if anybody wants to see the progress of the melt
http://www.q-music.be/page/q_ijsblok_fotogalerij
36 hours and still a long way to go
although i expect it to accelerate exponentially as the volume decreases
some variables can be excluded, just noticed they did put a tent over it
so rain probably is out of the loop
although wind and temp still is variable, and i would think that sunlight still has some effect, even if indirectly...
last year they had a different setup, with a gold bar in it worth 25000 euro
that one was 30 ton's worth of ice, and took 34 days to melt
and i suspect the ice block is a lot smaller in volume now
30 ton of ice, or 30 ton of water
that's 500x200x300 cm square, or rather a bit more because of ice expansion
a 997 is
L442 cm x W 180cm x H130 cm
from the pictures the base seems to follow the width and length of the car
that makes it around
L450 cm x W 180 cm xH 75CM
squared off it's smaller then last years block
and then you still haven't taken care off the sculpted form of the car, taken out of the car's ice block...
several factors that would make it melt faster then last year
the temperature now is considerably higher then 01/07
there is less ice
it's not a square cube, more surface
i've gone ahead and voted in for 1159670 seconds... or 13 days 10 hours 7 minutes 0 secs
wish me luck
