Great vid! What a good time it was. And for everyone thinking the story of Nolan and I both planning to film this separately (unbeknownst to eachother) is only a story, it is 100% true. I guess it was just meant to be 😂
overjoyed to see this collab combo, have been secretly wishing for it, so glad - and at such an epic place, I hope you all team up more and make full movies of awsome! thanks to you all! keep safe and keep exploring ! x
Would be fab if you all team up again on a regular basis as this was absolutely awesome!!! I am totally wowed out over this! Much love and gratitude from the UK...
maybe he could add more sound effects, the current one are nice but things do feel to drone on just a bit sometimes, especially with how consistent his story voice is it would be nice for some subtle noises.
Thank you so much for posting this! I’m a 73 yr old stroke victim that doesn’t get out much and this video almost felt like I was there in my younger self exploring nature! You are so much appreciated!!’
I’m 52 and I totally get what you’re saying. I know that I would never see something like this in my lifetime. This is one of the wonderful things about RUclips! Cheers!
It's not on it's side, the sedimentation layers are horizontal on the dark colored side, matching the horizontal layers on the bluff. The piece that broke off the corner is lying near the bottom of the rock, to the right in the final drone shot. Notice the thinner square piece to the left in the same shot. Looks like it sheered off the top of the main rock during the initial impact or maybe second impact but momentum kept it with the the main piece until it came to rest. The thinner slab kind of rattled against the bigger one and caused the corner to break loose. I would play in an old quarry when I was a kid and rolled some pretty big rocks of the edge onto a "tallus" slope to watch them break up. This rock fits the most common pattern I saw. Your proposition that the rounded parts broke off and crumbled also fits the pattern. If you look you'll probably find a few that held together farther down the slope, maybe in the edge of the trees, round rolls easier.
Often thought they would be a great pair, but knowing it wasn't possible. I let that thought go. Who knew it would work out like this? wonderful, my two favorite (and only two) desert explorers, reminding me how I was when stationed at DM AFB in Tuscon, AZ in 1978-1981.
Me gusta tu vídeo y la narrativa. Buenos enfoques e imágenes muy logradas. AI puede acelerar los tiempos de edición, pero manténlo natural. Cuánto más veraz, más se disfruta 😊❤❤
ive been a stone worker my entire life, im floored by your awesome video! the knapped arrow head and tool pieces you found are so cool! we find them here too , and i found a stone iroquois hand drill once on a property...i can tell you that a lot of the surrounding rocks and stones look quarry cut, or cast offs of a quarry cut ... everything about that place says quarry to me, but who knows. there are many places where i live that look like tgey could have been quarries, but arent, theyre naturally occuring, and there are many quarries here... i love the broken corner theory!!only way to confirm it was a quarry would be to find something built from any stones from there, big or small, that search could take a life time to maybe not find anything... the one edge actually looks like it was damaged by an impact, theres a dent in it about 6 feet long, look at the photo of the measurements, its to your left. the horizontal lines look very much to be tooling marks. tgere look to be matching marks on the flat wall under the one over hang on the upper cliffs,it would be cool to measure,and examine the horizontal lines on both, and try matching a displacement area. pretty insane video!thank you!
Well why would you need to find places they built if it was indeed an ancient gigantic quarry? If somebody that long ago could have mined gigantic swathes of earth, they probably took all of those resources into outer space. Just saying. Looks like they turned the entire southwest US into a quarry…
One very cold time the rocks decided to praise the Lord their Creator. “We’ll do this with the help of the cold and heat the Lord provides. We’ll make our block square, bold, and huge to bring glory to the One who formed us from the deep Earth. We’ll then wait to be found and confound, but the Lord knows as He watched us form and not conform to mass deceit.”
They stuff us into small citys, then tell us we are “over populated.” Meanwhile there are parts of earth and this country people have never seen, but they were populated at one point. So, who were smarter the ancients or us?
WOW! What an amazing place. You, Andrew and Evelyn make a great exploration team. I am so glad that neither you nor Andrew tried to tackle that on you own, alone. Your editing is fine, and I enjoyed every minute. Thank you!
You should check out shiey's Journey Across Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Those are some spooky climbs! But I do agree, being that close to the edge would freak me out, even with gear.
@@the_pov_channel You have a great team there. Honestly, if you worked together all the time there would be fewer places to explore, check out and publish.
Looked this up on Google Earth. Found the "Block". This is obviously a natural feature of the rock formation. There are a lot of squared edge looking blocks laying around. You can see them in the video. I'm glad you are looking and measuring on site. What a great adventure! There is another formation about a mile and a quarter southeast of the block... Looks like an Egyptian Obelisk from the satellite.
Awesome show kids, I'm 70 years old and never heard of or seen the rock you showed today I don't know what to think, it looks man-made to me. I was praying for your safety as you kids investigated that colossal rock, I have my fears and have no problem with flying, but I have the fear of falling, and you kids? on top looking down as you did. Thank you to you three please be safe. God Bless you three.
It looks mane made??????? If men were ten metres tall and had chisels a a meter broad. And mostly men make things for a reason. Why would people do this? Sorry but this is proof of ancient aliens phuking with us.🤣🤣🤣
The reason why the block is so flat compared to the rounded cliffside is because those eroded parts broke off as it was rolling down the hill. That rounded surface on the cliff is decomposing limestone and is quite weak, comparatively, and since limestone is deposited in layers, it also has weak shear planes baked in. So the first tumble probably broke off that decomposed upper layer and as a result the shear plane exposed the harder and uneroded limestone beneath it. The rock you found with the weird pattern around those thin sheets of rock is called breccia, a result of a sudden high energy event that shatters rock, and if the right geological processes are in place, it cements back together all jumbled up. Very common with cave collapses, meteorite impacts, and landslides. The individual pieces of rock within the matrix are called clasts, and that's the primary determining factor in what separates breccia from conglomerates (a rock made of eroded bits of rock, think river rocks getting stuck in mud and then the mud turns to stone). Myron Cook could create an interesting video on this particular geological formation, no doubt.
Ya, this is the conclusion I draw in the course of the video. The Breccia was amazing! Myron would have a great take no doubt and hopefully draw the same conclusions I do, with alot more detail than I can provide
When you're in those caves you need a thrower flashlight that throws the beam a great distance. Your light bleeds out after a few meters. Get the Olight javelot long range.
One reason for having a head torch is also so that you don't drop it down an impenetrable chasm lol. You were also giving me such freak outs going down the chasm with no knee pads or elbow pads! Ever since i saw that one survival emergency video where a guy falls so that his chest is between two walls of rock and as his body swells he starts to suffocate, i have such a fear of that! Please be more careful. @the_pov_channel
When limestone breaks or dissolves in rectangular prisms it is called "joint control." Some formations of limestone are very prone to exhibiting joint control.
However this looks nothing like a Rock Joint breaking, even in the slightest. I have been a Rock Climber all of my life since I was 7 years old, I have been ALL over the world. I have climb hundreds of rockfaces. And I have NEVER seen a near perfect Cuboid, and I have seen some incredible Natural Rock Formations, I've even collected many samples. Why do people like you speak, when you seemingly have so little to say?
