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In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:

> Dan Abel > wrote:
>
> > 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.

>
> Stalagmites are made with minerals over the course of thousands of
> years. Icles are made with water. They're kinda different.
>
> Did you take a snarky pill this morning?


No. Did you?

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