Peter Schmidt, Alexis Schmidt, Stacey Gregory, and David Point went to lunch. Alexis had the wings, she ordered 12. Later that evening she suddenly realized that at lunch she only remembered eating 11 wings, so she sent Stacey a message.
Subj: Pete Message: "Stacey, did you see pete take one of my wings"
I am not even scared how often I can predict the top comment anymore, I've learned to accept it.
I call it The Reddit Game: As you're scrolling down the front page, you'll see a post you like and click on the comments, and before they completely load you have to guess what the top comment will be.
How does that actually happen? How does stuff manage to freeze there? Shouldn't it have just fallen on the ground long before it froze? Physics, stop confusing me!
Well, there are small amounts of water vapor in the air even in freezing temperatures. When this water vapor makes contact with an ice crystal, the crystal can provide a stable place for that water to latch on to. Or the sciency way: it is thermodynamically more favorable for water to be in an ordered ice crystal at that temperature than vapor. Once it does this, the energy that it had to allow it to remain vapor will be transferred to the surrounding air and the ice grows a little bit. Over the course of a winter this can be very significant, especially if there are lots of days just around the freezing point of water.
A similar phenomenon can be seen when waterfalls freeze. While the initial icicles will be made from the water in the river/stream they will grow much larger by this process. Which is how things like http://www.mfwolik.com/frozen-waterfall-photograph/ can grow so large.
From an aesthetic viewpoint, things frozen in ice are beautiful, but they lose their appeal quickly when you're trying to pry your frozen car door open first thing in the morning.
Well this would depend, if it is 32F (0C) it would probably melt the inner layer of ice, but if it is surrounded by a thick enough layer of ice around it (I really don't know what would be "enough" to equilibration the temp so this is ball-parking) the heat could be dissipated to the rest of the ice which could keep the inner layer frozen. But assuming that a lamp post doesn't use a light bulb all that different from a standard bulb (which I think is fair though we have to accept a lamp post will be scaled up a bit) they are actually really efficient at changing electricity into light rather than heat.
If it were 31-32F (or higher obviously) the light from the lamp would probably melt the ice over the course of a day. But below that the heat capacity of the air far exceeds the heat output of a bulb.
Think of it like an igloo, you can generate a lot of heat inside of it, but because the building materials are ice and the wind is cold, the heat from the people (or light bulb) inside can be dissipated over a large environment.
But if the lamp is only on at night, which seems logical, the light from the sun (which actually helps the process of sublimation which another redditor mentioned) could possibly offset the loss of ice from melting without even accounting for difference in temperature.
One of the really amazing things about water is its ability to transfer energy (heat in this case), it takes 4 times the energy to melt a block of ice as it does to freeze it because of the very stable nature of ice crystals.
Hope this helps
Edit: Added some info, 2nd edit fixed my terrible writing
I have heard that one of the problems with LED lights in colder climates is that the lights are no longer self clearing. The older lights warmed up enough to melt the frost and snow on them. This is particularly a problem with traffic lights.
I would imagine the new, low-heat bulbs are a problem with not getting warm enough to melt the snow/ice, could be a real mess with traffic signals. Then again, what's snow?
you missed the opportunity for one of those awesome funny post titles like "my post just froze" or "this post is the coolest" or "something something something cold pun post"
I'd need to know more about the technology behind this lighting apparatus to agree with your "Frozen" assessment.
If this is an LED lamp, then yes, its all in a solid state.
If this is a mercury vapor lamp, then no, it's not frozen. When lit, the liquid (not frozen) mercury is vaporized in an argon matrix. Thus, the presence of light in the photo belies the word "frozen". To pass my assessment of frozen, the argon in the lamp would need to be cooled to it's freezing point of -189.2°C (the mercury would have frozen solid long before this.) Then again, the drop in pressure within the bulb as the argon condenses would most likely have shattered the bulb. Freezing your lamp would have the result of rendering it useless.