@@TheHellFlower1 I literally searched for " joint control limestone" in Google to See it is. It just happened to create one gigantic semi regular cube.
I'm loving these types of video and the calm between the words, but man, I had to close my eyes and hide the screen with my hands with some of the shots, I felt dizzy just watching you! I could not stand on the edge like that, but I'm glad you are doing it and we can watch (the bits that don't make our hearts beat too fast!). I love how beautiful nature is and how much of it there
This was an awesome surprise. I watch both channels and you have Evelyn. This was so great. You guys are great! Thanks for all the sharing and info. I'm a faithful watcher!
I think the physics of how the block fell away should be examined further. The formations on the mountain face suggest that the block would have had a corner facing downhill rather than one of its flat faces. There could have been a good chunk of that corner suspended over a natural fulcrum of sorts. In time, the attached corner would succumb to the weight of the suspended corner and break away from its position on the mountain. Considering gravity and the sheer weight of the block, I believe it could have slid and rolled more than tumbled. Also, the broken piece of the block may have been a chunk that broke off in this cataclysm. Very, very cool stuff! Love the video!
Awesome video, beautifully shot, but I have a small bone to pick. At 13:25 you said that "What I don't understand is how.... it came to exist in the middle of a forest." But at 13:44 I'm looking up and behind you and there are three almost identical blocks on the cliff above. The explanation was right there.
If you had watched literally 2 minutes past that point, you would see I come to the very conclusion. I didn’t phrase that part properly, but if I had spelled everything out from the beginning, it would make for a very boring video.
I think he knew that. I think he wondered at how it came to exist where it is physically located. What May have caused it to tumble away from the other same formations.😊
Retired stonemason/stonecarver here. The first thing you do when making a cube out of stone is make 1 side flat. Thats what I see. Also, none of the trees in that area were there when that piece fell. I'd venture a guess that there were no trees there at all.
For someone who lives in the U.K. you two are always go to channels, for me the scenery just blows my mind and your discoveries are incredible big up guys and respect to Evelyn and Tui also..xx
P.S. The entire progression of this video is focused around unrolling the geologic story of this object. Before you leave a comment about how speculative my claims are, or how obvious it is where it came from, ya gotta watch the entire thing. If you think that I am drawing unscientific conclusions, it means you have only watched the first couple minutes and therefore are missing the entire point of this video. I don't have a PhD in Geology like Myron Cook (love his videos btw), but I do my best to explain the processes at work in layman's terms. I don't spell it all out from the beginning because that's boring.
@the_pov_channel I have watched so many woo woo debunking videos that I watched your video waiting for the appearance of Aliens & Co. I was happy to be disappointed in that regard. Great video!
I can't help but notice in your drone shots that it looks like you can see a path from which this object fell in the ground disturbance going up hill. It also looks like the ground around it has been disturbed in a way as if it was dropped into the ground. Similar to dropping a stone in mud. Edit: I made this comment while only a couple mins into the vid LOL
Love love love the silence. Letting us be there with you with our own thoughts at the enormity, amazing wonder of this artifact. Stellar. Absolutely stellar.
Trek Planner says no freaking way bro! Good thing about the Trek Planner though is that he goes to places which are more accessible by car, and a reasonable hike, for us folks too old or too out of shape to do what you and the Drifter do! Love your dog man...take care of him!
You guys walk shear cliffs in the middle of the desert (man hood in a bucket.) 1 little creature with fur (run for your lives). Love this and all you vids. Keep it up and be safe.
If you examine the bedding layers and compare them to the cliff, you should be able to tell if it flipped over as it fell, or if it slid down right-side up. From what's presented here, I'd guess it flipped once, shearing off a bed to leave the flat top layer. It would explain the lack of weathering on top at the very least.
I think I may have found the missing piece that came off the top - except for a few chips, it appears to have survived intact - it's to the left of the main block in this frame: 22:07. If you freeze the video at 22:07, it's a pretty good view of both the piece that broke off and the main block and see the surfaces that broke on both of them at the same time. I think this proves what you said due to their relative positions - it must came off during the tumble.
@@the_pov_channel Hello, in geology, these lines are called bedding. Bedding is the repetitive accumulation of sedimentary or calcareous deposits over time under a lake or ocean. It's how limestone froms naturaly , the repetitions of each beds represent a specific time frame of accumulation. In your video you mention the lines (bedding) at the start and looking at various shots, you can see them on each side of the block. As you say the bedding is horizontal on the block matching the cliff, meaning that the block cannot be on it's side like you mention at the end of the video. If the block was on it's "side" the bedding would have to be vertical and not horizontal. The bedding is also a plane of weakness in a rock, any rock mason will tell you it's easier to chip a rock "with the bedding" then "against the bedding" similar to wood. Since we have established the bedding is horizontal and if you look closely, where you're standing at the top is also the boundary between two beds of limestone, so you're standing on a weak bedding plane. My proposal is that since the top of the block is so well cut along the bedding plane with one side broken, the top of the block was at the bottom of the cliff and the broken side was the root that failed and let the block topple over and rolled once or twice before stabilizing in it's spot.
Nolan, Chewy, Andrew and Evelyn...! What an unexpected and enjoyable collaboration..! I think I left a better comment on the 1st video, but either way Nolan, your quad copter piloting skills and aerial photography is the frosting on this dessert..!
Glad you got it reposted. I finally got to see it all, and it was worth the wait. Amazing piece of rock and scenery. Plus, the 4 of you make the perfect dream team, please more team-ups!
As exhilarating and this video is thought-provoking. Love this epic adventure pairing with Desert Drifter and Evelyn. Thank you so much for taking us along.
Awesome! I searched Google Earth and found it just now, located in northern Wyoming. Yeah, I think it brock off from the Limestone cliff band above, and slid down the hill.
@ 3:46 .... 😮 Very happy you had the common sense,to keep your pup harnessed... Those Elk would have stomped it to death... With that amount of yearlings.... Elk will stomp a grown man to death ! ... Great content, love the natural audibles as well ..... Love the DD duo 😁... I'm a " PATREON " in their channel 😁 .... I'm going to follow you as well .... Be safe 🇺🇸 🥾
The "black varnish" is vitrified limestone. I live in the sandstone canyons of the Animas river in northern NM, and see the same thing right behind my home. This cannot be explained by wind or water errosion. It, in fact, cannot be explained by any theories offered by modern collegate acadamia, as it requires a tremendous heat source. Peace
I dont know about the hollow earth, but these are my 3 favorite channels, POV, Desert Drifter and Trek Planner!! So great to see two of the three together. Please lets see more collaborations between these 3 channels!!! Epic!!!!
Rotate it back through 90° and the top of it would have been the back of it where it split off. The uneven side with the vegetation was it's base. The rough front was the top and the horizontal ridges would have been vertical and are evidence of water penetration. Cycles of ice expansion would have caused the split.
Never underestimate the power of freeze/thaw on rocks. Looking around at the other exposed hard geology in the area clearly illustrates the process of how is calved off quite naturally.
@@JDZiemba1773 You're right. 20:33 and 19:58 is the evidence. Shape and colors and missing edge fits perfectly if upside down from where it originated.
The rock is almost certainly upside down, if not rightside up. The cliffs show no rotation in the bedding, so the rock should have the same orientation in its bedding. My guess is the block's now top face sheared on a bed line as it fell and rotated to the top from the bottom. It also likely lost that corner at the end during the fall, if not, it falling away undercut the cliff face to force the fall.
The Sphinx was a natural object in the sand before it was sculpted by people. I think that the big rock is natural. There's no evidence that it was used as a place of worship, as it would have been had people sculpted it like the sphinx.
aka Cube Mountain. Location is near the Burgess Junction in the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming. maps.app.goo.gl/sxrKGnYNYgwViwDr6 Definitely talk to a geologist. There's probably one who would love collaborating with RUclipsrs who could provide measurements, drone footage, and high quality images. Also if you time the fall of a stone you can calculate height or depth. Air resistance is just about meaningless for at least 100 feet. With video you can get very precise by counting frames. The most difficult part will be determining when the drop actually begins, but whatever frame you choose will be accurate enough. This also works for 'bombs' shooting out of volcanoes. Start counting when it reaches its arc until it hits the ground, or gets close (It's often difficult to see where it landed, but if you calculate 200'? that'll give you a good idea. You can do this with sound, if you factor out the speed of sound by distance.
Next time bring in the adventure twins for cave exploration! Pretty cool stuff, and thank you for not immediately jumping to ancient aliens conclusions!
You guys are super heroes for climbing that thing. It looks unnatural but who knows. If you're into freaking out your loved ones who are afraid of heights this video contains some really great content for you. I got that same woozy feeling you get on a roller coaster at a couple points especially when they were walking around the edges on top. Super fun video.
You do realize we are at least the second civilization on this planet. I'm not even talking aliens. The flood wiped out the previous ( highly advanced) civilization.
@@sjaywjayw70 Most myths of floods can be traced back to the flooding of the Black Sea. (Which is a short distance from Greece(atlantis) and Israel(biblical flood))
It's not as if this one, particular structure is unique. It's in the middle of a natural quarry that obviously has hundreds of these. Smaller ones, more rectangular ones, and most that have not split and separated from the entire ridge of limestone above it. Watch the video and look at all the square and rectangular rocks around this one!
@@obomasinladen Especially when they have to FAKE the thumbnail pics and embellish the titles to get attention.. SAD... Everything is fake nowadays ...
Definitely a prehistoric giant human civilization that sought to build something remarkable. They took rocks from here, shaping them into perfect cubes. Then, a great catastrophe struck, leaving this one untouched, while the construction site and their highly advanced technology were destroyed. All that remained were cultureless giants, wandering through legends and myths.
You were not standing on the side of the block, you are standing on the bottom. As an engineer, I can see where it fell from and that it fell upside down.
It’s quite obvious that block sheared off the high cliffs above it. It has not eroded and rounded off yet. In the video you can see several smaller cubicle boulders below the cliff.
If you look up at the cliff face you can see where this rock came from. Maybe weakened by the weather, especially if there are temperature extremes. The ground below the limestone may have been eroded and a million kilos came sliding down. Then there's the possibility an earth quake caused it to break free. Whatever caused the rock to dislodge the cliff face shows rectangular rock forms and loads of rubble below suggesting erosion. That kind of weight would likely slide down that slope until its path was blocked by earth or rock. Interesting find, exploration and assessment. I kept hearing my mother say, "Don't go near the edge."
That square came riding the rubble underneath it down the side of that hill in exactly the same position it's in now. Why isn't it wearing out like the ones on the bluff above it... Because it's LOWER than the ones on the bluff above it! More sheltered..
Excellent, outstanding video guys. Please do MORE collaborations like this!!! Thoroughly enthralled & enjoyed this video. Was mesmerized. Keep going, we all want to see more!! 😊👍
I think it’s fairly obvious to me at least that this block was just carried down (possibly by glacier) from the cliffs above and behind it. still a massive feat that it stayed in one large piece like that. The cave is probably a sink hole from many years of glacial melt under/around the rock
At last, someone here that didn't immediately jump to aliens or ancient civilizations. A material structure like that isn't magical or alien, and corners and flat lines are more common in geological formations than you'd expect, and you're honestly spot on about the cave.
That was my first impression. It slid gradually (glacially pushed like you mentioned) on the side that is now facing uphill. At some point it reached that edge, probably about the time the glacier receded, and it tipped down into its current position. So the one side we see is pretty worn flat. As for the other sides, it may have been part of a larger chunk that fractured and those other sides moved along independently, wearing the other sides flatter. Somewhere further up/down slope there may be remnants of the other surfaces that this "cube" slid against, or they may have broken into smaller chunks/eroded by now, but still pretty cool to see.
I'm thinking a time lapse over kilo-years would show blocks being levered down gently from the cliffs above. The transport mechanism would be gravity combined with freeze/thaw cycles.
@@NomicakesI've read all the comments and nobody is jumping too ancient aliens your projecting your dislike off people who like too consider out the box pottentials on there own...
The top is lying out in front of the main body of the limestone block. This is from water entrapment, freezing on and off over a very long period of time. The crack made by those cycles, traveled throughout the limestone. The top finally slid off, and landed in front of the now nicely cracked made surfaces of the block, along with its sides. Those once part of the walls, are scattered about. I worked with a stone cutter way back. He knew of this feature, and he explain the process for straight line cracking in limestone. So, I had to post this comment. Beautiful video and your channel is on top. Subscriber.
i think aliens visited Earth and chipped off that corner to take back to their home planet as a souvenir. Originally the block had Fibonacci proportions.
YOOOOO i watch you both , and always thought, what if you guys bumped into each other in the Desert in the middle of no where , but here we are collabing ... Love you both :)
What a video!!! Karst Topography! I'm certain the landscape there has a vast underbelly of limestone caverns which interconnect from the groundwater finding its way through the semi-permiable limestone. The water there should be very pure via filtration. Just be weary of the weather for rain. I explore underground limestone caverns in the hot dry of summer to ensure minimal flash flooding. Speaking about that... when is someone going to make a mega documentary with thePOVchannel, Desert Drifter, the Trek Planner, Action Adventure Twins, and Ask Jeff Williams? I really enjoyed seeing thePOVchannel team up with Desert Drifter here. Need we say we want more? Keep it coming! :D You won't find a more intrepid wilderness exploring team who are filled with education for the natural wonders of North America. I'm sure there's more... but come onnnnn!
Yes!! My 2 fav explorers collaborating! Thank you for this awesome Sunday treat! Also, how many of these stone cubes are out there? I found some in Canada.
Remember the water under the monolith.....imagine it frozen...along with icy layers of snow. The monolith could have broken away and ...like a sled... slid.... to its current location? I enjoyed your collaboration with Andrew and Evelyn of "Desert Drifter". What fun...what beauty!
Know it seems pretty flat on top but I nearly slid off an incline like that. I finally stopped, no joke, still on lose rock on my back with my heels barely touching & my toes handing over the edge. One little slip... It's not worth getting off the rope. Christ bless you.
