#brinicle

[n0rtist]

Brinipio, the Zodiac Beast I explained in the video below

[sheepheadfred]

Ectoberhaunt Day 8: Icicle

Summary: A group of dumb teens are very keen to do dumb ideas when bored.

Ao3 link

Three kids laze around in a bedroom. The three relax on a Sunday afternoon, homework done and the vibes are just right for chilling. Glow in the dark stars decorate the ceiling, gaining energy where the sun shines on them through the window in the mid-afternoon as the it becomes later in the day. Just a slow, relaxing day.

Perfect for relaxing.

...Or some shenanigans.

"Hey, check out what I found!" The lazy silence broken by none other than Tucker Foley, browsing the web on his souped up PDA, who uncovered a very interesting natural phenomena.

So of course he shoved his device with the site open in his friends' faces.

"What's a 'brinicle'?" Sam and Danny asked at the same time when they saw the title, confusion clear in their voices.

"Scroll down and you'll find out." Tucker's voice nearly cracked in anticipation.

"Holy shit!" Sam yanked the PDA to get a closer look, knocking Danny out of the way.

"What?" Danny asked, feeling completely left out.

"Uh huh! Keep reading. There's a video attached." Tucker goaded Sam to keep looking.

"Hey, guys? What does it say?" Danny is getting really annoyed at being ignored, he even started to pout about it.

"Here, you big baby," Sam teased him before she shoved the article in his face. He petulantly grabbed it from her and got to read what those two were so surprised by.

"Ok, let's see...'Meet the ‘Finger of Death’: a Super-Cooled Brinicle That Kills Anything It Touches'," Dannys eyes flashed in excitement before scrolling down, "Woah! This is really cool."

This new phenomena got his gears turning as Tucker finally got to have his device back. His thinking face was on and it slightly concerned his friends.

Danny Fenton is 14 and sometimes he has dumb ideas he can't be talked out of doing.

"Do you think I could do that?" His friends both look at him, an unspoken need to know what he means. "My ice powers were pretty strong and ghost ice can be different from regular ice. Could it work in different conditions, even?"

Dumb ideas his two friends might want in on.

"Hmm, we could try and see if we can measure it. I have that list of your powers and how much you can do with them right on this baby here." Tucker waves his precious PDA to emphasize what he means.

"Guys," Sam started, prepared to be the voice of reason before a thought came to her, "if we're careful we could set up a controlled environment to test it."

Just as the three dumb kids were about to test a theory the world seemed to glitch and a green sticky note appeared on Tucker's PDA, the device that started this whole idea.

All it said was:

'There is a time and place for everything but it is not now!'

Three dumb kids laze about, knowing that this is the best way to spend a day like today.

[morbidology]

A brinicle, also commonly known as an “ice stalactite” forms under the sea ice when a flow of extremely cold saline water is introduced to ocean water. It is known as an ice stalactite because it is the undersea equivalent of a hollow stalactite. It freezes everything it touches, including sea creatures.

[yee-qi]

More Perspectives! We've finally hit the end of the Ordovician, and with that comes catastrophe.

"Brine and Crash" Ogyginus/Uralichas/Mucronapsis/Pentagonocyclicus Ordovician, 445 million years ago, Sobrido Formation (Portugal) Brinicles are an interesting phenomenon that I haven't seen in paleoart before. They happen when the ocean freezes, expelling liquid supersaline brine, which due to its supercold temperature freezes as soon as it touches its surroundings, leading this salty finger of death to eliminate life on the seafloor. The massive glaciation that occurred at the end of the Ordovician may well have provided the conditions required for this phenomenon to occur. Another point of interest is that the Ordovician poles at the time had some absolutely colossal trilobites - examples of polar gigantism, perhaps. It would be devastating to marine life, possibly because areas of reef were relatively disconnected, preventing species from fleeing the oncoming cold. In the end, the trilobites would be decimated, and wouldn't really ever recover.

Check out the #perspectives tag on my blog for the rest of the series!

[without-ado]

Brinicle: Ice Finger of Death 

A brinicle is a downward-growing hollow tube of ice enclosing a plume of sinking brine that is formed beneath developing sea ice.

[with-milk-and-sugar]

just learned from a short bbc documentary that was pretty randomly recommended to me on yt that a brinicle is actually a kind of underwater icicle!

so basically a stream of 'super cooled' water slooowly makes its way through the regularly cold water, and as it sinks, it leaves a trail of ice from the ice on the surface down to the bottom, making a pillar like the 'horn' the brinicle magical horse has on its head! ive never heard of this so i immediately had to share lol excuse the shabby explanation its not my strong suit and also in my defense the video was only circa 3 minutes long and the first 2 were just cinematic shots!

also once its reached the bottom its like a deadly river freezing anything unfortunate enough to be in its path yikes

[enter-the-phantom]

Some wild Brinicles and a snowy Homeboy from the winter festival 💙

[ilikeit-art]

Brinicle is an underwater icicle, also called the "finger of death", which freezes everything in its path.