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Icebergs Sailing Past New Zealand
An anonymous reader writes "A fleet of icebergs is heading north from Antarctica and at least one has reached New Zealand, an event that has not occurred in decades. While not necessarily a consequence of global warming it is very cool!"
i for one hope the iceberg doesnt get cocky and run into a titanic.
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I read about this years ago, a penguin wanted to travel north, so he used an iceberg as a boat. this is what happens when the cinemas run too many penguin movies.
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While not necessarily a consequence of global warming it is very cool!
:) (Laugh, mods. It's a joke.)
Was that juxtaposition intentional?
The Overrated mod is for reversing inappropriate, positive mods, not for voicing disagreement with a post.
The same thing happened last year.
anyone else think this would be the best freakin idea for the next location of Survivor ever: :P
Survivor: That Iceburg Floating Past New Zealand
They could vote each other off as it gets smaller and smaller in warmer water
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Does this remind anyone else of the scene in Brewster's Millions where the guy sells Richard Pryor on a concept to intall a tugboat inside an iceburg and sail it to desert countries in Africa? Maybe nows the time to start looking into this ...
... but this "news" story didn't really warrant much real discussion ... iceburg floats to New Zealand because of benign wind change, more news at 11
I know, I'm completely off topic
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i for one welcome our new mute icy legless armless (though not in some cases neckless) overlords.
New Zealand thinks they are so special... and they get in the news when they can see an iceberg from the kitchen window.
We get that all the time in Nunavut (canada's newest territory), and you don't see me posting to slashdot about it.
Ha, that would be funny to see someone like president Bush speaking in New Zealand..
"Global warming does not exist!"
(Iceberg floats by in background)
The article doesn't mention global warming at all! I'll agree with the "very cool" part, but mentioning global warming seems unnecessary.
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...by a "necessarily". For future reference EVERYTHING is a consequence of global warming.
Did anyone else parse that as a grammatical error because of the placement of the hyperlink? I think something fun and insightful would come of a study on the different ways hyperlinks interact with their surrounding verbiage.
Does this now mean that linux is migrating New Zealand ?
I live in Sydney, and I tells you it is FREEZING cold, the weather has been insane for the last few days, with bushfires around the outer west of NSW and more cold weather further south around Melbourne. It's crazy in the space of yesterday morning with warm to hot weather it suddenly plunged us into this chilly cold, and this is in Spring.
I think it's testament to the theories of Global Warming being accurately predicted.
Have they spotted a Starbucks on any of them yet?
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The fleet IS heading north. It is a singular entity.
Unfortunaly, many sight see-ers received the cold shoulder from the icebergs, whose watery eyes and cold stare spoke of hidden depths.
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A fleet of icebergs ARE heading north from Antarctica.
Goodness, the Nazi's may have been evil, and they may have had terrible aim (as per the Stormtrooper Effect), but they weren't incompetent.
"Fleet" is singular, thus a fleet of icebergs IS heading north. You wouldn't say that the same fleet 'are' heading north, would you?
you float past the iceberg
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...but I'll bet they don't see icebergs that often.
Apparently, you're just a Grammar Musso-Fascio. It's one fleet of icebergs, thus "is" is correct.
Check out my post, right above yours. I think that hyperlink might've contributed to your thinking it was a grammatical error.
Either that or you suck at English, one of the two.
Yeah - approximately 0 degrees celsius, IIRC.
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Nothing like an ignoramous appointing himself the Grammar Nazi. Messing up something so basic as subject-verb agreement!
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The icebergs are on a direct collision course with a ranch in Crawford, Texas. At last, Earth fights back!
Why would it have anything to do with global warming? Are people really under the impression that icebergs don't naturally exist and are really a product of the evil Bush administration's plan to cause global warming so they can drown the entire West coast?
Its sort of sad when we have to clarify which stories might have to do with global warming and which don't...
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An incompetent grammar Nazi: "is" is correct because there is only one fleet of icebergs.
I thought the advertisement at the site was much more interesting than the article itself.
All I could think about when I saw the picture was "claiming" the iceberg and creating te world's most exclusive floating bar... Of course the frozen daiquiris and iced vodka shots would contribute to its demise.
>an event that has not occurred in decades.
>While not necessarily a consequence of global warming
It _cannot_ be a consequence of global warming. If this happened decades ago, but global warming is making this event more and more common (since it will doom us in _decades_, not _eons_), then you get a contradiction. It's like saying the line y=x passes through (1,1) twice.
Do they run on Linux? If they do, are there problems loading the temperature sensor modules? Also, should we start preparing our own Noah's boats (which, conveniently enough, will be provided with full specs and run on Linux)?
I for one, welcome our Iceberg overlords...
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Are you daft? A FLEET (of icebergs) IS heading north from Antarctica.
Don't do the Grammar Goosestep if you can't do the Subject-Verb Agreement... dance... of pain...
Nazis (plural, not posessive). I hate you all for making me care enough to post this.
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haha, bet you wish you had posted that anonymously.
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I, for one, welcome our new floating iceberb overlords...
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Wish I was down south, It'd be great to see it. You'd think that we'd be able to see it at one stage though, so lets hope. I wonder whats happening now? A reporter was on a high point at one stage, not even a day later it colapsed and fell into the water. Lucky break for him anyway.
