Undertoad Thursday Apr 4 01:55 PM4/4: Soda straws
You've heard of stalagmites, you've heard of stalactites. This is a relative: the soda straw. you've got a stalactite forming, right? If it happens at the right rate, crystallization can happen just along the edges of the water droplets. Then these things get produced.
(From the earth science pic of the day.)
I'm shooting for a second O-fer today as, like my image yesterday, there just isn't much to be said about this.
snagglefish Thursday Apr 4 04:08 PMsorry to ruin your record....
...but i just thought i would add one of those gradeschool how to remember tips:
stalaCtites grow from the Ceiling
stalaGmites grow from the Ground
datalas Thursday Apr 4 04:18 PMthe usual one is that ...
Stalagmites Stand Mightily where as....
Stalactites grip Tightly to the Roof....
failing that remember it is bloody difficult to trip up and impale yourself on a stalactite...
Datalas
dave Thursday Apr 4 04:34 PMthe one i was always told was
stalactites hang <b>tight</b> whereas
stalagmites <b>might</b> reach the ceiling one day.
warch Thursday Apr 4 04:42 PMI just like to say, "spelunker!"
Undertoad Thursday Apr 4 05:04 PMNow, now, we shouldn't call them that, they have feelings too.
mlandman Thursday Apr 4 06:53 PMWow, I can't believe anybody hasn't used this one yet, which I find to be MUCH easier to remember:
The mites go up, and then the tights come down.
_LMark Thursday Apr 4 10:18 PMThe way I heard it
The mites go up, the tights go down.
Griff Friday Apr 5 08:29 AMSpelunker? No, I haven't even got her alone in a cave yet!
elSicomoro Friday Apr 5 08:28 PMRe: 4/4: Soda straws
Out of curiosity Tony, do you remember where that came from? It looks like something out of Meramec Caverns, near St. Louis.
froody Friday Apr 5 08:44 PMRe: Re: 4/4: Soda straws
Quote:
Originally posted by sycamore
Out of curiosity Tony, do you remember where that came from? It looks like something out of Meramec Caverns, near St. Louis.
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I saw a lot of soda straws at Carlsbad Caverns, NM. (Along with other cool stuff, like 30ft stalagmites.)
Nic Name Friday Apr 5 08:55 PMScott Hollow Cave in West Virginia
Undertoad Friday Apr 5 11:16 PMYou are correct sir. Scott Hollow Cave.
Your reply here?
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