Goettig stood frozen; shards of green lay strewn across the concrete floor.
At the height of the last glacial period, however, massive volumes of water were locked up in ice, and the planet was covered in frozen shards.
Towards the top, rain-lashed blades of grass had frozen into delicate shards of ice that tinkled in the wind.
When it's freezing out and the Snow Queen seems to have parked a shard of ice in your heart, it's not the ideal time to consider the loveliness of the river terrace at the Bingham Hotel, Richmond.
Overnight the air was thick with freezing fog, but now the sky is flung wide open, a bright bluebird of a day, as sunlight glitters on the drifts and the rime frost that has grown in shards from the rough grasses.
Then there are Japanese scallops infused with Himalayan truffles in a pressurized siphon and served with cucumber juice frozen tableside into liquid nitrogen shards.
Planetary scientists have never been able to do so for an object this distant, a small shard that has been frozen and almost unchanged since it formed 4.5 billion years ago.
Using the open-source 3D software Blender, Chaumont depicts shards of the stone sculpture frozen in mid-air, memorializing the instant it was smashed by ISIS supporters as the rest of the world watched.
"We're a 70-year-old start-up," says Palmer, who has also retrieved a pint of salted caramel chip to sample The ice cream has recently come through the machines and is not yet frozen solid, instead appearing as an ethereal combination of shards of chocolate and blissful caramel custard ice cream, like the world's best soft serve.
These include the possibility that it could be composed of separate objects that joined together, that a collision between two bodies with molten cores ejected rock that then froze in an elongated shape, and that it is a shard of a bigger object destroyed in a supernova.
