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This is just nuts... Images of Cape Town, South Africa.

No longer links to hotmail, for the super-geniuses out there...

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These all send me right to Hotmail. What were they supposed to do?

I'm just getting linked to my mail.

I'm afraid very little can be seen at these links. I'm ending up at hotmail.

yeah, used the wrong links. give me a moment

I spot a trend.

Yeah.... next time link to the actual images not your hotmail

is it a coincidence someone sent me this?

http://eatliver.com/img/2006/1182.jpg

insanity indeed :p

Where is that? Not the golf of Finland by anychance? 'cause i've been there whilst it being frozen.

Yeah.... next time link to the actual images not your hotmail

Thank you, genius.

Where is that? Not the golf of Finland by anychance? 'cause i've been there whilst it being frozen.

South Africa

What on earth is going on there?

Awesome pics! Thanks uncle Rotty!

South Africa

Cool. But thats so strange! How can a sea get frozen so quickly before the waves even break?

Cool. But thats so strange! How can a sea get frozen so quickly before the waves even break?
My hunch: Very low temperatures. *nods*

Ooooh, very cool. I love how the water looks all sluggish and thick. Like a Slushy. :p

Are those current pictures? And do you know how cold it is/was there?

Wow, nice pics :)

My hunch: Very low temperatures. *nods*

Well it must have gone from a normal temperature to a low tempurature unusually quickly.

Cool. But thats so strange! How can a sea get frozen so quickly before the waves even break?

Indeed. I don't think that should be.


Has anyone seen this (http://www.worldkids.net/kids/blizzardlive/b&r/9.jpg) man in the vicinity recently?

My hunch: Very low temperatures. *nods*
Wouldn't work. Running water isn't going to go "wooossssssshhhh- *frozen*", especially not salt-water, which I would assume that is. It would take a major flash freeze to do that, I'm talking kill-anyone-in-the-vicinity cold

seen something like that before

Indeed. I don't think that should be.


Has anyone seen this (http://www.worldkids.net/kids/blizzardlive/b&r/9.jpg) man in the vicinity recently?
Aaah. Mr. Freeze. :) I remember I got him in the "Which supervillain are you?"-thread.

Wouldn't work. Running water isn't going to go "wooossssssshhhh- *frozen*", especially not salt-water, which I would assume that is. It would take a major flash freeze to do that, I'm talking kill-anyone-in-the-vicinity cold

Erm, sea water does freeze over from time to time. I'd guess that most of the northern coast of Russia, for example, has ice along most of its beaches in winter. Also, the Baltic Sea tends to partially freeze over once every extra harsh winter. Doesn't take a flash freeze, all it takes are low enough temperatures. *shrug*

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0319262/th-DAT-277.jpg http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0319262/th-DAT-278.jpghttp://i19.tinypic.com/66j5hch.jpg

Frozen sea?! But...but....but.....GLOBAL WARMING! :eek:

:p

Erm, sea water does freeze over from time to time. I'd guess that most of the northern coast of Russia, for example, has ice along most of its beaches in winter. Also, the Baltic Sea tends to partially freeze over once every extra harsh winter. Doesn't take a flash freeze, all it takes are low enough temperatures. *shrug*

Yeah and i've seen frozen sea before. But it looks nothing like that, it's completely flat.

Frozen sea?! But...but....but.....GLOBAL WARMING! :eek:

:p
Aw man, don't you know we call it global climate change now? :p

Yeah and i've seen frozen sea before. But it looks nothing like that, it's completely flat.
I'm not sure I'm following.

The only thing that's actually frozen through in this picture is the "white stuff", i.e. the shallow parts in the first and second picture, which sure look flat to me.

The wavy grey stuff is water, not ice. From the looks of it (and from what logic dictates) it's infused with lots of small pieces of ice (hence the sluggish, thick look I mentioned above) but it's not actually frozen stiff in the shape of a wave or anything.

