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Old 03-27-2008   #62 (permalink)
markgardner
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Ojiya, Niigata, Japan
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I spend most of my waking hours comunicating in a foreign language, maybe I should stick to that instead of English!

I have stated that the mudponds are drained and then refill with rain/snow.

I have stated that at the begining on January there was some ice over on the ponds before 2+ months of solid snowfall, by solid I mean every day it snowed. There was one period where it snowed for about 3 days constantly.

Pray tell how a 'pressure seal' is created between ice on the surface of a pond and the sides of that pond?

All I know, living in Ojiya and driving through Yamakoshi almost every single day for the last 3 months, is that the ponds are all full of snow now and no nishikigoi would have survived in those ponds.

It's all a pointless conversation, sorry!

Mark
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