Karmona Pragmatic Blog

The sailing stones, also referred to as sliding rocks or moving rocks, are a geological puzzling phenomenon found in California, Death Valley. These rocks, some as heavy as 300 Kilograms, are mysteriously transported across a virtually flat desert plain without human or animal intervention, leaving erratic trails in the hard mud behind them, some hundreds of yards long. They move by some mysterious force, and in the nine decades since we have known about them, no-one has ever seen them in motion.

When I first read about it, I thought it is very much like the notorious (software-management-)waterfall milestones – no one really see them sliding until it was too late and then everybody could stare @ the erratic trails in the mud behind them, some hundreds of yards long…