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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."
It's most likely water currents causing this phenomenon. Unless there's a volcano that's erupting, but that would be detected seismologically.
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It's fairly obvious. The Goa'uld are coming.
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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.
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I second that:
http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Antarctica
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.
Again already? But it just ended on Sept 23.
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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
The Arctic Sea's ice thickness is likely just a few meters, even though the inland ice sheet can be thousands of meters thick.
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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
Upgrade the universe to 64-bits already!
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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."
Upgrade the universe to 64-bits already!
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