There is also a video in the story that is cool to watch.
Alien Looking Gigantic Rotating Ice Disk Forms in Maine River
Alien Looking Gigantic Rotating Ice Disk Forms in Maine River
It's a thing. And with 5 seconds of Googling, the lazy idjits at Fox could have found this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle
"Ice discs form on the outer bends in a river where the accelerating water creates a force called 'rotational shear', which breaks off a chunk of ice and twists it around.[8] As the disc rotates, it grinds against surrounding ice — smoothing into a circle.[9] A relatively uncommon phenomenon, one of the earliest recordings is of a slowly revolving disc spotted on the Mianus River and reported in an 1895 edition of Scientific American."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle
"Ice discs form on the outer bends in a river where the accelerating water creates a force called 'rotational shear', which breaks off a chunk of ice and twists it around.[8] As the disc rotates, it grinds against surrounding ice — smoothing into a circle.[9] A relatively uncommon phenomenon, one of the earliest recordings is of a slowly revolving disc spotted on the Mianus River and reported in an 1895 edition of Scientific American."
Heck of a lot of work to bust some ponds. Ha. Cool.
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