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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MechAg94 on July 13, 2017, 09:56:54 AM
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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/12/536818782/massive-iceberg-breaks-free-in-antarctica
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/massive-iceberg-breaks-antarctica-one-scientist-says-it-s-suspicious-n782231
A massive iceberg the size of Delaware has broken free from Antarctica and is floating in the sea.
Earlier Wednesday, scientists announced that the 6,000-square-kilometer (about 2,300 square miles) iceberg had come loose, after satellites detected it had calved off the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.
This just might be a navigational hazard.
"I can confirm that Don Jr was nowhere near Antarctica in the last 24-48 hours." -- Sean Spicier
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Let's tow it down here and package some iceberg water and sell it to the hipsters.
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Nor is it clear whether climate change is behind this breakup.
Researchers will have to continue their studies to find out whether Larsen C is being affected by climate change.
What?!?!?! This isn't automatically blamed on globular worms? That is so unlike NPR.
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Researchers will have to continue their studies to find out whether Larsen C is being affected by climate change.
Yeah, well, it was "floating on the water." Maybe the sea level dropped. Or an earthquake somewhere shook it loose.
But this possibility has been eliminated:
"I can confirm that Don Jr was nowhere near Antarctica in the last 24-48 hours." -- Sean Spicier
Now, that's what I call funny.
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Let's tow it down here and package some iceberg water and sell it to the hipsters.
Hmmmm - if you "help" the iceberg drift to the New York coastline, would the water count as locally-sourced?
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Hmmmm - if you "help" the iceberg drift to the New York coastline, would the water count as locally-sourced?
Earth is local in a galactic kind of way.
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What?!?!?! This isn't automatically blamed on globular worms? That is so unlike NPR.
It simply has to be....Because a big chunk of ice has never broken off and fallen into the ocean... ;/ ;/ ;/
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From the linked NBC Snooze story...
Q: As the new iceberg potentially drifts north to warmer waters and melts, do you think it could raise the sea levels of the area it's in?
:facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
(https://i.giphy.com/media/xTiTnslZ0E5sqMbEac/giphy.webp)
Brad
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From the linked NBC Snooze story...
:facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
(https://i.giphy.com/media/xTiTnslZ0E5sqMbEac/giphy.webp)
Brad
They only had a walk in shower growing up. =)
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It simply has to be....Because a big chunk of ice has never broken off and fallen into the ocean... ;/ ;/ ;/
Ask the passengers of the Titanic...
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Hmmmm - if you "help" the iceberg drift to the New York coastline, would the water count as locally-sourced?
"Imported"
You do speak English, don't you? :police:
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The articles I've seen on this all seem to portray it as virtually a cataclysmic event. Then we get to the end of the second article linked in the opening post here:
SCAMBOS: Calving of icebergs happens all the time from Antarctica. No big deal. This one is large, but not really even in the top 10 since the 1960s.
To repeat for emphasis: "NO BIG DEAL." Not even in the top ten since the 1960s. So what's all the hubbub, Bub?
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The articles I've seen on this all seem to portray it as virtually a cataclysmic event. Then we get to the end of the second article linked in the opening post here:
To repeat for emphasis: "NO BIG DEAL." Not even in the top ten since the 1960s. So what's all the hubbub, Bub?
All the news that fits the narrative. Or can be fit into the narrative. Or can be distorted to fit the narrative. Or isn't actually news, but fits the narrative. Or actually isn't true, but fits the narrative. (https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/885525626588934146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp-3137%2F2017%2F07%2F13%2Fshocker-matt-yglesias-describes-when-fakenews-can-be-effective-just-guess%2F)
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The articles I've seen on this all seem to portray it as virtually a cataclysmic event. Then we get to the end of the second article linked in the opening post here:
To repeat for emphasis: "NO BIG DEAL." Not even in the top ten since the 1960s. So what's all the hubbub, Bub?
1. If it distracts the media from talking about what Trump and his people are doing, I am okay with that.
2. Any sort of hysteria about this is so obviously stupid it drives more fence sitters away from the Church of Global Warming.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjw8KdCBHsc
I bet a bunch of Hollywood types are kicking themselves. They could have filmed this scene for real.
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<snidely>
'Druther have California calve off.
</snidely>
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Ice(((berg))). Wake up, sheeple!
