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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 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
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.
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Again already? But it just ended on Sept 23.
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Don't be silly. It's not completely unreasonable that one of the research scientists posted this story to tap the unparalleled hive mind at /..
"...gigantic, mysterious hole" is as large as Lake Superior or the state of Maine.
Clearly, the real story here is that Lake Superior and the State of Maine are interchangeable units of measuring area. Who Knew?
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Again already? But it just ended on Sept 23.
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Everyone knows that the world will end in 2038, on January 19.
Ezekiel 23:20
Clearly, the real story here is that Lake Superior and the State of Maine are interchangeable units of measuring area. Who Knew?
A little known fact is that Lake Superior and the state of Maine are also physically interchangeable!
This is the reason neither of those things are labeled by name on Google Maps.
Upgrade the universe to 64-bits already!
But then I'll need to reboot the universe, and I still have a few unsaved tabs.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Also, please note that nobody has ever seen the State of Maine and Lake Superior in the same place! Obviously, something is up!
A "standard" Belgium? As opposed to what? An "imperial" Belgium?
Yes. Imperial Belgium is much bigger, as it included the Congo. The Congo is very big.