Biggest iceberg threat to penguins, scientists(Global Warming Of Course)

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | December 17, 2004 | Associated Press

[farmfriend]

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[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[Drammach]

I can't be the only person reading this who is thinking "Explosives"!

Explosives don't work on ice(bergs) very well..
If you can find a major fracture line it "might" have some effect, but ice simply absorbs most of the explosive force..

The Navy once built a Vessel out of ice.. complete with it's own cooling system to help keep it frozen.. ( The ice was mixed with sawdust to make it even stronger )
It took punishment from artillery and bombs pretty good, but the experiment was discontinued..
I think it was due to the deep draft, and lack of manueverability.. trying to get that much mass moving is an extremely slow process, and changing course or slowing down is just as bad..

[Drammach]

Here's a link to the "ice ship".. and what happened...

http://www.combinedops.com/Pykrete.htm

[Lokibob]

bttt

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

an oldie, from the files:

Birth of An Antarctic Super-Berg
By Karen Wright
DISCOVER Magazine
October 5, 2000
http://www.ngnews.com/news/2000/10/10052000/berg_3115.asp

"IF AN ICEBERG BREAKS LOOSE FROM ANTARCTICA AND NOBODY'S THERE to hear it, does it make any sound? That koan is more than just a meditative exercise for Doug MacAyeal, a glaciologist at the University of Chicago who has spent decades pondering the vast Antarctic ice sheets and the huge bergs they spawn. Neither he nor anyone else has ever witnessed firsthand the calving of an Antarctic berg, and the process still mystifies polar experts.... The new arrival, dubbed B-15, is the size of Connecticut above water and 10 times bigger below. Melted, it would fill about half of Lake Michigan's basin with 250 trillion gallons of water."

[and melted, it would have no effect on sealevel, because it is already displacing the amount of water it comprises]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The new arrival, dubbed B-15, is the size of Connecticut above water and 10 times bigger below. Melted, it would fill about half of Lake Michigan's basin with 250 trillion gallons of water."

Tow it to Minnesota!

[SunkenCiv]

;')