Striped icebergs. Gotta love random spam email.




Water freezes the instant the wave broke!

These are real. Got something to do with the water freezing at certain points. Like rings on a tree. Or something.

Those are really beautiful.

I had this email too... they are GORGEOUS!

the first one looks like a glacier barcode...

I think it's Memorex.

Looks real and pretty, although the second pic kinda makes me itch.

KidaDynamite said:

where?

thejason said:

on my roodboi!

KidaDynamite said:

oh, your heart? awww...

The 1st one is real look closely at the striped ice... the dimpling on the ice happens when the ice is under water and releases gas bubbles as the iceberg (freshwater) melts into the saltwater. yeah, I need a life.

thejason said:

I think it's more like a kidney.

The water actually freezes as the wave is forming???

paintedlady said:

You're such a smart heffa.

Damn. Makes me want some of that old timey candy from downtown. It's pretty, though.

JackieBlue said:

that's the proposed theory. I'm confused because if it freezes as the wave is forming then shouldn't that be a receding wave?

oh hell none of us know nuthin'

KidaDynamite said:

DesireeNevermind said:

Or do the waves freeze underwater since it is fresh water? Do they just pop up out the ice as the ice gives way?

paintedlady said:

that could be. it's very smooth. wouldn't it have some texture if it froze above water?

KidaDynamite said:

might be your testicles then

thejason said:

ass.

KidaDynamite said:

now I'd scratch that for ya...

So apparently some of the formations are real and some are fake or enhanced via photoshop?

regarding the email circulation:

This "frozen wave" variant of the message includes the following description:
Antarctica Frozen Wave Pixs - Nature is amazing! The water froze the instant the wave broke through the ice. That's what it is like in Antarctica where it is the coldest weather in decades. Water freezes the instant it comes in contact with the air. The temperature of the water is already some degrees below freezing. Just look at how the wave froze in mid-air!!!

These photographs are also authentic, but the accompanying description is false. The images do not show waves somehow instantly frozen in place. Instead, they show ice formations created by glaciation, melting and refreezing, and other natural forces, over very long periods of time. The "ice wave" photographs are not related to the striped iceberg images and were taken at a different time and place by a different photographer, scientist Tony Travouillon.

The series of "frozen wave" images began circulating quite some time before the striped iceberg photographs first made their appearance. I discuss them in more detail in another Hoax-Slayer article.

http://www.hoax-slayer.co...ergs.shtml

I smell bullshit.

JerseyKRS said:

and where there's bullshit, there's STEAK!!!

thejason said:

thejason said:

steak, I love.


waves of ocean water, filled with kinetic energy (and potential energy mind you), flash freezing in full crest.....


that I do not love.


because it is bullshit.

Real Photos but NOT frozen waves.

DesireeNevermind said:

I was gonna say wouldn't all the water be frozen then?
The one with the stripes looks like some sort of polished stone or a bar of soap.