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How To Roll A 340-Ton Boulder Through The Streets Of LA

How does one move 308,000kg of solid granite from a quarry in Riverside county, through some of the busiest streets in the US, to the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art? This mammoth trailer is certainly a start.


November 30, 2010
Science

Who Put This 1000-Ton Boulder Here?

That’s not a tiny man. That boulder – shot by Icelandic photographer, volcano adventurer and overall awesome guy Ragnar Sigurdsson – stands 15m high, weighs about 1000 tons, and it wasn’t there a few days ago. Who put it there?