Posted on 09/26/2015 8:43:45 AM PDT by JoeProBono
BENNINGTON, Vt., - A professional stone skipper shared video of a throw at a Vermont lake that skipped more than a dozen times and appears to reach the opposite shore.
Kurt Steiner, who holds the world record for stone skipping for a 2013 throw that bounced off the water 88 times, posted a video to YouTube showing a recent throw at Lake Paran in Bennington, Vt.
The stone skips more than a dozen times and appears to hit the shore on the opposite side of the lake.
Steiner told Guinness World Records his technique involves finding stones "that weigh between 3-8 ounces... that are very smooth (they don't have to be perfectly round), flat bottoms and are between 1/4-5/16th of an inch thick."
Kinda like professional frisbee football and whiffle ball players.
Ten bucks says this clown’s on SSDI thanks to a crippling back disorder and a lifelong “anxiety disorder”.
instead of 15 minutes, his fame is a 6 second animated GIF
Just send me cash in the amount of $499, and I’ll send you a certificate designating you a professional stone skipper.
The Question:
Why is a pond called a pond and a lake called a lake? I have a body of water that is 5 acres, 15 to 20 feet deep. How do I know what to call it?
The Answer:
Ponds and lakes are very similar. Both are small bodies of water, either natural or man-made, that are completely surrounded by land. The primary difference between the two is their size. Simply put, lakes are larger and ponds are smaller. However, there is no standardization of lake sizes. Some sources claim lakes are bodies of water larger than 2 acres. In Montana, the minimum water surface area of a lake is 20 acres. But since the size of your body of water isn’t a clear indicator, here are a few more factors to consider:
•Generally, a lake is an area of open, relatively deep water that is large enough to produce a wave-swept “washed” shoreline, which can prevent vegetation from growing along the shore.
•Another difference can be seen in the water’s temperature. Lakes, because they are deeper, have a stratified temperature structure that depends on the season. During summer months three distinct layers develop: The top layer stays warm at around 65–75 degrees. The middle layer drops dramatically, usually to 45–65 degrees F. The bottom layer is the coldest, staying at around 39–45 degrees F. Ponds, on the other hand, have a more consistent temperature throughout.
•If the water is deep enough that light does not penetrate to the bottom, and photosynthesis is limited to the top layer, the body of water is considered a lake.
•A pond is a body of water shallow enough to support rooted plants. Many times plants grow all the way across a shallow pond. There is little wave action and the bottom is usually covered with mud. Plants can, and often do, grow along a pond’s edge.
•Even in cold climates, most lakes are large enough so that they don’t freeze solid, unlike ponds.
•Finally, if the lake is large enough, it can affect the surrounding climate, whereas ponds are usually affected by the surrounding climate.
Based on the depth of your body of water—congratulations! It’s a lake. And, if you’re looking to give your water body a name, we, the editors at Infoplease.com, grant you full permission to name it after us!
—The Editors
We probably need to import workers for this field — we need people who will skip the stones Americans won’t skip.
35 acres is a pond...
frozen lake
These people need to be stopped, the geologic record will be irreparably confused by their irresponsible actions several million years from now...
That’s more like a pond.
It's the only school in the world where you get extra credit for skipping classes.
Should have stuck with it and turned pro :^)
Why didn’t I know about professions like stone skipping when I had to choose my college major?
Do male professional stone skippers make more than female professional stone skippers?
“Why isn’t it a lake?”
Where I am from that would be called maybe a ‘pond’ or maybe even a mud hole but never a lake. ;-)
Good thing he’s not a professional stone skipper in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. They’d probably make him get a license.
They tried it with interior decorators..... had to protect the public from bad taste.
"There is considerable uncertainty about defining the difference between lakes and ponds, and no current internationally accepted definition of either term across scientific disciplines or political boundaries exists.[5] For example, limnologists have defined lakes as water bodies which are simply a larger version of a pond, which can have wave action on the shoreline or where wind-induced turbulence plays a major role in mixing the water column. None of these definitions completely excludes ponds and all are difficult to measure. For this reason, simple size-based definitions are increasingly used to separate ponds and lakes. One definition of lake is a body of water of 2 hectares (5 acres) or more in area;[6]:331[7] however, others[who?] have defined lakes as waterbodies of 5 hectares (12 acres) and above,[citation needed] or 8 hectares (20 acres) and above [8] (see also the definition of "pond"). Charles Elton, one of the founders of ecology, regarded lakes as waterbodies of 40 hectares (99 acres) or more.[9] The term lake is also used to describe a feature such as Lake Eyre, which is a dry basin most of the time but may become filled under seasonal conditions of heavy rainfall. In common usage, many lakes bear names ending with the word pond, and a lesser number of names ending with lake are in quasi-technical fact, ponds. One textbook illustrates this point with the following: "In Newfoundland, for example, almost every lake is called a pond, whereas in Wisconsin, almost every pond is called a lake."[10]
One hydrology book proposes to define the term "lake" as a body of water with the following five chacteristics:[5]
it partially or totally fills one or several basins connected by straits[5] has essentially the same water level in all parts (except for relatively short-lived variations caused by wind, varying ice cover, large inflows, etc.)[5]
it does not have regular intrusion of seawater[5]
a considerable portion of the sediment suspended in the water is captured by the basins (for this to happen they need to have a sufficiently small inflow-to-volume ratio)[5]
the area measured at the mean water level exceeds an arbitrarily chosen threshold (for instance, one hectare)[5]
With the exception of the seawater intrusion criterion, the others have been accepted or elaborated upon by other hydrology publications.[11][12]"
Source: Wikipedia
Or a large puddle. :)
If we lose our stone skippers, then the terrorists have won.
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