ice circles??

I was watching a TV show about crop circles, and they start talking about a different "phenomenom" called ice circles. This is where a perfectly round circle will appear on a lake, and has a large etched in trench outlining it. The trench can usually be like 3" wide.

anyways I've never heard of it, and thought they looked kinda neat.

http://www.rense.com/general6/delta00.jpg_1.jpg

they say this one happened out of the blue one winter night. (Dec. 2nd.)

the story for this one is here (http://www.rense.com/general6/ice.htm)


i thought at first a spring underneath would have caused the ice to form like that, but it is a creek, you can see where open water flows across the far side of the circle... ice usually shatters when it breaks apart. :screwy:

The old hag did it i dont trust her one bit!

It's probably the same shit as crop circles - poeple with nothing better to do going out at night and etching a circle into the ice. It certainly doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure how to do it.

Certainly wasn't "Aliens" I saw the move Signs, thems is afraid of the water!

Better call Mulder and Scully.

ha ha, the crop circles in england was just 2 old guys that plotted to make crop circles in their back garden shed, they went out at night wiht baseball bats and pounded the wheat down, how they made perfect cirles and made them so big i don't know. the woman did it. old people plot against us and pretend there's alien invaders.

but i keep the aliens in my basement, we play poker on friday nights.

ha ha, the crop circles in england was just 2 old guys that plotted to make crop circles in their back garden shed, they went out at night wiht baseball bats and pounded the wheat down, how they made perfect cirles and made them so big i don't know. the woman did it. old people plot against us and pretend there's alien invaders.

Just like the old guy who made that photo of "Nessie." Thats why I never trust anyone over the age of 30.

can't trust em! they're pissed at us cuz we wanna take their licenses and we come in to thier Denny's and country kitchen's "all hootin' n hollerin"

i have a theory...it was the gremlins. they do everything. eat socks...and other random things. didn't you learn anything from alf...the gremlins definately did the ice circle thing..think about it....

Whoever is doing the crop/ice circling is going to be the biggest hoaxer of all time.

bet there is a small hole in the very center where they anchored the string to make it a perfect circle, Not that hard to have something holding a person from the tree that the old lady is leaning against,

They probably have way to much free time, and get way to little attention, or maybe they wanted there 15 minutes of fame before they passed on,


If I lived somewhere where it froze every now and then I might try this one... Texas and its nice weather... Its ok I dont like the cold that much anyway,

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Perfect circle.

the problem is the ice is no more than an inch thick, you can see open water flowing across the far side of the circle.... if a person walked out there to carve it, they must have weighed like 30 pounds.

i'm definately going with gremlins..they weigh less than 30 pounds....

if a person walked out there to carve it, they must have weighed like 30 pounds.

Didn't this happen in cartoons all the time? I think Chilly Willy weighs less than 30 pounds, he never fell through the ice.

Some guys I know saw something like this on the lake by my house many years ago. They took photos of it. There were three circles, each 12 feet in diameter, in a triangle formation. There were no tracks around, and the ice was just missing. Just gone. They told me it was perfectly cut out, not jagged or anything like that.

I confess I did it. I flew out my bed room window that night and I did it. You better not tell anybody.

the problem is the ice is no more than an inch thick, you can see open water flowing across the far side of the circle.... if a person walked out there to carve it, they must have weighed like 30 pounds.

1.) POND = No/very little moving water.
2.) The weight of the person doesnt matter, its the dispacement that counts. Person could have weighed 300lbs, but if they layed down their weight would be spread out enough they wouldnt break through. (Thats why if your friend falls in you shouldnt stand at the edge to help them, you should lie down.)
3.) At night (when it was probably done) the ice would be at its coldest and strongest.
4.) Very doubtfull thickness of ice can be guaged from photo.
5.) A reasonably intelligent person, with the right materials could construct this from the banks surrounding the pond.

bet there is a small hole in the very center where they anchored the string to make it a perfect circle, Not that hard to have something holding a person from the tree that the old lady is leaning against,

Line point anchor,

And yeah from the bank, suspended by the tree which hangs over the lake, or with their weight deispersed evenly - even with a board layed over the ice,

This would not be hard to do if you wanted to,

And there are probably a dozen ways to pull this off without involving the aliens or gremblins - They didn't do it, I asked them :biggrin:

They wouldn't tell you anyway, earth-being