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  an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-06 11:16 -0700
    Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-06 11:21 -0700
    Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica Hägar <hsahm@yahoo.com> - 2017-07-06 11:43 -0700
      Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-07-06 13:15 -0700
        Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-07 09:32 -0700
      Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-06 13:36 -0700
      Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2017-07-09 13:35 -0600

#424124 — an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/07/06/an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica/


What's a delaware????



What does "about to" mean?




What is  an antarctica??



i just have trouble understanding the headline...


somebody must have dropped me on my head.


It's hard to read ...fake news. 


What about the kidnapped children on Mars??

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#424125

The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/07/06/an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica/
> 
> What's a delaware????
> 
> What does "about to" mean?
> 
> What is  an antarctica??
> 
> i just have trouble understanding the headline...
> 
> somebody must have dropped me on my head.
> 
> It's hard to read ...fake news.
> 
> What about the kidnapped children on Mars??



i'm going to go on a simulated mission to antarctica, will somebody close the refriderator door for me please?

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#424126

"The Starmaker"  wrote in message news:595E7E98.377A@ix.netcom.com...

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/07/06/an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica/

What's a delaware????

What does "about to" mean?

What is  an antarctica??

i just have trouble understanding the headline...


*** They did indeed drop you on your noggin ... but I digress:
The Antarctic has been "calving" ice sheets since time
immemorial.  When glaciers, a common phenomena in
the Antarctic, spill out into the sea, they eventually break
off from the progenitor ice mass, sort of like bending a
beer can tab to and fro, until it breaks off.  It is nature's
way of getting rid of the grown up children.  The floes,
or ice bergs, as they are otherwise known, then go on
hunting trip for such unsinkable behemoths as the Titanic. 

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#424135

How is an iceberg related to relativity in Any Way?

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#424193

David (Kronos Prime) Fuller wrote:
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> How is an iceberg related to relativity in Any Way?



If you sit on an iceberg for two hours...

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#424137

Hägar wrote:
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> "The Starmaker"  wrote in message news:595E7E98.377A@ix.netcom.com...
> 
> https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/07/06/an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica/
> 
> What's a delaware????
> 
> What does "about to" mean?
> 
> What is  an antarctica??
> 
> i just have trouble understanding the headline...
> 
> *** They did indeed drop you on your noggin ... but I digress:
> The Antarctic has been "calving" ice sheets since time
> immemorial.  When glaciers, a common phenomena in
> the Antarctic, spill out into the sea, they eventually break
> off from the progenitor ice mass, sort of like bending a
> beer can tab to and fro, until it breaks off.  It is nature's
> way of getting rid of the grown up children.  The floes,
> or ice bergs, as they are otherwise known, then go on
> hunting trip for such unsinkable behemoths as the Titanic.


i didn't know the titanic was...unsinkable, didn't it sink?

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#424400

Hägar <hsahm@yahoo.com> wrote:

>The Antarctic has been "calving" ice sheets since time
>immemorial.  When glaciers, a common phenomena in
>the Antarctic, spill out into the sea, they eventually break
>off from the progenitor ice mass, sort of like bending a
>beer can tab to and fro, until it breaks off.  It is nature's
>way of getting rid of the grown up children.  The floes,
>or ice bergs, as they are otherwise known, then go on
>hunting trip for such unsinkable behemoths as the Titanic. 

Since the Antarctic ice stabilizes as very large sheets, the resulting
icebergs are wildly different from the Greenland things that sank the
Titanic.
-- 
We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.

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