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Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« on: July 12, 2017, 02:01:11 pm »
Project Midas by Martin O'Leary, Adrian Luckman and Project MIDA 7/12/2017

A one trillion tonne iceberg – one of the biggest ever recorded - has calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The calving occurred sometime between Monday 10th July and Wednesday 12th July 2017, when a 5,800 square km section of Larsen C finally broke away. The iceberg, which is likely to be named A68, weighs more than a trillion tonnes.  Its volume is twice that of Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes.

The final breakthrough was detected in data from NASA’s Aqua MODIS satellite instrument, which images in the thermal infrared at a resolution of 1km, and confirmed by NASA’s Suomi VIIRS instrument.

The development of the rift over the last year was monitored using data from the European Space Agency Sentinel-1 satellites – part of the European Copernicus Space Component. Sentinel-1 is a radar imaging system capable of acquiring images regardless of cloud cover, and throughout the current winter period of polar darkness.

The iceberg weighs more than a trillion tonnes (1,000,000,000,000 metric tonnes), but it was already floating before it calved away so has no immediate impact on sea level.

More: http://www.projectmidas.org/blog/calving/
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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2017, 02:02:27 pm »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 12, 2017, 02:01:11 pm
Project Midas by Martin O'Leary, Adrian Luckman and Project MIDA 7/12/2017

A one trillion tonne iceberg – one of the biggest ever recorded - has calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The calving occurred sometime between Monday 10th July and Wednesday 12th July 2017, when a 5,800 square km section of Larsen C finally broke away. The iceberg, which is likely to be named A68, weighs more than a trillion tonnes.  Its volume is twice that of Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes.

The final breakthrough was detected in data from NASA’s Aqua MODIS satellite instrument, which images in the thermal infrared at a resolution of 1km, and confirmed by NASA’s Suomi VIIRS instrument.

The development of the rift over the last year was monitored using data from the European Space Agency Sentinel-1 satellites – part of the European Copernicus Space Component. Sentinel-1 is a radar imaging system capable of acquiring images regardless of cloud cover, and throughout the current winter period of polar darkness.

The iceberg weighs more than a trillion tonnes (1,000,000,000,000 metric tonnes), but it was already floating before it calved away so has no immediate impact on sea level.

More: http://www.projectmidas.org/blog/calving/

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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2017, 02:17:20 pm »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 12, 2017, 02:01:11 pm
The iceberg weighs more than a trillion tonnes (1,000,000,000,000 metric tonnes), but it was already floating before it calved away so has no immediate impact on sea level.

Neither now nor when it melts, if they only understood basic science...
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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2017, 02:29:39 pm »
I'm renting a tugboat to go and get it. My plan is to drag it to the East Coast, process it, and sell it as bottled water.


If you guys see bottles of Iceburg Water flying off the shelf soon, that'll be me.


"Water as pure as it was a million years ago!"
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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2017, 02:33:02 pm »
Quote from: 240B on July 12, 2017, 02:29:39 pm
I'm renting a tugboat to go and get it. My plan is to drag it to the East Coast, process it, and sell it as bottled water.


If you guys see bottles of Iceburg Water flying off the shelf soon, that'll be me.


"Water as pure as it was a million years ago!"

A Tugboat?
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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2017, 03:15:35 pm »
Quote from: 240B on July 12, 2017, 02:29:39 pm
I'm renting a tugboat to go and get it. My plan is to drag it to the East Coast, process it, and sell it as bottled water.


If you guys see bottles of Iceburg Water flying off the shelf soon, that'll be me.


"Water as pure as it was a million years ago!"

With a million years of dust/dirt/penguin feces also compressed in it. 

I've tasted melted iceberg water.  The mineral content is so high, it is essentially undrinkable.
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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2017, 03:24:04 pm »
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With a million years of dust/dirt/penguin feces also compressed in it. 

I've tasted melted iceberg water.  The mineral content is so high, it is essentially undrinkable.

Call it Natural Mineral Water and sell it to liberals.
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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2017, 03:25:35 pm »
Quote from: thackney on July 12, 2017, 03:15:35 pm
With a million years of dust/dirt/penguin feces also compressed in it. 

I've tasted melted iceberg water.  The mineral content is so high, it is essentially undrinkable.


Yeah, I know. I don't give a damn about the iceburg. I just want the publicity. I'll just sell tap-water like everyone else.
Who cares about drinking an iceburg?
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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2017, 03:28:28 pm »
Quote from: Just_Victor on July 12, 2017, 03:24:04 pm
Call it Natural Mineral Water and sell it to liberals.

Works best if you label it collectible, maybe then they won't open the bottle to taste it.
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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2017, 03:34:16 pm »
Quote from: thackney on July 12, 2017, 03:15:35 pm
With a million years of dust/dirt/penguin feces also compressed in it. 

I've tasted melted iceberg water.  The mineral content is so high, it is essentially undrinkable.

Exactly.

What's far better is the ice from Greenland deep ice cores.  The compressed gas bubbles pop as the ice melts, and the air wasn't as dirty back then.  Put a little in your drink for some fizz.
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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2017, 05:46:07 pm »
Quote from: Just_Victor on July 12, 2017, 03:24:04 pm
Call it Natural Mineral Water and sell it to liberals.

With the penguin poop labeled as "natural organic matter".........
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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2017, 05:59:13 pm »
Quote from: Joe Wooten on July 12, 2017, 05:46:07 pm
With the penguin poop labeled as "natural organic matter".........

It's GMO and gluten free.

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Re: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2017, 06:10:09 pm »
Quote from: Joe Wooten on July 12, 2017, 05:46:07 pm
With the penguin poop labeled as "natural organic matter".........



Penguins too...
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