BREAKING NEWS ALERT! Antarctica gone down to the pub

PhilthyPhil · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:34

danza said:
Just so long as it doesn't float by here with a pack of angry polar bears on, I don't mind.

Still, if it does and there are some bears aboard, they'll probably be offered citizenship and be forced into acceptance by society.

I wouldn't worry about that too much. There are no polar bears in Antarctica

Tefal · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:37

Ulfhedjinn said:
Ice is more dense than water.

:/

No, no it isn't other wise it would sink not float...

Darkwave · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:38

Tefal said:
:/

No, no it isn't other wise it would sink not float...

So you're saying a ship is not as dense as water? Do you know what buoyancy is?

Over Clocker · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:40

So? Just an excuse for stupid green taxes. There have always been icebergs.

Govt use the media to scare layman people......

Lame

SexyGreyFox · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:40

danza said:
Just so long as it doesn't float by here with a pack of angry polar bears on, I don't mind.

Could this be what the LOST island actually is?

Azagoth said:
Do Polar Bears live in the Antarctic?

No but don't spoil a good story.

sansnom · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:40

AcidHell2 said:
Exactly.

If they gave it in a percentage, then no one would bat and eye lid.

I think this is really a very silly way to look at it. The percentage shouldn't matter, the fact is we're losing it. How big does it need to be before people say "oh hold on a min...now we're *******"

mr.sly · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:41

sansnom said:
I think this is really a very silly way to look at it. The percentage shouldn't matter, the fact is we're losing it. How big does it need to be before people say "oh hold on a min...now we're *******"

+1

Raikiri · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:41

Ulfhedjinn said:
So you're saying a ship is not as dense as water? Do you know what buoyancy is?

The same mass of ice will have more volume than the equivalent water, ice is less dense.

Gilly · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:41

Ulfhedjinn said:
Ice is more dense than water.

:/

wut?

Darkwave · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:43

Raikiri said:
The same mass of ice will have more volume than the equivalent water, ice is less dense.

Solids have more atomic density than liquids, which in turn have more density than gasses.

LordSplodge · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:43

Surfer said:
Apparently a chunk of the Antartic Peninsula the size of the Isle of Man has dropped off into the ocean...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7313264.stm

time to start stocking up on tinned food....

You do know that the ice on the edge of Antarctica has been melting for a while now and the ice inland has been getting progressively thicker?

Climate Change is happening as it has for the last few billion years. The Earth has so far to date had three different atmospheres.

Here's a big :rolleyes:

to the Environmentalists who really don't understand what the **** they are talking about.

Tefal · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:44

Ulfhedjinn said:
So you're saying a ship is not as dense as water? Do you know what buoyancy is?

right **** I did right the chemical explanation for this but no i can't be arsed go get a can of something or a bottle and fill it to the brim with water and put the lid on stick it in the freezer, come back and tell us if it has split or been stretched, or if the ice takes up more room than the water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice

An unusual property of ice frozen at a pressure of one atmosphere is that the solid is some 8% less dense than liquid water. Water is the only known non-metallic substance to expand when it freezes. Ice has a density of 0.9167 g/cm³ at 0 °C, whereas water has a density of 0.9998 g/cm³ at the same temperature.

Pay more attention in primary school dude.

Tefal · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:45

Ulfhedjinn said:
Solids have more atomic density than liquids, which in turn have more density than gasses.

in general yes, but not always... for example, you can float a boat made out of tin foil in a fish tank filled with sulfur hexafluoride gas.

Azagoth · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:45

LordSplodge said:
Here's a big to the Environmentalists who really don't understand what the **** they are talking about.

Well, you can't say Environmentalist without saying mentalist!

Raikiri · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:46

Ulfhedjinn said:
Solids have more atomic density than liquids, which in turn have more density than gasses.

You're still wrong.

mr.sly · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:51

LordSplodge said:
You do know that the ice on the edge of Antarctica has been melting for a while now and the ice inland has been getting progressively thicker?

Climate Change is happening as it has for the last few billion years. The Earth has so far to date had three different atmospheres.

Here's a big to the Environmentalists who really don't understand what the **** they are talking about.

I didn't see you living through them.

Darkwave · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:51

Raikiri said:
You're still wrong.

I just took a refresher, lol. But still, I am talking to someone who thinks a floating piece of ice melting will add no water to the ocean.

Tefal · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:55

Ulfhedjinn said:
So you're saying a ship is not as dense as water? Do you know what buoyancy is?

oh and yes a ship is less dense than water.

A ship floats because although it is made of steel, which is more dense than water, it encloses a volume of air and the resulting shape has an average density less than that of the water.

Do you know what buoyancy is?

Darkwave · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:57

Tefal said:
...

See above. One of us can admit to having a retard moment.

LordSplodge · 25 Mar 2008 at 18:59

mr.sly said:
I didn't see you living through them.

Your point is? Mankind, despite all to Doom & Gloom isn't really causing "serious climate change" it's just Mother Nature/Gaia doing her thing.