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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."
Let the "Antarctica == Your Mom" joke fest begin!
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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.
We need scientists to look in to it.
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
> A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up In Antarctica
So the Earth is actually hollow and a reptilian Reich exists on the inside, just as David Icke has disclosed decades ago? Nobody paid him attention, people called him lunatic and now let the moaning begin! Soon large fleets of mercury-powered, heat-ray sporting Vril and Thule UFOs will appear over the iron skies of NY, Tel-Aviv and London and men will have to retreat to the high castle.
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.
But regressivetard deniers are already saying it isn't caused by climate change.
Because that doesn't fit their narrative.
Cue Russian backed sock puppets inciting more divisiveness over this in 3... 2... 1...
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
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.
We're still trying to figure out what's going on - http://www.bagswatchesus.com/
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.
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).
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.
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."
This is the end of the world! https://williamreview.com/soci...
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They really missed their target this time, huh?
The stars are right, people.
Great Cthulhu will walk the earth once again :)
It's GWAR's hideout.
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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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!"
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*
Of man made global warming... Man caused global warming (climate change) is NOT REAL. It's a made up term used by morons, trying to bilk wealthy nations out of money, in a form of redistribution. You really want to know what screws up our weather? Go look up the term Maunder Minimum, Dalton Minimum, Modern Maximum (which just ended). The SUNSPOT CYCLE is what impacts weather on Earth, more than man could ever dream of (short of an all out global nuclear war). One good belch from a volcano has more impact on our weather than "man". The modern maximum, with cycle 23 just ended within the past year, but the trend in sunspots has been down, WAY down. There have been many times this past winter & spring, that the Earth facing solar disk has been completely BLANK. NOT ONE sunspot. Sunspots are disturbances on the surface of the sun, magnetic ripples. When one of those lets go a coronal mass ejection (CME), and it is streaming to the Earth, it strikes our magnetic field, and can change weather patterns. There is evidence now from some, stating the positions of Venus & Uranus can also change the suns relationship with regard to spots. In the 1700's, (the Maunder minimum) winters were so cold, the Thames in London, and the Potomac in Maryland FROZE SOLID. We had the modern maximum in the period where people like Algore came up with the idea of "man made global warming". Now, in the past couple of years, after cycle 23, the trend has been for cooler overall temperatures. But, since most people under the age of 30, have been indoctrinated from birth to "save the polar bears" bla bla bla, they will not look at the hard science of what really impacts this little blue ball in space. Boy it’s been fun cruising the liberal blogs watching their collective heads EXPLODE. This man made global warming nonsense needs to be put to rest. THE SUN is what changes our climate. Man couldn’t change it, short of an all out nuclear war, if it wanted to. One belch from a volcano screws up the weather more than man can do. Why don’t you guys start researching the solar sunspot cycles over the last 400 years and then lay the graphic temperatures on top and you will see they are pretty much the same. Cycle 23, just ended, and with it, ended what REAL scientist call the modern maximum (1950's through early 2000's). The trend in the last 9 years has been for less spots on the sun, which results in less geomagnetic disturbances. Those disturbances, in the form of coronal mass ejections (CME’s) hit the magnetic bubble around our planet, and screw with the weather...not man. In all likelyhood we are heading toward a COOLING trend, not a warming trend, but, you’ve been indoctrinated since birth into believing it is all man’s fault, and, in particular, “evil rich white slaveholder men from the imperialist United States”.
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.
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'
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!
That's Megatron!
Transformers are here.
There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
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There's a branch on the log...
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There's a frog on the bump...
There's a tail on the frog...
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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?
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