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<blockquote data-quote="Catt57" data-source="post: 3194858" data-attributes="member: 34578"><p>It's a thing. And with 5 seconds of Googling, the lazy idjits at Fox could have found this:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle</a></p><p></p><p>"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.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle#cite_note-8" target="_blank">[8]</a> As the disc rotates, it grinds against surrounding ice — smoothing into a circle.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle#cite_note-DailyMail20090113-9" target="_blank">[9]</a> A relatively uncommon phenomenon, one of the earliest recordings is of a slowly revolving disc spotted on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mianus_River" target="_blank">Mianus River</a> and reported in an 1895 edition of <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_American" target="_blank">Scientific American</a></em>."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Catt57, post: 3194858, member: 34578"] It's a thing. And with 5 seconds of Googling, the lazy idjits at Fox could have found this: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle[/URL] "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.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle#cite_note-8'][8][/URL] As the disc rotates, it grinds against surrounding ice — smoothing into a circle.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle#cite_note-DailyMail20090113-9'][9][/URL] A relatively uncommon phenomenon, one of the earliest recordings is of a slowly revolving disc spotted on the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mianus_River']Mianus River[/URL] and reported in an 1895 edition of [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_American']Scientific American[/URL][/I]." [/QUOTE]
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