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I have a really stupid question. Here it goes, anyway. Isn't there a way to "glue" these big block of ice back to the main part? I was going to add a few ideas
by tucaz 10y ago
I have a really stupid question. Here it goes, anyway. Isn't there a way to "glue" these big block of ice back to the main part?
I was going to add a few ideas on how to glue it back, but then I deleted them as it would sound more stupid than it already does.
- frandroid 10y agoNuclear winter.
- codeddesign 10y agoGet 10,000 snow machines to dredge the water and spray snow and water everywhere ;) If people can build islands, why not glaciers?
- kazagistar 10y agoPowered by...?
- woah 10y agoCoal
- Johnny555 10y agoWhat would be the point? Even if you could somehow freeze it back on, the natural forces that caused it to calve off are going to continue, so all you've done is bought a little time, perhaps not even a full season.
- mewo2 10y agoI think you might need to recalibrate your idea of the scale of this object. The iceberg weighs about a trillion (10^12) tons. For comparison, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is about a hundred thousand (10^5) tons. So you're talking about moving an object which weighs about a million times as much as the whole US Navy carrier fleet. Then, once you had it back into position, you'd need to apply your "glue" to the whole crack surface, which is around 40 square kilometers, a little smaller than Manhattan Island. Also, the majority of that crack surface is hundreds of meters deep in sub-zero waters in one of the most inaccessible places on the planet. Then, once you've done that, the same forces which caused this bit to calve off would cause a new bit to calve a year or two later.