[anigbrowl]

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html 'Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.'

Also, there is nothing 'secret' about these - they appear to be an entirely natural phenomenon.

[NovemberWest]

Ah, the warmth of hn. Submit multiple articles. Get some upvotes but no comments. Then get the only reply you will get for the day advising you that you are a fuckup.

I believe the original is linked in my comment below. I did not post it as the headline because of the paywall and because I liked the illustration with the Eiffel Tower giving some idea of scale, which the original appears to lack.

But, hey, have an upvote for bothering to comment.