oh my god it felt like you're flying on top of it.
What's wrong guys, have you never walked on ice or something
[QUOTE=Drury;46683761]What's wrong guys, have you never walked on ice or something[/QUOTE]
usually its not clear at all
Literally never seen dirty ice, shitty politicians or unhappy people.
[QUOTE=Drury;46683761]What's wrong guys, have you never walked on ice or something[/QUOTE]
Ice is usually white and foggy.
[QUOTE=Drury;46683788]Literally never seen dirty ice, [b]shitty politicians or unhappy people.[/b][/QUOTE]
Wut
How does that even happen? What causes it to be so clear?
[QUOTE=Garrot;46683943]How does that even happen? What causes it to be so clear?[/QUOTE]
Basically the water freezes without trapping gasses inside. The nice thing about this is that clear ice is significantly stronger than opaque ice so not only is it a nice view, but you're far less likely to break it by standing on it.
[QUOTE=Garrot;46683943]How does that even happen? What causes it to be so clear?[/QUOTE]
It's a pleso, a mountain lake in High Tatras formed from melted ice age glaciers. There's no water flow, and since it's in the mountains, it's not too dirty either, so when it freezes over it's nice and clear like this.
On the molecular level, when regular water freezes it doesn't freeze evenly, there are these tiny chunks of ice formed around turbulences/impurities that grow into each other and kinda make an irregular mess. This ice however is one uniform body with perfectly regular molecular grid.
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In other words, Slovakia. Clear ice, caring politicians and happy people.
This is the most beautiful ice I have ever seen.
I want to lick it.
[QUOTE=Glitchman;46683745]imagine if it was a deep lake[/QUOTE]
And then you see cthulhu at the bottom
and then you see yourself on the bottom looking down
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;46684687]Should be used to make the most beautiful looking ice candy/popsicles.
I need it.
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I wonder if you could get this same effect at ground level by trying to freeze some heavily filtered water in a vacuum
Don't know how you would do that though.[/QUOTE]
Freezing cold distilled water does the trick, there's an issue though.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/CUryJi9.gif[/img]
Ice needs something to form on. Distilled water is so pure, it simply doesn't freeze until a turbulence/impurity is introduced.
You could cool it down even further to get the desired effect, though.
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Looking into this further, apparently you get clearer ice when you freeze and unfreeze still water multiple times.
And I can confirm the weather's been just like that in the past few months here. A week of nearly summer temperatures, then freezing cold, then warm again, and now it's chilly again.
Imagine how slippery it must be
That whole scene is absolutely gorgeous, the sky, the mountains, the ice, everything
[QUOTE=Drury;46684870]Freezing cold distilled water does the trick, there's an issue though.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/CUryJi9.gif[/img]
Ice needs something to form on. Distilled water is so pure, it simply doesn't freeze until a turbulence/impurity is introduced.
You could cool it down even further to get the desired effect, though.
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Looking into this further, apparently you get clearer ice when you freeze and unfreeze still water multiple times.
And I can confirm the weather's been just like that in the past few months here. A week of nearly summer temperatures, then freezing cold, then warm again, and now it's chilly again.[/QUOTE]
it's usually air bubbles in the ice that causes the cloudiness, so it's likely that patches of it have melted and refrozen again multiple times to achieve the effect.
thats how you do it
[video=youtube;EF1V8HFfpTE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF1V8HFfpTE[/video]
[QUOTE=Garrot;46683943]How does that even happen? What causes it to be so clear?[/QUOTE]
gonna take a guess they're in the higher latitudes, and its probably glacial plus its so fucking cold the whole thing froze really quick
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[QUOTE=insistent;46686699]thats how you do it
[video=youtube;EF1V8HFfpTE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF1V8HFfpTE[/video][/QUOTE]
he's fucking insane
[QUOTE=insistent;46686699]thats how you do it
[video=youtube;EF1V8HFfpTE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF1V8HFfpTE[/video][/QUOTE]
Trying to figure out how this guy isn't dead
[QUOTE=Cabbage;46683699]this shit blew my FUCKING mind[/QUOTE]
haha same!! this video is ftw
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mind = BLOWN XD
i saw that dude on some science show or some shit
apparently hes drunk whenever he does those so like
the alcohol saves his life
[QUOTE=Sableye;46686729]he's fucking insane[/QUOTE]
did you see how much vodka he drank, he went out there with a full bottle and when he was taking the last drink there was less than half
There's a neat How It's Made on how ice sculpture peeps make super-transparent ice. Apparently involves constantly agitating the water so all the air gets forced out and you get a clean freeze. If this body of water was moving as it froze, that might explain the unusual transparency.
[video=youtube;kl8VcL0DNio]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8VcL0DNio[/video]
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;46687438]did you see how much vodka he drank, he went out there with a full bottle and when he was taking the last drink there was less than half[/QUOTE]
To be fair you'd feel really hot and flushed after drinking that much. I remember rolling around naked in snow after drinking a similar amount.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;46684687]Should be used to make the most beautiful looking ice candy/popsicles.
I need it.
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I wonder if you could get this same effect at ground level by trying to freeze some heavily filtered water in a vacuum
Don't know how you would do that though.[/QUOTE]
Not perfect but this supposedly works.
[video=youtube;o_2TbWEEn9A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2TbWEEn9A[/video]
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