach
Source: the Mail online

A boy of nine was buried up to his neck by a ton of rock which fell from a cliff on to a beach he was playing on. The child had been playing a game with a girl when the rubble suddenly cascaded down.

Artifacts found by construction worker
Source: myfoxtampabay.com

A Pinellas County worker stumbled upon an interesting find. What looked like rocks, turned out to be bones thousands of years old.

Whoops! Yacht Fails To Dodge Rocks In Race
Source: Sky.com

As a daring overtaking manoeuvre in choppy seas, it did not quite go according to plan. Instead of making up vital ground against 19 rival boats during a gruelling race, the Jersey-registered Knight Star found itself perched high and dry - on top of a rock.

My mystery blue rock....and a few others *updated, more pics

I recently joined a group call Rock Hounds, and was inspired or should I say compelled to find some certain rocks that I had forgotten about. Well, after about 30 minutes searching, I found my mystery blue rock. It wasn`t quite as big as I remembered.

The Art and Science of Colored Sand Grains
Source: geology.com

Photos of different sand grains from around the world

New Newsvine Group .... Rock Hounds

What is a rock? We all know what rocks are right? The are lying on the ground everywhere! They are the mountains, and canyons that you can't help but notice. We have all thrown them, sat on them, and dug them out of our gardens.

The Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa Mystery - GEOLOGY.COM
Source: Geology.com

Nobody has yet come up with a sufficiently acceptable theory as to just how these rather large rocks manage to move across the floor of this dry lake bed in Death Valley, California.

A Miserably Failed Experiment...Maybe

How many of you are observers? How may of you have come to the conclusion that we, the human race, is a miserably failed experiment of the Creator.

Princess Eugenie mugged in Cambodia as thieves pelt her bodyguards with rocks
Source: the Mail online

Princess Eugenie was mugged in Cambodia whilst on her gap year holiday, it emerged last night. The Queen's granddaughter, who is sixth in line to the throne, was saved by two bodyguards when two robbers grabbed her friend's purse.

$138 USD for a box of rocks from Walmart?!
Source: YAHOO News

Jodi Wykle knew her son would be thrilled when she gave him a new Nintendo DS for his birthday. Instead, he was rocked. According to WTSP-TV, the confused teen opened up his gift only to find bunch of stones and a rolled up Chinese newspaper in place of the popular handheld.

Rare Octopus Fossil Found
Source: National Geographic

An octopus fossil was found in 95 million year old rocks in Lebanon.

Fort Worth child hurt when rock thrown through car window
Source: star-telegram.com

FORT WORTH -- A 15-year-old boy was arrested Monday evening after police say he threw a rock at a passing motorist's car, striking a 2-year-old girl inside.

Lake Michigan underwater stones continue to puzzle archeologists
Source: Chicago Tribune

This spring Holley and a student from Northwestern Michigan College hope to make laser scans of the image that will yield a computer model. That will help scientists assess the site, which is otherwise off limits because of American Indian concerns that the area could be sacred.

Newsvine - Creation Theory Rocks and God is I am and I am forever
Source: Newsvine

Evelution or Born Again by God Almighty and created by a breath of life from a hand ful of sand. I choose the super being approach of God almighty creating the whole world and the universe in 6 days and resting on the 7th day.

Rocks can kill
Source: open2.net

Palin needs to get ready for her big boy pants!

Watching the republican national convention once again proved how the conservatives enjoy rewriting what has already been written to their gain.

What Lies Beneath – An Underground Journey through Carlsbad Caverns

Daylight vanishes as we walk down the steep serpentine trail leading into the huge mouth of Carlsbad Caverns.

Strange Stones That Literally (And Visibly) Grow After It Rains
Source: Environmental Graffiti

Romania may be known as the land of Dracula, heaped with bloodthirsty vampires and other creatures shaped by Hollywood imagination, but it is also a land where nature has had an interesting activity.

Chicken Little was right
Source: The L.A. Times

HAVILAND, KAN. -- Steve Arnold is driving the yellow Hummer in circles around a Kiowa County wheat field, towing an 18-foot-wide metal detector. For an hour, nothing but silence. Finally, the detector whines and Arnold slams the brakes. "That is so good," he says.

(Video) Caught On Tape: Kids Toss Debris Onto Traffic
Source: local6.com

...Caught On Tape: Kids Toss Debris Onto Traffic Children on a bridge in Des Moines, Iowa, are shown tossing debris onto traffic below....

What makes Mars magnetic?
Source: EurekAlert!

So how have these rocks hung onto their magnetic directions and what do they tell us about Mars? Strangely, the answer to these questions might be sitting here on Earth.

Guitar Hero: Rocks the `80s - Hands-on for PS2
Source: gamez-vault.com

Right around the time that Guitar Hero II launched last year on the PlayStation 2, rumors began circulating the intarweb that RedOctane was creating a number of themed packs for the series, the first of which would be full of tracks from everyone`s favorite hair decade, the 1980s …

Rock stacking
Source: Wired News

Your basic ingredients for rock stacking. You take rocks and you balance them on top of each other. No glue, no pins, no tricks. Just plain old gravity. Just getting one rock to balance is a supreme achievement. Getting four on top of each other is....

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