
Huge Iceberg Nine Times As Large As Singapore 76
DeadBugs writes: "From CNN and the actual National Ice Center press release, a huge iceberg 2130 square miles in size has broke off of Antartica. Satellite pictures are included at each site. This iceberg is larger than the state of Rhode Island and about the same size as Delaware."
Re:Run!!! (Score:2)
Tiddler! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Tiddler! (Score:1)
These types of things seem to happen all the time anyways.....
Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:2, Funny)
Go george dubya, go!!!
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:2, Informative)
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British researchers say the process is entirely natural and is not due to global warming.
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Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:1)
Dude, it's springtime! This happens every year, remember?
I do agree with you though. Here in Seattle it's been snowing in LATE MARCH. Seattle is lucky to have it snow once a year, so big fat flakes dead into March is odd, as in not normal. You gotta wonder: Is it el nin~o or is it el environmento chango?
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:3, Insightful)
Err... It broke of of Antarctica. Southern Hemisphere. Seasons reversed.
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:1)
So that would put it late summer/early fall in the Southern Hemisphere. The equivalent to our September. Which means it broke off after three of the warmest months of the years, giving it pleanty of time to sever it's bonds to the rest of the ice flow naturally.
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:2)
"It's so hot! Why is it so hot! It wasn't this hot last year! We'll all die soon!" etc etc..
Yet, year after year, there is a week or so of hot hot weather (around 40-45C). The only thing that changes is when the week occurs (it randomly chooses a time in summer, or so it appears..)
If you ask me people overreact to this all the time
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:1)
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:2)
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:1)
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:1)
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:1)
He'll cuff the thing and take it to sunny Cuba!
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:3, Funny)
A renegade iceberg - nine times the size of singapore - has defected from the antarctic republic. The iceberg, believed to hold communist sympathies, is heading directly for washington D.C at a speed of 0.1 knots. Although the motives of the iceberg are not clear, it may be seeking retaliation for President GW Bush's dismissal of the Kyoto agreement. Other sources believe the Iceberg may have recieved funding from Iraq and may be in association with Al Queida. Reports that Ossama bin Laden - having escaped Afghanistan - is Captaining the Iceberg have proved unfounded.
Although no public statement has been offered by the Whitehouse, inside sources believe that Bush is preparing a full readying of America's nuclear resources in preparation for the incident.
ALthought the consequences of the Iceberg reaching Washington are difficult to predict, it is thought that it could lead to a major destabalisation of the global Ice Cream market, eventually resulting in huge economic turmoil for Ben & jerry's ice cream.
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:2)
I bet there isn't alot of cookie dough in the iceberg though.
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:1)
But I went to check out indymedia afterwards. I was shocked by how much anti-semetic crap was there - is that normal for the site? I hope my impression is wrong...
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:1)
ta. just cant help myself...
Aaah - Indymedia. I just posted with a link to suck people in a bit. Indymedia seemed the most suitable silly news organisation to link it to!
Being honest, indymedia can be ok. It is one of the most bias news organisations I know of (contrary to their mission statement), but it is quite nice in the way the bias is opposite to most conventional news agencies. It does have the occasional really insightful news story, that gets completely ignored by Western media. The "open system" of news reporting means that quality varies considerably, but it is pretty idealistic.
Incedently, it is a sister site for protest.org
Go there if you wanna check out some angry young rebels!
And about the anti-semitism: That is fairly recent. A little matter in Israel/Palestine I do believe. The anti-semitism is quite understandable. It does look like the Israelis are going to start building ovens soon.....
Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! (Score:1)
oh, and who mentioned holocaust? not me.
the Israelis are doing _ORGANIZED EXTERMINATION_ though, if you payed any attention to even your extremely bias media you would understand this
In Other News... (Score:3, Funny)
Expect W. to announce a carefully thoughtout plan, endorsed by nameless private industry advisors to VP Cheney, to offset this environmental calamity by drilling for more oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, "We've got to offset the threat to penguins with an equal threat to artic wildlife." While dismissing accusations the company pressured Dell not to offer Linux on systems, Microsoft will underscore why penguins are a threat and this is a good thing.
