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A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up In Antarctica (vice.com)
Scientists are perplexed over a giant hole that has opened up in Antarctica. According to Motherboard, the "gigantic, mysterious hole" is as large as Lake Superior or the state of Maine. From the report: The gigantic, mysterious hole "is quite remarkable," atmospheric physicist Kent Moore, a professor at the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus, told me over the phone. "It looks like you just punched a hole in the ice." Areas of open water surrounded by sea ice, such as this one, are known as polynyas. They form in coastal regions of Antarctica, Moore told me. What's strange here, though, is that this polynya is "deep in the ice pack," he said, and must have formed through other processes that aren't understood. "This is hundreds of kilometers from the ice edge. If we didn't have a satellite, we wouldn't know it was there." (It measured 80,000 km^2 at its peak.) "This is now the second year in a row it's opened after 40 years of not being there," Moore said. (It opened around September 9.) "We're still trying to figure out what's going on."
He has come back to take creimer back home.
It's most likely water currents causing this phenomenon. Unless there's a volcano that's erupting, but that would be detected seismologically.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
It's fairly obvious. The Goa'uld are coming.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
It's always been there!
It's the hole that leads to Nazi occupied Hollow-Earth, where they have there domesticated dinosaurs to ride on and keep their UFOs. Every educated person knows this.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
I second that:
http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Antarctica
Newsweek is telling us that the world will end in 4 (four) days !
http://www.newsweek.com/doomsday-conspiracy-theorist-still-trying-convince-people-its-end-world-claims-682086
Underwater thermal vents. And/or aliens.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Not knowing where it came from, scientists are looking into it.
Giant holes in Antarctica are where the ice has melted because of the warmth from a recently reactivated alien spacecraft trapped beneath the ice millions of years ago.
I live on a flat earth you insensitive clod!
Lol you are batshit insane
I thought the cutting edge of the lunatic fringe was all about the flat earth. Sounds like David Icke is old news
We need to mount an expedition! Get the dogs and the tinned meat.
The predators burned a hole through the ice with their spaceship to release more aliens from the Queen's prison for this hunting season.
The "Thing" is super fucking angry because it's so warm, and is prepping the spaceship to leave Earth for somewhere colder.
It's about to go off.
Reminds me also of the X-Man somewhere at the end of the eighties, but that could have been in Siberia.
Good. I hope they fucking kill us all.
It sounds like some sort of deranged blob-like multi-cat from some Japanese hentai.
Images of Akira come to mind.
Looks like China or Russia is testing their satellite mounted lasers. But who knows, maybe a decepticon leader was buried on that ice millions of years ago, and it reactivated and left.
It's always been there!
It's the hole that leads to Nazi occupied Hollow-Earth, where they have there domesticated dinosaurs to ride on and keep their UFOs. Every educated person knows this.
LIAR! You are just trying to distract people from the knowledge of Cthulhu's imminent return.
Do any of you fellow slashdotter have any insight on how thick the ice actually is, around there?
it is where all the hot air from Trumps MAGA campaign ended up.
viral marketing?
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
I bet cow farts and cars and pollution are heating up the earth causing the ice to melt!
Global warming just goes faster than anticipated
...acting out. We must immediately throw in all the orange Climate.Change Deniers to appease them,
Obviously the predators are coming and will be expecting some offerings to host aliens for the hunt in the underground pyramid. They've already made a documentary about this.... not sure why everyone doesn't know about it.
The Weddell Polynya is reasonably well understood
"The Southern Ocean is strongly stratified. A very cold but relatively fresh water layer covers a much warmer and saltier water mass, thus acting as an insulating layer," explains Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, head of the Research Division at GEOMAR. Under certain conditions, the warm water of the lower layer can reach the surface and melt the ice. "This is like opening a pressure relief valve - the ocean then releases a surplus of heat to the atmosphere for several consecutive winters until the heat reservoir is exhausted," adds Professor Latif
What is "80,000 km^2" in human terms?
Where's the goatse image ... the one time where it forms an appropriate illustration and it's gone!
a$$hole
Climate scientists are looking into it.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
So the giant crack in the image is not a concern?
it makes better sense to imagine a submarine volcano erupting from time to time.
that would explain why this very hole showed up 40 years ago too.
Clearly, this is the fault of humans. We should voluntarily exterminate ourselves immediately (except for the wealthy elite, of course).
Quite clearly the lizard people are getting ready for their attack on the over world.
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Maybe it heralds the flipping of the magnetic poles, which has happened in the past and according to some is overdue.
There is a Trump tower in Antarctica now?
It's happening!
"polynia" is a Russian word that stands for "naturally-formed hole in the ice". They are formed due to current.
... Volcano.
...you look like Shackleton!
Start the expedition.
Vaguely more on topic than a lot of what I'm reading here.
because that's what this is all about
In related news, a certain Charles Bishop Weyland is on his way to Antarctica to examine the phenomenon.
Let me guess, in order to fix this, I have to pay a carbon tax to greedy bastards in Washington DC for a problem THEY created in the first place?
Ummmm. NO!
