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New City-sized Iceberg Created Near Antarctica
Yahoo (Live Science) ^
| 27 March 2006, 02:52 pm ET
| LiveScience Staff
Posted on 03/28/2006 6:23:53 AM PST by The_Victor
A city-sized iceberg has broken off an island near Antarctica.
The iceberg is about 8 miles wide and 15 miles long. It broke free of the Fimbul Ice Shelf, a large glacial ice sheet along the northwestern section of Queen Maud Land, in the eastern Weddell Sea near Antarctica.
The discovery was announced Friday. The National Ice Center, using visible satellite imagery from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, spotted the iceberg now named named D-16.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brrrr; cool
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OMG!!!!!There's an icerberg near Antartica.... Run for your lives!!!!!!
To: The_Victor
Man the lifeboats.
Minorities and women first.
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:25:34 AM PST
by
A message
To: The_Victor
Mine! Mine! Mine!
There's enough Iceberg Water in that thing to sell to Hollywood for decades!!
Woo-Hoo!
To: The_Victor
That will make a lot of margaritas
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:26:22 AM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: The_Victor
We can use the berg to cool down the Pacific ocean to help stop global warming..........
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:27:01 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: TexasCajun
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:28:05 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: The_Victor
Let's see, it's cold as ice and it floats around and basically does nothing but can damage you if you come in contact with it? Sounds like my ex-wife.
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:28:36 AM PST
by
isthisnickcool
(Jack Bauer: "By the time I'm finished with you you're going to wish you felt this good again".)
To: The_Victor
"The National Ice Center..."
You're kidding me. A National Ice Center? Pluuuuuhhhleeeeese.
How about a National Border Center (or a fence)?
To: The_Victor
The offending burg
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:29:32 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: Red Badger
This sounds like a PERFECT place for a "New Palestinian Homeland"!!!
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:29:38 AM PST
by
TomKOne
To: The_Victor
"Holy Christ, it's a bloody burg!"
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:30:11 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Remember 9/11. The left have already forgotten.)
To: Izzy Dunne
Do ya think there will be anything left of it when I drag it back to Texas?
To: The_Victor
So Global Warming is now causing the earth to create icebergs?
To: The_Victor
To: A message
I've often wondered if maritime regulations would be different today if the Titanic had avoided that berg.
To: TexasCajun
It will go from the size of a city to that of a small burg.
sorry...
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:32:54 AM PST
by
null and void
(Perhaps hating America is for those for whom hating Jews just isn't enough. - Philippe Roger)
To: Red Badger
And water being more dense than ice, lower the ocean level too!
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:34:55 AM PST
by
litehaus
To: The_Victor
Tell the Navy to stay clear of it. Don't need another Titanic incident. :)
To: The_Victor
George Bush hates icebergs
To: The_Victor
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:36:08 AM PST
by
B.O. Plenty
(Islam, liberalism and abortions are terminal..)
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