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If ice big ice shelves fall they could cause disasters like tsunami's because of the impact of when it falls.


Is that a question or a statement? I'm not sure it's true either; it doesn't look like a great deal of the ice sheet breaks off at any one time, and they're partly underwater anyway. It'd probably make a big splash and be a bit bad for anyone nearby, but I don't think it's likely to make a tsunami in the way that a geological event could.

Anyway - the fish in this figure are awesome. Were they in the original? 134.36.64.136 (talk) 11:12, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ice shelves are already afloat. They do not fall and do not cause splashing. A calving event involving a small iceberg (taller than it is wide) will cause a splash if the iceberg rolls over but it will by no means be a tsunami. In a large calving event, the iceberg (much wider than it is tall) will be stable and merely float away from the ice shelf. 85.211.233.140 (talk) 17:37, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Black Boxes

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Is anyone else seeing black boxes? Zibem (talk) 03:11, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see. --Denton JC (talk) 16:36, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Aye, I see 'em. What are those fish up to, I wonder. ▫ Urbane Legend chinwag 22:42, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Those fish are pisces sapiens and they're wondering what humanity's up to! ;o) 85.211.233.140 (talk) 17:37, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]