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[–] schema@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

This looks like the patterns I used to doodle on my notebooks in school

[–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Holy shit this is amazing!!!

[–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 20 hours ago

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?

[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Could be current or some slow water movement moving between the frozen clusters or iceflakes

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It looks like some form of elvish, but I can’t read it.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

There are few who can

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The circles activate my tryptophobia and I don't like it.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

you tripped on a phoned word there

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You clearly have a Type-O Personality.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 points 22 hours ago

You can't spell platypos without a typo.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Somebody tell Link there's a new Geoglyph

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 points 22 hours ago

Hebra ambient music intensifies

I wonder if on a macro scale this happens similar to how a snowflake forms.

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like something Keith Haring would have painted.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Keith Haring should sue earth for copyright infringement then. I am a lawyer, anyone have his number?

[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Some (religious) people would say that Keith Haring has a short line with the creator of earth these days.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for this! Just crosposted over at C/topview

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

!topview@lemmy.world