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  • Ice eggs, or ice balls

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 7 20:49:20 2023
    Ice eggs, or ice balls, are a rare phenomenon caused by a process in
    which small pieces of sea ice in open water are rolled over by wind
    and currents in freezing conditions and grow into spheroid pieces of
    ice. They may collect into heaps of balls or 'eggs' on beaches.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_eggs

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Feb 9 21:16:55 2023
    On 2023-02-08, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    Ice eggs, or ice balls, are a rare phenomenon caused by a process in
    which small pieces of sea ice in open water are rolled over by wind
    and currents in freezing conditions and grow into spheroid pieces of
    ice. They may collect into heaps of balls or 'eggs' on beaches.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_eggs

    Very fun, very interesting. Those are some cold temps though!

    Nowadays there'd be some stupid conspiracy theory about them - created
    by Jewish space lasers or some such thing.

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