{"id":36101,"date":"2017-04-14T05:43:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T12:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/what-is-ice-9"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:04:57","slug":"what-is-ice-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/what-is-ice-9","title":{"rendered":"What is ICE 9?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-ice-9.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ice-nine is a <strong><em>fictitious<\/em><\/strong> alternative structure of water that is solid at room temperature. When a crystal of ice-nine contacts liquid water, it becomes a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seed_crystal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">seed crystal<\/a> that makes the molecules of liquid water arrange themselves into the solid form, ice-nine. Felix Hoenikker\u2019s reason to create this substance was to aid in the military\u2019s plight of wading through mud and swamp areas while fighting. That is, if ice-nine could reduce the wetness of the areas to a solid form, soldiers could easily maneuver across without becoming entrapped or slowed. (<strong><em>Cat\u2019s Cradle by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurt_Vonnegut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kurt Vonnegut<\/a>) Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cat%27s_Cradle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cat%27s_Cradle\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cat%27s_Cradle<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jim Rickards uses ICE 9 in his latest work \u201cThe Road to Ruin\u201d to warn investors of a potential ICE 9 event in which the financial system literally freezes up in a domino type event as he describes in a recent interview:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/what-ice-9-brett-gallie\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/what-ice-9-brett-gallie<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice-nine is a fictitious alternative structure of water that is solid at room temperature. When a crystal of ice-nine contacts liquid water, it becomes a seed crystal that makes the molecules of liquid water arrange themselves into the solid form, ice-nine. Felix Hoenikker\u2019s reason to create this substance was to aid in the military\u2019s plight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58079,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36101\/revisions\/58079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}