12 x 21 sq mile Iceberg breaks loose.

[Rusty Heap]

Just recently, (get a grasp of this scale) An iceberg 21 miles x 12 miles, and 200 foot thick, has broken loose from the South Pole Antarctic Ice field and is drifting into open water.

Thick about your daily commute or car trip to the next town.

12 x 21 MILES of floating ice.

In this video, note the chart scale is 20 miles per ~1/2" for scale


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[livi]

The definition of Heavy Stuff!

[slakjaw]

thats a lot of ice man. Lets make some mix drinks and chill out

[Rusty Heap]

Originally Posted by slakjaw

thats a lot of ice man. Lets make some mix drinks and chill out

Running the numbers at 12 x 21 miles x 200 foot thick, and assuming 1/4 cu foot of ice per blender, I calculated 5,884 Billion blenders of Pina coladas and/or Margaritas worth of ice.


you bring the mixer.


Sometime it's a curse being an engineer, who always needs to know these things...

[widgeon13]

Good place to transfer the Gitmo prisoners!

[jwasbury]

Any idea how much water this berg displaces? I've been reading a Sci-Fi novel recently and in the story a massive ice shelf breaks off from Antarctica (bigger though, like 1/3 of the continent), and it causes the sea level on earth to rise by several meters!! Major cataclysm in this book...

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by jwasbury

Any idea how much water this berg displaces? I've been reading a Sci-Fi novel recently and in the story a massive ice shelf breaks off from Antarctica (bigger though, like 1/3 of the continent), and it causes the sea level on earth to rise by several meters!! Major cataclysm in this book...

If it was floating already, as it probably was, it won't displace anything.

[slakjaw]

Lol. Hope everyone is thirsty

Quote de slakjaw

thats a lot of ice man. Lets make some mix drinks and chill out

Running the numbers at 12 x 21 miles x 200 foot thick, and assuming 1/4 cu foot of ice per blender, I calculated 5,884 Billion blenders of Pina coladas and/or Margaritas worth of ice.





you bring the mixer.





Sometime it's a curse being an engineer, who always needs to know these things...

[Jim Richards]

It's on its way to Minnesota to find a mate.

[KevinP73]

You could park that thing in the San Fransisco Bay and California still wouldn't let you water your front lawn.

[slakjaw]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

It's on its way to Minnesota to find a mate.

Bring it on! I got a blender that will destroy that thing 1 pitcher at a time! Everyone's invited

[WolfeMacleod]

Hopefully, nobody will launch a new giant ocean liner...

[Danimal16]

Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

Running the numbers at 12 x 21 miles x 200 foot thick, and assuming 1/4 cu foot of ice per blender, I calculated 5,884 Billion blenders of Pina coladas and/or Margaritas worth of ice.


you bring the mixer.


Sometime it's a curse being an engineer, who always needs to know these things...

THIS is singularly the finest solution to the entire world's problems! Every last one of them! Brilliant!!!

[jhc]

We passed by this much smaller iceberg on the way to a trek on the Viedma Glacier in Argentina last month. At the end of the trek the guides produce a bottle of liquor and served it over chunks of ice broken off the glacier. Although the glaciers in Patagonia are plentiful and massive it is sobering when they tell you how much some of them have shrunk in recent years.

[june82000]

This has been happening since the beginning of time.

[aap1966]

Good place to transfer the Gitmo prisoners!

That's cold man.

[71scgc]

Even frozen, water can hold harmful bacteria.
Though I have drunk some bad water out of necessity, don't think that since it comes from a glacier or is frozen that it is safe to drink.

Carter

[dw1]

12 x 20 miles = 240 sq miles Yes, that's quite a bit of ice.

But I do wonder how uncommon this is. Our powers of observation have gotten much, much better, and we are watching polar ice more now then ever before.

Wait a minute - It was CNN! They must now be speculating that this ice caused the Malaysian Airline plane to go missing!