Interesting/Weird Stories in the News

New Zealand's largest glacier disappearing[/list:u]WELLINGTON (AFP) - New Zealand's largest glacier is shrinking fast due to climate change and will eventually disappear altogether, scientists said Thursday.

The 23-kilometre (14.3 mile) long glacier in the South Island's Southern Alps is likely to shrink at a rate of between 500 and 820 metres a year, said Martin Brook, a physical geography lecturer at Massey University.
Damn sheep :grumble: [/list:u]

gaijinmark wrote:New Zealand's largest glacier disappearing[/list:u]WELLINGTON (AFP) - New Zealand's largest glacier is shrinking fast due to climate change and will eventually disappear altogether, scientists said Thursday.

The 23-kilometre (14.3 mile) long glacier in the South Island's Southern Alps is likely to shrink at a rate of between 500 and 820 metres a year, said Martin Brook, a physical geography lecturer at Massey University.
Damn sheep :grumble: [/list:u]

wow

gaijinmark wrote:New Zealand's largest glacier disappearing[/list:u]WELLINGTON (AFP) - New Zealand's largest glacier is shrinking fast due to climate change and will eventually disappear altogether, scientists said Thursday.

The 23-kilometre (14.3 mile) long glacier in the South Island's Southern Alps is likely to shrink at a rate of between 500 and 820 metres a year, said Martin Brook, a physical geography lecturer at Massey University.
Damn sheep :grumble: [/list:u]

So eventually all the glaciers will melt and we won't be able to live in igloos anymore. I'll be homeless. :shamefulcry:

Wynter wrote:

So eventually all the glaciers will melt and we won't be able to live in igloos anymore. I'll be homeless. :shamefulcry:

You'll be homeless and we'll all be dead....so don't worry about it....

Tu_triky wrote:

You'll be homeless and we'll all be dead....so don't worry about it....

Well, I'll have the surfers, so I prolly won't worry about it.

Wynter wrote:

Well, I'll have the surfers, so I prolly won't worry about it.

You can live with Kevin Kostner in Waterworld....I'm getting a lift from the aliens and ditching this broken rock.

gaijinmark wrote:New Zealand's largest glacier disappearing

This isn't some David Copperfield magic trick, ne? :beaten:

Tu_triky wrote:

You can live with Kevin Kostner in Waterworld....I'm getting a lift from the aliens and ditching this broken rock.

Don't forget your towel :victory:

EstherM wrote:

Don't forget your towel :victory:

I wear around my head like a Japanese thief

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Tu_triky wrote:

You can live with Kevin Kostner in Waterworld....I'm getting a lift from the aliens and ditching this broken rock.

:rofl:

If the world sucks has much as the movie, I know a lot of people who'll prefer to swim with concrete blocks. :hehe: :beaten:

tabana wrote:
:rofl:

If the world sucks has much as the movie, I know a lot of people who'll prefer to swim with concrete blocks. :hehe: :beaten:

Haha....

"Ittekimasu!" <Triky waves from the porthole in alien spacecraft>

Tu_triky wrote:

Haha....

"Ittekimasu!" <Triky waves from the porthole in alien spacecraft>

haha have fun

suzzy wrote: haha have fun

I'll try to beam back some pictures from Zeta Reticuli.

Tu_triky wrote:

I'll try to beam back some pictures from Zeta Reticuli.

I think I saw her in a movie. Something about whips and midgets. [/list:u]

gaijinmark wrote: I think I saw her in a movie. Something about whips and midgets. [/list:u]

:hehe: :hehe:

gaijinmark wrote:New Zealand's largest glacier disappearing[/list:u]WELLINGTON (AFP) - New Zealand's largest glacier is shrinking fast due to climate change and will eventually disappear altogether, scientists said Thursday.

The 23-kilometre (14.3 mile) long glacier in the South Island's Southern Alps is likely to shrink at a rate of between 500 and 820 metres a year, said Martin Brook, a physical geography lecturer at Massey University.
Damn sheep :grumble: [/list:u]

Here's what's left of it...

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:puppydog:

krim wrote:


Here's what's left of it...

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:puppydog:

I think that was the piece of ice that Oda Yuji's character was saving in Last Christmas.....oh well.

krim wrote:Here's what's left of it...

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That's it... Maybe they're having one super-blowout, humongous cocktail party over there and chipping away at the glacier for ice.

krim wrote:


Here's what's left of it...

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:puppydog:

oh no but can i use it in my drink for a sec :mrgreen:

Tu_triky wrote:

I wear around my head like a Japanese thief

[image]

:rofl:

I am losing it over this one......... :dielaughing: :dielaughing: :dielaughing: