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Delaware-Size Iceberg Is About to Break Off from Antarctica
LiveScience.com ^ | January 6, 2017 | Laura Geggel

Posted on 01/06/2017 3:49:11 PM PST by tired&retired

An icy thread measuring a mere 12 miles (20 kilometers) long is all that's anchoring a massive iceberg the size of Delaware to its home in West Antarctica, climate scientists report.

If the iceberg breaks away — an event known as calving — the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica will lose more than 10 percent of its area, which amounts to about 2,000 square miles (5,000 square km), according to Project MIDAS, an Antarctic research project based in the United Kingdom.

MIDAS researchers noticed the rift in 2014, and have used satellite and other data to monitor it ever since. The rift made headlines late last year when NASA's IceBridge mission snapped a photo showing the eerily immense crack, which measured 70 miles (112 km) long, more than 300 feet (91 meters) wide and about one-third of a mile (0.5 km) deep as of Nov. 10, 2016.

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To: tired&retired
Travel and fishing opportunity.


41 posted on 01/06/2017 5:54:07 PM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: tired&retired

Nuke it. Just a thought.


42 posted on 01/06/2017 6:13:01 PM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: tired&retired

There were stories about “Delaware-sized” ice floes breaking away from Antarctica in World Book encyclopedia literally a half-century ago.


43 posted on 01/06/2017 6:15:04 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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LiveScience.com = fake news


44 posted on 01/06/2017 6:18:30 PM PST by sergeantdave (Cats are like potato chips - you can't have just one...)
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To: tired&retired

And why am I suppose to care?

-Oh yea, global warming... got it.

I will try to remind myself of that while I shovel the snow off my roof to keep it from collapsing.


45 posted on 01/06/2017 6:52:17 PM PST by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: tired&retired

Maybe we can trade Delaware for Larsen C.


46 posted on 01/06/2017 7:03:05 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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Hopefully heading for California. If not, let's put some thrusters on it. With some good luck the weather really is getting warmer, but we don't want it melted before it can take out the coastal cities or at least leave some serious gullies for the rising seas to flow into.

Let's believe in global warming, but if so, let's close our eyes and really believe.

47 posted on 01/06/2017 7:15:55 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: tired&retired

It’s summer time down there - of course it’s more likely to break off this time of year than any other.

FAKE NEWS!


48 posted on 01/06/2017 7:23:03 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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No wonder Iran wants to build nuclear powered tow-boats...


49 posted on 01/06/2017 7:25:12 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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I think it would be a good idea for Greenpeace to tow it to the Arctic Ocean for the polar bears to hang out on.


50 posted on 01/06/2017 9:36:58 PM PST by pa_dweller (Trump 290, Clinton 232 - The vote heard 'round the world.)
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