I can also imagine an SMBC comic based on this idea.

At 20 km long and about half that wide, that iceberg would total about 200 km^2, significantly larger than Manhattan Islands 87.5km^2(per Wikipedia). Also remember, 9/10ths of an iceberg is below water. That 20 km long chunk is only the visible portion.

It’s a really big ice cube. Even Texas would have a problem putting that in a glass.

Gary 7

@19. vel : “I suspect that this satellite is the one that Faux Noise and friends have been baying about.”

Can you be a little more specific please? Which satellite?

In other news, the GRAIL has been lifted and is now Moon bound.

NASA GRAIL Mission to the Moon Under Way
Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:51:58 PM UTC+0930

NASA’s GRAIL mission to study the moon from crust to core successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Pad SLC-17B at 9:08 a.m. EDT. Mission controllers will await communication in approximately 90 minutes from the lunar duo indicating they have achieved proper orientation and deployed their solar arrays. “We are on our way, and early indications show everything is looking good,” said David Lehman, GRAIL project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. “We will know more about GRAIL’s status in a few hours, after an opportunity to analyze telemetry and poll our mission controllers.”

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Sea ice is the general term for seawater than freezes over. It’s actually mostly freshwater by the time it freezes as most salt is shed in the freezing process.