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Rolling blue waves hit the Antarctic coastline
Yahoo! Photos ^
| 11/27/12
| Tony Travouillon
Posted on 11/27/2012 1:12:54 PM PST by NormsRevenge
These brilliant blue beauties, which look like tidal waves frozen at their highest point, were captured by French astrophysicist (and part-time photographer) Tony Travouillon as he travelled across Antarctica.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: antarctic; coastline; frickencold; rolling; waves
8 pics at link.. or click the pic! These are hugh and cool pieces of nature!
To: NormsRevenge
More proof of Global Warming!
It’s so hot that even the ice flows like water!
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:15:19 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:15:33 PM PST
by
bgill
(We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:25:16 PM PST
by
onyx
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To: NormsRevenge
All eight are gorgeous! You made it easy to view all!
Thanks very much!
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:27:36 PM PST
by
onyx
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To: NormsRevenge
how do they freeze them like that
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:29:55 PM PST
by
ichabod1
(Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
To: onyx
YW!!! I can see a bunch of eXtreme ski-board and skate-boarders ripping those things up in no time.
as small a planet as it is,, there’s always something new to see. :-}
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:31:35 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi)
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:31:47 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: ichabod1
my guess, I don’t know.. pretty amazing,, it’s a combination of pressure and flows when it was warm enough to move and then a freeze or freezes,, I have no idea how old they are ..
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:33:52 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(Fed up with zealots)
To: NormsRevenge
That’s Doc Savages Fortress of Solitude!
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:38:17 PM PST
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: longfellow
Uh...that’s in the Arctic.
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:41:12 PM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: NormsRevenge
It’s amazing! Yep, you betcha! I can also visualize the same!
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:52:21 PM PST
by
onyx
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To: NormsRevenge
that’s an iceberg that flipped over.
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posted on
11/27/2012 4:31:00 PM PST
by
no-s
(when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
To: NormsRevenge
You’re warm :-) Google Earth has a lot of Panoramia photos for Dumont D’urville, where this was taken, but none of them even hint at this particular phenomenon. I was assuming it was sea ice being pushed ashore, but it could be deep ice cap ice being “squooshed up”. I’m thinking of this because it becomes blue ice like this from the pressure at depth in the ice sheet. I have no idea of the physical requirements, though. Never saw anything like it.
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posted on
11/27/2012 5:08:23 PM PST
by
dr_lew
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