dambass: modmad:thisobscuredesireforbeauty: “Baikal Zen”: Rocks that have fallen on the
dambass: modmad:thisobscuredesireforbeauty: “Baikal Zen”: Rocks that have fallen on the ice of Lake Baikal are heated by sunlight and emit infrared rays that melt the ice below. Once the sun is gone, the ice becomes solid again, creating a small support for the rock above. scrolling down I was like “oh what a cool idea! someone skipped stones on a lake and took high speed photographs to get these pictures where it looks like the water is holding up the stone which is kinda was does happen a-oh, no. nope. it’s just Fucking Lake Baikal up to its god defying nonsense again” for anyone like me reading this explanation and immediately calling bullshit, the description of what is happening is wrong, but those pictures do show rocks on small pillars of ice in lake baikal. If you imagine for a second a frozen lake, it would be easy to imagine a rock somehow ending up on the surface of the ice. That rock freezes to the ice, getting stuck. As wind blows across the rock and ice, it sublimates the ice around the base, until it has formed a small pedistal that the rock is frozen to.this is what it looks like when it happens with chunks of ice [image of a similar effect shown with chunks of ice]also for those of you asking “what the fuck else does lake baikal do?”image: columns of methane bubbles trapped frozen in the iceimage: trees along the shore of lake baikal covered in iceimage: the water and ice in general acts really weirdly around lake baikal, like these slanted slabs of blue ice[image id: original post features five images of stones on the surface of a frozen lake supported by a remarkably clear ice pillar. these images look almost unreal. -- source link