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New City-sized Iceberg Created Near Antarctica
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| 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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To: The_Victor
Paging Mr. Geoffrey Pyke, please pick up the courtesy phone...
To: litehaus
We could put a bunch of little bamboo umbrellas on it and call it the world's largest cocktail party!..........
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:36:23 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: The_Victor
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:36:27 AM PST
by
Prysson
To: Prysson
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:38:25 AM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
To: The_Victor
Could someone please explain to me why such a comparatively small (8 mi. x 15 mi.) iceberg deserves any mention in the news???
For example, in 1956 the Coast Guard spotted an iceberg 208 miles long and 60 miles wide (twice the size of Connecticut). And in 1927, an iceberg 100 miles long and 100 miles wide was sighted.
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:39:27 AM PST
by
Boot Hill
("...and Joshua went unto him and said: art thou for us, or for our adversaries?")
To: Mr. Brightside
So Global Warming is now causing the earth to create icebergs? Yes.
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:39:29 AM PST
by
atlaw
To: The_Victor
BIG FLOATING THING ALERT
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:41:01 AM PST
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(DO NOT read to the end of this tagline . . . Oh, $#@%^, there you went and did it.)
To: The_Victor
It's George Bushs' fault!
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:41:57 AM PST
by
Dr. Ed Bravo
(Contact "StarCMC" to join the Patriot Guard Riders ping list.)
To: YouPosting2Me
"You're kidding me. A National Ice Center? Pluuuuuhhhleeeeese."
OK, you are in charge of keeping track of where Ice Burgs are so ships will not run into them.
Your first job is to name the place where you work.
Waiting patiently............
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:42:37 AM PST
by
Lokibob
(Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
To: The_Victor
If the iceberg hits an island, will the island sink? Is Australia, therfore, in danger???
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:43:01 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: TexasCajun
I was thinking the same thing. Even if you lost 90% of of it, 8 x 15 miles turns into 4000 x 7500 feet - still a handy thing to have around.
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:44:15 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Lokibob
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:44:56 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: mainepatsfan
To: The_Victor
If I have an ice-cube in my glass of water...and the icecube melts..is the level of water in my glass higher?
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:47:00 AM PST
by
Prysson
To: NaughtiusMaximus
BIG FLOATING THING ALERT Antarctica just generated a floater....
Ew
flush again....
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:49:27 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: theDentist
 |
| If the iceberg hits an island, will the island sink? Is Australia, therfore, in danger??? You raise a good point. With as many of these rouge bergs floating around and especially having the enormous sizes that have been reported, you'd think that sooner or later one of them would have collided with a continent. After all continents are much larger than the side of a barn. Maybe we should think of them as mobile homes or RVs for penquins. |
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03/28/2006 6:50:11 AM PST
by
HawaiianGecko
(Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.)
To: Prysson
If I have an ice-cube in my glass of water...and the icecube melts..is the level of water in my glass higher? Nope. Assuming you expected an answer.
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:52:25 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: HawaiianGecko
Maybe we should think of them as mobile homes or RVs for penquins. BRILLIANT!!
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:53:42 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: HawaiianGecko
Maybe we should think of them as mobile homes or RVs for penquins. Moving sidewalks for Polar bears? (arctic only)
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:53:50 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: The_Victor
Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! Please - Nooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:54:59 AM PST
by
Fury
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