I understand the circles because you have a nucleus to start freezing outward from. Similarly to how hail works. But I don't understand the straight lines. Very interesting
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Could be current or some slow water movement moving between the frozen clusters or iceflakes
It looks like some form of elvish, but I can’t read it.
There are few who can
This looks like the patterns I used to doodle on my notebooks in school
Looks like a Turing Pattern so I’m guessing there are particles or ions in the water which affect its freezing point. The pure water freezes and rejects the ions, lowering the freezing point of the nearby water creating these banded freezing patterns.
Anyone knowledgeable enough to tell me if I’m right or wrong?
Holy shit this is amazing!!!
The circles activate my tryptophobia and I don't like it.
*trypophonia
you tripped on a phoned word there
It's triggering my typophobia
You clearly have a Type-O Personality.
You can't spell platypos without a typo.
I wonder if on a macro scale this happens similar to how a snowflake forms.
I KNEW it
This is exactly like that one unsolved case were a werewolf attempted to steal an alien space vessel and caused Krakatoa in 1883.
Somebody tell Link there's a new Geoglyph
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Looks like something Keith Haring would have painted.
Keith Haring should sue earth for copyright infringement then. I am a lawyer, anyone have his number?
Some (religious) people would say that Keith Haring has a short line with the creator of earth these days.
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