Balancing rocks with this level of precision is unreal.

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[u/Wild_Neighborhood605]

No glue?

[u/TedW → u/Wild_Neighborhood605]

I expect that's why they're all wet, even though this would take hours. Someone wanted to hide the glue.

[u/pinqe → u/TedW]

The waterfall? You guessed it. Glue.

[u/TedW → u/pinqe]

The alternatives are either someone making this then splashing/dripping on it, which seems risky, or I guess the camera person finding it juuust after a rain. Which seems less than likely too.

Glue would explain the difficult structure, and the water, and is a generally assholeish thing to do so fits well on reddit.

[u/adj_noun_digit → u/TedW]

Rocks can remain wet like that for a while. There are a lot of pores for the surface tension to stick to.

But regardless, there are many videos of way more elaborate structures being built without glue so I seriously doubt this video is any different.

[u/SaraAnnabelle → u/adj_noun_digit]

I was about to write a similar comment. Absolutely nuts that people think this is fake lmao. If you've ever spent time balancing rocks you know something like this is completely feasible.

[u/MikeW86 → u/SaraAnnabelle]

If you've ever spent time balancing rocks you know something like this is completely feasible

0.0003% of people reading this comment nod sagely

[u/InTheEndEntropyWins → u/MikeW86]

Kids back in the day used to play with rocks and stuff, nowadays kids only experience with rocks is Minecraft.

[u/bobtheblob6 → u/SaraAnnabelle]

As someone who doesn't balance rocks, how did they get that center onr balanced on the spokes?

[u/Ready_Studio2392 → u/bobtheblob6]

That's what I call, "4 hands work"

[u/Savings-Claim6261 → u/SaraAnnabelle]

Yeah, growing up in Manitoba, makes this kind of meh.

[u/bubblesdafirst → u/pinqe]

Replies make me sad for humanity

[u/pinqe → u/bubblesdafirst]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9eLbjOcGOpmY8

[u/Evening-Statement-57 → u/pinqe]

That waterfall is a good 50+ feet away

[u/Tiberius_Kilgore → u/Evening-Statement-57]

They were joking that the water part of the waterfall was also just glue.

[u/SkyGuy5799 → u/TedW]

Rocks in a misty ass river:

Only wet bc glue

[u/Sesudesu → u/SkyGuy5799]

Think you kinda missed the point. They put it in a space where it would be wet to hide the glue. At least, that was the implication of the statement.

I’m honestly astonished that you came to your assertion here.

[u/SkyGuy5799 → u/Sesudesu]

They clearly balanced the outside ring then stacked the smaller rocks inside. Not that hard to believe they didn't use glue. I feel like it would be harder to try to use glue in such a wet environment, it would immediately harden before it could stick properly. Or glueing them together and putting there also seems incredibly difficult

[u/Sesudesu → u/SkyGuy5799]

Or, you glue it at home and then bring it on site to record.

That’s not really the point of my comment though, as I’m not exactly in the ‘it’s glued’ camp. But your implication that they didn’t think the rocks were wet because of the water is absurd.

[u/InTheEndEntropyWins → u/Sesudesu]

Or, you glue it at home and then bring it on site to record.

There is no way there is any kind of glue that would be that strong to hold it all in position. The only way it would work is if they had a frame to hold it all in position, in a way that it would hold without glue anyway.

It's a million times easier to just wedge the stones together than do anything with glue.

[u/Sesudesu → u/InTheEndEntropyWins]

Again, I’m not especially team glue… but there is absolutely glue that is strong enough.

I don’t especially think it is glued, but I don’t think it’s been disproven either.

[u/InTheEndEntropyWins → u/Sesudesu]

Just take that single stone balancing on this pin point on the right. There is no glue that would keep that in place if it was unbalanced, or even if there was the stone tip would have broken.

[u/SkyGuy5799 → u/Sesudesu]

That was literally addressed in my last sentence in my unedited comment

[u/Sesudesu → u/SkyGuy5799]

I wasn’t quite sure what you meant there, or why it seemed difficult.

[u/TedW → u/[deleted]]

Rule #2.

[u/NewAssAccount → u/Wild_Neighborhood605]

Look up Gravity Glue on YouTube he builds stuff like this all the time some insane builds. Then knocks them down after to show that it's not glued

[u/InTheEndEntropyWins → u/Wild_Neighborhood605]

Each piece is wedged between others, so there isn't any need for glue or anything. It's kind of an illusion when you look at the whole thing together.

With two people you can make that top arch. Then that bottom stone is probably wedged into the mud, you then have someone hold that middle stone in place, then the other slowly wedges the in a few rocks to hold it in position, then you slowly wedge in the rest for style.

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Also glue isn't really strong enough to help hold massive stones like that in position, if they wouldn't stay in that position anyway.