Andes lake disappears!?!?

**SkiBrain** · 06-21-2007, 02:31 PM

My labmate just told me about this news story:

100-foot deep Andes lake disappears

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- 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 were 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://beta.cnn.com/2007/TECH/scienc....ap/index.html

How f***ed up is that?! Does anyone know anything about this?

**Jer** · 06-21-2007, 02:45 PM

I'll keep an eye out on Craigslist, you watch Gear Swap.

**AsheanMT** · 06-21-2007, 02:55 PM

I'll watch e-bay!

**grskier** · 06-21-2007, 02:57 PM

I didn't think anybody would notice.

**irul&ublo** · 06-21-2007, 02:57 PM

Sounds like the work of The Penguin!!! Chief O'Hara...to the Batphone!

**PNWbrit** · 06-21-2007, 02:58 PM

Global warming?

**Art Shirk** · 06-21-2007, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

Global warming?

Please dicuss

for 13 pages

**Lonnie** · 06-21-2007, 03:00 PM

Ok, you see, it was like this. I was up hiking the glacier and got a bit thirsty.....

**SkiBrain** · 06-21-2007, 03:01 PM

Laughing hysterically right now.

Thanks folks. Back to work I go...

**wi3dzmin** · 06-21-2007, 03:06 PM

They got stoned and drank it. Call the Hardy boys off this one.

**StormRider** · 06-21-2007, 03:07 PM

First bees around the world start dieing for no reason and now lakes are disappearing. I’m going with aliens, but it might be the Apocalypse.

**AsheanMT** · 06-21-2007, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by StormRider

First bees around the world start dieing for no reason and now lakes are disappearing. I’m going with aliens, but it might be the Apocalypse.

Nice to know I'm not the only person looking to blame the aliens.

**Lonnie** · 06-21-2007, 03:12 PM

I just remembered, I need to run by the grocery store, I'm fresh out of tinfoil. You can never be TOOOO careful...

**wi3dzmin** · 06-21-2007, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by Lonnie

I just remembered, I need to run by the grocery store, I'm fresh out of tinfoil. You can never be TOOOO careful...

It won't save you from the microwave.

**Lonnie** · 06-21-2007, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by wi3dzmin

It won't save you from the microwave.

Oh CRAP!!! I guess I'll have to get some saran wrap too then? (Would that do it?)

**Tippster** · 06-21-2007, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by StormRider

First bees around the world start dieing for no reason and now lakes are disappearing. I’m going with aliens, but it might be the Apocalypse.

Originally Posted by AsheanMT

Nice to know I'm not the only person looking to blame the aliens.

They're back.... stealthier this time. Someone call Bill Pullman and Will Smith.

**wi3dzmin** · 06-21-2007, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by Lonnie

Oh CRAP!!! I guess I'll have to get some saran wrap too then? (Would that do it?)

Possibly. You can however be certain that everyone will clearly see your nuts.

**Lonnie** · 06-21-2007, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by Tippster

They're back.... stealthier this time. Someone call Bill Pullman and Will Smith.

Can we call Lara Flynn Boyle instead???

Originally Posted by wi3dzmin

You can however be certain that everyone will clearly see your nuts.

Not a problem....

**phUnk** · 06-21-2007, 03:28 PM

Same guy, you think?

http://www.theonion.com/content/news...r_drinks_towns

**s.p.c** · 06-21-2007, 03:29 PM

no-one in the SLC area saw the UFO last week?

video footage made the 10 o'clock new in NY. Granted it was fox, but still....

**Jer** · 06-21-2007, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by Lonnie

Oh CRAP!!! I guess I'll have to get some saran wrap too then? (Would that do it?)

Duh - you need duct tape.

Threat level reduced to mauve on news that it was just a thirsty RC blimp.

**detroit** · 06-21-2007, 03:43 PM

Maybe it was a drill bit

**hutash** · 06-21-2007, 03:52 PM

I just bought a five acre lake of a guy selling things out of the back of his car, he said it fell of the truck. You don't think they are related do you? Can one get in trouble for having a hot lake?