Have You Ever Seen a Frozen Wave?
Friday March 21, 2008
"Amazing pictures up around Sturgeon Bay," reads one of several different captions accompanying a set of emailed photos showing a beautiful, blue-tinted ice formation. "Wisconsin has had the coldest winter in decades. Water expands to freeze, and at Sturgeon Bay the water in Lake Michigan below the surface was super cooled. It expanded to break through the surface ice and froze into this incredible wave." True or false?
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Yeah, I get tired of pointing out to adults who are educated Americans that this stuff is a hoax of one kind or another. The situation is that the internet, personal computers and software are enabling a “class” of people who were formerly kept in check by denying them “publishing rights” for any old crap they care to put out. OTH - the wide uncritical acceptance of urban legend and hoax material points up a possible crisis in the intellectual life of America. We cannot possibly be as stupid as these things make us appear.
I spend a good part of my day on this site proving the garbage I get in my inbox is a hoax. Thanks David for doing the research