![]() ![]() So what's the explanation for the area's treacherous waters? It's not divine forces or some hole in the ocean floor. Although there's no official record of its death toll, the maelstrom is known to be extremely dangerous, especially for small boats that are easily caught in its powerful currents. Found off the coast of Norway, the maelstrom is one of the strongest series of currents and whirlpools in the world according to a 16th century bishop, it's stronger than the famous Sicilian whirlpool Charybdis. Here are eight other creepy phenomena with totally reasonable explanations.Īnything that inspires Edgar Allen Poe ("A Descent into the Maelstrom") and Jules Verne ("Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea") is bound to be terrifying, and the Moskstraumen delivers. ![]() I don't know about you, but that's the kind of information that lets me sleep at night. Once the iron-rich water is exposed to oxygen in the air, it turns red, producing what appears to be a waterfall of blood. Recently, they were even able to determine where all that iron comes from: a salty lake trapped beneath the glacier for nearly a million years. First discovered in 1911, it looks like something out of an unsubtle horror movie, but within a few decades, scientists figured out that the water's macabre color comes from iron oxide. Take the apparently-bloody waterfall (appropriately named Blood Falls) I mentioned above. The good news is that while the following phenomena are unsettling at best, they also have totally rational explanations. Sure, we might have built concrete jungles and sent people to the moon, but for every landmark achievement, the world has some creepy natural phenomena up its sleeve to put us in our place - and give us nightmares, because seriously? A waterfall of blood (well, rust-colored water) oozing out of a glacier in Antarctica? A whirlpool so vast and deadly it terrified Edgar Allen Poe into writing a story about it? You can't tell me this stuff doesn't make you want to live in a nice, secure room safe from Mother Nature's sadistic streak. Clearly, those people aren't paying attention. Someone call Netflix and Charlie Brooker and tell them I've got an idea for the sequel to Bandersnatch.Some people might think humans have mastered the Earth. Perhaps we'll soon be living in a world of quantum images where what you see in a photo is determined not by the photographer, but by the viewer. "It's an exciting result, which could be used to advance the emerging field of quantum computing and lead to new types of imaging," added Moreau. In a way, it's interesting that an image like this wasn't produced sooner, because Bell entanglement is already used in practical applications like quantum computing and cryptography. ![]() And now this spookiness has been made visible to the eye for the first time. Yet, somehow, when a camera at the bottom takes a photo of the two of you hitting the pool simultaneously, you're both oriented in the exact same sitting position as when you first began your journeys. Your slide, on the other hand, is a wide, swirling affair that rotates you completely so that you wind up hitting the pool at the bottom head first. Your friend's slide is straight and narrow and he goes down feet first the whole way. To better understand the process, imagine you and a friend go down two separate water slides at the same time. ![]()
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