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Re:Huge iceberg breaks off Antarctica by rudyfink on Friday February 26, 2010 @02:00PM (#1153830)
My recollection is that the Coast Guard tried quite a few different methods (paint, directed charges, etc) to break up small ice bergs before they entered the shipping lanes in the late 50's early 60's. The ice bergs proved to be exceedingly hardy. Efforts to dissipate them were abandoned in favor of simply detecting them and avoiding them.
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Re:Huge iceberg breaks off Antarctica by Semiapies on Friday February 26, 2010 @02:10PM (#1153861)
Fair enough, but I'm thinking mainly in terms of making it melt faster than it otherwise would, not keeping it out of shipping lanes. As someone else on the thread said, this thing goes where it wants to go. :)

EDIT: Especially as this thing has a lot more exposed surface area relative to its mass than your average small 'berg.

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