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315 billion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica
BBC ^
| 9/30/2019
| Jonathan Amos
Posted on 10/01/2019 4:21:12 PM PDT by RightGeek
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To: babble-on
"when the solid part above the surface of the scotch melts the level of liquid in the glass will rise"The level always went down when I drink scotch.
To: SgtBob
howdy SgtBob! well maybe if it's the old jug-o-scotch... 8^)
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posted on
10/01/2019 5:36:46 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
To: BenLurkin
You load 315 billions tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
To: Chode
Where do you get that? The Farm and Ranch Store?
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posted on
10/01/2019 5:37:56 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: RightGeek
The idea that this is unusual is ridiculous.
To: wally_bert
Right out of the short lived series Salvage One. Ah, yes - a rocket engine attached to an iceberg with 1/4" cables and aluminum tent pegs. My dad got a real laugh out of that.
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posted on
10/01/2019 5:41:27 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Fungi
I believe Saudi Arabia was considering the same thing back in the early 1970s.
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
To: Mark17
"Where did they get the 315 billion figure? How do they know it’s not 314 billion?"Rounding. Leftists and this math thing.
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posted on
10/01/2019 5:48:20 PM PDT
by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
To: bramps
"now looking for work"
'Cause a calving glacier indicates a growing (healthy) glacier.
Ice can extend only so far into ocean/sea before it is required to break off due to current forces and the force of the glacier pushing ice further into the ocean/sea.
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posted on
10/01/2019 5:50:30 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: Chode
Mighty fine Scotch you got there, Lou... Aged, what, 20 minutes?
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posted on
10/01/2019 5:53:08 PM PDT
by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
To: Pontiac
Who likes ice?
Ruins the scotch
To: yesthatjallen
I believe the magazine was POPULAR MECHANICS or POPULAR SCIENCE.
To: Pontiac
Ice still waters it down. So I keep my scotch in the freezer.
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posted on
10/01/2019 5:57:47 PM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: Fungi
We’re gonna need a bigger boat, right?
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posted on
10/01/2019 5:58:55 PM PDT
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: heshtesh
“In my glass, the scotch always seems to be gone before the ice melts.
Who bothers with ice?”
Hell, who bothers with the glass?
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posted on
10/01/2019 5:59:42 PM PDT
by
VMI70
To: napscoordinator
Actually that would do more for the country then most that’s being done. Priorities People
Priorities
We must not allow a Scotch Whisky Gap.
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posted on
10/01/2019 6:01:10 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: Michael.SF.
If that’s a single-malt — then, that’s the very definition of water pollution.
To: chiller
"The simpler explanation for we science dummies: A large protuding ice cube weighs more and displaces or pushes surrounding water higher in the glass (or ocean). As the ice melts, the cube weights less, and displaces less. = no change."Uhm, no...
Water EXPANDS when it freezes. By about 10%. It's why a can of soda in a freezer will burst. Since a cube of frozen water DISPLACES less of a volume of water than it weighs, it floats. That's why 10% of a cube sticks out of the water.
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posted on
10/01/2019 6:02:56 PM PDT
by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
To: Pontiac
“...how many tugs...to pull a 1600 square mile iceberg?” About 2x what is needed to pull this one which is 750 sqm iceberg.
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