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Tracey Suntan-King
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PostPosted: 17:31 - 20 Jan 2014    Post subject: Who Can Explain This Weird Phenomenon? Reply with quote
Our cheap and nasty plastic garden table is upside down to stop it blowing away. It has collected rain water and today we have sub zero temperatures so (obviously) the water has frozen. However, as the photo's show there are shards of ice protruding upwards.

https://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu172/Troodos-Pool-Guy/image_2_zpsede81920.jpeg

https://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu172/Troodos-Pool-Guy/image_zps2bb56b26.jpeg

https://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu172/Troodos-Pool-Guy/image_1_zps0fc245af.jpeg

They are rock solid, embedded in the ice and none of them are caused by drips from anything above. They seem to have risen randomly from the ice blocks in the table. Weird! Can any one explain please?

Thanks!
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PostPosted: 17:33 - 20 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.sodthe.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ancient-aliens-guy-im-not-saying-its-aliens-but-its-aliens.jpg
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PostPosted: 17:54 - 20 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Though I like the thought of aliens, it is ice spikes

https://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/icespikes/icespikes.htm
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Tracey Suntan-King
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PostPosted: 17:55 - 20 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
BenchWench wrote:
Though I like the thought of aliens, it is ice spikes

https://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/icespikes/icespikes.htm


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PostPosted: 08:25 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lets face it.............. Tracey Suntan-King is so sexy that even water gets a raging hard on when she is near.
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PostPosted: 09:16 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
There must've been shards of ice floating about after partial thawing, then a further stronger freeze lifted them, it is odd to see a significant number have done more or less the same thing.
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PostPosted: 09:45 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
doggone wrote:
There must've been shards of ice floating about after partial thawing, then a further stronger freeze lifted them, it is odd to see a significant number have done more or less the same thing.


Or not...

BenchWench wrote:
Though I like the thought of aliens, it is ice spikes

https://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/icespikes/icespikes.htm


Does no one read before offering their opinion any more?
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PostPosted: 09:50 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
They look smaller ice cube sized - more spikey than shardy, and it suggests you usually need distilled water?
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PostPosted: 09:56 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
doggone wrote:
They look smaller ice cube sized - more spikey than shardy, and it suggests you usually need distilled water?


Rain water is similar to distilled and tends to be very low in minerals. Most of the contaminates it contains are picked up in the atmosphere.
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PostPosted: 10:13 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
doggone wrote:
They look smaller ice cube sized


No shit, they're smaller when the "cube" is smaller.

On another note, this is properly cool, and something i need to go try out.
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PostPosted: 12:26 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
It looks like junkies walk past your garden and throw their syringes into your upturned garden table.
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PostPosted: 13:02 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
Lets face it.............. Tracey Suntan-King is so sexy that even water gets a raging hard on when she is near.


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PostPosted: 13:03 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was going to summarise as I had this discussion with a colleague quite recently, but there is a pretty good wikipedia article which details how they are formed:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_spike#Mechanism_of_formation
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PostPosted: 13:15 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
MarJay wrote:
It looks like junkies walk past your garden and throw their syringes into your upturned garden table.


Laughing I thought the same when i opened the thread and saw the picture
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PostPosted: 19:22 - 21 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfN5mkdFM3Y

same principle but megga
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