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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:35 PM
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100-foot deep Andes lake disappears
Source: CNN

A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared -- and scientists want to know why.

Park rangers at Bernardo O'Higgins National Park said they found a 100-feet-deep crater in late May where the lake had been in March. Several large pieces of ice that used to float atop the water also were spotted.

"The lake had simply disappeared," Juan Jose Romero, head of Chile's National Forest Service in the southernmost region of Magallanes, said Wednesday. "No one knows what happened."

...

A river that flowed out of the lake was reduced to a trickle.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/21/missing.lake.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories



How the hell do you lose three-quarters of a cubic mile of water?
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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:40 PM
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1. Aliens.
Stealing our water again...

JK.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 09:20 AM
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18. no, Molemen--up from the vast underground network of caves
hidden underneath the continents.

They just turned on the tap for a few hours.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:40 PM
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2. The water all flowed into Bush's Fault
How'd I do?
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BringBigDogBack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 12:23 AM
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14. excellent. :-)
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 12:39 PM
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19. Hi BringBigDogBack!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:40 PM
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3. did someone suck it out?
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 06:00 PM
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9. Coca-Cola needed it.
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haele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:47 PM
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4. Earthquake activity?
That's the only way I can imagine a sudden "pulling the plug in the bathtub" effect for something that big. If there's still ice present that used to be floaters, the lake didn't just evaporate.

Haele
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Kber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:48 PM
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5. I don't know, but if I had to guess
a fault opened up under the lake and drained the water through it.

Or, if it was a glacial lake, an ice damn melted / broke.

Since it's a very isolated area, the effects were not immediately noticed.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:49 PM
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6. Scary.
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piedmont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:54 PM
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7. To answer your question, it wasn't anywhere close to .75 cubic miles of water
Edited on Thu Jun-21-07 05:54 PM by piedmont
It was .0000295928 cubic miles of water.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 06:00 PM
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10. d'oh! I was squaring rather than cubing
21,780,000 square feet is three quarters of a square mile.

Thanks for the catch.
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MNDemNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:59 PM
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8. I took it. It's in my back yard. You can't have it back.
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monktonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 06:04 PM
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11. Isnt water worth money?????
Big oil and Halliburton have been developing "safe" water systems in that part of the world for a long time. And charging high dollars for it of course.
Water is worth money and these guys steal everything else, why not water?
I know that sounds crazy but how hard would it be to stick a big hose in the lake and siphon all the water off to tanker trucks waiting below.
Again, I know it sounds crazy but why not?
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 06:31 PM
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12. Incredibly hard.
You would need hundreds or thousands of trucks to move that much water, huge industrial pumps to relocate it, thousands of people... not to mention, I get the feeling that this isn't a place that has full 4-lane paved roads heading to it.
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monktonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 07:18 PM
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13. They seem to do a good enough job in Irag
Halliburton - hundreds of trucks and personnel?
Who needs a paved road when your the worlds number one pipeline company. Suck it outta there like a big crazy straw, divert it to your own canal miles away and call it your own.
I know it sounds crazy but I wouldn't put anything beyond them. $$$$$$$$water$$$$$$$$ Worth MORE than oil.

Ok, Ok I'm just dreaming. It was probably an earth quake
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:23 AM
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15. If it's in South America, it's all the doings of that socialist Chavez!
There.

I've saved Bush the trouble.

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TX-RAT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 09:16 AM
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16. 5 acres = Lake?
Guess my 12 acre pond = Ocean
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 09:19 AM
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17. I heard that California was hard up for irrigation water
I just didn't know they would go to measures this extreme.........
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