Frozen hair ice?
Let it grow.
Boffins go to FUNGI town: Riddle of 100-year-old HAIRY, ICY dead wood finally cracked
Strange "hair ice" found sprouting on old wood has finally been explained by scientists: it's caused by fungi. For nearly a century, boffins have been baffled by the odd hairy phenomenon. It grows on dead wood during humid winter nights when air temperatures fall a little below zero degrees centigrade. A crack team of …
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Saturday 25th July 2015 23:15 GMT P. Lee
> suspect I never shall understand the mentality that adding to our understanding of the world somehow subtracts from its beauty.
I'm not sure that was the meaning. I understood it to merely mean that the textual description and scientific understanding of the phenomenon brings comparatively little joy and wonder when compared with its observation.
I suspect a personality difference. For me, I'm glad the scientific discovery prompted the publication of the visuals.
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Sunday 26th July 2015 22:40 GMT Jan 0
Re: Next ...
@Mark 85
I think you've forgotten that "cream' is also a generic term.
After all we've creamed our jeans , used shaving cream or applied Baby Bottom Cream(\tm), haven't we, without involving any dairy ingredients?
I'm partial to many kinds of ice cream, but the best vanilla ice cream in the UK has to be Swedish Glacé and Booja Booja cashew based ice cream knocks spots off most commercial dairy ice creams. I've also been surprised to eat stunning non dairy ice creams in Sicilian ice cream parlours! I'm prepared to eat any good ice cream whatever its basic ingredients, so long as it tastes good and has the right mouth feel.
As to the idea of using fungal ingredients rather than alginates to prevent large crystals forming, I say STOP! As a kid I used to love the way that fragile hexagonal slivers of ice would nestle in ice cream. Please bring them back!
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Sunday 26th July 2015 23:41 GMT Mark 85
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While you are correct, my brain registered this as a food product here in the states, "ice cream" has a specific definition. As I recall, it's "ice cream" with a certain percentage cream, then "ice milk", then "frozen confection" or something like that.....
Once upon a time, McDonald's called a certain drink a "milk shake". When they took the milk out, it was still called that. Due to the uproar, the FDA got involved. So.. if there's no milk (or below a certain percentage, it has to be called a "shake".
I too, have had some remarkable things called ice cream in other countries but how they regulate this stuff, I have no idea.
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Saturday 25th July 2015 20:10 GMT Roq D. Kasba
Not just wood and fungus?
NZ South Island, I saw this between Mapua and the other side of the big hill on the way to Golden Bay. It was growing out of bare earth, sideways, on the shaded side of the windy roads where it never saw the sun.
Funnily enough I was thinking about it just this week, wondering what conditions caused the phenomenon, and now some guy has found A set of conditions, but I suspect many parts may be redundant.
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Sunday 26th July 2015 16:08 GMT Mpeler
Re: If any writers of Dr Who or Star Trek are reading this article...
Another chance for Khan and Spock to go at it...
Maybe wearing jackets or parkas of "Rich Corinthian Leather" (for all you Chrysler Cordoba fans out there (both of you) (just kidding!!!!!).
Paris, well, she can be on the Red Team...
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Sunday 26th July 2015 19:35 GMT Tom 7
Needle ice is a similar thing
below 4C water starts to expand and effectively forces itself out of the ground where the cold air freezes it immediately creating spikes and mounds and all sorts of crazy things. I have a feeling that is all that is going on here - other than the fungus creating wood with a sponge like structure.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
