Windy Heap
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Huge Mobile Ice Field
Just recently, (get a grasp of this scale) An iceberg 21 miles x 12 miles, and 200 foot thick, has broken loose from the Antarctic Ice field and is
drifting into open water.
Thick about your daily commute or car trip to the next town.
12 x 21 MILES of floating ice.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2014/04/22/nasa-earth...
Dave - Life is a big ocean out there to swim in.
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Windy Heap
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Running the numbers at 12 x 21 miles x 200 foot thick, and assuming 1/4 cu foot of ice per blender, I calculated 5,884 Billion blenders of Pina
coladas and/or Margaritas worth of ice.
you bring the mixer.
Sometime it's a curse being an engineer, who always needs to know these things...
Dave - Life is a big ocean out there to swim in.
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Now as anyone tryed kiting on it???????
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Always wanted to kite on a ice berg. Think of how smooth that wind would be. 
Chris Krug-Owner @ Hardwater Kiting. Authorized Dealer of Ozone, Flysurfer, HQ kites.
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Who want's to start an Iceburg B31 kiteboarding event?:D:D:D:D
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Factor in additional apparent wind caused by the movement of the iceberg in the ocean currents.
ATB,
Sam
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Quote: Originally posted by Windy Heap  | | Running the numbers at 12 x 21 miles x 200 foot thick, and assuming 1/4 cu foot of ice per blender, I calculated 5,884 Billion blenders of Pina
coladas and/or Margaritas worth of ice. |
Don't even want to think about how many jalapeņos those margaritas are going to require. :o
ATB,
Sam
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