Ice Castles

http://www.icecastles.com/ Make sure to check out the link above for more info on where this was filmed!!! This place is located in Silverthorne Colorado, and it's one of a kind. And it's opened to everyone! LINK: Youtube

Incredible Ice City

Incredible Ice City. It's really cool. It's a city made from ice. LINK: Youtube

FUNNY CAT ON ICE!

Cat named Misty trying to catch fish on a pond whilst it was frozen in January 2009! LINK: Youtube

Watching a Bubble freeze

Ice slowly flows around the surface of the bubble as it freezes. Be sure to watch high quality version. LINK: Youtube

Snow Present in 49 of the 50 U.S. States

After big snow and ice events in the Southeast, Plains, and Midwest last week, 49 out of the 50 states currently have snow on the ground – yes, even Hawaii, where snow falls in Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea all winter.

Thanks a lot, Florida. We almost had a perfect record. But you just had to go and be different, didn’t ya?

Link | Photo courtesy of Google Maps, Via: Neatorama

Have you ever seen anyone make iced tea like this

Have you ever seen anyone make iced tea like this. LINK: Youtube

Chimps on Ice...

Jonny the chimp skating...to the theme from rocky! LINK, Via: Youtube

Shrimp Surprise

(YouTube link)

Life flourishes in the strangest places on earth. From the YouTube link:

At a depth of 600 feet beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, a small shrimp-like creature managed to brighten up an otherwise gray polar day in late November 2009. This critter is a three-inch long Lyssianasid amphipod found beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, about 12.5 miles away from open water. NASA scientists were using a borehole camera to look back up towards the ice surface when they spotted this pinkish-orange creature swimming beneath the ice.

-Via: The Presurfer, Via: Neatorama

Hair ice

No, that's not a hairy branch but rather an astounding kind of ice formation called "hair ice" ("haareis" in German). Illinois State University professor James Carter of the Geography-Geology Department, created a page about this natural wonder that includes many photos of these marvelous ice growths, sometimes called "silk frost" or "cotton candy frost."The photo above is by Rick Eppler of Vancouver Island, Canada. From Carter's "Ice Formations on Dead Wood" page:

While the term frost is used frequently as part of such names, these ice formations are not a product of frost. Frost comes about by moisture from the air being deposited on surfaces. As such frost is quite amorphous and would never appear as fine needles like we see here. Hair Ice is ice that grows outward from the surface of the wood, as super-cooled water emerges from the wood, freezes and adds to the hairs from the base.

"Ice Formations on Dead Wood -- Haareis or Hair Ice" (Via: MAKE:Via: Boingboing)

Ice Melting & Heated Stair Treads

“So stop shoveling over and over as the snow falls, because these unique outdoor waterproof rubber treads heat up and melt snow up to 2 inches per hour. I hope the next version covers the entire driveway.” / LINK

Waffle the goldendoodle puppy vs an ice cube

This is Waffle, a 7 week old golden doodle puppy playing with an ice cube. LINK

Aluminum + Ice = Rocket Fuel

A team of scientists from Purdue, Penn State, NASA, and the Air Force have collaborated on the ALICE (ALuminum-ICE) Project, which makes rocket propellant out of a frozen mixture of water and nanoscale aluminum powder. The ultimate goal is for the more environmentally-friendly fuel to be used on long-distance space missions, but for now it's excellent for videos of rockets taking off (starting at 4:00). [Purdue University, Via: MAKE Via: Gizmodo]

Flammable Ice

(YouTube Link)

High school science teacher “Mr. Kent” has a YouTube channel full of neat chemistry demonstration videos. In this one, he sets ice on fire. Here’s how:

Ice is added to a dry Pyrex bowl. When the Ice melts the water reacts with the calcium carbide (place on the bottom) to produce acetylene gas and calcium hydroxide. The acetylene gas then explodes into flames when a match is place on top. It will continue to burn even as the ice melts because it keeps producing acetylene until the calcium carbide runs out.

Via: Urlesque | Mr. Kent’s Chemistry Page | YouTube Channel | Neatorama

Antarctica Time lapse: A Year on Ice

Time-lapse video filmed in Antarctica, in and around McMurdo Station and Scott Base.
Each year the sun is below the horizon for 4 months in the middle of winter, and above the horizon for 4 months in summer. During the couple of months in between we have more-or-less normal days.
Includes shots of auroras and the very rare polar stratospheric nacreous clouds, which form when ozone depleting gases crystallize in the upper atmosphere in the intense cold.
Summer population is about 1200 people, winter about 200. LINK: Youtube

Skating on the Gulf of Finland

Says photographer Jason DeBose: "This is from the frozen Gulf of Finland/Baltic Sea. Apparently it's safe enough that people bring baby strollers and spin their toddlers like marbles."

Link, Via: Neatorama

The snow and ice on Tuesday in some parts of Britain

Day two of the heaviest snowfall to hit parts of Britain for 18 years.

As I was surfing the web I came across a video but it doesn't have an embed so here is the LINK to the video.

Stunning Estonia Waterfall Ice World

It may look like a setting from a fantasy or gateway to another world, but this phenomenal scene is actually the Valaste Waterfall — the highest waterfall in Estonia at 85 feet (26 meters) — artificially created by directing the water from a drainage trench to the Gulf of Finland at Valaste, near the Ontika Cliff. LINK



An Estonian waterfall has frozen creating a world of imagination. LINK

Golden Carriage Ice Sculpture

Flickr user Eisbeertje has a neat collection of photos from the Dutch Ice Sculpture Festival 2006/2007 in Madurodam and 2007/2008 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
This one above, titled Gouden Koets [wiki] or Golden Carriage is beyond fantastic! LINK

"Ice Sculptures"

Amazing Ice Sculptures. Check out the LINK to see the other amazing pictures.