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It’s also common to say stars are dying.

• jansan 6y ago
  A star is active and full of energy, while ice is just passive and does nothing.
  • afandian 6y ago
    If you want to look at it like that, the melting of sea ice involves the conversion of a lot of energy into destructive sea-level rise.
    • arethuza 6y ago
      Melting of sea ice doesn't cause sea level rise: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/whats-causing-sea-level-rise-land-ice-vs-sea-ice/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/whats-causing-se... NB It causes a lot of other problems - but apparently not that one (at least not directly).
  • 082349872349872 6y ago
    Large amounts of ice have gravitational potential energy and do substantially more than nothing: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0012825218305609-gr10.jpg https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S00128252183056... https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/1495/2019/ https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/1495/2019/ (Encountering crevasses which were not there a few days before is one of the traditional ways for mountaineers to die doing what they love. A local village was recently able to close a nineteenth century missing persons case when the ice disgorged some personal effects.) For external activity, compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_erratic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_erratic