The penguins are important to scientists as markers of environmental change, such as global warming. The iceberg is threatening two of four colonies in the area that scientists have been studying for 25 years.
To: Graybeard58
"Iceberg poses no threat to Antarctic personnel" - "National Science Foundation (NSF) officials said today that iceberg B-15A is not blocking access to McMurdo Station, the U. S. logistics hub for much of the nation's research activity in Antarctica, contradicting widely circulated reports to the contrary." (National Science Foundation)
2 posted on
12/17/2004 2:38:46 PM PST by
ZGuy
To: Graybeard58
If they see Leonardo Dicaprio around, run like hell!
3 posted on
12/17/2004 2:39:36 PM PST by
Darkwolf377
(Oil-for-Payoffs: The UN lied, how many died?)
To: Graybeard58
I guess it would be "unfair" in the eyes of the scientists to lend a helping hand by providing food for the chicks??
4 posted on
12/17/2004 2:39:51 PM PST by
VRWCTexan
(History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
To: Graybeard58
The day after tomorrow I'll still want my money back from that crappy movie.
7 posted on
12/17/2004 2:48:04 PM PST by
oldleft
To: Graybeard58
I can't be the only person reading this who is thinking "Explosives"!
And if they made a really good DVD of the project, they could buy enough explosives and penguin food for years to come.
I'd buy one.
To: Graybeard58
Wouldn't it be fun to read of the melt down of the last ice age beginning about 20,000 years ago?
Imagine, rather than scientests, Shamans probably were sacrificing the lives of young maidens in order to appease the Gods; men and women would be put to death for uttering words that displeased the Gods who were causing the devastating melt down thus destroying hunting and causing flooding of the coastal cities.
Ah yes, Global Warming scientests - the modern world's answer to the Shamans of old.
9 posted on
12/17/2004 2:54:03 PM PST by
matchwood
To: Graybeard58
The largest floating thing on the planet ... "is" ...
10 posted on
12/17/2004 2:56:27 PM PST by
First_Salute
(May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
To: Graybeard58
""It could all fail ... and more than 50,000 souls will have gone west again," he said, referring to penguins. "
The elves are letting penguins on their ships? I can understand Bilbo, Frodo and Gandalf, but this is ridiculous!
11 posted on
12/17/2004 2:57:06 PM PST by
Moral Hazard
(With a pickle mind we kick the nipple beer.)
To: Graybeard58
Save the penguins. Nuke the iceberg.
12 posted on
12/17/2004 2:57:56 PM PST by
PeterFinn
(The NAACP can have a recount of the Ohio vote if I can have a recount of the Million Man March.)
To: Graybeard58
""It could all fail ... and more than 50,000 souls will have gone west again,""
Oh, for crying out loud. Fetuses don't have souls, but baby penguins do? Tolkein must be spinning in his grave.
16 posted on
12/17/2004 3:10:12 PM PST by
dangus
To: Graybeard58
What do they call that big frigid piece of ice, Hillary?
23 posted on
12/17/2004 3:23:29 PM PST by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Graybeard58
Currently there is "more fast (blocked) ice in McMurdo Sound than we've ever recorded in living history for this time of year," Sanson said. 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.
25 posted on
12/17/2004 3:26:05 PM PST by
PAR35
To: Graybeard58
Tow it to California, for the Klamath area.
28 posted on
12/17/2004 3:29:02 PM PST by
expatpat
To: Graybeard58
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.
To: Graybeard58
37 posted on
12/17/2004 3:58:56 PM PST by
longjack
To: Graybeard58
Isn't this the iceberg formed by the hotspot (aka volcano) that was on the seafloor?
38 posted on
12/17/2004 4:02:29 PM PST by
Wacka
To: Graybeard58; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
41 posted on
12/17/2004 10:45:42 PM PST by
farmfriend
( Congratulation. You are everything we've come to expect from years of government training.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks Ernest for the link. No ping to the list, just adding to the catalog. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
46 posted on
04/05/2005 12:07:31 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Friday, March 25, 2005.)
To: Dan from Michigan; Berosus; blam; dervish; Do not dub me shapka broham; FairOpinion; ValerieUSA
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]
47 posted on
04/05/2005 12:11:42 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Friday, March 25, 2005.)
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