Animals froze in Kazakhstan after the temperatures fell very drastically as they froze very quickly without the icy atmosphere leaving a way for escape.
Tsidkenu Yeah, I thought animals would struggle to move, fall, and then freeze to death like humans under similar circumstances. These look taxidermized. Is the implication that they were flash frozen faster than they could fall to the ground?
Artex You need to look at the other article's video, infra, where the guy yanks the frozen rabbit from a bush or a fence. There's also some pythonesque humor there, see comments. RC
Artex Although I will add that flash freezing was the cause of death for larger animals in old Sibera - woolly mammoths and rhinos, etc. This is why I was hesitant to completely write it off as a hoax - I never expected to see such with my own eyes (and the presentations in those very limited context videos can be deceiving)
Tsidkenu The theory I recall reading was how a large asteroid strike could result in the evacuation of big chunks of atmosphere, exposing the surface to space like conditions.
Rowan Cocoan Actually, it's more likely caused by strong localised variations in electric field strengths. Regions of strong negative charge (low pressure) will bring sudden temperature drops accompanied by howling winds and/or snow. Increase the scale and you have flash freezing in seconds or minutes.
Lengthy debate of the cause of such electric field variations is a discussion for another time, but interloping asteroids, comets, dwarf planets or, the worst of all, a dwarf star, will cause such things. You only have to look at what happened in Chicago in 1871 to get a gauge of electrically-caused catastrophe in the wake of a comet pass-by (although in this case, it was fires, not blizzards) [Link]
If it’s true, it’s like the day after tomorrow movie. For animals to freeze, the temps had to drop rapidly. Which would be a sign of the coming ice age. Isn’t that what happened to the wooly mammoths with the undigested food still in their stomachs? Scary stuff!
Animals have been frozen solid after temperatures dropped to minus 56C in Kazakhstan. Videos show both a hare and a dog frozen to death amid bitter conditions sweeping across the vast Central...
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