Animation of iceberg B-15A on NOAA DMSP imagery
Animation looks like it's a big file!!
More here....
longjack
Posted on 12/17/2004 2:35:26 PM PST by Graybeard58
I think the ice is over 200 yards thick. It'll take ages if you want to pick through it with a beak.
Haul it someplace where they have chronic water shortages or to Japan for bar ice.
What do they call that big frigid piece of ice, Hillary?
Translation: Global warming is causing the sound to freeze over.
If it gets any warmer, the whole thing will freeze solid. Conversely, if it gets colder, everything will melt.
The iceberg is 200 yards thick. I thought the ice must have about the same thickness everywhere in that region because the iceberg didn't elevate over the other ice it broke away from.
I started by thinking of Nukes, but explosives would be ok, ANFO by the shipload.... I'd buy the DVD, too.
/john
Tow it to California, for the Klamath area.
In a related story, several companies are bidding on a contract to build an enormous pair of ice tongs that will be used to remove the iceberg from McMurdo Sound.
Yes, but what we could end up with is Europe with a Siberian winter and the lower portion of Northern Hemisphere baking. After all, it isn't global cooling that is causing that ice to melt.
The Japanese buy water from glaciers and icebergs at premium prices. I suggest we Freepers latch onto this berg and sell the super pure H2O in Nippon and to CA yuppies. We'll be rich! Now, how to latch on and tow the thingie?
Probably all ships of the US navy together wouldn't be enough to pull it away.
What is the difference between
Sea Ice and Land Ice?
(Did you even know there was a difference?)
The polar regions are covered by ice of two different forms, land ice and sea ice. Land ice refers to glaciers, icebergs, and of course, the two great ice sheets of the Antarctic continent and Greenland. Land ice forms slowly over time from the yearly accumulation of snow, and becomes quite thick. Sea ice is ice that freezes out of sea water, usually as an extension of Land Ice. The Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean which surrounds the continent of Antarctica is composed almost entirely of sea ice, which ranges in thickness between 1-5 meters.
To learn more about sea ice and land ice, click on the links below.
http://oceans-www.jpl.nasa.gov/polar/
Have the U.S. congress meet atop the ice berg - All the hot air would surely melt it.
Darn! Whattan idea killer you are! How about a small nuke engine on the berg? Naaaahhh! Too risky and how do we steer it? OK, I give up.
Wunnerful, just wunnerful. Right before Christmas, Freepers are going to pull a large scale Dunkirk and relieve that iceberg.:)
Animation of iceberg B-15A on NOAA DMSP imagery
Animation looks like it's a big file!!
More here....
longjack
Isn't this the iceberg formed by the hotspot (aka volcano) that was on the seafloor?
Animation of iceberg B-15A GPS data on USGS LANDSAT-7 imagery
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