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Missing: Large lake in southern Chile (Size of 10 soccer fields---soccer ha ha)
Reuters via Yahoo ^
| 6-20-07
Posted on 06/21/2007 8:03:24 AM PDT by slappyTmonkey
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole.
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The lake was situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and was fed by water, mostly from melting glaciers.
It had a surface area of between 4 and 5 hectares (10-12 acres) -- about the size of 10 soccer pitches.
"In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal ... we went again in May and to our surprise we found the lake
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chile; globalwarming
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A) it evaporated- duh. It was a puddle.
and B) the reason I posted this was it was the lead story on Yahoo homepage, and they said it was 10 SOCCER fields in size! Remember football fields??? ahahahahahahahah
To: slappyTmonkey
Damned Global Warming!
It's that or UFOs.
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:05:03 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: slappyTmonkey
Perhaps the glaciers stopped melting? It is after all, winter in the southern hemisphere.
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:09:07 AM PDT
by
Senator_Blutarski
(No good deed goes unpunished.)
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:10:25 AM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
To: slappyTmonkey
you noticed this too! How funny. I was driving to work this morning, and I was listening to my jazz radio station, and the dj said, “coming up next, we have mas musica en la manana”, and my jaw dropped! So 5 minutes later, I get to work and booted up my computer, and I see we’re going to start measuring things compared to soccer fields! What’s next? Sombreros?
To: slappyTmonkey
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:15:44 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Inventor of the 12-hour "power nap".)
To: slappyTmonkey
Great. Now I have to learn how to convert football fields into soccer fields.
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:19:30 AM PDT
by
faq
To: slappyTmonkey
Probably Karst topograpy or sinkholes as we call it around here. The underlying rock is limestone and soluable over time. There are undergrouind streams below and a plug in the bottom of the lake gives way and the lake disapears into the underground stream. Happens all the time around Columbia Illinois, North county St Louis.
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:22:10 AM PDT
by
golfisnr1
(Democrats are like roaches - hard to get rid of.)
To: SIDENET
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:22:46 AM PDT
by
bikerman
(_ _ . /_ _ _ /_ . . / / . . . . / . / . _ . . / . _ _ . / / . . _ / . . . //)
To: slappyTmonkey
"A) it evaporated- duh. It was a puddle."
That's the rainy season.
"10 SOCCER fields in size! Remember football fields???"
They don't play a lot of football in Chile. The report came out of Santiago (that's in Chile for the geographically illiterate).
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:23:10 AM PDT
by
ndt
To: ndt
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:25:41 AM PDT
by
daku
("Behold this creature that walks like a man. It wants ketchup on its hot dog.")
To: ndt
yes I realize it came out of Chile, but there was a time when people translated things for us, out of courtesy because we’re Americans and we play Football, but now, the press doesn’t even bother.
To: slappyTmonkey
It happened in Florida some years back - within a few miles of University of Florida. A sink hole opened up and the lake went down it...
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:27:27 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(If Banks "couldn't make a profit" without counterfeiting --Congress would pass a bill to help.)
To: slappyTmonkey
When you get lemons, make lemonade. The good news: They can build 10 soccer fields.
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:29:01 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
To: ndt
seriously, I guess I should be thankful the article was in english. Matter of time...
To: slappyTmonkey
"there was a time when people translated things for us"
Sad, but I guess the assumption that Americans are smart enough to figure it out is an overreach.
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:29:41 AM PDT
by
ndt
To: ndt
I for one welcome our new spanish-speaking overlords
To: slappyTmonkey
LOL Headlines tomorrow "CIA steals lake" Don't laugh that is what the Russians yelled last year when one of their lake disappeared.
http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/rf-how-rus.html
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:37:18 AM PDT
by
Shots
(If you see Known Illegal Immigrants it is your civic duty to report them)
To: slappyTmonkey
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:38:47 AM PDT
by
nevergore
("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
To: slappyTmonkey
It had a surface area of between 4 and 5 hectares (10-12 acres) -- about the size of 10 soccer pitches.Having lived a stone’s throw from Lake Michigan, I am somehow unimpressed.
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posted on
06/21/2007 8:39:52 AM PDT
by
dighton
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