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- skibumnh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+241Its called a glacier.
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+233HAH! Anyone who thinks that it is cold enough anywhere in the world to freeze a tidal wave is a complete and total moron. Salt water + movement + huge volume = it won't be freezing any time soon.
Looks like a plain ol' glacier. - wmarcello, on 10/12/2007, -5/+216Dugg for the nice pictures, not the idiotic headline.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+125@omatsei
it is quite easy to outrun stationary ice. you lose. - dj961, on 10/12/2007, -3/+91Dude you've obviously chosen to ignore the possibility of aliens freezing a tidal wave while simultaneously hiding a massive colony ship beneath the aforementioned wave.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+94http://www.fatpita.net.nyud.net:8090/arctic.php
working mirror - simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+86I don't know why but the site was blocked by my workplace, is the frozen tidal wave naked?
Someone please mirror! :D thanks. - ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -2/+75I'm glad someone had the common sense to post that.
it's a glacial formation, nothing more. gotta love sensationalist headlines posted by people who make stupid assumptions ... and you know what they say about assuming ... - JacNet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51Lie! This is a cover up for a massive salmon fillet that was found washed up by the sea.
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/5636/bigsalmonfillet7mn.png - brnews, on 10/12/2007, -6/+52i think i saw a frozen shark..
- MikeFromAmerica, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38I think you meant, "Yet another good reason to surf the web."
- Valleye, on 10/12/2007, -6/+40With lasers on its head.
- shadomynd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32That is a glacier, and it has experienced a great deal of melting. Buried for sensationalism.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29that was michaelb1 with the weather, back to you jim
- AntBing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29A glacier...melting. Cmon people. Cool pictures though.
- neoknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Scrat has to be in there, waiting for it to melt.
- OsiVert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22For some reason, the first thing I thought of is that if you dye it red, it looks like a tuna filet.
- xaos12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21damned suv drivers ***** up the web
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Lake freezes solid (not just a layer) so water of lake expands as it freezes. It expands and pushes up over the edge of the lake/land level, sometimes up to 80-90 feet, and makes these patterns as it does so. When it begins to melt it acquires a rounded look as water runs off it, which is why you are mistaking it for a tidal wave.
- KnytFyre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I agree it's a glacier, but you have to admit, it's position and the look of the crystal structure inside almost make it look like it's moving.
- PimpinOnWelfare, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Superman is gonna be pissed ...
- dudinatrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Global warming is so 2006. Frozen oceans, here we come!!
- VeryBoredNow, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Thanks to global warming that Ice will become a tidal wave soon enough...
BUUUAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH - spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Yeah sure, they built it from ice cubes.
I think you mean 'inaccurate description'. - Thex1138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Water freezes below the surface and is pushed up through relatively thinner sheet ice as the ice berg volume increases because of the buoyancy of ice in water 5/95% submerged...eventually it all gets too cold and freezes solid and stops moving upward.
- WestDC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Yet another good reason to go out and explore the world :)
- Rivetgeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10@craigly
No....just...no. There is NO way to "flash freeze" that amount of moving salt water. Flat out, not gonna happen. You would need cryogenic temperatures. - PecanHead, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"Before SUV drivers ***** it up..."
Hmmm - I bet they didn't get to that glacier in the middle of nowhere in a Prius. - 5xSTUN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Whatever it is, it's eerily beautiful. I want to go there. Better stock up on extra-warm socks.
- cbags, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Sometimes I wonder about the intelligence of posters...sometimes I don't.
- digitalfiend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@Valleye
...with FRIKKIN lasers. - mizuhri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That for some reason won't load for me.
Is one of these the image?
http://www.natures-desktop.com/images/Wallpaper/Fullsize1280/Lakes-seas/Frozen%20Wave%20Dunwich.jpg
http://www.highfrequency.net/antarctic%20images/sept2001/sept3/mvc-336f.jpg
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3477283 - ElFredo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It reminds me of the following picture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tsunami_by_hokusai_19th_century.jpg - Zaxx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Corel Cache got the pictures:
http://www.fatpita.net.nyud.net:8090/arctic.php - Pichold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /arctic.php on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
:( - bouche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4lame for ignorant description and title
- ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8"I don't know why but the site was blocked by my workplace, is the frozen tidal wave naked?"
Your workplace isn't filtering it; the site is having problems. Use the mirrors. - Sarevok9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5One can naturally assume that water cannot be 'flash frozen' especially with the higher specific gravity of salt water (1.017-1.025). Added the velocity of the average title wave and distance from front to back (wavelength) it would take a temperature that was approaching absolute zero to 'flash freeze' it. However assuming that there has never been temperatures this cold on open waters; During winter blizzards (winds up to 110mph) would be totally folly. Avg temperature in the ice age (worldwide) was far colder then what we expirence today, so supposing that the coldest temperature on record today in North America was recorded on the peak of Mt. Washington NH and clocked in at -128F.... a few thousand miles north, similar wind speed, AND a global median temperature of 20-30 degrees cooler... its not so hard to imagine that a headwind blowing opposite the direction of the wave could've frozen said wave and pushed the back end up and over the freezing part to create an apparent 'title wave'.
Under conditions found in the world today, you will never see this occur.. however its safe to assume that a wave that is smaller CAN freeze (go to northern Alaska in the winter, you'll see what i mean), so why not a larger wave under 'perfect' conditions? - eekjedi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Mirror? All the links to the real picture in question appear to be down =/ ....
- yenshee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@craigly: Your theory about flash freezing seems pretty half-baked to me. There is nothing in the link you sent to suggest that mammoth remains have been 'flash frozen' rather than being frozen over a period of hours or days. Also, sustained ambient temperatures of nearly absolute zero would not be enough to 'flash-freeze' a wave of any size and speed.
- eddie72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why do you guys continuously keep posting that non-working link?
- michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Looks freaking cold!
- kmb1794, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think the ocean had a holding its wee contest and it didn't have enough salt for all of the water it was drinking. Ergo, it froze when its freezing point went up.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Not a wave, burried as inaccurate.
I don't see how a big wave like that would get frozen like that. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4too bad there is absolutely NO information provided.
- craigly, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7@Rivetgeek
"You would need cryogenic temperatures."
Cryogenic temperatures could not flash freeze a woolly mammoth as I have explained, yet it happened. As I've stated, I'm talking about temperatures not in evidence on this earth today. It happened... check this out: http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Mammoth
There should be many more references if you do the research. Not only was there undigested food in the stomach, but there was also food *still in the mouth* of many, preserved in time and standing up as if something happened instantaneously. - pirana0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@royall64: Let me give you a hint. "Do I make you horny?" "Yeah baby!"
- rewen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I KNEW if I read through the comments I'd find the REAL image :)
Thanks JacNet! - user123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2He obviously froze it with his magical powers, I don't know what part of science you don't understand.
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