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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 only half the size of this one
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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!
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
or shall we say, Ice Age?
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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.
Come to LA and breathe the brown air. Go to the beach on a windy day and see either what clean air _doesn't_ look like, or what dirty air does. Then tell me that humans aren't having an impact on the environment.
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.
Those were not misspellings, but an approximation of Joiseyese.
- obviousman
Republicans are idiots.
No, your simplistic scenario is not science. You are doing exactly what you're accusing Greenpeace of doing -- oversimplifying a very complex question. But to think that humans can't influence the climate is incredibly naive. It seems very likely that we can through massive deforestation if not through greenhouse gas emissions. Look, aside from the global climate change question, there is just no reason for us not to support sustainable energy technologies. I suppose next you'll be saying that the planet's core is filled with oil instead of iron, so no worries there either.
Hmm, do you think the air in downtown LA would be crystal clear if California didn't have some of the most stringent emissions control laws in the world. Where are you going with this? Is your little anecdote supposed to mean -- what? The Clean Air Act was a bad idea? We should abolish the EPA? Or do you just like to call people morons? Moron.