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"(CNN) -- A massive iceberg -- more than twice the size of New York's Manhattan island -- is drifting slowly toward Australia, scientists said Wednesday. The iceberg, measuring 140 square km (54 square miles), cleaved off an ice shelf nearly 10 years ago and had been floating near Antarctica before commencing on its unusual journey north."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/12/09/australia.iceberg/index.html

12/9/2009 12:25:27 PM

as long as australia is not made with open-top floatation chambers i think they'll be OK

12/9/2009 12:26:40 PM

okay maybe screwed was the wrong word - i guess they won't end up like the titanic

12/9/2009 12:27:19 PM

someone's gonna build a hotel on/in that fucker

12/9/2009 12:27:35 PM

sweet

12/9/2009 12:27:44 PM

I think thats cool as shit

12/9/2009 12:29:54 PM

What an awesome opportunity for maritime artillery practice.

12/9/2009 12:30:01 PM

i think family guy made a Speed 3 joke about an iceberg floating slowly or something

12/9/2009 12:30:54 PM

looks like an opportunity to get out and explore an iceberg for some aussies

[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 12:33 PM. Reason : wish we had one floating off the coast of NC]

12/9/2009 12:32:35 PM

Bitch, that ain't no ice, ho

12/9/2009 12:32:48 PM

If you made it out there first and claimed it in International Waters, no governing body would have to authority to make you leave

But they still would

12/9/2009 12:35:43 PM

i claim this iceburg in the name of LunaK


i shall call it LunaToria

12/9/2009 12:36:34 PM

I'm totally gonna do that. I'm going to call it "Iceland".

12/9/2009 12:36:55 PM

^^^They probably wouldn't make you leave

They'd just lol at you when your sovereign nation melted out from under your feet

12/9/2009 12:38:34 PM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

12/9/2009 12:39:13 PM

Arctic Pirate Land. No Rules. Free-For-All. Low Gravity. Instagib. 125 speed.

12/9/2009 12:39:27 PM

from the creators of




we bring you

12/9/2009 12:54:50 PM

Maybe it will nudge Australia a little closer to here so its not such a long damn flight to go visit.



[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 1:00 PM. Reason : adj]

12/9/2009 1:00:19 PM

Image would be so much better if the iceberg wasn't ACTUALLY on the Western Australia coast.

Australian Friend I just asked about it:

"No one lives in Western Australia--and if they do, we don't care about them."

Me: "But the sea..."

"Don't care."

12/9/2009 1:10:36 PM

Wow... how far off the mainland are we talking? If it's as large as manhattan then that could be like 30-50 miles off the shore. Little more than my jon-boat could handle.

12/9/2009 1:10:55 PM

The ACTUAL mothership is way off shore, but little fleets of 500 meter long 50 meter wide bergs should be showing up closer. Someone needs to go land a small plane at the top of the mothership berg and build a fucking tourist trap. I mean, the things already been floating for ten years, you can at least get a few months out of it.

12/9/2009 1:13:43 PM

they should put it beside ayers rock to give it company

12/9/2009 1:25:52 PM

They'll probably bomb it into 5000 smaller pieces if it posed a threat

12/9/2009 1:28:19 PM

^wouldn't 5000 smaller pieces be a bigger problem? You can sail around the huge chunk.

Let's just mount rockets to it and 'tug' it out into the indian ocean.

12/9/2009 1:30:29 PM

^didn't think of that....hmm...well, figured they'd melt off if they were smaller pieces

12/9/2009 1:31:11 PM

Australia is going to need the survivors from armageddon to drill to the middle and plant a nuke

12/9/2009 1:36:39 PM

I'll drink to that.

[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 2:47 PM. Reason : fuck it]

12/9/2009 2:40:04 PM

Melt it down and water the outback constantly for a few years until it becomes a rain forest... this will fix the global warming problem and we can all go back to being happy

12/9/2009 4:01:42 PM

^ i was thinking the same...

also, good business idea:

sell it as ice in small bags and bottle it as water... will sell like hotcakes!


WILL THIS BE VISIBLE IN GOOGLE EARTH NOW?


[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 4:15 PM. Reason : ]

12/9/2009 4:15:17 PM

A friend of mine flies helicopter missions to rescue polar bears stranded like that. Pretty cool job.

12/9/2009 4:19:25 PM

bears can swim... do they need that much rescuing?

12/9/2009 4:22:58 PM

^^ Interesting, any more details or stories to share?

12/9/2009 4:52:21 PM

12/9/2009 5:22:15 PM

That doesn't look so big.

12/9/2009 5:26:15 PM

that's what she said

12/9/2009 5:27:17 PM

12/9/2009 5:46:50 PM

I love dweedle.

12/9/2009 5:51:25 PM

WTF mate?

12/9/2009 6:41:52 PM

they should call up their resident governer - Arnold Schwarzenegger - to bust it up.

12/9/2009 6:44:46 PM

he's already on top of it

literally

12/9/2009 7:39:23 PM

harvest to solve drought problems

12/9/2009 7:41:34 PM

this reminds me of the scene in Austin Powers

12/9/2009 7:45:33 PM

MORE PUNS

I NEED MORE PUNS

12/9/2009 7:48:41 PM

this berg is expected to have a COLD reception in australia

12/9/2009 7:56:49 PM

I still think australia is one of the best places in the world to live, especially once they build those desalinization plants and have to stop worrying about water and stuff

12/9/2009 8:38:58 PM

let's not

12/9/2009 8:43:16 PM

Put a nuke engine and some motors on it. Use it as an aircraft carrier.

12/9/2009 8:52:51 PM

holy crap

[Edited on December 11, 2009 at 10:38 AM. Reason : .]

12/11/2009 10:37:48 AM