Musk ox invasion keeps Nome wildlife managers busy

Anchorage Daily News ^ | comJuly 2, 2014 | SEAN DOOGAN

[skeptoid]

Nome is used to rowdy residents, but some relatively new transplants are making a real nuisance of themselves -- although unlike the colorful characters of the early 20th century gold rush days, these visitors have four legs, not two.

Musk oxen are wandering into the city on the Seward Peninsula, and despite loud noises, water hoses and even a blow-up bear coated in ursine urine, they don't want to leave.

[Tax-chick]

Is your dwelling free-standing, or multi-unit?

[moose07]

LOL.,,,
Neighbour attached one side.
Was going to do it at work in a chest freezer.

[Tax-chick]

Is the chest freezer (we call it a top-loader) outside?

[moose07]

No ,inside.
It is used for thermally stressing ‘things’.

[Monkey Face]

I want to see this...

[moose07]

Make sure you’re wearing goggles....

[Monkey Face]

Got ‘em. Along with my Industrial Strength Rubber Gloves and a breathing apparatus.

[moose07]

Hmmm.
You appear to have worked with me before. :)

Must go’
G’Night. :)

[NicknamedBob]

"Yep.
Going to have to do an experiment with this.
The bit i would like to know for sure is if the higher rate of change continues in the ‘Hot’ water after it has reached the initial state of the ‘Cool’ water, or if the rate of change slows to match that of the ‘Cool’ water.

Have to borrow the Laser thermometer and have a play in the freezer."

Sounds like something Darks would do.

The physics is the same for both. A colder object will freeze more quickly than a warmer object. What's happening is that the warmer water tends to evaporate in the freezer, incidentally putting frost on the walls that has to be dealt with at some point.

It doesn't get a "head start" toward freezing, but by the time it catches up to the cooler water sample, there's less water volume left. It is this phenomenon, having the ice-tray end up half-filled, that lets a "warm-water" sample freeze faster than a "cool-water" sample.

Save yourself trouble, and fill your trays with cool water, so that you get big, high-capacity cubes to work with, rather than those dinky little slivers that only serve to dilute your beverage choice.

[Tax-chick]

I have an automatic ice maker. The dispenser part through the door doesn’t work anymore, but we can still make ice.

[Monkey Face]

Ta!

[Monkey Face]

I use a Pur filter, so the water is always “cool” if such can be said about water in the desert in the summer.

It’s just that I get fiercely thirsty (CFIDS does that) and need ice water, even in the winter. So there are several ice cube trays in the freezer at any one time. However, I totally spaced it in my preparations to house sit, and could have come home to good, solid ice cubes.

And then, to make matters worse, I spaced it yesterday and really had to play “catch-up” by sticking a pint bottle of water in the freezer for an hour. I hate when I do stuff like this.

[NicknamedBob]

A very thin layer will cool the fastest.

[Darksheare]

“They find me, somehow. I must have some invisible beacon on me.”

[Darksheare]

Mpemba effect?

[Tax-chick]

It’s like the way my neighbor Vicki attracts stray cats.

[Darksheare]

Cats have a communication network.

[Monkey Face]

I have five “shallow” ice cube trays and one deep one while three are about “average.” One of my neighbors found some last summer that were HUGH and one was all that was needed in your glass, even outside in this heat.

Perhaps I should look for some of those...even though I don’t drink outside!

[GeronL]

Whisker-Net

[Tax-chick]

Telepathic.