So How Did The Rock Get on Campus?...

#51
#51
It's an asteroid chip. When I was visiting Knoxville back in, uh, hmm, 1965 I saw this streaking light in the sky. As it descended I realize it was going to crash into Neyland Stadium. I ran up Gay Street, took a hard left at Hill Avenue, a hard right onto Main Street. However, I miscalculated. I fumbled the asteroid fragment just as we both arrived at Neyland and it took a weird bounce landing in the place you see it today.
 
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PowerSweep said:
Been trying to determine this and all I can find from a story about its movement is that it was maybe from the 1960's, weighs a couple hundred thousand lbs, and is dolomite rock...anyone know the story on this UT tradition and why/how it came to be right there at the corner?
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That is where God put it.

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#58
#58
PowerSweep said:
Been trying to determine this and all I can find from a story about its movement is that it was maybe from the 1960's, weighs a couple hundred thousand lbs, and is dolomite rock...anyone know the story on this UT tradition and why/how it came to be right there at the corner?
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Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Dee-Ah-Go... which of course in German means "a whale's vagina"...
 
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#60
PowerSweep said:
Been trying to determine this and all I can find from a story about its movement is that it was maybe from the 1960's, weighs a couple hundred thousand lbs, and is dolomite rock...anyone know the story on this UT tradition and why/how it came to be right there at the corner?
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200,000 lbs?? Umm...
 
#61
#61
Much thicker than .005, remember these kids are drunk and covering previous paintings. .005 would prob refer to the average sprayed coat I would think. A brushed coat would be much thicker I'd imagine. Would be cool if we could sandblast one layer at a time and reveal coats from the 85 Bama game, or the 51 season. Archaeology student thesis IMO
 
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Thrasher865 said:
That's not the question that was posed. He wants to know where it came from originally.

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What is it with you and cats bro?
 
#65
#65
TnTech_Vol said:
And on the 7th day God created the Rock so that it can be painted.
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Actually it was the 8th day...

"And God said, Let us create something that will be used to inspire the volnation, it will be called The Rock: and God saw that it was good."
 
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