Comments on: Why do meteorites hate ice-covered ponds?

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:35:52 +0000

quoting Michael Lonerganon

“we’re talking about 3 feet of ice”

I confess, I hadn’t chased through the links at the time I posted. I only see references to “half a meter” and “two feet”, but your point is taken. I’ve been able to punch two inches of ice with the sling.

“would take more than a rock and sling to break it.”

Which is why I posited the trebuchet. Allow me to amend my posting: “I would do this”->”I would *try* this.” (And if I failed, you’d still have this unexplained thirty pound rock sitting on the ice, a long way from any footprints.)

By: Kullat Nunu

Kullat Nunu — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:46:40 +0000

This is funny, in a way unless you live in Gypsumville, Manitoba: Alien Impact Poisons Canadian Town

By: Buck

Buck — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:30:35 +0000

Why? …for the same reason God hates amputees.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:13:39 +0000

How many folks have been kicked in the icehole?

By: George

George — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:16:03 +0000

Where do these ice holes come from? I wonder if they come from bored corn-field pattern makers?

By: Sue Mitchell

Sue Mitchell — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:58:29 +0000

I think it could’ve been the ‘Mythbusters’ team trying out their steam cannon again.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:25:42 +0000

Someone apparently did dive into the pond on an Alberta Golf Course, and came out with, surprise…. golf balls.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/080121/K012117AU.html