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Ok, so this five acre lake in Chile disappeared. Scientists don't know what happened. I think Space Aliens came and took the water...*nods*

SANTIAGO, Chile — A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared — and scientists want to know why.

Park rangers at Bernardo O'Higgins National Park said they found a 100-feet-deep crater in late May where the lake had been in March. Several large pieces of ice that used to float atop the water also were spotted.

"The lake had simply disappeared," Juan Jose Romero, head of Chile's National Forest Service in the southernmost region of Magallanes , said Wednesday.
"No one knows what happened."

A group of geologists and other experts will be sent to the area 1,250 miles southeast of Santiago in the next few days to investigate, Romero said.

One theory is the water disappeared through cracks in the lake bottom into underground fissures. But experts do not know why the cracks would have appeared because there have been no earthquakes reported in the area recently, Romero said.

A river that flowed out of the lake was reduced to a trickle.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,285314,00.html

Is there a very fat man somewhere upstream by any chance?

My God, first it was our air, now Spaceballs is after our water! :eek:

I think the devil got a little thirsty.

the ice was actually silicon crystals and they soaked up all the water.

<conspiracy>
Al Gore drank it. but he'll blame global warming in his upcoming sequel - an Incontinent Truth.
</conspiracy>

And in other bizarre, Chilean news:

Some idiots decided to introduce beavers (http://en.epochtimes.com/news/6-1-26/37411.html) to Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, hoping to create a fur industry there. However, beaver fur gets oily and unusable during hot periods, and the climate is MUCH warmer in Argentina than it is in Canada. So, the fur was pretty much unusable, and as my southern friends in both Argentina and Chile have discovered....beavers are rapacious, and difficult to kill off.

So I think it's clear what happened. The beavers did it.

In other lake-related news, I read about the Aral Sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_sea) in Uzbekistan the other day. It used to be the world's 4th largest lake, now it's only 20% its original volume and 25% its surface area. God bless the Soviet Union.

LG did it. He needed the water for to make a swamp football pitch.

Soooo, not that I have any real reason to ask, but what is the penalty for taking water from a lake to fill your pool? Are we talking jail time?

In other lake-related news, I read about the Aral Sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_sea) in Uzbekistan the other day. It used to be the world's 4th largest lake, now it's only 20% its original volume and 25% its surface area. God bless the Soviet Union.

The Colorado River.

Nuff said.

In other lake-related news, I read about the Aral Sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_sea) in Uzbekistan the other day. It used to be the world's 4th largest lake, now it's only 20% its original volume and 25% its surface area. God bless the Soviet Union.

Now the water helps irrigate crops and cotton, giving many farmers in Uzbekistan a living. In short, the Soviets knew what they were doing, it wasn't just for shits and giggles.

And in other bizarre, Chilean news:

Some idiots decided to introduce beavers (http://en.epochtimes.com/news/6-1-26/37411.html) to Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, hoping to create a fur industry there. However, beaver fur gets oily and unusable during hot periods, and the climate is MUCH warmer in Argentina than it is in Canada. So, the fur was pretty much unusable, and as my southern friends in both Argentina and Chile have discovered....beavers are rapacious, and difficult to kill off.

So I think it's clear what happened. The beavers did it.

You read the Epoch Times, too? Yay!

<conspiracy>
Al Gore drank it. but he'll blame global warming in his upcoming sequel - an Incontinent Truth.
</conspiracy>

Don't give AL any ideas so he can take scientific data twist it and then get awards for it..bah I hope the terrorist Nuke LA...and take all of Hollywood with it..

My God, first it was our air, now Spaceballs is after our water! :eek:

I take offence to that.

Since when is a 5 acre body of water a lake? Isn't that just a large pond?

And in other bizarre, Chilean news:

Some idiots decided to introduce beavers (http://en.epochtimes.com/news/6-1-26/37411.html) to Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, hoping to create a fur industry there. However, beaver fur gets oily and unusable during hot periods, and the climate is MUCH warmer in Argentina than it is in Canada. So, the fur was pretty much unusable, and as my southern friends in both Argentina and Chile have discovered....beavers are rapacious, and difficult to kill off.

So I think it's clear what happened. The beavers did it.

So Canadians have been successfully occupying Argentina since 1946? Maybe we should send some of those to Iraq. Let the insurgents try to get rid of some Canadian beavers! Good luck!

No one has blamed aliens for it yet? Clearly it is logical. I am sure this is near Nazca.