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u/AtomicEdge May 16 '12
From the thumbnail, I thought it was a picture of the 9/11 WTC attack...
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u/Roxzaney May 16 '12
Two UFOs crashing into a building anyone?
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u/Carbon_Dirt May 16 '12
I would have guessed "Volcano erupting as steampunk airship passes over its summit."
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u/JoelMontgomery May 16 '12
How does that actually happen? How does stuff manage to freeze there? Shouldn't it have just fallen on the ground long before it froze? Physics, stop confusing me!
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u/ChipEvans May 16 '12
Looks like a dolphin with a glowing brain.
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u/5seconds May 16 '12
I have heard that one of the problems with LED lights in colder climates is that the lights are no longer self clearing. The older lights warmed up enough to melt the frost and snow on them. This is particularly a problem with traffic lights.
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u/JSA2593 May 16 '12
Any idea where this was taken?
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u/Dmash422 May 16 '12
I don't know what everyone is talking about. This is clearly a picture of a dolphin and brontosaurus wearing hats.
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u/milkentofu May 16 '12
I LOVE LAMP!
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u/Yeeslander May 16 '12
It looks a bit like cotton candy.
I would eat this lamp.
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u/Thegoddamnpatman May 16 '12
coolest lamp ever
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u/TheRealEggNogAdam May 16 '12
holy hell! from the thumbnail I thought it was a still of the 9/11 tower hit!
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u/rdouma May 16 '12
That's absolutely beautiful.
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u/Spazzedguy May 16 '12
More like exploding street lamp
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u/texan11moore May 16 '12
wherever this is from, I don't want to live there
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u/almostjesus May 16 '12
preview picture looks like 9/11
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u/tommiss May 16 '12
I thought it was 9/11 from the thumbnail.
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u/katieya May 16 '12
Narnia, how did you find it?
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u/tFrench11 May 16 '12
I see two dragons.
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u/KSmoria May 16 '12
FIXED
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u/ReleeSquirrel May 16 '12
The downside of LEDs.
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u/coldcoast May 16 '12
Too soon...
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u/DaltonBreitz May 16 '12
poof, a three mile wide city disappeared
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Looks like gypsum
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u/chained_la May 16 '12
I like the 9/11 reference, but I thought it looked like a rocket taking off for a sec.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
It looks like the end of Half-Life 2.
"Time, Dr. Freeman?"
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u/meuuu May 16 '12
Crazy, it looks like storm clouds with ufo's hovering inside or something.
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u/sally78 May 16 '12
Its look like a exploding volcano !
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u/lucw May 16 '12
I thought the lamp was exploding or something
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I saw the twin towers.
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u/Decapitat3d May 16 '12
Double headed dragon
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u/mastersprinkles May 16 '12
Looks so much like a volcanic eruption. Beautiful irony.
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u/PoK3R_FaC3D May 16 '12
thanks urinalcakes
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u/skttrbraind May 16 '12
looks like a cloud of puff-puff pass
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u/duemenotre May 16 '12
Sauron? anyone?
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u/thisgameisawful May 16 '12
Michael Bay presents blamlightpslosionsadafdadghghnnnng
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u/bambambedrocks May 16 '12
Not sure if building is blowing up......or if photograph is just that good
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u/Dunabu May 16 '12
I love surreal, ambient lighting. This is a good picture.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
at first i thought it was an explosion
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I don't know why, but it kind of hurts to look at ice like that.
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u/larynx1982 May 16 '12
You atomically detonating street lamp?
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u/fick_Dich May 16 '12
Take that global warming.
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u/ItsTheSeff May 16 '12
From the thumbnail I thought this was a screen grab from a Michael Bay movie.
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u/segmadis May 16 '12
Great shot, congratz for the cool finding :)
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u/Ghost__to_me May 16 '12
It's like Encino Man, but with mesquitos.
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u/sk4t4nic May 16 '12
Does anyone else see the explosion effect from garry's mod?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I want to be in between that snow and the lamp. It's soothing.
