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Re:World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster by makerofspoons on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:00AM (#25417556)
There have been tests to accelerate the breakup or melting of icebergs with bombs, and it has been found to be ineffective and expensive even for much smaller icebergs: https://navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=iipIsItPracticalToDestroyI...
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Re:World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster by nickelcitymario on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:05AM (#25417626)
That's unfortunate. I liked the elegance of such a brutish potential solution.

I know this definitely sounds dumb and juvenile, but I genuinely wish more problems could be solved with bombs.

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Re:World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster by js2 on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:30AM (#25417923)
Surely you’re familiar with the exploding whale story, but if not:

https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34

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Re:World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster by interestica on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:46AM (#25418117)
Or Project Plowshare

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

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