In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:

> John Kane > wrote:
>
> > On Jan 3, 12:22*am, Sqwertz > wrote:
> > *Icicles don't come in
> >> stalagmite formations. *At least not sharp enough to puncture a hand
> >> - and go all the way through it.
> >
> > They don't?
>
> Gravity makes them grown downwards, not upwards. I've lived in
> plenty of snowy states and the gravity seems pretty universal in all
> of them.

I guess there's no such thing as stalagmites, then. A lot of geologists
are going to be really surprised.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA