Huge Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica

The size of Luxembourg is impressive, but I wish it was also the shape of Luxembourg.

Eventually, an iceberg will calf that has the outline of Jesus, and all the haters of love and lovers of non-freedom and such, will freeze to death.

Seriously, though... We ought to be able to do something really cool with an iceberg of such magnitude. Some sort of temporary terraforming? Turn it green? Carve out a form for structures built from Ca(CO3)2 precipitated from the surrounding waters?

I smell a new disaster movie. Bruce Willis gets very cold and is nearly crushed to death as he ignites the fuse that saves the planet.
 
DogB said:
That's thinner than I had assumed but still a lot of ice. With careful use of a large number of bombs you might be able to break it up some, but like you said, that’s a pretty antisocial solution to the problem.

ETA. Does anyone even keep 40MT bombs anymore?
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I think the largest the US ever had was only 25Mt, the Russians went higher because they had less accurate missiles.

Numbers I've seen for the iceberg are 78Km long, 30-40 Km wide, 400m thick. my quick calculation said several thousand 25Mt bombs to melt it completely. You could break it apart with a lot less, but I'm not cure how much that would change it's behavior unless you pulverized it.
 
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lomiller said:
I'm not cure how much that would change it's behavior unless you pulverized it.
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Yeah, I can't imagine replacing one gigantic iceberg with 4 huge (and slightly radioactive) icebergs is a real improvement.
 
Okay, I got it. Land a couple airplanes on this ice and declare it a sovereign country.

Now that'd be fun.
 
Build a landing strip on it. Fly in tourist and researchers. It won't turn turtle for a long time. Use it as a floating research platform.

Make it the new tourist attraction of the world. Sell T-shirts. A small resort hotel, the new playground, all solar and wind powered. Eco friendly. See it now, before it's gone!

Which will be, what, twenty years?
 
Don't forget, major unrestricted internet traffic hub. Satellite comm. TV uplinks. Bank safety deposit boxes. Polar bear burgers and penquin pizza (just kidding....)

Only negative....the name ICELAND is already taken.
 
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