Yeah, exactly how I feel, but it seems like alot of people here think if its not natural then its a 'conspiracy theory' so whatevs I just save the videos in private ; P
@@KarlMonsos I'm 100% sure about the lost civilizations hypothesis brought by Graham Hancock, and many others. They can call it conspiracy if they like. There are similar marks on some ancient quarries all over the world. The rock looks cut almost like how they cut gyro meat.
@@CallistoNTGso much of history as we are taught is gatekept by acedemia who want to cling onto the notion that humans have only been settling and creating human civilization for 10k years. Anyone who finds differently is labeled a quack and has their work discredited. There was that Egyptologist who had geologist study the weathering of the rock on the Sphinx body, and he came to conclusion that for that amount of weathering the Sphinx had to be over 12k years old. The archaeological community didn’t like that, because it calls all their theories about the cradle of civilization into question. Truth is the last ice age with glaciers moving across continents, could absolutely erase remnants of stone cities. Hell I live in the southwest and many of the ruins left by the Anasazi are buried under layers and layers of dirt, making them invisible to those who don’t know what they are looking at. And the Anasazi civilization is only about 1000 years old. We had ancient civilizations around the world moving and shaping enormous boulders, and archaeologists still have no clue how those massive stones were moved or shaped.
@@SusanLynn656Is it important for you to appeal to authority instead of using your God given reasoning and rationale? Do you realize that's a sign of cognitive bias?
Great vid! What a good time it was. And for everyone thinking the story of Nolan and I both planning to film this separately (unbeknownst to eachother) is only a story, it is 100% true. I guess it was just meant to be 😂
overjoyed to see this collab combo, have been secretly wishing for it, so glad - and at such an epic place, I hope you all team up more and make full movies of awsome! thanks to you all! keep safe and keep exploring ! x
What a wonderful surprise Collab! And seeing Mrs Desert Drifter was just a bonus!
The story of the collab makes this even cooler! y'all are basically the two channels I watch about rocks 🤠🥸
Would be fab if you all team up again on a regular basis as this was absolutely awesome!!! I am totally wowed out over this! Much love and gratitude from the UK...
Love you all together here. And now we know what a rock star Evelyn is.
I will watch this again & again.
I love how you don't use music to fill up the parts where "nothing" is happening. Please don't ever change that.
Very calming 😌
i was just about to say that he should put music XD
Seconded!!! Let us listen to what you actually heard.
maybe he could add more sound effects, the current one are nice but things do feel to drone on just a bit sometimes, especially with how consistent his story voice is it would be nice for some subtle noises.
Heck yeah, so tired of music being shoehorned in absolutely everywhere
Thank you so much for posting this! I’m a 73 yr old stroke victim that doesn’t get out much and this video almost felt like I was there in my younger self exploring nature! You are so much appreciated!!’
I’m 52 and I totally get what you’re saying. I know that I would never see something like this in my lifetime. This is one of the wonderful things about RUclips! Cheers!
Same…55 just had a serious medical issue….
Our attitude is everything ! I’m more grateful than other
@@robertwood359 I hope you can recover, we are at an age where things start breaking. Mid life crisis is hell!
You as well… thank you
Clearly, CLEARLY, this is evidence of an ancient species of giant wombat.
A coprolite mayhaps?
And with Wombat Day coming up later this month, it's almost perfectly timed.
It's not on it's side, the sedimentation layers are horizontal on the dark colored side, matching the horizontal layers on the bluff.
The piece that broke off the corner is lying near the bottom of the rock, to the right in the final drone shot.
Notice the thinner square piece to the left in the same shot. Looks like it sheered off the top of the main rock during the initial impact or maybe second impact but momentum kept it with the the main piece until it came to rest. The thinner slab kind of rattled against the bigger one and caused the corner to break loose.
I would play in an old quarry when I was a kid and rolled some pretty big rocks of the edge onto a "tallus" slope to watch them break up. This rock fits the most common pattern I saw.
Your proposition that the rounded parts broke off and crumbled also fits the pattern. If you look you'll probably find a few that held together farther down the slope, maybe in the edge of the trees, round rolls easier.
Have you tried starting her up? The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles.
😅😅😅 sponge bob reference !
It's not just a boulder. its a rock 🥲
i searched for this
i clicked on the vid just for this
😂😂😂😂
My two favourite explorer channels! Happy to see you doing a video together.
Often thought they would be a great pair, but knowing it wasn't possible. I let that thought go.
Who knew it would work out like this?
wonderful, my two favorite (and only two) desert explorers, reminding me how I was when stationed at DM AFB in Tuscon, AZ in 1978-1981.
Me gusta tu vídeo y la narrativa. Buenos enfoques e imágenes muy logradas. AI puede acelerar los tiempos de edición, pero manténlo natural. Cuánto más veraz, más se disfruta 😊❤❤
@@cwicker454My dad was stationed at DM in 1968. I lived there until ‘94
My thoughts exactly!😊
My palms are sweating just watching you walk so close to the edge. Take care
No the rock is upside down. That's why the top is so smooth. It broke where natural layers met.
Really or supposition?
@@dawn7612the best supposition i've seen in this comment section
that's probably the dumbest thing i read today
That entire "mountain" is an antediluvian megalithic fortress that was obliterated in ancient times.
Place is well known to climbers if it has bolted routes on it, a quick search shows its in Wyoming, big horns.
Thank you! Can't believe he didn't say where he was.
@@keppela1because it would ruin the bait
ive been a stone worker my entire life, im floored by your awesome video! the knapped arrow head and tool pieces you found are so cool! we find them here too , and i found a stone iroquois hand drill once on a property...i can tell you that a lot of the surrounding rocks and stones look quarry cut, or cast offs of a quarry cut ... everything about that place says quarry to me, but who knows. there are many places where i live that look like tgey could have been quarries, but arent, theyre naturally occuring, and there are many quarries here... i love the broken corner theory!!only way to confirm it was a quarry would be to find something built from any stones from there, big or small, that search could take a life time to maybe not find anything... the one edge actually looks like it was damaged by an impact, theres a dent in it about 6 feet long, look at the photo of the measurements, its to your left. the horizontal lines look very much to be tooling marks. tgere look to be matching marks on the flat wall under the one over hang on the upper cliffs,it would be cool to measure,and examine the horizontal lines on both, and try matching a displacement area. pretty insane video!thank you!
Agreed. So cool. The crushed parts of the edge was interesting to see. It tells an amazing story
Those horizontal grooves on one side struck me straight away. Surely they are not natural? Interesting stuff. 🦘🌟
I thought the same thing, even looking at the rest of the landscape texture. I truly think a lot of these types of sites were truly ancient quarrying.
Well why would you need to find places they built if it was indeed an ancient gigantic quarry? If somebody that long ago could have mined gigantic swathes of earth, they probably took all of those resources into outer space. Just saying. Looks like they turned the entire southwest US into a quarry…
Huge chunk of concrete
this country is so immensely beautiful and people go their entire lives without even comprehending its beauty, thanks for sharing
One very cold time the rocks decided to praise the Lord their Creator. “We’ll do this with the help of the cold and heat the Lord provides. We’ll make our block square, bold, and huge to bring glory to the One who formed us from the deep Earth. We’ll then wait to be found and confound, but the Lord knows as He watched us form and not conform to mass deceit.”
