Lake Disappears into Andes 307
steveb3210 writes "It seems that what was once a 5-acre glacial lake in the Andes has mysteriously disappeared. 'In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal,' Juan Jose Romero from Chile's National Forestry Corporation, Conaf, said. 'We went again in May and to our surprise we found that the lake had completely disappeared. All that was left were chunks of ice and an enormous fissure.'" The current theory is that an earthquake opened the ground and allowed the lake to drain. Looks like global warming is off the hook this time around.
007 (Score:3, Funny)
The lake will be returned... (Score:5, Funny)
Global warming? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, because global warming obviously leaves huge chunks of ice when it makes lakes disappear.
Next time, the news without the hot-button bias, please?
Honestly, (Score:4, Funny)
Garrison Keillor Did It (Score:5, Funny)
LAKE! Whoa! Be Gone!
Re:"Looks like global warming is off the hook" (Score:5, Funny)
off the hook? what? (Score:5, Funny)
...and now we know... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:"Looks like global warming is off the hook" (Score:2, Funny)
I'm confused (Score:5, Funny)
Well... What's the mystery?
I mean, TFA explains it fairly well:
1. earthquake creates a hole in the ground
2. water goes into the hole
What're the alternatives?
That a herd of wooly mammoths drank up the lake?
Ooops (Score:4, Funny)
There can be only one logical conclusion (Score:2, Funny)
you're all wrong! (Score:5, Funny)
Use your heads people, COME ON.
Oh thank god... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Wouldn't be the first time... (Score:4, Funny)
Isn't that where all of them are?
rj
what do you think caused the fissure? (Score:5, Funny)
Japan: whales are the cockroaches of the oceans
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Re:"Looks like global warming is off the hook" (Score:5, Funny)
Lake Daikantana (Score:3, Funny)
Ehhh? (Score:5, Funny)
*goes back to bed*
Global warming is totally off the hook! (Score:5, Funny)
I was confused.
I had to reread it to get the real meaning. My blood sugar must low, excuse me, I think I need to eat some dinner.
Re:off the hook? what? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ehhh? (Score:3, Funny)
Democrats blame everything on global warming.
It's probably a pretty good summary of american politics these days.
Re:Wouldn't be the first time... (Score:1, Funny)
Global warming caused the earth to expand, resulting in the outer crust cracking slightly, and the lake drained into it.
GW causes EVERYTHING!
Re:The lake will be returned... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There can be only one logical conclusion (Score:1, Funny)
But he and Tipper seem so happy.....
Re:The lake will be returned... (Score:5, Funny)
Meg: It just went down the drain.
Mayor Adam West: They're crafty I tell you. It happens when you least expect it.
[Waters plant.]
Mayor Adam West: SHOW YOURSELVES, DAMN YOU! I've been investigating them for months. It has cost $150,000 dollars of the taxpayers' money, but I'll find the culprits if it costs me a million.
I think I found it (Score:4, Funny)
In Other News (Score:5, Funny)
Challenge accepted (Score:3, Funny)
But eventually this expansion will cause a similar fissure to open under an ocean and allow the world's seas to drain, thus eliminating the fabricated risk of rising sea levels from the proven myth of glacial melt. So even if all those ignorant, biased climatologists living the caviar lifestyle on fat research grants somehow turn out to be right despite the overwheming evidence to the contrary from expert SUV drivers and totally impartial oil magnates, there's absolutely nothing to worry about.
I call this "The Moronic Knee-Jerk Theory of Environmental Equilibrium", and expect it to be accepted widely by people who like to set up obvious straw-men.
Re:"Looks like global warming is off the hook" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:into andy's WHAT?? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'm confused (Score:4, Funny)
Re:you're all wrong! (Score:1, Funny)
after all, it can't be modded funny. there is nothing funny about chuck norris. only business. serious business.
Second Hand Smoke (Score:3, Funny)
Re:...and now we know... (Score:2, Funny)
Tourists.
That and <Dr. Evil's voice>"Liquid magma".</Dr. Evil>
Goddamn overclockers (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Wouldn't be the first time... (Score:5, Funny)
> Isn't that where all of them are?
No. There are holes in donuts, holes in the ozone, holes in theories, holes in IE, and three holes in my underwear.
Obligatory..... (Score:1, Funny)
There, I got it out. Mod me down.
Meanwhile... 7-11 just sold their first petagulp (Score:5, Funny)
Coincidence? I think not.
Re:"Looks like global warming is off the hook" (Score:2, Funny)
i stopped reading right there. anyone claiming to have accurate readings back to 800,000 years is a liar
For real. Don't these heretics know the Earth is only 6000 years old?
The lake was heard saying just before it vanished. (Score:2, Funny)
Not so fast on dismissing GW (Score:3, Funny)
uh, what do you think caused the earthquake? That's right! GLOBAL WARMING! Of course, you would know this if you had seen the movie, "An Inconvenient Sicko" starring Al Bore...
Re:The lake will be returned... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The lake will be returned... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:eye rolling speculation (Score:5, Funny)
Good question! While we're at it:
How many years can a mountain exist before it's washed to the sea?
Yes and how many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?