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Re: World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster

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Post by Someone » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 5:45 PM UTC

kitd wrote: post #27

tasty_freeze wrote: post #20

South Georgia Island is where Shackleton and his small crew landed, intentionally, in a storm using only dead reckoning in a lashed together boat, then did a never-before attempted 36 hour wintertime crossing over the island from the remote side to the populated side in the dead of winter. They had to do this because their exploration ship, the Endurance, got crushed and sank as they attempted (again) to trek to the…

I recommend this book if anyone wants an "anti-gravitational" read about it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Vo...

“South!”, Shackleton’s own book about this expedition is worth reading, and available for free at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5199.

Re: World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster

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Post by derryrover » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 7:47 PM UTC

83 wrote: post #21

_hao wrote: post #4

I know this can potentially sound very stupid given the actual size, but can't we bomb it (target specific parts with a lot of firepower) in an attempt to break it up if it poses such a danger to actual wildlife if it collides/approaches the island? The ocean then potentially will carry some of the pieces away and miss the island?

Why do people always feel the need to interfere with nature? Looking at their diagram of penguin colonies it looks like at most 40% could be blocked from the sea by this iceburg. Yes it will suck for the half of the island that gets wiped out but in 10 years when this thing is melted and gone the penguins from the other side will reestablish colonies and life will go on.

We are nature. We did this. We did global warming. Without global warming this probably would not have happenned. So we try to solve it ( or not)

Re: World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster

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Post by mikhailfranco » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 6:09 AM UTC

_hao wrote: post #4

I know this can potentially sound very stupid given the actual size, but can't we bomb it (target specific parts with a lot of firepower) in an attempt to break it up if it poses such a danger to actual wildlife if it collides/approaches the island? The ocean then potentially will carry some of the pieces away and miss the island?

"I see an iceberg and I want it painted black"

                                  The Melting Tones