[nobama08]

The headline makes it sound like that would be a bad thing.

[Tarpon]

I actually think burying them under a 1000 meters of ice would be better. That way, the Earth would be scraped clean.

[Red_Devil 232]

Yep! So lets Get-er-Done!

[stockstrader]

The headline makes it sound like that would be a bad thing.

lol.....best comment of the thread!

[mad_as_he$$]

Thank you!!!

[No Truce With Kings]

“The headline makes it sound like that would be a bad thing.”

Yep. Sounds like a feature, not a bug, to me.

[Aussiebabe]

I agree, that was my first thought “And that is bad?”

[castlebrew]

>>The headline makes it sound like that would be a bad thing.<<

Doesn’t sound very likely to happen, to me (in spite of the computer modeling assumptions), once we put things in context.

Suppose that 500,000 cubic miles of ice = 500,000 cubic miles of liquid water (which it doesn’t, since water expands as it freezes - hence, floating ice).

Several sources note that the oceans contain about 328,000,000 (328 million) cubic miles of water.

With a little math, we find that the ice in question is about 0.15% (1.52 x10EE-3) of the total water in the oceans (or something less, considering ice contracts in volume as it melts).

A pretty minor amount - about one ounce (2 tablespoons) of water in five gallons.

Not that flooding DC out would be all that bad, IMHO. This sounds more like an Augean Stable sort of task...