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I don't approve of just randomly going and hitting them with metal hammers, you'll erode them to nothing that way.

• subpixel 8y ago
  This. What a bunch of yahoos destroying an interesting natural phenomenon with fucking hammers. The video even suggests wearing eye protection so rock chips don’t hit you in the cornea, but makes no mention of damaging the very thing you find so interesting.
  • grosjona 8y ago
    At the same time, it's just a regular rock until you hit it with a hammer. If nobody ever hits those rocks with a hammer then they might as well not exist. I don't think animals, plants, trees, fungus, bacteria or the rocks themselves care if they're smashed to shards. So they're purely for human enjoyment.
    • toss1 8y ago
      why not go all the way into solipsism and declare that all other humans also don't care and are just there for your amusement? (I can guarantee you that at the very least, the animals care a lot whether they get smashed)
  • peterwwillis 8y ago
    The rocks are very big, very heavy, very dense. I've taken a hammer and banged the shit out of them. They didn't have a scratch. I thought the hammer was going to break. And there's a lot of them.
• ChuckMcM 8y ago
  Rocks however are a totally renewable resource, just drop the sand into a subduction zone and poof out of the other side comes fresh granite :-). That said, if you've ever been to a stamping mill you will get an appreciation of the energy it takes to convert metamorphic rock into sand. These rocks are in no danger from the humans tapping them with hammers.