I figured that this would be a good thread to have on here..........
Moderator\'s: PLEASE DONT MERGE WITH NEWS OF THE WEIRD, cause that would just be another sign of the apocalypse....
This one came off Yahoo.com\'s front page
Missing: Large lake in southern Chile Wed Jun 20, 6:44 PM ET
A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole.
The lake was situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and was fed by water, mostly from melting glaciers.
It had a surface area of between 4 and 5 hectares (10-12 acres) -- about the size of 10 soccer pitches.
"In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal ... we went again in May and to our surprise we found the lake had completely disappeared," said Juan Jose Romero, regional director of Chile\'s National Forestry Corporation CONAF.
"The only things left were chunks of ice on the dry lake-bed and an enormous fissure," he told Reuters.
CONAF is investigating the disappearance.
One theory is that the area was hit by an earth tremor that opened a crack in the ground which acted like a drain.
Southern Chile has been shaken by thousands of minor earth tremors this year.
But where did the water go?
combination of filling underground caverns and instantly turned to steam which shot it high into the atmosphere separated out as hydrogen and oxygen. The sections that didn\'t separate would have remained as water and fallen back to the earth as rain, but depending on how much of the water was shot into the atmosphere, the pressure increases exponentially, which makes the fisher stronger, and shoots water taller. Because of it\'s extreme light weight it would have been dispersed on winds in the exosphere over a vast area. End result, the water came back down to the earth but scattered all over the place. It wouldn\'t simply fall back down and fill in the basin, and even if it did, it would slip into the crack and be underground.
As for the water that went underground, it would have instantly started cooling the magma below and turned it to hard rock the same way a volcano\'s lava hardens when it goes into the sea. Once this was cool enough to hold as solid rock, water would have started to fill the new lower basin and the fissure would have shut off. Man, that must have been cool to see.
From a distance. The water in the atmosphere would have been boiling hot when it feel on you as rain.
I figured that this would be a good thread to have on here..........
Moderator\'s: PLEASE DONT MERGE WITH NEWS OF THE WEIRD, cause that would just be another sign of the apocalypse....
This one came off Yahoo.com\'s front page
Missing: Large lake in southern Chile Wed Jun 20, 6:44 PM ET
A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole.
The lake was situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and was fed by water, mostly from melting glaciers.
It had a surface area of between 4 and 5 hectares (10-12 acres) -- about the size of 10 soccer pitches.
"In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal ... we went again in May and to our surprise we found the lake had completely disappeared," said Juan Jose Romero, regional director of Chile\'s National Forestry Corporation CONAF.
"The only things left were chunks of ice on the dry lake-bed and an enormous fissure," he told Reuters.
CONAF is investigating the disappearance.
One theory is that the area was hit by an earth tremor that opened a crack in the ground which acted like a drain.
Southern Chile has been shaken by thousands of minor earth tremors this year.
But where did the water go?
the water goes to the same place that the water from my inground pool has been going. To the gods.
They probably just looking in the wrong place, crazy chileans.
I thought when I opened this thread it was gonna say
"30 + people to descend upon Block Island next week in support of Connecticut band...."
Couple photos from the Chile Brimley cam.
"Where the hell did the water go?"
Heres an even stranger question, "what happens if all of a sudden the water just comes back?"
Heres an even stranger question, "what happens if all of a sudden the water just comes back?"
then the dudes in picture 2, wondering where the hell the water went, are
****.
sorry paul you are wrong!
Scientists in Chile have blamed climate change for the sudden disappearance of a lake in the south of the country.
Park rangers who patrolled the area in the Magallanes region in March reported that the two-hectare (five-acre) glacial lake was its normal size.
But two months later they found a huge dry crater and stranded chunks of ice that previously floated on the water.
Experts now say melting glaciers put pressure on an ice wall that acted as a dam, causing it to give way.
Water in the lake flowed out of the breach into a nearby fjord and then out to the sea, said Andres Rivera, a glaciologist with Chile\'s Centre of Scientific Studies.
Melting ice
Mr Rivera flew on Monday in a navy airplane to take hundreds of photographs of the site, which is some 2,000km (1,250 miles) south of the capital, Santiago.
"On one side of the Bernardo glacier one can see a large hole or gap, and we believe that\'s where the water flowed through," Mr Rivera said in a navy communique.
"This confirms that glaciers in the region are retreating and getting thinner."
He noted that the lake now appears to be filling up again, probably because of the melting of slabs of ice left on the lake bed.
The advance and retreat of glaciers is part of the normal dynamic of the Patagonian region but climate change was distorting the process, Mr Rivera said.
"This would not be happening if the temperature had not increased," he added.
It was not the first and will certainly not be the last time that has happened Chris. That was, after all only a guess based on the evidence in the article. :shrug:
Interesting fact: Patagonia means big feet, aka, Bigfoot. Not the sasquatch of north west america though, these tracks are from the large (and I mean LARGE) petrified tracks found in the region. They were made by the south american giant sloth during the /around the last big ice age. It is disputed whether humans ever interacted with them but there is questionable evidence that seems to show they were in the land at the same time as humans. These things were freaking huge!!
Oh, and if you take pride in proving me wrong, hang out with me more, I\'m sure I wont dissapoint you. I\'m always up for someone proving me wrong. Just site your sources. :thumbsup:
Probably just misses his old glasses.