It's baffles me that some people will live their entire lives like one area, never to even leave their own state.
@@SpaceFlye states are artificial constructs
Wait till you hear about the religious, and other artificial buildings and formations of rocks, ground and trees in Middle East .. many look alien
They stuff us into small citys, then tell us we are “over populated.” Meanwhile there are parts of earth and this country people have never seen, but they were populated at one point. So, who were smarter the ancients or us?
WOW! What an amazing place. You, Andrew and Evelyn make a great exploration team. I am so glad that neither you nor Andrew tried to tackle that on you own, alone. Your editing is fine, and I enjoyed every minute. Thank you!
Hey, what about Evelyn? She might have decided to tackle it on her own.
You can see what appears to be the piece that’s broken off roughly 50 yards north when you pause the video at 36:52
Your walking 10 inches parallel from the edge was FREAKING me out! 😮
would have loved to see any safety harness/rope. that is like an accident waiting to happen, especially at the overhanging side
@@reesofraft4166 But all worked out. God Bless Them & You. 🙏💕
YOU’RE
@@justin8894Appreciate YOU, Proper English corrector, seriously ❤👍 Always good to learn. 🎉
You should check out shiey's Journey Across Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Those are some spooky climbs! But I do agree, being that close to the edge would freak me out, even with gear.
You will never find any secret service officer up there, with that incline.
😂
Or behind sloped bushes.
Lol!
Yeah that’s too big of a risk to take.
😂
Love seeing Andrew of Desert Drifter in this video with you!!
Yes, and who knew Evelyn is a rock climber too!
And Evelyn too. So awesome see all of you together. 🎉
@@kamiyamayk.30 yes Evelyn too
Evelyn is a very good climber. Way better than I will ever be
@@the_pov_channel
You have a great team there. Honestly, if you worked together all the time there would be fewer places to explore, check out and publish.
Looked this up on Google Earth. Found the "Block". This is obviously a natural feature of the rock formation. There are a lot of squared edge looking blocks laying around. You can see them in the video. I'm glad you are looking and measuring on site. What a great adventure! There is another formation about a mile and a quarter southeast of the block... Looks like an Egyptian Obelisk from the satellite.
What are the coordinates? What is it close to?
Two of my favorite RUclips folks . Thanks for teaming up !
Awesome show kids, I'm 70 years old and never heard of or seen the rock you showed today I don't know what to think, it looks man-made to me. I was praying for your safety as you kids investigated that colossal rock, I have my fears and have no problem with flying, but I have the fear of falling, and you kids? on top looking down as you did. Thank you to you three please be safe. God Bless you three.
If you see the video, there is no need to pray. This is not live!!
@@alainterieur7583Always a Need to Pray 🙏
It looks mane made??????? If men were ten metres tall and had chisels a a meter broad. And mostly men make things for a reason. Why would people do this? Sorry but this is proof of ancient aliens phuking with us.🤣🤣🤣
Man-made? Why?
The reason why the block is so flat compared to the rounded cliffside is because those eroded parts broke off as it was rolling down the hill. That rounded surface on the cliff is decomposing limestone and is quite weak, comparatively, and since limestone is deposited in layers, it also has weak shear planes baked in. So the first tumble probably broke off that decomposed upper layer and as a result the shear plane exposed the harder and uneroded limestone beneath it. The rock you found with the weird pattern around those thin sheets of rock is called breccia, a result of a sudden high energy event that shatters rock, and if the right geological processes are in place, it cements back together all jumbled up. Very common with cave collapses, meteorite impacts, and landslides. The individual pieces of rock within the matrix are called clasts, and that's the primary determining factor in what separates breccia from conglomerates (a rock made of eroded bits of rock, think river rocks getting stuck in mud and then the mud turns to stone). Myron Cook could create an interesting video on this particular geological formation, no doubt.
& made a perfect square block. Nope😮😮😮
@@teresadvorak6145
Sure it could.
You should have taken a Broom 🧹 with you
@@teresadvorak6145 It's not a perfect square block. Try to read the comment you're replying to some more to understand why the faces are so flat.
Ya, this is the conclusion I draw in the course of the video. The Breccia was amazing! Myron would have a great take no doubt and hopefully draw the same conclusions I do, with alot more detail than I can provide
When you're in those caves you need a thrower flashlight that throws the beam a great distance. Your light bleeds out after a few meters. Get the Olight javelot long range.
I got one now.
One reason for having a head torch is also so that you don't drop it down an impenetrable chasm lol. You were also giving me such freak outs going down the chasm with no knee pads or elbow pads! Ever since i saw that one survival emergency video where a guy falls so that his chest is between two walls of rock and as his body swells he starts to suffocate, i have such a fear of that! Please be more careful. @the_pov_channel
I get dizzy just watching you do this. Please be careful because you never know the tipping point of the weight to break the blocks free.
Did I miss - where is this located? State? Forest?
Dude, I know you camped in a lot of cool spots before.
But that must have been one of the absolute coolest places ever to set up your tent.
It felt pretty special
@@the_pov_channel kind of reminded me of a cathedral.
When limestone breaks or dissolves in rectangular prisms it is called "joint control." Some formations of limestone are very prone to exhibiting joint control.
Clearly this is not that.
However this looks nothing like a Rock Joint breaking, even in the slightest. I have been a Rock Climber all of my life since I was 7 years old, I have been ALL over the world. I have climb hundreds of rockfaces. And I have NEVER seen a near perfect Cuboid, and I have seen some incredible Natural Rock Formations, I've even collected many samples.
Why do people like you speak, when you seemingly have so little to say?
@@TheHellFlower1 I literally searched for " joint control limestone" in Google to See it is. It just happened to create one gigantic semi regular cube.
@NonyaBizziness lol what a douche bag thing to say
I thought that was an interesting fact Jim. Don't listen to Nonya, who gave me zero interesting information, except that they are obnoxious.
What a treat having these people (and dog) together. Hope this leads to other collaborations
According to my geologist cousin. Rocks don't naturally form like that. Seems like it's a broken piece of a large structure
I'm loving these types of video and the calm between the words, but man, I had to close my eyes and hide the screen with my hands with some of the shots, I felt dizzy just watching you! I could not stand on the edge like that, but I'm glad you are doing it and we can watch (the bits that don't make our hearts beat too fast!). I love how beautiful nature is and how much of it there
Drones are a real blessing for his type of Content
Kinda crazy the technology capabilities I can fit into my pocket now
@@the_pov_channel Totally, never imagined the Power we could have in something as small as our palms. Are you using the Mini 3 / 4 Pro?
This was an awesome surprise. I watch both channels and you have Evelyn. This was so great. You guys are great! Thanks for all the sharing and info. I'm a faithful watcher!
Me too
Finally, the collab we’ve all been waiting for. POV + Desert Drifter, love you guys. Keep up the great work.
💯💯
I think the physics of how the block fell away should be examined further. The formations on the mountain face suggest that the block would have had a corner facing downhill rather than one of its flat faces. There could have been a good chunk of that corner suspended over a natural fulcrum of sorts. In time, the attached corner would succumb to the weight of the suspended corner and break away from its position on the mountain. Considering gravity and the sheer weight of the block, I believe it could have slid and rolled more than tumbled. Also, the broken piece of the block may have been a chunk that broke off in this cataclysm. Very, very cool stuff! Love the video!
Awesome video, beautifully shot, but I have a small bone to pick. At 13:25 you said that "What I don't understand is how.... it came to exist in the middle of a forest." But at 13:44 I'm looking up and behind you and there are three almost identical blocks on the cliff above. The explanation was right there.
He's eating your time for money with unnecessarily long videos. This shit is dumb. 30 minutes about a pseudo-cube rock. It could have easily been 5.
He reaches that conclusion by the end of the video.
Bingo
If you had watched literally 2 minutes past that point, you would see I come to the very conclusion. I didn’t phrase that part properly, but if I had spelled everything out from the beginning, it would make for a very boring video.
I think he knew that. I think he wondered at how it came to exist where it is physically located. What May have caused it to tumble away from the other same formations.😊
Retired stonemason/stonecarver here. The first thing you do when making a cube out of stone is make 1 side flat. Thats what I see.
Also, none of the trees in that area were there when that piece fell. I'd venture a guess that there were no trees there at all.
For someone who lives in the U.K. you two are always go to channels, for me the scenery just blows my mind and your discoveries are incredible big up guys and respect to Evelyn and Tui also..xx
P.S. The entire progression of this video is focused around unrolling the geologic story of this object. Before you leave a comment about how speculative my claims are, or how obvious it is where it came from, ya gotta watch the entire thing. If you think that I am drawing unscientific conclusions, it means you have only watched the first couple minutes and therefore are missing the entire point of this video. I don't have a PhD in Geology like Myron Cook (love his videos btw), but I do my best to explain the processes at work in layman's terms. I don't spell it all out from the beginning because that's boring.
Obviously not impossible...........and quite common in nature. Stop sensationaling nature, it's awesome enough on its own.
Wow, this was amazing to see up close! Thank you so very much for sharing the experience! From New Zealand with love!
made my palms sweat, you climbed it and measured the top, but never measured the bottom. cool plants
@the_pov_channel I have watched so many woo woo debunking videos that I watched your video waiting for the appearance of Aliens & Co. I was happy to be disappointed in that regard. Great video!
I can't help but notice in your drone shots that it looks like you can see a path from which this object fell in the ground disturbance going up hill. It also looks like the ground around it has been disturbed in a way as if it was dropped into the ground. Similar to dropping a stone in mud.
Edit: I made this comment while only a couple mins into the vid LOL
Love love love the silence. Letting us be there with you with our own thoughts at the enormity, amazing wonder of this artifact. Stellar. Absolutely stellar.
Trek Planner says no freaking way bro! Good thing about the Trek Planner though is that he goes to places which are more accessible by car, and a reasonable hike, for us folks too old or too out of shape to do what you and the Drifter do! Love your dog man...take care of him!
You guys walk shear cliffs in the middle of the desert (man hood in a bucket.) 1 little creature with fur (run for your lives). Love this and all you vids. Keep it up and be safe.
So you didn't notice the woman scaling the behemoth rock? Wow, okay.
If you examine the bedding layers and compare them to the cliff, you should be able to tell if it flipped over as it fell, or if it slid down right-side up. From what's presented here, I'd guess it flipped once, shearing off a bed to leave the flat top layer. It would explain the lack of weathering on top at the very least.
Your comment needs more likes, people don't seem to observe the clues all around them.
The striated lines were horizontal, matching those on the cliff. I thought that was interesting as well
I think I may have found the missing piece that came off the top - except for a few chips, it appears to have survived intact - it's to the left of the main block in this frame: 22:07. If you freeze the video at 22:07, it's a pretty good view of both the piece that broke off and the main block and see the surfaces that broke on both of them at the same time. I think this proves what you said due to their relative positions - it must came off during the tumble.
@@the_pov_channel Hello, in geology, these lines are called bedding. Bedding is the repetitive accumulation of sedimentary or calcareous deposits over time under a lake or ocean. It's how limestone froms naturaly , the repetitions of each beds represent a specific time frame of accumulation. In your video you mention the lines (bedding) at the start and looking at various shots, you can see them on each side of the block. As you say the bedding is horizontal on the block matching the cliff, meaning that the block cannot be on it's side like you mention at the end of the video. If the block was on it's "side" the bedding would have to be vertical and not horizontal.
The bedding is also a plane of weakness in a rock, any rock mason will tell you it's easier to chip a rock "with the bedding" then "against the bedding" similar to wood. Since we have established the bedding is horizontal and if you look closely, where you're standing at the top is also the boundary between two beds of limestone, so you're standing on a weak bedding plane. My proposal is that since the top of the block is so well cut along the bedding plane with one side broken, the top of the block was at the bottom of the cliff and the broken side was the root that failed and let the block topple over and rolled once or twice before stabilizing in it's spot.
The observayion that it probably was 50x50 because that part broke off during the fall was 💡!
You guys are AMAZING together!! This was EPIC
Nolan, Chewy, Andrew and Evelyn...! What an unexpected and enjoyable collaboration..! I think I left a better comment on the 1st video, but either way Nolan, your quad copter piloting skills and aerial photography is the frosting on this dessert..!
I do love his skills on the aerial views...
Glad you got it reposted. I finally got to see it all, and it was worth the wait. Amazing piece of rock and scenery. Plus, the 4 of you make the perfect dream team, please more team-ups!
As exhilarating and this video is thought-provoking. Love this epic adventure pairing with Desert Drifter and Evelyn. Thank you so much for taking us along.
Awesome! I searched Google Earth and found it just now, located in northern Wyoming. Yeah, I think it brock off from the Limestone cliff band above, and slid down the hill.
Please don't stand so close to the edge. My sphincter can't handle it!
Great video!
@ 3:46 .... 😮 Very happy you had the common sense,to keep your pup harnessed... Those Elk would have stomped it to death... With that amount of yearlings.... Elk will stomp a grown man to death ! ... Great content, love the natural audibles as well ..... Love the DD duo 😁... I'm a " PATREON " in their channel 😁 .... I'm going to follow you as well .... Be safe 🇺🇸 🥾
He knows not to mess with the big animals
There is a bigger cube, more symmetrical than that, off the right hand side of the north rim at the grand canyon. Also probably not accessible
Egyptians-master masons of all time were in n west rim,
2 of my favorite channels and creators! Hope you both do more collabs in the future!