There certainly seems to be no shortage of bizarre stories in the news recently. Of course they can't all be right, is the stargate in Antarctica or at CERN in Switzerland? Both? Neither? Are we to be invaded by both Nazis and aliens at the same time we're hit by Nibiru? Or my favorite is that there must be something going on in Antarctica otherwise why did Buzz Aldrin at age 86 go there last year? Has to be aliens. The human imagination is a wonderful thing, sometimes.
One iceberg to rule them all, one iceberg to find them, One iceberg to biceberg them all and in the darkness bind them.
Take that inner earth deniers!
Nothing to see here people, its just the Yautja on one of their routine coming of age hunts.
It is the second year in a row it happened in the last 40 years. So it has been opening and closing off and on for at least 40 years.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
For those who use metric, it's a bit less than three standard Belgiums.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
They really missed their target this time, huh?
The stars are right, people.
Great Cthulhu will walk the earth once again :)
Who's the chair operator this time?
It's GWAR's hideout.
The new home of goatse?
We're at 135 posts so far and nobody made the obvious connection.
A giant mysterious hole has opened up in Antarctica? The answer is obvious: it's the other end of a wormhole that links to Uranus.
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Didn't AvP start out with a giant hole in the ice?
The shoggoths continue their dark work, and prepare us all to enter the maw. Cthulhu awakens, and he is not best pleased.
They were testing a "rod from god" dispenser on board one of their derelict "satellites".
This range of very active volcanoes have been discovered. Perhaps no one put the 2 together? Or maybe steam from one that is about to erupt could be sending heat beneath the ice pack.
One Island on Antarctica's shores has a Caldera supervolano similar to Yellowstone that produces hot springs for warm bathing by humans. Even if there is no eruption some steam and hot water ahead of one can give off an incredible amount of heat under an already stressed ice pack.
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
I think you mean
Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!...
as R'lyeh is a wee bit further north...
They did, and confirmed it is indeed a hole.
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Uh, you're the one jumping to the conclusion that it is caused by "climate change", with the insinuation that it's due to humans.
"The one with the ever widening hole in it!"
For those not familiar with the Lovecraft oeuvre, Antarctica was inhabited by Elder Things and their servants, the Shoggoths, who came to Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. They fought with Cthulhu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Upgrade the universe to 64-bits already!
But then I'll need to reboot the universe, and I still have a few unsaved tabs.
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this time he says it not real and nothing to see.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
And for those of us who prefer atomic units it's...
An area of about 32.7 Nonillion (32.7e30) rBohr square, or about 326 Octillion (326e27) cesium atoms in a 2d latice.
Don't get too close, or you might fall through and land on the turtle.
No, if you research Steve Quayle, it's obviously the *giants* about to come out after us.
I had a sucky sig.
The way the phrase "ice pack" gets tossed around like elitest jargon is a reliable indicator of buffoonery.
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Insensitive cloddery ftw
.... he breaks everything. If there's a hole in it where there shouldn't be, he's probably responsible. In his defense, he probably didn't really mean to do it, but was afraid to tell anyone because he thought he'd get in trouble.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
For those not familiar with the Lovecraft oeuvre, Antarctica was inhabited by Elder Things and their servants, the Shoggoths, who came to Earth hundreds of millions of years ago.
Did they come in DC-8 spacecraft?
Nah, this was way before Xenu and his crew rose to power. I think Elder Things arrived here in the Cambrian, ~500 million years ago. Xenu flew his DC-8s here 75 million years ago. I've been binge watching Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
The simplest explanations are the best.
Nowhere did I write anything about what caused it. I merely stated that deniers are already denying. No insinuation. No implication. You inferred what you wanted to infer – heard what you wanted to hear. You are the one who jumped to a conclusion. Back in your hole Russian sock puppet.
that nobody made a comment about Trump flying to Antarctica to make a speech!
I was trying to dig a tunnel to China, but I got lost along the way.
Jeez yall, didn't anyone see "Fate of the Furious"? ( aka Fast and the Furious 8) ? Some crazy heartless blonde chick stole a submarine with nukes from a secret Russian submarine base out there. Then she tried to kill Dominic Toretto by launching a heat seeker missile at him, but he used the exhaust flare on his Dodge Ice Charger to redirect it and send it flying back at the sub and blew the whole thing to kingdom come, leaving a huge hole in the ice. Totally declassified and the whole world got to see it on the big screen this past July. This is old news!
The Eternal City slumbering through the eons as puny man scurries hither and thither on his petty errands to further his childish designs. The sleeper awakes, tentacles twitch and then one eye opens to lay it's gaze on the delightful feast humanity has become.
Write a paper, win all the money. Go on! We'll wait.
That's Megatron!
Transformers are here.
Release the Kraken!
There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole, there's a hole
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a log, there's a log
There's a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a branch on the log...
There's a bump on the branch...
There's a frog on the bump...
There's a tail on the frog...
There's a speck on the tail...
There's a fleck on the speck...
So let's flick the fleck, brush the speck
Twist the tail, pet the frog
Flatten the bump, break the branch
burn the log, fill the hole in the bottom of the sea!
Because we need it like a hole in the sea
See?
Tracy Johnson
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Elder Things didn't seem to make much sound, but Shoggoths went "Tekeli-li!" (from a book of Poe's). Thing is, the Elder Things lost control to the Shoggoths, who pretty much run things there now.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Yup. At the Mountains of Madness was one of my favorite Lovecraft stories.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton