Re:Anyway we could use it?
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RGRistroph
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· Score: 3, Interesting
At various times people have talked about towing big icebergs from the south up to places where fresh water costs a lot, like California or Saudi Arabia. The iceberg would be moored off shore and surrounded by a floating boom, so that as it melted the fresh water would be trapped (it floats on the salt water before it mixes) and drawn off for use.
An iceberg this big could not be towed. But maybe people could go on board and stud the big thing with masts that had radio and computer controlled sails, and try to move it that way. You have a lot of time, because something of this size would take years to melt even at the equator. A chunk of ice shelf this size will calf off icebergs itself, so the project would have to watch and track them and warn shipping. Moving a chunk of ice shelf this way may be easier than towing a normal iceberg, because it won't roll over as it melts.
A developer could build a ski resort on the equator.
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New country for the Taliban?
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Camel+Pilot
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· Score: 3, Funny
This could be useful in negotiations with the Taliban. If they agree to abandon Kunduz and Kandahar and in fact all of Afghanistan they will be given a 223 sq mile nation of their own - complete virgin territory. They will have complete and utter control and no other nation will interfer in their affairs. We will even provide transportation for themselves and their faithfull followers.
Re:Hurry up!
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Detritus
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· Score: 3, Informative
I think there was a plan during World War II to tow an iceberg into the middle of the Atlantic ocean and use it as an aircraft carrier. There was a gap in the middle of the Atlantic ocean where ship convoys lost their air cover and were vulnerable to attack by German U-boats.
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An iceberg this big could not be towed. But maybe people could go on board and stud the big thing with masts that had radio and computer controlled sails, and try to move it that way. You have a lot of time, because something of this size would take years to melt even at the equator. A chunk of ice shelf this size will calf off icebergs itself, so the project would have to watch and track them and warn shipping. Moving a chunk of ice shelf this way may be easier than towing a normal iceberg, because it won't roll over as it melts.
Towing icebergs to get fresh water: http://www.antarctica.org/UK/Envirn/pag/glaces_UK/ oceanes_UK/remorquer_UK.htm.
This has happened before: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/24/171420 0.
yes. they have the natural ability to swim/fly long distances. There is very little multicellular terrestrial life in antartica i think
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A developer could build a ski resort on the equator.
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This could be useful in negotiations with the Taliban. If they agree to abandon Kunduz and Kandahar and in fact all of Afghanistan they will be given a 223 sq mile nation of their own - complete virgin territory. They will have complete and utter control and no other nation will interfer in their affairs. We will even provide transportation for themselves and their faithfull followers.
I think there was a plan during World War II to tow an iceberg into the middle of the Atlantic ocean and use it as an aircraft carrier. There was a gap in the middle of the Atlantic ocean where ship convoys lost their air cover and were vulnerable to attack by German U-boats.
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