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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 06:30 PM
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'Brinicle' ice finger of death filmed in Antarctic
A bizarre underwater "icicle of death" has been filmed by a BBC crew.

With timelapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking.

The temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it.

Where the so-called "brinicle" met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea urchins and starfish.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 06:32 PM
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1. I don't have enough neurotic fears? Nt
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 06:39 PM
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2. It's an amazing episode of 'Frozen Planet'
the Winter one. I watched it this evening. As well as this, it had newborn polar bear cubs, spectacular aurorae, the world's entire population of spectacled eider duck in one shot, and a life-and-death struggle between a wolf and a year-old bison.
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azul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 10:31 PM
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3. Wow
Chilling.
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 11:30 PM
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4. wow. pic:
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-24-11 08:13 AM
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5. Vonnegut's 'Ice-9'?
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