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Giant Ice Shelf Snaps
Popo writes "Sattelite images have revealed that an ancient 66 square-kilometer ice shelf, the size of 11,000 football fields, has snapped off from an island in Canada's arctic. The Ayles Ice Shelf was one of 6 major shelves remaining in Canada's arctic and is estimated to be over 3000 years old. The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 km away picked up tremors. Scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in 30 years and point their fingers at climate change as a major contributing factor."
11,000 football fields. Yeah, there's an easy-to-visualize image. What a helpful comparison.
It lasted a good deal longer than any shelf I've ever put up.
Dang it! I thought we told those Penguins that they couldn't keep dancing like that!
the size of 11,000 football fields
NFL? Canadian? European kickball?
Besides, this is a nerds site. Don't make athletic references.
Volkswagen Bugs or Libraries of Congress would be more appropriate.
The implication is that 30 years ago there was a larger event. So if a smaller sheet of ice broke off now than the one from 30 years back, doesn't that mean the problem is going away?
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How many hockey rinks is that?
I agree with you that the tequila is what makes a good Margarita, but you are wrong about your crap. Penguins do not frequent the same ice as polar bears. Repeat with me, polar bears are in the North, penguins are in the South. Not, they do not meet at the tropics.
I was hoping to get a quick translation of football fields to Rhode Islands, but Google couldn't help me. Anyone else with a better calculator available?
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If you look closely, you can see where explosives were planted near the base. There is no way the self could have collapsed on its own. And isn't it strange how no penguins came to work that day?
Canada should totally start rebuilding that ice shelf just to show those terrorists that NOBODY messes with Canada, eh?
Hard to say. There is no standard size hockey rink: just a minimum size and maximum size.
I need to know how much this weighs. In terms of Volkswagens.
Because 11,000 football fields is easier to imagine than 66 square kilometers.
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Clearly the cause is Al Gore and his liberal whiners who are jelaous of the success of the hardworking oil industry... :)
What an inconvenient truth.
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If by "we" you mean "people who aren't educated in climatology", then yes.
Otherwise, no.
Yep, they've seriously underestimated the needed capacity for the International Space Station.
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Let me put that football measurement into something a slashdotter can relate to. It had the area of screen on a 728,000 inch monitor.
I tried to convert the area to square smoots but then my calculator collapsed into a horizontal line and I couldn't read the answer.
In Soviet Russia a beowulf cluster of these things imagines you welcoming your new, neural-network overlords.
Your skepticism made me realize something. Man seems to be the only living thing on the planet whose actions have no effect on its environment.
At the north pole, isn't every direction south?
Hmmm. Well, there's "up"...