Temp dropped to minus 19 in Pa. last night!
I heard a stat the other day that surprised me. They ask what was the thickest ice recorded in Antarctica. I supposed they would say 20 or 30 feet. What would be your guess, 10 or 20 feet. The thickest was almost three miles thick with the average at 7000 feet thick! Wow that is some thick ice. How would you fish below that and what would live under that ice!
celsius or farientheit? if celsius, not bad. its fine sweater whether, unless there is wind. the wind makes everything worse. your hands will get cold though.Bobberman wrote:I heard a stat the other day that surprised me. They ask what was the thickest ice recorded in Antarctica. I supposed they would say 20 or 30 feet. What would be your guess, 10 or 20 feet. The thickest was almost three miles thick with the average at 7000 feet thick! Wow that is some thick ice. How would you fish below that and what would live under that ice!
Farientheit. or Fahrenheit I think. It was -10 to -19 in different areas plus a 20 mph wind!weterman wrote:celsius or farientheit? if celsius, not bad. its fine sweater whether, unless there is wind. the wind makes everything worse. your hands will get cold though.Bobberman wrote:I heard a stat the other day that surprised me. They ask what was the thickest ice recorded in Antarctica. I supposed they would say 20 or 30 feet. What would be your guess, 10 or 20 feet. The thickest was almost three miles thick with the average at 7000 feet thick! Wow that is some thick ice. How would you fish below that and what would live under that ice!
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I used to go ice fishing, we drilled a hole in the ice with a special ice drill, and put in an ice fishing device with a popup flag that showed when you had a fish. My family had a lake house in NH so we would sit and watch TV and when we had a fish we would go down and get it. A lot of people would tow ice houses out onto the lake, some were very comfortable with generators even. Me and the boys would drive down the boat ramps and go for a spin on the ice, literally a spin. The lakes in the Antarctic I read about are so far down in the ice I do not think much could live there, but the have been drilling exploratory hole to see; with a much bigger ice drill than we had. LOL
I will have to look this up and see how well my memory is working.
I will have to look this up and see how well my memory is working.
This on the ice lakes.
https://www.startribune.com/nation/138921804.html
MOSCOW - Opening a scientific frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, Russian experts drilled down and finally reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake, an achievement the mission chief likened to placing a man on the moon.
Lake Vostok could hold living organisms that have been locked in icy darkness for some 20 million years, as well as clues to the search for life elsewhere in the solar system.
Touching the surface of the lake, the largest of nearly 400 subglacial lakes in Antarctica, came after more than two decades of drilling, and was a major achievement avidly anticipated by scientists around the world.
"In the simplest sense, it can transform the way we think about life," NASA's chief scientist Waleed Abdalati told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday.
The Russian team made contact with the lake water Sunday at a depth of 12,366 feet (3,769 meters), about 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) east of the South Pole in the central part of the continent.
Scientists hope the lake might allow a glimpse into microbial life forms that existed before the Ice Age and are not visible to the naked eye. Scientists believe that microbial life may exist in the dark depths of the lake despite its high pressure and constant cold — conditions similar to those believed to be found under the ice crust on Mars, Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus.
https://www.startribune.com/nation/138921804.html
MOSCOW - Opening a scientific frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, Russian experts drilled down and finally reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake, an achievement the mission chief likened to placing a man on the moon.
Lake Vostok could hold living organisms that have been locked in icy darkness for some 20 million years, as well as clues to the search for life elsewhere in the solar system.
Touching the surface of the lake, the largest of nearly 400 subglacial lakes in Antarctica, came after more than two decades of drilling, and was a major achievement avidly anticipated by scientists around the world.
"In the simplest sense, it can transform the way we think about life," NASA's chief scientist Waleed Abdalati told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday.
The Russian team made contact with the lake water Sunday at a depth of 12,366 feet (3,769 meters), about 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) east of the South Pole in the central part of the continent.
Scientists hope the lake might allow a glimpse into microbial life forms that existed before the Ice Age and are not visible to the naked eye. Scientists believe that microbial life may exist in the dark depths of the lake despite its high pressure and constant cold — conditions similar to those believed to be found under the ice crust on Mars, Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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