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Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica

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Hägar wrote:
> 
> "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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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 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
  Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2017-07-06 15:03 -0700
    Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-07-06 15:20 -0700
    Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-07-06 21:44 -0400
    Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2017-07-07 14:31 -0700
      Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-07-07 19:34 -0700

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