Mysterious Falling Ice Chunk Leaves Man's Car On The Rocks (Tampa, FL)

TampaTrib.com ^ | 01/29/2007 | JASON GEARY

[Slicksadick]

[from occupied ga]

thousand feet and it would travel quite a distance if it started out at say 200 mph.

Commercial aircraft cruise at a little over 500mph. Even a longer way that the ice can go.

[RS]

More evidence of global warming ...

[BallyBill]

Al Gore was probably flying to a Global Warming Convention and his electric planes battery froze and fell off.

[raygun]

Talent of silver contained 3,000 shekels (Ex. 38:25, 26), and was equal to 94 3/7 lbs. avoirdupois. The Greek talent, however, as in the LXX., was only 82 1/4 lbs. It was in the form of a circular mass, as the Hebrew name _kikkar_ denotes. A talent of gold was double the weight of a talent of silver (2 Sam. 12:30). Parable of the talents (Matt. 18:24; 25:15).

Revelation 16:21 mentions a hailstorm having stones weighing a talent each. The Greek talent of ice would occupy a volume equivalent to 37300g / (0.998g /cm³) = 37374.75cm³ / 1000000cm³ = 0.037374m³. The volume of a sphere is computed according to the formula of 4/₃ p r^3.

\ r = ³Ö(0.037374m³)3/_4p = .20741m = 8.16575" = 1.3601' diameter hailstones.

This is a conservative estimate in that colder hailstones would be somewhat larger (colder ice being less dense), and if the Greek talent equivalent of gold is intimated in the passage, the stones would be bigger by at least a factor of 1.25.

[greenthumbedislndr]

Hmm.... See what you get for washing your car on Sunday morning at 9 am instead of being at church? Everybody take heed and quit skipping from Sunday School.

On the other hand, it looks suspicious to me that there is no water around that chunk of ice in the photo. wouldn't the outside of it start melting imediatelly? this is in FL ain't it? the person who took the photo had to be able to get that camera really fast for it to not be any water around that chunk of ice in the photo.

[frankenMonkey]

[raygun]

Hmmmmm, you get much of that do ya? Sucks being you, eh? That being said:

Possible ice meteorite recovered in China

[jwparkerjr]

I was being conservative but then realized if they were at the flight level I cited they would indeed be going over 500 mph! My guess is they would have been descending though since something would have had to cause the ice to break free from the aircraft and one guess would be the warming of the airframe as they descended. If the air cools at 3.5 degrees per thousand feet, and it was 70 degrees at sea level, then freezing would have been somewhere around 10,000 feet (correct my understanding or math if needed, it's been a long time since I had to concern myself with such details) and their airspeed would have been somewhere below cruising speed at point. I think.

[raygun]

Fall of blocks/meteorites of ice have been recently classified as megacryometeors. Megacryometeors are not the classical big hailstones, ice from aircrafts (waste water or tank leakage), nor the simple result of icing processes at high altitudes. A detailed historical review of such ice fall events confirms that there are many documented references of falls of large blocks of ice which go back to the first half of the 19th century (previous to the invention of the aircrafts), it also reveals that, mainly after 1950, the number of megacryometeor hits has spectacularly increased. More than 100 events have been witnessed and recorded, affecting practically the whole planet (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Colombia, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and USA).

Some anecdotal accounts and historical reports of ice falls can be found here. Stuff like this has been reported for centuries.

[scottteng]

yes is Florida but we in the Tampa area are in the middle of one of our occasional cold snaps there was ice in the bed of my truck this morning having frozen overnight supposed to be colder tonight.

[No Blue States]

Thats interesting, especially in light of the prophecy:

Revelation 16:21
And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.

[No Blue States]

Small impact crater generated by a megacryometeor (Oakland, USA, 2006)

[SunkenCiv]

This topic is from about a year ago.

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[Monkey Face]

Yep. Sounds like Joe Dirt to me....

[BenLurkin]

Bump!