Yall are freaking me out. Walking on the edge and all. I’m hanging out with the dog also. Yikes
The "black varnish" is vitrified limestone. I live in the sandstone canyons of the Animas river in northern NM, and see the same thing right behind my home. This cannot be explained by wind or water errosion. It, in fact, cannot be explained by any theories offered by modern collegate acadamia, as it requires a tremendous heat source. Peace
Yes, a D.D. P.O.V. & The Trek Planner. This would be the team to explore The Hollow Earth!! Team up guys!!😊
We ain’t gonna find it 🤣🤣
Lol
I dont know about the hollow earth, but these are my 3 favorite channels, POV, Desert Drifter and Trek Planner!! So great to see two of the three together. Please lets see more collaborations between these 3 channels!!! Epic!!!!
I audibly gasped when I saw you two collabed. So stoked!!!
Rotate it back through 90° and the top of it would have been the back of it where it split off. The uneven side with the vegetation was it's base. The rough front was the top and the horizontal ridges would have been vertical and are evidence of water penetration. Cycles of ice expansion would have caused the split.
That makes a lot of sense.
No chance...look at the striations... horizontal just like the ones on the cliffs....I think the block is upside down
Never underestimate the power of freeze/thaw on rocks. Looking around at the other exposed hard geology in the area clearly illustrates the process of how is calved off quite naturally.
@@JDZiemba1773 You're right. 20:33 and 19:58 is the evidence. Shape and colors and missing edge fits perfectly if upside down from where it originated.
The rock is almost certainly upside down, if not rightside up. The cliffs show no rotation in the bedding, so the rock should have the same orientation in its bedding. My guess is the block's now top face sheared on a bed line as it fell and rotated to the top from the bottom. It also likely lost that corner at the end during the fall, if not, it falling away undercut the cliff face to force the fall.
The Sphinx was a natural object in the sand before it was sculpted by people. I think that the big rock is natural. There's no evidence that it was used as a place of worship, as it would have been had people sculpted it like the sphinx.
12:36 you can see two other "square" rocks with "right angles" behind the main stone. You guys really needed a geologist on your team.
DID YOU WATCH THE WHOLE THING
aka Cube Mountain. Location is near the Burgess Junction in the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming. maps.app.goo.gl/sxrKGnYNYgwViwDr6
Definitely talk to a geologist. There's probably one who would love collaborating with RUclipsrs who could provide measurements, drone footage, and high quality images.
Also if you time the fall of a stone you can calculate height or depth. Air resistance is just about meaningless for at least 100 feet. With video you can get very precise by counting frames. The most difficult part will be determining when the drop actually begins, but whatever frame you choose will be accurate enough. This also works for 'bombs' shooting out of volcanoes. Start counting when it reaches its arc until it hits the ground, or gets close (It's often difficult to see where it landed, but if you calculate 200'? that'll give you a good idea. You can do this with sound, if you factor out the speed of sound by distance.
Shouldn't be hard this comment section is full of them.
An indoctrinated geologist is the last thing you want....they pooh pooh everything that doesn't fit the official narrative.
@@ScoobieSwisher7413 Baawahaha, I was just thinking the same thing Scoobie...
Next time bring in the adventure twins for cave exploration! Pretty cool stuff, and thank you for not immediately jumping to ancient aliens conclusions!
omg i'm addicted to the cave videos.. who are those ppl lol
that collaboration needs to happen!
@@gregoryallen0001 right? it's terrifying and addictive at the same time. These guys have balls of titanium.
I immediately thought of them at 16:22 😂😂
Those dudes are psycho. I get sweaty palms watching them
The most interesting thing I learned from this is that Wombat poop comes out in squares/rectangles!!! What in the, how in the heck is that happening??
Square B-holes, obv 😌
Haha, us Aussies have some great animals. Do not forget the drop bears. 😊
😆 dude, somebody really needs to drop that shit in a rap song!!! See, I even got it started partly with the double entendre lol
Same 😂😂😂
not sure if its legit but everytime we saw one he would say that it was square shaped so it wouldnt roll back down their burrows haha
the collab I didn't know I needed. opening intro gave me chills, kept me for the duration. bravo
You guys are super heroes for climbing that thing. It looks unnatural but who knows. If you're into freaking out your loved ones who are afraid of heights this video contains some really great content for you. I got that same woozy feeling you get on a roller coaster at a couple points especially when they were walking around the edges on top. Super fun video.
There's no doubt in my mind that ancient man could achieve this, but to think this is manmade is absolute nonsense. It's clearly natural.
You do realize we are at least the second civilization on this planet. I'm not even talking aliens. The flood wiped out the previous ( highly advanced) civilization.
@@sjaywjayw70 Most people have no clue how much we've been lied to about history.
Probably had some help by Glaciers moving in the area, but yes 100% natural.
@@sjaywjayw70
Most myths of floods can be traced back to the flooding of the Black Sea. (Which is a short distance from Greece(atlantis) and Israel(biblical flood))
You just keep adding the wow factor! Awesome adventure. Loved seeing you with Desert Drifter too.
Wow. Thanks guys. Awesome episode. My two favourite adventurers!
If you look at the cliff in the background, there are a whole load of "impossible geometry" stones lined up.
Nolan, I didn't know you were also a climber! You are a man of many talents. Amazing video. Keep it up!
It's not as if this one, particular structure is unique. It's in the middle of a natural quarry that obviously has hundreds of these. Smaller ones, more rectangular ones, and most that have not split and separated from the entire ridge of limestone above it. Watch the video and look at all the square and rectangular rocks around this one!
Did you watch the entire video? I clearly state this at around the 20:00 mark
Seriously. These channels can only survive on clickbait.
@@the_pov_channeldon't feed the trolls ❤😊 Your channel is amazing, keep doing your thing. I have become a loyal viewer 🎉
‘Chips off the ol’ block.’
@@obomasinladen Especially when they have to FAKE the thumbnail pics and embellish the titles to get attention.. SAD... Everything is fake nowadays ...
a perfect cube, impossible. An almost cube, a statistical anomaly.
Looked and looked - don't see a claim of it being a perfect cube
It's not impossible. Look at pyrites crystals which are perfect cubes.
@@huskyfrank9058 crystals are a different story
@@agzofficial3600 Why are they a different story? Please explain.
@@huskyfrank9058 dude are you really asking me what is the difference between that giant stone and a crystal structure..
Amazingly magical, mystical place. Incredible video. So great to see you with Andrew. Stay safe.
Definitely a prehistoric giant human civilization that sought to build something remarkable. They took rocks from here, shaping them into perfect cubes. Then, a great catastrophe struck, leaving this one untouched, while the construction site and their highly advanced technology were destroyed. All that remained were cultureless giants, wandering through legends and myths.
🤣🤣 Not true, only Giant here, is God! God Bless You.❤
I love hearing the dog whining about the elk.
You were not standing on the side of the block, you are standing on the bottom. As an engineer, I can see where it fell from and that it fell upside down.
It’s quite obvious that block sheared off the high cliffs above it. It has not eroded and rounded off yet. In the video you can see several smaller cubicle boulders below the cliff.
I explain this.
@@the_pov_channel You did good!