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It simply has to be....Because a big chunk of ice has never broken off and fallen into the ocean... ;/ ;/ ;/
Everything is a zero sum game when you're (climate change acolytes) a drooling moron.
THERE'S THAT MUCH LESS ICE NOW!! :facepalm:
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Screw all that.
How does one tow that thing and would sitting it in the Chesapeake Bay act like a swamp cooler for the east coast?
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Screw all that.
How does one tow that thing and would sitting it in the Chesapeake Bay act like a swamp cooler for the east coast?
I believe you would need a big fan as well.
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All the news that fits the narrative. Or can be fit into the narrative. Or can be distorted to fit the narrative. Or isn't actually news, but fits the narrative. Or actually isn't true, but fits the narrative.
Is that a transcript from an Andrew Klavan video?
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From the linked NBC Snooze story...
:facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
(https://i.giphy.com/media/xTiTnslZ0E5sqMbEac/giphy.webp)
Right up there with Hank Johnson and Guam tipping over and capsizing if we let the military build another building there.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjw8KdCBHsc
I bet a bunch of Hollywood types are kicking themselves. They could have filmed this scene for real.
And Algore wouldn't have had to lift CGI scenes from a Hollywood movie to produce his gobal warming video . . .
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Screw all that.
How does one tow that thing and would sitting it in the Chesapeake Bay act like a swamp cooler for the east coast?
I believe you would need a big fan as well.
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The source article itself is relevant to globular warming, sort of:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3398928/The-Midlands-wakes-snow-temperatures-set-plummet-weekend.html
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The source article itself is relevant to globular warming, sort of:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3398928/The-Midlands-wakes-snow-temperatures-set-plummet-weekend.html
I actually was going to post back that we could take those useless wind turbines, do a little fidgeting to make them run the fan off electric instead of having the fan make electric, stick 'em on the iceberg and Viola! Giant AC unit.
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I actually was going to post back that we could take those useless wind turbines, do a little fidgeting to make them run the fan off electric instead of having the fan make electric, stick 'em on the iceberg and Viola! Giant AC unit. (Sic. I think you meant fans there.)
You're right. Basically, every motor is a generator and every generator is a motor.
Motor? Generates back-voltage* as it spins from the applied electrical power. (Therefore, it's acting as a generator within itself while developing torque.)
Generator? Generates back-torgue as power is taken from it. (Therefore, it's acting as a motor within itself while developing electrical power.)**
=D Now, you'd have to anchor the iceberg to counteract the thrust developed by the fans, of course. Oh. and you'd need a long extension cord going to the iceberg. =D
Terry, 230RN
* Often called EMF, or "ElectroMotive Force," even today. Also called "tension," as in "high tension wires."
** This effect is commonly noticeable if you've ever had a headlight generator on your bicycle. Flip it on and this "reverse motor" effect puts considerable drag on the bike.
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SHouldn't we all be dead by now, from either being cook to death or frozen to death ??
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=D Now, you'd have to anchor the iceberg to counteract the thrust developed by the fans, of course
No, just turn some fans the other way. And if you have extra, put them in front of the fans as windmills for free power to turn the fans, which can blow on the windmills. Double plus win.
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^ :rofl:
Very good.
And don't they already do that in jet engines, where the compressor blows the turbine around?
???
Terry (Signed in crayon)
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SHouldn't we all be dead by now, from either being cook to death or frozen to death ??
https://youtu.be/nret1P0AH7o
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^ :rofl:
Very good.
And don't they already do that in jet engines, where the compressor blows the turbine around?
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Terry (Signed in crayon)
Other way around. Turbine spins the compressor.
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and this is why I love APS. Give us an iceberg and we'll make a swamp cooler. =)
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and this is why I love APS. Give us an iceberg and we'll make a self- generating swamp cooler. =)
FTFY... ;)
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Other way around. Turbine spins the compressor.
How could it? The compressor is in front. >:D
Terry (Signed in crayon)
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How could it? The compressor is in front. >:D
Terry (Signed in crayon)
Reverse flow engine. Saves gas that way. =D
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I love modern science. When I took physics in high school and college, we were told that a perpetual motion machine was impossible.
Today ... it's apparently not impossible at all. Progress.
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SHouldn't we all be dead by now, from either being cook to death or frozen to death ??
What about the flooding?