Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Wow.

Um. Dude. LiveScience: New City-sized Iceberg Created Near Antarctica:

The iceberg is about 8 miles wide and 15 miles long. It broke free of the Fimbul Ice Shelf, a large glacial ice sheet along the northwestern section of Queen Maud Land, in the eastern Weddell Sea near Antarctica...

Last year, a larger wandering iceberg named B-15A rammed into the continent and single-handedly ripped two other new city-sized icebergs free.

Maybe this means something about global warming, I dunno. It's just that this is the sort of scale I don't really think about things floating around on the ocean in.

Other than when thinking about plate tectonics, I guess.

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