Frozen tsunami wave in Antarctica?
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A series of images has been floating around in an email forward about a supposed tsunami wave that froze in midair as it came up and over other Antarctic ice.
One person suggests it is "blue ice." In any event, it is highly unlikely that it is a tsunami wave.
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Posted on December 1, 2007
Filed Under Irresistible Spam & Bacn, Sea and Oceans | 16 Comments
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this is a very scary reality the tempuratures had to have been catastrofically cold but the fact is that these tempuratures may not be fiction. As also in the case of the mammoth frozen in midwalk, how can this happen?
this wave-like formation may infact be caused by earthquakes that have raised the ice above the ground and creating what is seen in this image.
the blue colour of the ice can be attributed to the same reason that water appears blue; it is a result of an overtone of an OH molecular stretch in the water, which absorbs light at the red end of the visible spectrum.
what are the chances in life you get to see that once it melts the polar bears will have water but that is so amazing though thats cool…………
from;Delia Trask 16 San Antonio Texas
Awsome mannnn!
ell of a wave!
orite maytee.
it’s a horrible disaster on Antarctica. i wish it should not happen ever after.
I think it is a tsunami. The fact remains that in antartica it is so incredibly cold that waves get frozen there all the time, and tsunamis move slower than normal waves because of their weight.
Did they sell cheese burgers in the Artic because i love a good cheese burger
It’s awesome, but at the same time it’s very dangerous… Thank god!!! PEOPLE OF THAT REGION ARE SAVED…
It’s awesome, but at the same time it’s very dangerous… THAN GOD!!! PEOPLE OF THAT REGION ARE SAVED…
that is awesome but thats not a tsunami wave. its just a same wave that is bigger than all the others… i gease but oh well. its still cool
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is a very big wave it looks like a master piece. but on the other hand it loks fake to my friend troy. he says it’s a made up story. and i think i could probably surf it
that is the most awesome pic ever <3 it it is now ma screensaver OMG LOVE IT SO MUCH im trying 2 get it on ma phone how cool is that??
oh my gosh, i dont know if i should believe that its real because it seems so non-realistic and stuff, but holy crap!! thats amazing! i would <3 to see it freeze right in front of my eyes though if it was real!!!
I beleive that if a bucket of water is poured in frigid temperatures, it can freeze in mid-air. If that is the case with this wave, it could possibly have happened, though that would be an excessively RARE phenomenon. All you would need to do to know if that is probably real is examine the weather data in the recent days before the freezing occured.
December is Antarctica’s Summer. There is less than 1% of a chance that the wave would freeze that season of the year.