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Lake Disappears into Andes

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the here-today-gone-tomorrow dept.

steveb3210 writes "It seems that what was once a 5-acre glacial lake in the Andes has mysteriously disappeared. 'In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal,' Juan Jose Romero from Chile's National Forestry Corporation, Conaf, said. 'We went again in May and to our surprise we found that the lake had completely disappeared. All that was left were chunks of ice and an enormous fissure.'" The current theory is that an earthquake opened the ground and allowed the lake to drain. Looks like global warming is off the hook this time around.

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  1. The lake will be returned... by Original+Replica · · Score: 5, Funny

    .... for One Hundred Million Dollars!

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    1. Re:The lake will be returned... by Cassius+Corodes · · Score: 5, Funny

      Damn water thieves.. and our water chip is broken!

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  2. Global warming? by bronzey214 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like global warming is off the hook this time around.

    Yeah, because global warming obviously leaves huge chunks of ice when it makes lakes disappear.


    Next time, the news without the hot-button bias, please?

  3. Garrison Keillor Did It by sciop101 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Magic Words:

    LAKE! Whoa! Be Gone!

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  4. Re:"Looks like global warming is off the hook" by WrongMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, every unusual event can be safely assumed to be caused by global warming until there is evidence to the contrary. Who can deny that logic?

  5. I'm confused by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lots of news organizations keeping selling this story as if there's a mystery.
    Well... What's the mystery?

    I mean, TFA explains it fairly well:
    1. earthquake creates a hole in the ground
    2. water goes into the hole

    What're the alternatives?
    That a herd of wooly mammoths drank up the lake?

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  6. you're all wrong! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't believe how horribly wrong you ALL are. This was caused by the natural phenomenon known as Chuck Norris. He got thirsty, drank the lake, and then punched the earth as a calling card to his greatness.

    Use your heads people, COME ON.

  7. Oh thank god... by spankey51 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If anyone finds an old leather-bound book in the fissure, please send it to:

    "Atrus, Son of Ghen."
    5 Riven St. Apt 233
    D'ni, K'veer. II DI KI II III

    (Note: I know the LCD panel on page 1 looks pretty, but please refrain from touching it...)

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  8. what do you think caused the fissure? by weighn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Facts are irrelevant to doomsday cultists. Facts are irrelevant to anyone with an axe to grind.

    Japan: whales are the cockroaches of the oceans
    IIS marketer: Apache just has more websites running per server

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  9. Re:"Looks like global warming is off the hook" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What would happen if most herrings were red?

  10. In Other News by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mysterious New 5 Acre Lake Appears in Crawford, TX

  11. Meanwhile... 7-11 just sold their first petagulp by amchugh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Meanwhile... 7-11 just sold their first petagulp.
    Coincidence? I think not.