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News of crop circles come and go, but when is the last time you saw a rotating ice circle? A disk of ice approximately 100 yards in diameter has been spotted in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine:
This week in the city of Westbrook, Maine, a huge, rotating circle of ice formed on the Presumpscot River. While it seems like it could be an omen of the impending apocalypse or a particularly low-effort attempt at a crop circle by extraterrestrials, in reality it appears to be another example of a natural yet rare phenomenon resulting from some simple physics.
Photos taken by and the city of Westbrook's marketing & communications manager, Tina Radel, show the gigantic disk of ice appearing to have a surface area larger than a nearby, multi-story parking garage. True to municipal form, the city also published a video of the ice disk with a dramatic soundtrack:
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Additional coverage at the Portland Press Herald.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @04:04PM (2 children)
Not that there's anything wrong with web development, but was he the "nerdiest" guy in town or something?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @05:06PM
He was the only one who cared to make an estimate.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @11:00PM
Reminds me of a conversation I had with the editor of a local newspaper. They were talking about how people were doing what would now be called "random acts of kindness" and "paying it forward." One line from the story read something like, "And even our local Nobel Prize winner got in on the fun by [blah blah]." I saw him at an event and asked him why they specified that he won the Nobel Prize. He said, "Why not remind people that at least someone partially important to the world was from here." He then went on to explain that people like some sort of flavor text for people who are mentioned and a person's job is usually the easiest way. Since that particular resident won the prize, it was just easier to mention that than use something along the lines of "local resident" or "retiree."