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'Brinicle' ice finger of death filmed in Antarctic
BBC ^
| 11-23-2011
| Ella Davies
Posted on 11/24/2011 5:54:30 AM PST by Renfield
A bizarre underwater "icicle of death" has been filmed by a BBC crew.
With time lapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking.
The temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it.
Where the so-called "brinicle" met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea urchins and starfish....
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: antarctic; antartic; catastrophism; climate; ocean
Great video at the link.
Hugh had little room to position himself and the cameras under the ice
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posted on
11/24/2011 5:54:32 AM PST
by
Renfield
To: Renfield
Obviously caused by man made global warming. When we learne that when we makes things warm it makes things cold and this makes things hot which makes things yada! yada! yada!and a new tax is the only way to save humanity!!!
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:00:04 AM PST
by
ontap
To: Renfield
Click the link and think .. one of the ten plagues.
Just ... WOW !
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:00:49 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Renfield
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:01:30 AM PST
by
ToxicMich
(We don't want a bozo to replace Obozo... (Yep, I am talking about you Perry, Cain and Mitt...))
To: Renfield
Wow. Interesting. The commentator sounds like that British commentator who did the nature series on PBS years ago. Don’t remember his name or the name of the series.
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:02:12 AM PST
by
PapaNew
To: Renfield
Sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes the bear encases you in a deadly tomb of hypercooled sea water.
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:14:22 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Monkeys do not like getting slapped, contrary to popular belief.)
To: Renfield
Is that complete clip recorded under the ice? Some of it looks like CGI to me, especially where all the starfish are running around.
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:29:28 AM PST
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: PapaNew
“Dont remember his name or the name of the series.”
David Attenborough (sp?) The series was called ‘Nature’, IIRC
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:29:56 AM PST
by
bk1000
(A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
To: Renfield
Brinicle Bops Barnacles Like A Binnacle.
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:31:28 AM PST
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Renfield
Great site, i enjoyed the Belugas getting body scrub
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:31:39 AM PST
by
mel
(There are only 2 races decent and undecent people)
To: Renfield
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:39:14 AM PST
by
SuzyQue
To: Renfield
Makes me wanna go defrost some lobster tails.
To: exDemMom
Its a time lapse film about 5-6 hours compressed into that video, so maybe that’s why it seems strange to you?
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posted on
11/24/2011 6:53:32 AM PST
by
battousai
(Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
To: Renfield
Wow. I’ve never seen anything like that. The wonders of God’s creation are truly amazing.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
To: exDemMom
It’s time lapse; 5 hours sped up into a couple of minutes.
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posted on
11/24/2011 7:08:27 AM PST
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
Amazing what we are still discovering about our planet!!!
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posted on
11/24/2011 7:19:37 AM PST
by
wxgesr
(I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
To: battousai
Perhaps.
Whenever I have seen starfish, they are moving so slowly that they appear immobile. Yet there they are in that film, running around so fast that they need numbers painted on their backs.
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posted on
11/24/2011 8:37:06 AM PST
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: Renfield
"...ice finger of death..." I saw the headline and it brought back cheek-clenching nightmares of my first Army physical.
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posted on
11/24/2011 8:41:43 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
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posted on
11/24/2011 8:03:30 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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