Re:no, this was the actual submission: (Score:1)
- obviousman
Nice units (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nice units (Score:4, Funny)
That's akin to saying a meter is "roughly the size of two Australian pizzas". Thanks, Media. I feel informed now.
Re:Nice units (Score:1)
Re:Nice units (Score:1)
If they used a unit you knew of, it wouldn't seem so large!
Besides, the fact that it is bigger than a country is supposed to sound "oh so scary!"
Re:Nice units (Score:5, Funny)
Deleware (Score:3, Funny)
But does it have more interesting attractions than delaware?
Lisa gushes, "I want to see Wilmington." Bart adds, "I want to visit a screen door factory." Marge replies, "Yup, Delaware has got it all."
Veramocor
Strange image (Score:1)
Strange the way the mind works when it's 6AM, you've been up all night and you've just spent the past 3 hours arguing quantum physics on IRC, earning lifetime bans on all major channels. o_0
Re:Strange image (Score:1)
The country is called the United States of America. We are U.S. citizens. Unfortunately theres no "ican", "ean" or "ese" word for us...
USean? USican? USese?
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DISCLAIMER: My corrections on the term "American" are in no
way endorsing or patriotic of the U.S., in fact the purpose is more
for the integrity of the the other countries on this continent.
Re:Strange image (Score:1)
Have you every BEEN out of the country? Even in Canada people are confused when you say "I'm an American", they say "Me Too!".
Though in South America this is more common.
Re:Strange image (Score:1)
iceberg FAQ (Score:4, Informative)
Re:iceberg FAQ (Score:4, Insightful)
a 1,000 lb charge of TNT would be needed to break up approximately 70,000 cubic ft of ice (1,960 tons) and a hundred such charges would be needed for the destruction of an average berg. Furthermore, to melt a medium size berg of 100,000 tons would require the complete theoretical heat of combustion of 2.4 million gallons of gasoline. Such methods are, of course, economically, as well as practically unsound.
Haul that baby over here... (Score:2)
You think this is bad? (Score:1)
Re:You think this is bad? (Score:1)
But Strange eons Even death May DIE.
Or words to that effect I belive
Re:You think this is bad? (Score:1)
[raises hand] oh oh! I do! I do!
XCOM was a great game. They don't make em like that anymore.
And since you seem to like OT XCOM jokes here's another one for you:
I recently heard on the news that the US had captured an Al Queda leader. I immediately thought "cool, now we can research the Martian solution"
This stuff is ohso cyclical.. (Score:3, Interesting)
We have a POLAR CONTINENT...
With huge thermal differentials across its' surface due to it being on a spherical planet and.. stuff.
Why is this surprising? It's a natural outward flow of material from the Pole (where it accretes) to the edge (where all that H2O gets recycled).
Sometimes bergs are big. Sometimes small.
Always constant, though.
Sheesh!
Stuff happens!
Re:This stuff is ohso cyclical.. (Score:1)
Like Singapore is extremely huge anyways. You'll have my attention when their is an iceberg detaching that is like the size of Canada...
Re:This stuff is ohso cyclical.. (Score:1)
The Italians Are Behind This! (Score:1)
This isn't the first time the Italians have done something mean and evil -- just look at them during WW2! And how they keep trying to steal Arctic Circle Candy. Don't trust Italians!
Re:You morons (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:You morons (Score:1)
Re:You morons (Score:1)
As its a bigger target (Score:2, Funny)
Promotional Stunt (Score:4, Funny)
I think the facts are overwhelming here. I'd better go put on my tinfoil hat or they'll start stealing thoughts from my brain again.
It would almost make those high movie ticket prices worthwhile if the studios would do cool stuff like this. Plus it would provide for scienterifically interesting things to study.
Redundancy (Score:3, Funny)
Or, since we all know that Delaware is bigger than Rhode Island, you could just have said it's about the size of Delaware.
That is, unless you wanted to start a list of things that it's bigger than.