If you look up at the cliff face you can see where this rock came from. Maybe weakened by the weather, especially if there are temperature extremes. The ground below the limestone may have been eroded and a million kilos came sliding down. Then there's the possibility an earth quake caused it to break free. Whatever caused the rock to dislodge the cliff face shows rectangular rock forms and loads of rubble below suggesting erosion. That kind of weight would likely slide down that slope until its path was blocked by earth or rock. Interesting find, exploration and assessment.
I kept hearing my mother say, "Don't go near the edge."
That square came riding the rubble underneath it down the side of that hill in exactly the same position it's in now. Why isn't it wearing out like the ones on the bluff above it... Because it's LOWER than the ones on the bluff above it! More sheltered..
Learning that wombat poop is cubed, made this whole video worth watching.
Lovely video! Where is it located?
Excellent, outstanding video guys. Please do MORE collaborations like this!!! Thoroughly enthralled & enjoyed this video. Was mesmerized.
Keep going, we all want to see more!! 😊👍
With the drone, it looked like a rock quarry debris field!?
I think it’s fairly obvious to me at least that this block was just carried down (possibly by glacier) from the cliffs above and behind it. still a massive feat that it stayed in one large piece like that.
The cave is probably a sink hole from many years of glacial melt under/around the rock
At last, someone here that didn't immediately jump to aliens or ancient civilizations.
A material structure like that isn't magical or alien, and corners and flat lines are more common in geological formations than you'd expect, and you're honestly spot on about the cave.
Ah come on - Its Aliens with unknown technology... absolute proof 100%... I mean its as good as finding a space ship!
That was my first impression. It slid gradually (glacially pushed like you mentioned) on the side that is now facing uphill. At some point it reached that edge, probably about the time the glacier receded, and it tipped down into its current position. So the one side we see is pretty worn flat. As for the other sides, it may have been part of a larger chunk that fractured and those other sides moved along independently, wearing the other sides flatter. Somewhere further up/down slope there may be remnants of the other surfaces that this "cube" slid against, or they may have broken into smaller chunks/eroded by now, but still pretty cool to see.
I'm thinking a time lapse over kilo-years would show blocks being levered down gently from the cliffs above. The transport mechanism would be gravity combined with freeze/thaw cycles.
@@NomicakesI've read all the comments and nobody is jumping too ancient aliens your projecting your dislike off people who like too consider out the box pottentials on there own...
THANKS FOR SHARING....!!!! AMAZING...!!!! greetings from COMODORO CHUBUT PATAGONIA ARGENTINA
1:23 bro please don't be dumb like that 😢
The top is lying out in front of the main body of the limestone block. This is from water entrapment, freezing on and off over a very long period of time. The crack made by those cycles, traveled throughout the limestone. The top finally slid off, and landed in front of the now nicely cracked made surfaces of the block, along with its sides. Those once part of the walls, are scattered about. I worked with a stone cutter way back. He knew of this feature, and he explain the process for straight line cracking in limestone. So, I had to post this comment. Beautiful video and your channel is on top. Subscriber.
Nolan, it's a Borg vessel.
Petrified 🖖👽👍
Resistance is futile
Make it so...
A prototype Borg ship.
Or a Vogon ship
I never heard about this channel but I’ve just subscribed watching a few minutes into it. Quality
i think aliens visited Earth and chipped off that corner to take back to their home planet as a souvenir. Originally the block had Fibonacci proportions.
YOOOOO i watch you both , and always thought, what if you guys bumped into each other in the Desert in the middle of no where , but here we are collabing ... Love you both :)
Yes, yes, yes!
What a video!!!
Karst Topography! I'm certain the landscape there has a vast underbelly of limestone caverns which interconnect from the groundwater finding its way through the semi-permiable limestone. The water there should be very pure via filtration. Just be weary of the weather for rain. I explore underground limestone caverns in the hot dry of summer to ensure minimal flash flooding.
Speaking about that... when is someone going to make a mega documentary with thePOVchannel, Desert Drifter, the Trek Planner, Action Adventure Twins, and Ask Jeff Williams?
I really enjoyed seeing thePOVchannel team up with Desert Drifter here. Need we say we want more? Keep it coming! :D
You won't find a more intrepid wilderness exploring team who are filled with education for the natural wonders of North America.
I'm sure there's more... but come onnnnn!
Exactly. Lots more to see here definitely
@@the_pov_channel
Maybe for a limited time only, be careful of too much collaboration.
Myron Cook would say well heck it left a trail!😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅
Yes!! My 2 fav explorers collaborating! Thank you for this awesome Sunday treat!
Also, how many of these stone cubes are out there? I found some in Canada.
where at??
First time I have seen this channel. Gotta say pretty freaking cool 👍💪
I get vertigo and scared just watching this! Amazing work.
Remember the water under the monolith.....imagine it frozen...along with icy layers of snow. The monolith could have broken away and ...like a sled... slid.... to its current location?
I enjoyed your collaboration with Andrew and Evelyn of "Desert Drifter". What fun...what beauty!
Awesome yall did this one together!!
Know it seems pretty flat on top but I nearly slid off an incline like that. I finally stopped, no joke, still on lose rock on my back with my heels barely touching & my toes handing over the edge. One little slip... It's not worth getting off the rope. Christ bless you.
It looks to me like the remnants of an ancient quarry. The parallel lines don't look natural.
Yeah, exactly how I feel, but it seems like alot of people here think if its not natural then its a 'conspiracy theory' so whatevs I just save the videos in private ; P
@@KarlMonsos I'm 100% sure about the lost civilizations hypothesis brought by Graham Hancock, and many others. They can call it conspiracy if they like. There are similar marks on some ancient quarries all over the world. The rock looks cut almost like how they cut gyro meat.
@@KarlMonsos heaven forbid human history be interesting.
@@CallistoNTGso much of history as we are taught is gatekept by acedemia who want to cling onto the notion that humans have only been settling and creating human civilization for 10k years. Anyone who finds differently is labeled a quack and has their work discredited. There was that Egyptologist who had geologist study the weathering of the rock on the Sphinx body, and he came to conclusion that for that amount of weathering the Sphinx had to be over 12k years old. The archaeological community didn’t like that, because it calls all their theories about the cradle of civilization into question. Truth is the last ice age with glaciers moving across continents, could absolutely erase remnants of stone cities. Hell I live in the southwest and many of the ruins left by the Anasazi are buried under layers and layers of dirt, making them invisible to those who don’t know what they are looking at. And the Anasazi civilization is only about 1000 years old. We had ancient civilizations around the world moving and shaping enormous boulders, and archaeologists still have no clue how those massive stones were moved or shaped.
No squares in nature is a complete and total internet myth. The Rocky Mountains are full of them
Why in the world doesn’t he talk to a geologist or even do a Google search to understand this????
@SusanLynn656 yeah...I'd like to know what I'm standing on
@@SusanLynn656Is it important for you to appeal to authority instead of using your God given reasoning and rationale? Do you realize that's a sign of cognitive bias?
Squares, hexagons ( Devil's Postpile, Mammoth Lakes CA), natural and amazing.
@@SusanLynn656because that doesn’t give him a video lol. Just look at how dramatic the beginning is to try to get you to watch the whole thing
Masterpiece of a video glad it’s up again
Nice spot for a world martial arts tournament....