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Huge Iceberg Nine Times As Large As Singapore
DeadBugs writes: "From CNN and the actual National Ice Center press release, a huge iceberg 2130 square miles in size has broke off of Antartica. Satellite pictures are included at each site. This iceberg is larger than the state of Rhode Island and about the same size as Delaware."
It's coming this way!!!
No! Not Gojiraaisu!
This is the only possible outcome of our wanton nuclear program!
It's only half the size of this one
Go george dubya, go!!!
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From the actual press release, a humungus iceboig 2130 square miles in diameter has broke off of Antartica. Satelite picshures are included at each sight. This iceboig is larger than the state of Road Eyeland and about the same size as Delawear.
It's nice that the media releases news stories with units that real, everyday people can refer to, like the size of Singapore.
"......the same size as Delaware."
But does it have more interesting attractions than delaware?
Lisa gushes, "I want to see Wilmington." Bart adds, "I want to visit a screen door factory." Marge replies, "Yup, Delaware has got it all."
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Strange the way the mind works when it's 6AM, you've been up all night and you've just spent the past 3 hours arguing quantum physics on IRC, earning lifetime bans on all major channels. o_0
Curious to learn more about icebergs, I found this nifty FAQ. Figured I'd share.
...I wanna make sno-cones. Forever.
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Wait until T'leth rises from the Carribean. Terror attacks and Deep Ones and Aquatoids... oh brotha! (Does anyone know what I am talking about?)
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Lessee..
We have a POLAR CONTINENT...
With huge thermal differentials across its' surface due to it being on a spherical planet and.. stuff.
Why is this surprising? It's a natural outward flow of material from the Pole (where it accretes) to the edge (where all that H2O gets recycled).
Sometimes bergs are big. Sometimes small.
Always constant, though.
Sheesh!
Stuff happens!
Brak: What's THAT?
Thundercleese: A light switch.. of TOTAL DEVASTATION!
Is that just the tip of the iceberg?
With recent events involving Asia and Europe, tensions have been increasings between the nations of France and India, Italy and Singapore. Using connections in Antarctica, the Italians have been able to launch a tactical iceberg, with the purpose of showing the Singaporians up.
This isn't the first time the Italians have done something mean and evil -- just look at them during WW2! And how they keep trying to steal Arctic Circle Candy. Don't trust Italians!
Expect W. to announce a carefully thoughtout plan, endorsed by nameless private industry advisors to VP Cheney, to offset this environmental calamity by drilling for more oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, "We've got to offset the threat to penguins with an equal threat to artic wildlife." While dismissing accusations the company pressured Dell not to offer Linux on systems, Microsoft will underscore why penguins are a threat and this is a good thing.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
why isn't this story on the front page? methinks somebody screwed up...
Whats this? There are many who say that the issue of global warming was so riddled with fabrications (lies) and manipulation that perhaps no one rational trusts in what special interest groups say? Especially when they are more interested in slander and personal attacks than in education and actually making a real difference? My crystal ball tells me that I should ignore people that say 'Yes there does seem to be evidence supporting the global climate changes, but that same evidence points to a cyclical change over time and that even if man has a large effect on the current change, that studies indicate that the change from non human factors is FAR greater in the past, even in recent years. I am concerned about the environment but have learned that only through an ethical approach utilizing logical methodologies while being understanding towards others is the ONLY way to go about change. I will not subsribe to the 'freedom through Tyranny' approach that so many others do."
Isn't it clear to you Greenpeace morons? What the few sane scientists have been saying for years is that rising sea levels are due to a counterlevered ice shelf that's slowly sinking into the ocean. The phenomenon has happened repeatedly through history. The oceans rise and we enter an ice age until it ice shelf is raised again and everything returns to normal. That's science. The losers at Greenpeace will have you believe that the little impact humans have on their environment is causing the ice to melt but any rational person will tell you that Greenpeace is an organization of stupid, hippie, socialists who's agenda is to trade prosperity for karma. It is either arrogance or stupidity that makes people believe they have more control over their environment than the complex, natural systems that have thrown the world into chaos many times before man was here. We'd be a lot better off if we take Greenpeace and their little dingies and send them to Antartica to hold up the ice shelf.
Maybe the Titanic can hit this one head on instead of just grazing it like last time
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I can't help thinking that this is some kind of promotional thing for Fox's _Ice Age_. It happened about the same time as the movie was released, right? Has anybody gotten a good close look at the satellite photo? I'm pretty sure I can see "ICE AGE - COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU" carved in to the ice.
I think the facts are overwhelming here. I'd better go put on my tinfoil hat or they'll start stealing thoughts from my brain again.
It would almost make those high movie ticket prices worthwhile if the studios would do cool stuff like this. Plus it would provide for scienterifically interesting things to study.
Or, since we all know that Delaware is bigger than Rhode Island, you could just have said it's about the size of Delaware.
That is, unless you wanted to start a list of things that it's bigger than.