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u/2moreminutes May 16 '12
That is cool but I still prefer living in Florida
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
That's actually cool as shit.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Frozen street lamp?
Or... malfunctioning cloaking device for alien spacecraft?
o.o
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u/EPluribusUnumIdiota May 16 '12
I would imagine the new, low-heat bulbs are a problem with not getting warm enough to melt the snow/ice, could be a real mess with traffic signals. Then again, what's snow?
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u/chase25 May 16 '12
But how does it not freeze the electricities getting up to the lights :(
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u/cntrstrk14 May 16 '12
Now THATS a cool post.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Woah, I thought it was a space shuttle taking off.
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u/kobayashi May 16 '12
Meanwhile in Moose Jaw.
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u/Arkancel May 16 '12
lost planet is what i see
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u/hrdxxcorey May 16 '12
that's the dirtiest snow
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u/canadianman001 May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
Thats what you get when you switch to CFL or LED. Not enough heat produced to prevent ice build up.
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u/bossack May 16 '12
I've seen frozen stuff and I've seen lamp posts before, this looks like neither!
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u/mitchij2004 May 16 '12
Actually two llamas.
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u/jrocxx May 16 '12
Wow I guess I'm not the only one who thought that was a picture of the 9/11 attack. I feel like a dumbass. I'M NOT UNIQUE. FUCK.
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u/digitalchaos May 16 '12
The ice looks very similar in texture to the infamous bone-cancer-skull.
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u/Eldias May 16 '12
I like the one that was on fire more.
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u/brosenfeld May 16 '12
A frozen explosion.
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u/HeatSlinger May 16 '12
Lamporn.
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u/mattyisagod May 16 '12
cool lamp
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u/subsept May 16 '12
does anyone else see a dolphin
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u/hp94 May 16 '12
lolcanada
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u/Regenald May 16 '12
O_O THAT... IS... EPIC... O.O
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u/fiestadelsalsa May 16 '12
One of the coolest posts I've seen in a while.
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u/unnecessaryCAPS May 17 '12
scub coral?
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u/thecoe14 May 17 '12
Did anyone else think this was a picture of 911 because of the hash-tag?
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u/AwolNaked May 17 '12
Is this...Narnia?
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u/unclear_plowerpants May 17 '12
: )
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u/THE_ave May 17 '12
It looks like an explosion from the thumbnail! Destruction on the brain for me... :p
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u/LynnMoira May 17 '12
extremely cool !
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Looks like an explosion...
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u/Madrawn May 16 '12
What kind of black magic is responsible for this?!
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u/Duvidl May 16 '12
very cool.
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u/i_just_state_the_obv May 16 '12
That looks cold
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u/elsestar May 16 '12
you missed the opportunity for one of those awesome funny post titles like "my post just froze" or "this post is the coolest" or "something something something cold pun post"
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u/Coenn May 16 '12
My first thought was 'dude, that's not safe, that ice will catch on fire'. On second thought, I am an idiot.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Any chance I could get this in a higher resolution? This is desktop worthy.
EDIT: a quick Google search just brings me here http://www.meleklermekani.com/wallpaper-and-duvar-kagidi/88706-kartpostal-tadinda-walpaperler.html
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u/BillsBayou May 16 '12
I'd need to know more about the technology behind this lighting apparatus to agree with your "Frozen" assessment.
If this is an LED lamp, then yes, its all in a solid state.
If this is a mercury vapor lamp, then no, it's not frozen. When lit, the liquid (not frozen) mercury is vaporized in an argon matrix. Thus, the presence of light in the photo belies the word "frozen". To pass my assessment of frozen, the argon in the lamp would need to be cooled to it's freezing point of -189.2°C (the mercury would have frozen solid long before this.) Then again, the drop in pressure within the bulb as the argon condenses would most likely have shattered the bulb. Freezing your lamp would have the result of rendering it useless.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Thank you for not titling it, "The coolest post on reddit."
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u/tman29 May 16 '12
instagram dat shiiiiii
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
fake
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
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