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A little boulder floating at MIT

By adamg on Fri, 05/13/2016 - 8:27am
Demonstrating principles of floating heavy objects in the Charles River

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Ryan Ruel happened upon the Buoy Stone project at MIT - an effort to show how ancient builders might have moved giant stones by floating them down rivers or canals.

H/t Alice for the link to the explanation.

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By thegirl on Fri, 05/13/2016 - 8:41am.

I saw this being floated down the Charles a few weeks back (and even tweeted about it)...glad to know what it is finally!

https://twitter.com/BranchingOutYga/status/723583201772462080

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