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Gigantic iceberg the size of DEVON is about to break away from Antarctica(OMG!!!)
mirror.co.uk ^
| 7/6/2017
| Jeff Parsons
Posted on 07/06/2017 12:16:11 PM PDT by rktman
Antarctica is set to lose a gigantic chunk of ice as scientists fear a 100-mile crack along the Larsen C ice shelf is about to give way.
They have been observing the progress of the crack for months and the latest reports say there is only three miles of ice left connecting shelf together.
When it breaks apart, the newly formed iceberg will measure around 2,500 square miles - roughly the size of the county of Devon - and contain three trillion tonnes of ice. It will be one of the largest icebergs ever recorded and will drift through the Weddell Sea south of the tip of South America.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; ecowankers
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To: bgill
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posted on
07/06/2017 1:11:09 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
To: dsrtsage
My thoughts exactly. It's a vast sheet of ice pulled on by forces we can't begin to artificially induce. Sooner or later the stresses are going to find and overwhelm the weak spots. Just as with anything else with a solid crystalline structure.
That it's breaking off and away is a GOOD sign, methinks. It was GROWING and is still growing from accumulation of ice. It's not simply melting and fading away.
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posted on
07/06/2017 1:19:53 PM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
(I don't give a damn about your feelings. Try to impress me with your convictions.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
23
posted on
07/06/2017 1:33:31 PM PDT
by
onedoug
( KEK)
To: rktman
Think of all the beer that would chill ... or the margaritas it would make.
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posted on
07/06/2017 1:43:21 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: CJ Wolf
Put a rocket on it and move it to LA. I was thinking similar thoughts, although with tow hooks. And a few thousand tug boats. Tow it to LA. Then put a thousand illegals to work chipping away at it making ice cubes for all the cocktail clubs and bars in the area, would save millions of gallons of water in California.
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posted on
07/06/2017 1:59:47 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: rktman
Take out a map (like one of those world maps that Nat’l Geo. or Doctors Without Borders) send you. Find Delaware and cut it out and then paste it in the middle of the Pacific Ocean south of the Equator.
Go to a good dictionary and look up the word “insignificant”.
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posted on
07/06/2017 2:18:34 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
To: IronJack
Anyone contact YETI about some sort of storage device?
27
posted on
07/06/2017 2:24:58 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: VietVet876
The Devon Horse Show is a great tradition. We love to find a spot and watch the coaching entries come by; horses prancing, passengers celebrating, coachman blaring the horn. Tally ho!
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posted on
07/06/2017 2:42:44 PM PDT
by
Tucker39
(Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
To: onedoug
Remember the woman politician who claimed ‘we can change those laws’
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posted on
07/06/2017 3:09:11 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
To: rktman
OMG! Is that like cute Devon that’s dating Jessica, or fat Devon in gym class? I swear I saw FD eat a gallon of ice cream at Randy’s party. What!? They broke up? I mean, I like Jessica and all that, but MEOW, CD is fine.
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posted on
07/06/2017 3:17:45 PM PDT
by
Rinnwald
To: rktman
Meet Devon.
To: Billthedrill
🐈🐕. What the........ Post 14 sure looks different. Is there a "trans-species" thing goin on here?
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posted on
07/06/2017 3:48:30 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: IronJack
That’s not salt around the rim, it’s penguin poo.
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posted on
07/06/2017 4:00:44 PM PDT
by
kaboom
To: rktman
There’s no ice in Antarctica.
To: kaboom
Oh, a guano mine. 😹🤑🙊
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posted on
07/06/2017 4:44:19 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: <1/1,000,000th%
Just a few months ago, in June 2014, the excess sea ice around Antarctica exceeded the entire area of Greenland. But Obama’s national press corpse ignored it: That news did not fit his narrative.
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posted on
07/06/2017 4:50:51 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: rktman
37
posted on
07/06/2017 4:54:32 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: rktman
Tow it to the Middle East — and, sell the fresh water...
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posted on
07/06/2017 5:35:48 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's alias. "Islam": Allah's assassins"; "Moderate Muslims": Islam's useful idiots.)
To: rktman
If I can get it to my place, I might finally be able to host a party and not run out of ice.
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posted on
07/06/2017 6:42:37 PM PDT
by
Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
(We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
Don’t forget to remind your guests to bring their ice skates.
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posted on
07/06/2017 10:36:43 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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