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.

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.

wow.

no, not wow, just logic.

whatever Bill Nye.

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?"

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.

Probably just misses his old glasses.