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ck2
12 days ago
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Glacier Mice
reminds me vaguely of "Sailing Stones"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones
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dualarte
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> This suggests that this water buoyantly lifts the ice floes with embedded rocks until friction with the playa bed is reduced sufficiently for wind to move them and cause the observed tracks.
Wow, that's nuts!
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eleventen
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My first thought as well!
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones