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Tow-an-iceberg plan being floated to ease Cape Town drought
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Posted on 07/06/2018 7:57:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin

wasn’t that from ‘bewster’s millions’?


21 posted on 07/06/2018 8:23:53 AM PDT by camle (keep and open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: rlmorel

If they tow an iceberg, won’t they artificially cool the Ocean? This will affect global warming.

Won’t we all be doomed all over again? /S


22 posted on 07/06/2018 8:23:59 AM PDT by Tenacious 1
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To: BenLurkin

The Israelis have offered SA their desalination technology, which is fast and cheap. They said no.

Stupid is a hard thing to fix.


23 posted on 07/06/2018 8:24:38 AM PDT by lurk
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To: BenLurkin

“At this stage it appears to us that in fact the groundwater or desalination options are cheaper or at least equal cost price,” said Cape Town’s deputy mayor, Ian Neilson.”

Too bad you told the Israelis to go jump in a lake.

Die of thirst you anti Semitic piece of crap.

L


24 posted on 07/06/2018 8:27:16 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: TexasGator
“I assume the boats have brakes.

I suggest you take a day off and go boating!

I had to quit changing brakes and rotors on my boat. I can no longer hold my breath long enough to pull the cotter pins.

25 posted on 07/06/2018 8:28:01 AM PDT by Tenacious 1
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To: Kozak

I was sorta being sarcastic....but in truth I am curious how the big berg would stop.


26 posted on 07/06/2018 8:29:19 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: siberianheat

Hahaha...have you ever heard the story about the infamous Pykrete Ricochet?

“At the Quebec Conference of 1943 Mountbatten brought a block of pykrete along to demonstrate its potential to the entourage of admirals and generals who had come along with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mountbatten entered the project meeting with two blocks and placed them on the ground. One was a normal ice block and the other was pykrete. He then drew his service pistol and shot at the first block. It shattered and splintered. Next, he fired at the pykrete to give an idea of the resistance of that kind of ice to projectiles. The bullet ricocheted off the block, grazing the trouser leg of Admiral Ernest King and ending up in the wall. According to Perutz’s own account, however, the incident of a ricocheting bullet hitting an Admiral actually happened much earlier in London and the gun was fired by someone on the project—not Mountbatten”

The other version of this was Churchill, Adm. King and some others were in a room, drinking, and someone fired a bullet and nearly hit King. I like that one better...


27 posted on 07/06/2018 8:34:31 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: BenLurkin; All
Iceberg Towing (In theory)
28 posted on 07/06/2018 8:34:52 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: ConservativeDude

Probably by having tugs push against it, just like big ships that don’e have bow or lateral thrusters. Also eventually the friction of the water will bring it to a halt.


29 posted on 07/06/2018 8:35:19 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Kozak

I love that “eventually” qualifier....

I guess that’s the art of it!

But thank you....


30 posted on 07/06/2018 8:36:12 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: TexasGator

Hehehe, boats DO have brakes...

Lubbers call them “rocks”!


31 posted on 07/06/2018 8:36:20 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: BenLurkin

Cue up the ‘Salvage 1’ episode.


32 posted on 07/06/2018 8:37:25 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: Tenacious 1

The Leftists just keep painting themselves into corners!


33 posted on 07/06/2018 8:37:41 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Tenacious 1

“I can no longer hold my breath long enough to pull the cotter pins. “

That brings back memories.


34 posted on 07/06/2018 8:49:39 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: blueunicorn6
Taste like chicken? 🐓🍗🍽. Poachers. The other dinner meat. Did they take "pride" in the event? Not "that" pride. 🌈
35 posted on 07/06/2018 8:52:48 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: ConservativeDude

P (momentum) = M x V

LOTS of mass....


36 posted on 07/06/2018 8:55:00 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: DCBryan1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svKq044qrYU

Video linked to your picture, GMTA!


37 posted on 07/06/2018 8:56:26 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: BenLurkin

But but but what about the ice shelf that’s already melting at insane levels?? /s


38 posted on 07/06/2018 8:57:43 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: BenLurkin

They’ve been saying this for 20 years.


39 posted on 07/06/2018 9:03:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ConservativeDude
Towing will look like tying down Gulliver.

Next idea please.

40 posted on 07/06/2018 9:05:59 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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