Nice article with some more detailed pictures of ice-circles:

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/massive-10ft-spinning-ice-circle-discovered-uk/5963

This is cool. Thanks.

That's amazing! I can just imagine Jean Valjean walking in circles on it singing "Who Am I" or something.

Sorry, bit of a Les Mis reference there for ya!

Looks like a pipe broke at a winter Auto Show...

Gather round, ye Red Lobster scoundrels, and hear tell of the evil beast who steals the children of sailors and their delicious cheddar biscuits.

This is what we in the real world caall BULLSHIIIIIIIIT.

edit: Undrunk version: Awesome.

FAKE! It's obviously a Stargate.

Beautiful. Great sift.

Proof of dimtelligent ensign!

Here's your next green technology to save the planet.
Attach a turbine to it and away you go

Frankly, I gotta say I'm surprised at the popularity of this sift. It is great and all, but it's no Kaktastkuu... (my only other #1)

I'm with 'drunk gwiz665' on this one: Fake!


But, seriously:


These close encounters can be explained by quick shifts in temperature, said Joe Desloges, a river specialist and geography professor at the University of Toronto.
Mr. Desloges explained that the frozen circles are actually ice pans, or surface slabs of ice that form in the center of a lake or creek, instead of along the water’s edge.
As water cools, it releases heat that turns into frazil ice – a collection of loose, needle shaped ice particles that can cluster together in an ice pan. If it accumulates enough frazil ice and the current is slow, over time, the pan can become a hanging dam – a dense, heavy piece of ice with high ridges and a low centre.
But he admits that the near-perfect circular shape of the Mississauga ice pan is very strange.
“Normally, you do not get edges of the ice pan so clean and even. It may occur when a pan forms quickly, then melts a bit before starting to refreeze,” he said. “There is the chance that these can form so perfectly, but not common at all.”

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/12/18/man-stumbles-on-round-spinning-creek-circle.aspx

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Crop circles in Ice.