it was there for maybe fifteen hundred years. lol @ permanence! didn't take us very long to dislodge that ice. it was just sitting there anyway! what was it doing? frozen water is boring!!
"While icebergs naturally break away from the mainland, collapses like this are unusual but are happening more frequently in recent decades, Vaughan said. The collapse is similar to what happens to hardened glass when it is smashed with a hammer, he said.
The rest of the Wilkins ice shelf, which is about the size of Connecticut, is holding on by a narrow beam of thin ice. Scientists worry that it too may collapse. Larger, more dramatic ice collapses occurred in 2002 and 1995."
just more evidence that literally no part of the world is safe from our selfish ravaging. this, like every indication that we have constructed a global catastrophe and are accelerating it daily, will fall into the canyon of apathetic bliss while we waste time talking about hybrid cars, "green" business practices and solar-powered factories. an unimaginably powerful hurricane swirls around us, intensifying ceaselessly, and we say "my, it is a bit windy today." sustainable industry - yeah, right.
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