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Jyrkkä Jätkä
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I live in my own little world, but it's OK - they know me here...
Jyrkkä Jätkä
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Jyrkkä Jätkä
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Niagara Falls was frozen in 1911








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Posted: Sunday, January 08, 2012 11:42:59 AM

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That's a great picture, JJ. Applause


Pictures of frozen flowers:





Jyrkkä Jätkä
Posted: Sunday, January 08, 2012 3:32:57 PM

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Local club folks in Krasnoyarsk swimming in the Yenisei River, while the air temperature was -36°C.
















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Posted: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:54:46 PM

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An ice breaker at work. He clears the Detroit River (Michigan) for freighter traffic... Though, I have no idea about the temperatures at that time. I guess it was very cold...

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GO PATS



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Jyrkkä Jätkä
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At Lake Léman (Lake Geneva), Switzerland, in January 2005, very cold conditions combined with strong winds resulted in the ice-encrusted landscape shown in the photographs. Temperatures were so cold that wind-generated spray from the lake froze on the surface of anything it touched.








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Jyrkkä Jätkä
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Jyrkkä Jätkä
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Jyrkkä Jätkä
Posted: Monday, January 23, 2012 6:25:32 AM

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Some great pics, Darkmoon!
This is from Toronto...




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Thanks, JJ; I'm just trying to find some new photos all the time, and it is getting harder and harder.

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Jyrkkä Jätkä
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Imagine how it feels when jumping to swim after sauna...




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Jyrkkä Jätkä
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Jyrkkä Jätkä
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March 12, 2012 -- The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of long lines of clouds, known as "streets", wrapping around the southern tip of Greenland on March 6, 2012.

Cloud streets are created by cylinders of air rotating parallel to the surface, forming clouds where the air rises and clear zones where the air falls back downwards. As the air cylinders move from above the sea ice in Baffin Bay out over the warmer southern water, clouds form along the rising air channels.


Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Jyrkkä Jätkä
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Fine image, thar.
Here's a snow storm over U.S. East coast:






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Jyrkkä Jätkä
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Fox Glacier in NZ




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Jyrkkä Jätkä
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Jyrkkä Jätkä
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Spring is coming!




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The 2012 Iditarod has been won.



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Snowdrops

Jyrkkä Jätkä
Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 6:13:10 PM

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault: "Frozen Garden of Eden"



The purpose of this seed bank is to preserve the world’s agricultural specimens in the event of any catastrophic circumstance (see: doomsday scenarios) or destruction by global climate change. On top of that, the Global Seed Vault is meant to stand as a backup for the other 1400 seed banks around the world — in case those fail.

The Norwegian government was responsible for footing the nearly $8 million cost of the seed vault. Other organizations such as The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are helping less fortunate countries with the seed packaging and delivery to the Global Seed Vault.

The storage chambers themselves are reached via an access tunnel about 100 metres long, with an entrance portal on its outside. The entrance portal will be the only visible part of the facility.

In total, the vault will be able to hold up to 4.5 million different seed samples, all of which is said to be housed in an "almost endless lifetime" facility.




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