Seeing how we seem to be losing quite a bit of ice, I would recomend that we immediatly mine Haley's Comet for more
Quick! Put web servers on them and declare them an independent nation free from of censorship.
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Finally some corroboration of our Global Cooling campaign.u bID=864
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Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
"While not necessarily a consequence of global warming it is very cool!" Haha, because they're icebergs! They are COOL! Get it? I did!
This quote from TFA gives a glimpse into why I find this sort of thing facinating: "Marine radio operator John McLellan said ships in the area should have been given accurate information about the icebergs much earlier."
The picture in the article shows quite an impressive slice of glacier, and picturing one of those just appearing out of nowhere...oh, man, I could see how advance notice would have been helpful.
"OMIGOD! Ninja Iceberg!"
The freezer would be a new Zone of Terror, and I've already got too many of those.
Icebergs were reported weeks ago near NZ.
Whose to say it isn't two fleets currently engaged in joint exercises buzzing the kiwis?
This is another Slashdot effect!
Common sense is not so common
I wonder if I look outside my window, will i see one......
F**K there it is. Its HUGE!!!
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Thank god for that!
I live in New Zealand and this is a load of crap. It is only getting coverage because a slef-felatio reporter flew out to the ice berg on a helicopter...and as the story goes...he went for a number 2 and slipped, his urethra froze to the iceberg. Helen Clark had to breathe hot air onto his peepee to release him.
Honest to bhudda, this is the truth.
I for one welcome our new icy overlords.
All of the joke comments in this thread are idiotic.
Nice use of the subjunctive, though.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
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because someone from an organization will claim it does. As with much in the way of such publications they will rely on the general lack of knowledge of the public. If not now I bet there will be some group that references "iceburgs off of NZ a few years back" in some passage as justification for "their" view of global warming.
Too much of the Global Warming hysteria, and yes a lot of the pronoucements are bordering if not crossing that line, follow the same pattern. Have an official sounding name, employ a few government scientist who have no other opportunity for work, and set a deadline likely not to be seen in many's lifetime.
Works wonders for many subjects. Dire predictions and such make headlines. Headlines garner attention. Attention can lead to money. Somehow I think underwear is involved.
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Goodness, the Nazi's may have been evil Dude, we're talking about Icebergs, not Goldbergs - what's the Nazi link?
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Considering that Australia is in a major drought, they should consider the idea at this time.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I, for one, welcome our new iceberg overlords.
Just smile and wave.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Where did you get the "it hasn't happened in decades?" I didn't see that in the article - it said it's common.
LoL, Global Warming.
anata sekai o kakumei surush ga nai deshou? Anata no susumu michi wa yoi shite arimasu.
is that this topic has been on here for hours and no Australians have posted some 'New Zealanders are all a bunch of sheep shaggers' comments.
While not necessarily a consequence of global warming it is very cool!
Very cold, actually.
So now the other penguins are copiny Chille Willie?
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All your iceburgs are belong to us? *ducks*
I'm waiting for a statement from the administration stating that we have only just learned that icebergs are migratory. Maybe they're just looking for more fertile shipping lanes so they can feed before the mating season starts.
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
They have moved the iceberg to shore now:i es/i_lettuceiceberg.jpg ... So nothing for you to see here anymore... Please move along...
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WA Hoo! We made the news!
Overheard as the iceberg passed NZ, "Ice to meet you!"
These days you get any freaky weather event, and it gets blamed on global warming. Even when it doesn't make sense.
Surely, more ice making it further north would, if anything, be supporting evidence for datasets that show the oceans are getting cooler? You might also note that some data sets suggest that the global warming trend is not present in the Southern Hemisphere.
There is some evidence that the icecaps melting around the edges, but getting thicker in the middle. Perhaps that's because the Sun's output is a huge factor to global warming, and there are no sunspots this year?
"Scientists had said earlier that it was not unusual to see icebergs so far from the Antarctic coastal region, where they had broken off the ice shelf - but that they were expected to melt as they drifted toward New Zealand."
See, they're not melting as fast as expected. Fear the coming ice age!What sedimentological structures should I expect to see?
Lets see - firstly, by definition I'm talking about a depositional environment, not an erosional one, so I'm talking about a clastic deposit. (Could one survive long enough to get into a carbonate- or evaporite-depositing environment? Pretty dubious, but hard to say it's theoretically impossible.) We'd get large scale disruption of bedding, up to a considerable number of metres into the bed deposit. Would the introduced mass survive in place? No, it could move off again, or melt in situ. As it melted, the introduced portion would have relative insulation from the (relatively) warm water, so it'd remain solid while the parts of the berg in free water would melt faster. But the berg would be pulled up and out of the sediment by bouyancy (possibly pumped tidally), so we'd see some sort of suction structures distorting the already-distorted bedding. Maybe doubled-over folding? The final tear-away scar would have a different structure of slumping into an open scar, perhaps combined with fluidisation.
Hmmm, I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for that sort of thing if I'm ever looking into an excavated marine boulder clay again. Not something I'm likely to see in core.
Sorry, geologist thinking out loud. Nothing to see here. Move along now.
Now what are those fossils in the new Yusuf Islam ("Cat Stevens") video? Can't get a good look - Spriggina? Or anonymous ammonites?
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Some enterprising kiwi is now auctioning the iceberg on www.trademe.co.nz
TradeMe is the New Zealand equivilent of eBay (the UI doesn't suck though)
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