Strange things found in the forest

[tradosaurus]

Anyone find anything interesting in the back 40 lately?

That story you told about the noise, rolling of stones at you and the smell really sounds like two large primates. They would be strong enough to roll the large rocks at you.

Why they would be in those woods is a mystery but the smell you remembered and associating that smell to the zoo sure seems that way.

 

[kenmbz]

I found a 6 point buck right next to the shared road.
Quite dead, but looks like it had been healthy somewhat recently.
When I went back about 30 minutes ago, it seems the deer levitated about 40' back into the woods.
And new tire tracks mysteriously appeared.

So much for local hunters.

 

[YanmarFever]

That story you told about the noise, rolling of stones at you and the smell really sounds like two large primates. They would be strong enough to roll the large rocks at you.

Why they would be in those woods is a mystery but the smell you remembered and associating that smell to the zoo sure seems that way.

Tradosaurus,
If you go back and read it, I state that I borrowed that story from another website.
It wasn't me... If I smelled a whatever it was I wuuda been shooootin!

 

[MikeFarm]

I am very skeptical on the fact that the rock didn't hit anything due to the so-called easterly deviation initially pointed out by Isaac newton ... I am thinking it's not that deep and there was mud at the bottom and it suppressed the sound ...

This is a interesting phenomenon if you are not aware of it ... ''If an object let's say a throwing dart to avoid arguments around air dynamic and frictions is drop in a very deep shaft it will always hit the east wall due to diurnal rotation of the earth on its axis. Because of this earth rotation a body dropped from a fixed position will always deviate eastward of the vertical along which it would otherwise fallen. It might seem at first thought as if the body should depart from the vertical to the westward rather than to the eastward since the earth rotates in the latter direction. However, the so-called fixed position is fixed only with reference to the earth’s surface, and the object before release partakes of the same motion, and has the same velocity, as all other “fixed” objects in its neighborhood. Were it at the equator this speed would be say thousand miles per hour. The speed grown less toward the poles, where it becomes nothing. In fact the object is traveling in the circumference of the circle of latitude in which it happens to lie. Points beneath it have a speed which is smaller as the (sic) lie nearer the axis of rotation. The freely falling body retains the eastward speed with which it started, and so gains on the slower moving parts of the earth which it is approaching. It, therefore, moves eastward from the vertical in which its fall began.''

The effect is very small and would not be noticeable by throwing rocks down caves For a height of 100 meters and at a latitude of 32 degrees, the displacement would be less than 2 cm. For the maverick country that is still using the old deprecated Imperial system that's less than 3/4 of an inch. It was interesting looking this up. Some very neat mathematics The debate on this goes back to Newton and Hooke's debate in 1679. It was not until 1803 that the first correct calculation of the eastward displacement of a freely falling body was achieved by Carl Friedrich Gauss.
And yes, the original poster would have likely been correct in that mud at the bottom would have suppressed the sound.
Mike

 

[oosik]

Hey - "out in the forest" - that's where most all strange things are found anyway.

 

[Rockbadchild]

The effect is very small and would not be noticeable by throwing rocks down caves For a height of 100 meters and at a latitude of 32 degrees, the displacement would be less than 2 cm. For the maverick country that is still using the old deprecated Imperial system that's less than 3/4 of an inch. It was interesting looking this up. Some very neat mathematics The debate on this goes back to Newton and Hooke's debate in 1679. It was not until 1803 that the first correct calculation of the eastward displacement of a freely falling body was achieved by Carl Friedrich Gauss.
And yes, the original poster would have likely been correct in that mud at the bottom would have suppressed the sound.
Mike

I agree ... my point was to point out that the explanation to the lack of sound was likely not due to its immense depth or there is no end to that hole because if that would be the case the object would have hit the side wall eventually, and also seizing the opportunity to share this interesting fact.

 

[Jstpssng]

Hey - "out in the forest" - that's where most all strange things are found anyway.

Do you mean as in... "SQUEAL like a pig!"

For the maverick country that is still using the old deprecated Imperial system that's less than 3/4 of an inch.