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Rock or boulder?

Thats obviously a boulder. However, my friend whose next to me has informed me of it being a rock. We are currently having a heated discussion now. Thanks.

Psh, that's a rock. Boulders can't float

If that building is real it's a boulder, if it's a model or some such it's a rock cause isn't a boulder just a really big rock?

Rory of course says it's a rock. (about 8 times now)

I did notice the floatingness of it. Is that a blood stain and a bullet hole on it... just to the left??

That's probably not a rock; boulder is defined as greater than 256 mm (10 inches) along its long axis.

That's a marshmallow. And it looks a little like an owl's head.

Hey it kinda does look like a marshmallow... Weird... But I see more of a cobra-like figure to it instead of an owl

Yoda is slightly offscreen floating the bantha behind the Meteorite

Roulder.
Here endith the lesson.

and for the real argument, what color is it?

Rory says it's snow, it must be snow colored.

Rory +1

Neither. Tis a figment of my imagination, projected upon your own minds by my awesome. Its also peach colored.

It's blue! And it's not fair that your boulder/marshmallow/mushroom is peach. Get rid of peach, make it blue - because I'm forced to have blue.

*blub*

rock1 /rɒk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[rok] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
ﾖnoun
1. a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
2. Geology. a. mineral matter of variable composition, consolidated or unconsolidated, assembled in masses or considerable quantities in nature, as by the action of heat or water.
b. a particular kind of such matter: igneous rock.

3. stone in the mass: buildings that stand upon rock.
4. a stone of any size.

boulﾷder /ˈboʊldər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[bohl-der] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation ﾖnoun a detached and rounded or worn rock, esp. a large one.

boulﾷder also bowlﾷder (bôl'dər) Pronunciation Key n. A large rounded mass of rock lying on the surface of the ground or embedded in the soil.

While it is a Rock, it might also be a Boulder, if the fact that it is floating doesn't disapply it (second definition).

As for the colour, it has to be 'Stone'. ;)

sorry, should add, that if the floatiness doesn't stop it being a Boulder, then it's;

Both.

As a boulder is a specific type of rock. If it wasn't a rock, it couldn't be a boulder. ;)

According to the name of the photo, it's a rock.

woa.... why is this thing hovering? does it stay in one spot or does it float around? whats going on in this pic.

maybe its a tiny floating rock that only hovers for photos in the foreground so that it looks like a boulder

If you look at its shape, it is clearly a bunny.

I'm going with rock.
The color is, I think : #CCB1A8, or at least the face of it is.

It's a spaceship!

Ummm. Not that I know which it is.. but wouldn't a giant rock BE a boulder?....

i thought it was the largest lcd television in the world (limestone crystal display).

... its a tumor.

That is neither a rock, nor a stone. It's dragon poop. Everyone knows that dragon poop is weightless.

Barzoo FTW!

rock is one you can pick up and throw. Anything bigger then you are able to throw is a boulder. essential a boulder is a really big rock.

Boulder
n. A large rounded mass of rock lying on the surface of the ground or embedded in the soil.

n. a detached and rounded or worn rock, esp. a large one

"rock is one you can pick up and throw. Anything bigger then you are able to throw is a boulder. essential a boulder is a really big rock.

Boulder
n. A large rounded mass of rock lying on the surface of the ground or embedded in the soil.

n. a detached and rounded or worn rock, esp. a large one"

it is floating though, so i would assume anyone could lift it and possibly throw it, though maybe not at a high velocity. rock then! it is settled.

its nawt ah toomah!

dudemus if only physics was that easy. we would all be flying around.

just cause something is floating doesnt necessarily mean you can move it. take the bullet trains as an example they float on a magnetic track but i guarantee that you walk up behind it and push it you can move it down the track.

in order to move an object you need to apply equivalnt force or greater to the object in order to move it.
so unless you can put however many tons that rock/boulder weighs behind it in equivlant force its not moving

newtons laws explain it better.

If the object is solid and does not absorb any of the force, the force will move it. It's floating, so we're assuming no resistance.

It clearly was a rock but after some usd investment it grew into the aberration we see here, obviously a boulder.

not true. that is why we have kick back when you fire a gun.
your body aborbs the a good portion of the force of the bullet getting fired out the other end, yet we still get pushed back a bit. so even if there is absortion it still would move but the force would have be to greater then the weight. since some is absorbed.

Booty if the object was in a enviroment like space. a vacuum with no gravity. then you would be correct.

Right, that's the assumption. Since the only resistant force is air and that rock doesn't look like it'd absorb force, I think a fairly small force could get it moving...so I'd call it a rock, and it could be thrown.

it's a rock. right clicking on it, reveal the truth~

well if we are going to go that route, then we need to define what thrown is.

1mm - 1foot or 100 feet+ ? :P

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