World’s biggest iceberg begins moving after blocking food supplies for Ant

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The world’s biggest iceberg has begun moving again, nearly three months after it ran aground, threatening penguin breeding colonies and blocking ships supplying food and fuel to Antarctic research stations, officials said on Monday.

The giant iceberg, known as B15A, is now moving slowly out of McMurdo Sound, where it had blocked sea access, said Lou Sanson, chief executive of the government scientific agency Antarctica New Zealand.

The US McMurdo Station and New Zealand’s Scott Base are located on the sound, and Italy’s Terra Nova base is nearby.

The 160-kilometer (100-mile) -long iceberg, which contains enough water to supply the River Nile for 80 years, had blocked wind and water currents in the sound, causing a buildup of ice which impeded ships needed to supply food and fuel to the three research stations.

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[leftofcool]

1. Next, they'll be telling us this is the result of global warming..........

pfft! <sarcasm off>

Left of Cool

[LiberalEsto]

2. Where does it think it's going?

Any guesses?

[Boomer]

10. Like an 800-lb gorilla....

... anywhere it wants.

[opihimoimoi]

3. An indicator of sorts(Global Warming) this is the first and will hardly be

the last berg of mega size until its all gone....

Unless we start to address our planet as we do a good farm....we are screwed.....

[underthedome]

4. "which contains enough water to supply the River Nile for 80 years"

Great example /Sarcasm. Am I suppose to know how much that is?

[slackmaster]

5. ICE BONGS!

:hippie:

[mr_hat]

6. Man. That ant musta had high hopes.

[onehandle]

7. You beat me to it.

Musta been one big-ass Ant.

[RedCloud]

8. At least he gets respect!

With a capital A!

On behalf of all humans Mr. Ant, We surrender to you!

[PaganPreacher]

9. Respect my authority!

As you can see, I am a very well known exomorphic arthropod...





... and I always get what I want.


Mmmmm, baby, you know what I like!

The Pagan Preacher
I don't turn the other cheek.

[KansDem]

11. LOL!! Good choices, but don't forget "Naked Jungle..."

Naked Jungle, 1954
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047264/

Plot Outline: The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is
threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.

Now, that's a lot of ants!

[PaganPreacher]

12. ANTZ gone bad!

How many ants can Heston kill with a revolver and a machete?

It would work better if he had a pair of those big ol' clown shoes.




The Pagan Preacher
I don't turn the other cheek.