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General Discussion & Feedback => Just Chat! => Topic started by: AllenG on 06/01/2010 19:27:44
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This is in Georgia.
The last time the pond froze was when I was a small child.
I wonder where I can buy some ice skates around here.
(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.me.com%2Fawcg%2FiWeb%2FSite%2FBike_files%2FIce-II.jpg&hash=743b62181df95380e4094cbb2988f49d)
(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.me.com%2Fawcg%2FiWeb%2FSite%2FBike_files%2FPond%2520Ice--One.jpg&hash=00c1834acbfc412b6e8d9fc7145058ba)
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^^^
A short video of me sliding around.
Anyone have a spare set of skates?
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Careful now ...
2 Men Drown in Icy Lake Trying to Save Dog
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/21/national/main6006781.shtml
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(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.me.com%2Fawcg%2FiWeb%2FSite%2FBike_files%2FPond--Nine.jpg&hash=f4cd3440e7bd9db1155bc249f996b76b)
The twin playing Jesus
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Me doing the same
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(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.me.com%2Fawcg%2FiWeb%2FSite%2FBike_files%2FPond--Seven.jpg&hash=1af647db2d44521215dc63c977a291f5)
The inevitable
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What part of Georgia (I spent way too many years in Rabun County).
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The Republic of Georgia, Comrade?
But seriously, maybe lakes freeze differently in Georgia, but that ice doesn't look thick enough to me. In New England, it pretty much becomes opaque. What you're standing on looks as thin as paper, honest, like the frozen crust on a puddle. Someone is shown falling on it without it cracking, so that sorta proofs it. But it still looks freaky.
Old timers (perhaps a couple/few hundred years ago) used lakes in winter as their trash dump. They'd haul their trash to the center of the ice. When it thawed in the spring, the trash would end up on the bottom in the middle of the lake. How else to get it all there, in a rowboat?
The Republic of Georgia, Comrade?
But seriously, maybe lakes freeze differently in Georgia, but that ice doesn't look thick enough to me. In New England, it pretty much becomes opaque. What you're standing on looks as thin as paper, honest, like the frozen crust on a puddle. Someone is shown falling on it without it cracking, so that sorta proofs it. But it still looks freaky.
Old timers (perhaps a couple/few hundred years ago) used lakes in winter as their trash dump. They'd haul their trash to the center of the ice. When it thawed in the spring, the trash would end up on the bottom in the middle of the lake. How else to get it all there, in a rowboat?
It's about 3-4 inches thick and the end of the pond where we were walking is around knee deep at best.
(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.me.com%2Fawcg%2FiWeb%2FSite%2FBike_files%2FPond%2520Ice--Five.jpg&hash=adc1407dde9431e33110687a88531051)
Those bubbles are ~2 inches across.
You can see how they are stacked how the ice has increased in thickness the past few days.
The bubbles are methane by the way; you can press a stick or paddle into the bottom and it just bubbles up (when the lake is not frozen that is).
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Not quite a methane hydrate but it is getting there.
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I have the same methane problem!
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... your "ice" could burn!!! [:0] [:0]
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I have the same methane problem!
And they are called F_ _ T S. right?
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Oh - and the wind chill here right now is about 0 F (-18C)
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We had snow flurries today.
The pond went from being a piece of Waterford crystal to frosted in about 3 mins.
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What part of Georgia (I spent way too many years in Rabun County).
Near Monroe, about 30 miles west of Athens.
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BBC News channel
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Witnesses saw two men go into the [ice covered] lake to rescue a dog on Monday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/8426088.stm
Like the example above (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=27957.msg294182#msg294182) the dog survives, but the dog owner and the person attempts to rescue the dog owner don't.
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The four legged don't always make it though, e.g. this fox-icle ...
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This hungry fox ended up a victim of the sub-zero temperatures when it chased a duck across an ice-covered lake - and froze to death. The scene was captured by photographer Tim Woodcock, at Ashlett Mill Pond, near Southampton, Hants
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6965982/Pictures-of-the-day-11-January-2010.html
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That would be a five inch thick slab I cut out of the pond with a chainsaw.
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Modern art?
Get a pedestal for it.
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I'm keeping it in the freezer.
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Yeah, sweet photo :)
Maybe the start of a great collection too?
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Yeah, sweet photo :)
Maybe the start of a great collection too?
The crowing piece in a great collection.
I have water samples from all over the world.
The Atlantic, the Pacific, the Mississippi River, the Amazon, glacial melt water from Canada, the Trevi Fountain, water from the Roman baths in Bath, England. 18 samples so far.
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I'm keeping it in the freezer.
... about 10 percent of the bacteria in contaminated water can withstand weeks of freezing.
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/02/science/even-frozen-and-dunked-in-alcohol-lurking-bacteria-menace-travelers.html
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Totally cool AllenG.
I'm impressed.
You need to move somewhere where you really can have them exposed.
It would be an expose that I would check out :)
I mean it, it catches my imagination that one.
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Modern art?
Get a pedestal for it.
This guy is ahead of you ...
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Self is a self-portrait cast of the artist's head made in 2006 from his own blood and then frozen.
http://www.npg.org.uk/support/donation/past-appeals/marc-quinn.php
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you meen you took the green stuff from the bath house or the clear drinking stuff from the pump house in bath
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The green stuff.
It's more clear than what came out of the Mississippi.
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I don't think I want to see that one :)
Think if it melts, and the cops come.
How do I explain it?
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noice noice the green stuff was suposed to have healing qualitys, but i recon the seeping yourself in hot water is bound to make you feel good. oh no my back hurts ill soak in hnot water.... its a miracle my back feels better and the muscles seem less stressed