You can perfectly see the small ice pieces turning the sea into a big bowl of slush in the fifth picture.

You can perfectly see the small ice pieces turning the sea into a big bowl of slush in the fifth picture.

I see a new Guinness book of record for the biggest slush puppy ever :D

I see a new Guinness book of record for the biggest slush puppy ever :D

As long as they don't make it Grape, that's fine with me. *shudders*

So woodruff would be okay with you?

Great!

*pours gallons of woodruff into the sea to make world's biggest salty slush puppy*

So woodruff would be okay with you?

Great!

*pours gallons of woodruff into the sea to make world's biggest salty slush puppy*

According to wikipedia they don't have that flavour :(

According to wikipedia they don't have that flavour :(
Zen I just invented it, too!

Did like any penguins get there feet frozen in that ise - you know how ducks do when a stream or pond freezes over and they get stuck in there?

Frozen sea?! But...but....but.....GLOBAL WARMING! :eek:

:p

Yep, I was waiting for someone to say that. Also, what everyone is forgetting in this whole exercise is that there should not even be ice in that water, Cape Town is about 35 South, and ice has to the best of my knowledge, not been seen that far north before.

Also, there was snow in Johannesburg this week for the first time in twenty-five years - I believe the Southern Hemisphere is going to have another one of those cold winters like last year.

I'm not sure I'm following.

The only thing that's actually frozen through in this picture is the "white stuff", i.e. the shallow parts in the first and second picture, which sure look flat to me.

Then you obviously missed the frozen ebb tide.

Why the picture warning?

Yep, I was waiting for someone to say that. Also, what everyone is forgetting in this whole exercise is that there should not even be ice in that water, Cape Town is about 35 South, and ice has to the best of my knowledge, not been seen that far north before.

Also, there was snow in Johannesburg this week for the first time in twenty-five years - I believe the Southern Hemisphere is going to have another one of those cold winters like last year.We didn't forget it, we asked the OP for details on the temperatures and on when the pics were taken but he never came back. And apparently none of us was willing to google "weather south africa", so here we are...

Then you obviously missed the frozen ebb tide.I did what?

global warming at work :rolleyes:

global warming at work :rolleyes:

Why, it's a good thing you supplied the :rolleyes: smiley right with your post. Saving others the effort. Good boy.

global warming at work :rolleyes:
You're way too late with your post.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Sorry I can't be glued to the general forum 24 hours a day like you fine people
:gundge:

How do we know the waves are frozen? Everything is frozen - it's a still image. Now, if we had some video - maybe then we'd get a better sense of what this is intended to convey.

lol.

How do we know the waves are frozen? Everything is frozen - it's a still image. Now, if we had some video - maybe then we'd get a better sense of what this is intended to convey.

You mean how do we know the waves aren't frozen, right?

Looking at the pictures helps tremendously in that regard. :p

Why the picture warning?

Probably because there are still some poor souls in this world who are still on dialup.

You mean how do we know the waves aren't frozen, right?

Looking at the pictures helps tremendously in that regard. :p

Still photos of waves tend not to move. If you're trying to impress people with frozen waves, still photos don't cut it.

Unless you're suggesting I set them up as a flipbook to give the appearance of movement. Richard.

Still photos of waves tend not to move. If you're trying to impress people with frozen waves, still photos don't cut it.

Unless you're suggesting I set them up as a flipbook to give the appearance of movement. Richard.
The waves are not supposed to look frozen because they are not frozen. The only "waves" that are frozen are the white ripples right up on the beach.

The moving water is just infused with lots and lots of small pieces of ice, i.e. in the process of maybe eventually freezing over.

I know, I'm sorta deliberately missing your point but I just wanted to drive home again that the stupid waves are not frozen as one can clearly see by, oh, looking at the pictures. Gnarf.

You're still free to make them into a flipbook, of course. Richard?

Who's been spraying foam about? I haven't quite worked out why the railing 'icicles' are so pointy, but it could be an art installation.

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