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1/10/2005
9:20:56 pm EST
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Get Ready For The Largest Demolition Derby On The Planet
Author: NASA
Source: NASA
Title: GET READY FOR THE LARGEST DEMOLITION DERBY ON THE PLANET
It is an event so large that the best seat in the house is in space: a massive iceberg is on a collision course with a floating glacier near the McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica. NASA satellites have witnessed the 100-mile-long B-15A iceberg moving steadily towards the Drygalski Ice Tongue. Though the iceberg's pace has slowed in recent days, NASA scientists expect a collision to occur no later than January 15, 2005.
"It's a clash of the titans, a radical and uncommon event," says Robert Bindshadler, a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and if the two giant slabs of ice collide, we could see one of the best demolition derbies on the planet. "Even a 'tap' from a giant can be powerful. It will certainly be a blow far larger than anything else the ice tongue has ever experienced," says Bindshadler.
When the iceberg and the ice tongue collide, the impact will likely "dent their bumpers," says Bindshadler. The edges could crumple and ice could pile or drift into the Ross Sea. But if the B-15A iceberg picks up enough speed before the two collide, the results could be more spectacular. The Drygalski Ice Tongue could break off.
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| Its OK | Jan 12th. at 10:18:55 am EST |
by Den Mother (Mt Pleasant Mi) - wc_xemail
Fear not my friends, most of the stufff that happens in the Antartic stays there. Any Ice that starts to travel north will melt just like it does in the north pole. I really don't thinks it will effect New Zeland either.
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| If This Was Flint Knapping... | Jan 11th. at 12:21:22 pm EST |
by Sphinxring (Olympia, Washington) - wc_xemail
If this was flint knapping, the hook ar the end would split off. But ice is not flint and will behave differently.
What catches my eye is that that entire chunk of ice is like a dam with shelf ice on the back side. It strikes me that it might be possible to set up a slow motion chain reaction where the whole shelf gets cracks and degrades through the rest of the antarctic summer.
I wonder how solid that shelf really is if chunks that big can come loose? This looks like a global warming event. When glaciers cease to flow, they go to pieces rather quickly.
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| Climat Events | Jan 11th. at 7:03:23 am EST |
by nitepheonixxx (lawrence, massachusettes) - wc_xemail
This is an interesting subject, and as facinated as I am about this upcoming event it worries me to see such shifts in climates and weather patterns that have been occurring. It is as if the earth is angry. snowfall in texas and california, mudslides and floods in different states, that is what we know what is occurring in this part of the world, but like the tsunami that has occurred maybe the impact of such an occurence was enough to inform the rest of the world. what if there are additional climate and earth disruptions in the rest of the world that are dubbed just simple occurences. I have been wondering about these changes, and quite frankly I am concerned. does anyone seem to have the same opinion or am I just being paranoid?
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| Tsumani Fodder? | Jan 11th. at 3:08:57 am EST |
by Serendyn (ID) - wc_xemail
Uh...no.
This will indeed be a dramatic and fascinating event , especially for those who study the Antarctic, icebergs, and other assorted extreme climes. But in comparison to the recent events in the Indian Ocean, this bit's a mouse fart.
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| The Big Question | Jan 11th. at 2:30:27 am EST |
by Da'y'nar (Dublin, CA) - wc_xemail
The tidal wave is a bother...But what is going to happen if all that ice drifts towards warmer climes?
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| BAM! | Jan 11th. at 1:29:19 am EST |
by Lugh oDuir (Calgary, Canada) - wc_xemail
I can't help but wonder how big a splash and shock wave this will cause. Is a tsunami like wave going to be generated and hit New Zealand?
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