Originally published at: Rock wizard create an impossible-looking stone cairn - Boing Boing
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Someone’s got to be the wet blanket: it has been recommended that people should not make or add to cairns, because it upsets the balance of insects and other small creatures who need the rocks to stay where they are.
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Seriously? Whatever minimal impact this has on some insects, it’s done in the service of art. Some balance is indicated. As you can see.
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Rock wizard create…
Headline suggests Rock Wizard is a group.
It’s Saturday, so here’s some Pop Wizzard.
(Yeah, completely off topic. Sorry.)
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Yeah, really. This is actually a big problem in some popular park areas, because all the rocks end up getting stacked by visitors and left that way, thus depriving the organisms that live under rocks from, well, having a habitat, which is not some sort of minor inconvenience for them.
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Exactly, the Forest Service in our area is asking people to cut it out. And it isn’t just insects, it is lizards and other animals.
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Neat. One wonders if non-Japanese Coke bottles could also be balanced in similar fashion. 
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I cairn hardly believe it 
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I love this artist’s cairn-do demeanor.
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https://wiki.lspace.org/Balancing_Monks
The Balancing Monks are one of many groups whose monasteries are found in the Enlightenment country. Their belief is a strange one. They believe that the Disc is likely to topple at any moment unless it is kept perfectly balanced. So monks are sent out to put a weight somewhere to maintain, well, balance. Many a traveller has tripped over a 1lb weight on some mountain peak. The weights are always less than 14.14 pounds.
They must be correct as the Disc is still the right way up.
The monks do not actively recruit but the monastery is open to all who can reach it. As it is reached by a tightrope over a deep canyon with winds to make it fun, they seldom have to reject anyone.
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I dunno about the rocks, but whatever that music is accompanying the video is awful!
Arches…Roman arches!? 
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FWIW Winner of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest.
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First: I love all the Discworld references that have been popping up lately!
Secondly: Okay, so approximately 4.5 pi? Does anyone know why? Knowing PTerry, I’m sure there’s some esoteric joke there!
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14.14 is about 10 root 2, for whatever that’s worth.
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