Bizarre natural ice sculpture

[Tim Lund]

Just over 2cm high, this - this way up - formed on top of some corrugated plastic covering my bikes last night



They do say the physics of H2O is very bizarre!

[Trawlerman]

Wooo!!! Cue X files theme!!!

[stone-penge]

There's a great article in this week's New Scientist about the weird and wonderful properties of water, there's a theory that water is formed of two structure types.

[Tim Lund]

Thanks Stone-Penge - I'll ask my sister, who's a research scientist to send me a copy - unless you could? Meantime, here's a photo from my garden last year - in fact the lifting device for the solar powered clothes drier.



I think this one was an example of plastic flow of ice - as in a glacier.

Someone told me the first picture I posted here was to do with a tube forming, and unfrozen water squeezing up it and then freezing, and that they could be seen sometimes in deep freezes. Still weird though!

[Ulysses]

Oh, so that's what a 'solar powered clothes drier' is!

I didn't for one minute make the link and realise you meant a clothes line...

I just thought it's another one of Tim's green contraptions!