Great Britain is missing Northern Ireland.
Iceberg simulator – draw an iceberg and see how it floats and melts
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#12Great Britain is missing Northern Ireland.
maybe the creator of the site is just a really enthusiastic star trek fan
https://www.irishpost.com/news/star-trek-the-next-generation...
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#13Great Britain is missing Northern Ireland.
Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) doesn't include Northern Ireland. The UK (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) does.
On the other hand, Great Britain "includes islands, such as the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Isles of Scilly, the Hebrides and the island groups of Orkney and Shetland, that are part of England, Wales, or Scotland".
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#14The premise of the original simulator was to show how (reasonably shaped) icebergs actually float. This one adds melting and says: "his new code actually takes material away from the surface of the iceberg in a uniform way. It works more like you would expect melting ice to behave." But this is not how I would expect a melting iceberg to behave at all, and I'm fairly sure that -- unlike the floating part -- this is not now icebergs actually melt.
There is no reason to believe that the air and the water around the iceberg are the same temperature or otherwise in a state where melting would be completely uniform. This changes a somewhat scientific simulation into an unscientific toy.
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#15Great Britain is missing Northern Ireland.
Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) doesn't include Northern Ireland. The UK (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) does. On the other hand, Great Britain "includes islands, such as the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Isles of Scilly, the Hebrides and the island groups of Orkney and Shetland, that are part of England, Wales, or Scotland". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain
[Edit for clairity: responding to 'On the other hand, Great Britain "includes islands...']
Even your quote starts with "Great Britain is an island", though it later goes into "Politically, Great Britain refers to the whole of England, Scotland and Wales in combination".
So realistically its correct both ways - you can use it as a geographical term excluding islands or a political term including islands
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) doesn't include Northern Ireland. The UK (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) does. On the other hand, Great Britain "includes islands, such as the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Isles of Scilly, the Hebrides and the island groups of Orkney and Shetland, that are part of England, Wales, or Scotland". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain
[Edit for clairity: responding to 'On the other hand, Great Britain "includes islands...'] Even your quote starts with "Great Britain is an island", though it later goes into "Politically, Great Britain refers to the whole of England, Scotland and Wales in combination". So realistically its correct both ways - you can use it as a geographical term excluding islands or a political term including islands
Not sure of your point at all, I find your comment totally confusing in at least 3 different places. Not worth going into I guess. Mine was mainly just that it doesn't include Northern Ireland. I only mentioned the other islands as it would be nice to see them in iceberg form. :-)
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#17Most fun was Japan because of the islands, interesting that it took Hokkaido longest to stabilise.
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#18Hmmm ... Turkey is constrained to Anatolia without Thrace.
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#19instead of "simply" melting, maybe you could also show the sea/air temperatures?
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#20The premise of the original simulator was to show how (reasonably shaped) icebergs actually float . This one adds melting and says: "his new code actually takes material away from the surface of the iceberg in a uniform way. It works more like you would expect melting ice to behave." But this is not how I would expect a melting iceberg to behave at all, and I'm fairly sure that -- unlike the floating part -- this is…
How far do we want to take this simulation :-) it's also 2d, which is probably a more serious concern given the way the mass distribution reacts to each increase in dimensionality.