...and here we go again...first of all this tidbit depends on your definition of two key elements...what constitutes average...and what defines an iceberg...I have a whole tray of home made icebergs...all of them average...and none of them over an ounce...probably much less...20 million ton...average icebergs...you DUMBASS...those are miniature breakaway GLACIERS...I watch a couple million tons of the History Channel...Discovery...National Geographic Channel...millions of minutes spent gazing at the programs they offer...like FROZEN PLANET...which deals with quirky little things like...ICEBERGS...and guess what??? There doesn't seem to be a good base for establishing an 'AVERAGE' size with relation to these things...they tend to shear off the leading lip of GLACIERS...in all sizes...the really...reaLLY...REALLY big boulders of ice that fall off into the ocean...usually create an enormous amount of smaller chunks of ice...which must also be classified as ICEBERGS since the come from the same field of ice...being that there are hundreds or even thousands of these smaller ones leads the logical learners among us to believe that the AVERAGE iceberg weighs some where closer to a couple hundreds pounds...not a few 8 digit millions...I mean think about it...I live closer to one of the Great Lakes than most of you do...the little Lake I can see from my front door drains into Lake Michigan...which as anyone with the common sense of a cartographer can tell you is linked to Lake Huron...which in conjunction with other Great Lakes and river systems connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the St. Lawrence Waterway...which reaches up towards the NORTH...where icebergs are commonly found...if there were enough enormous icebergs to calculate and AVERAGE of 20,000,000 tons...our water levels would rise to heights our mountain ranges would be the only thing pokin' above sea level like a buncha little islands...a 20,000,000 ton iceberg has 40,000,000,000 pounds of ice...or frozen water...one gallon of water weighs 8.345lbs...so for each and every 20,000,000 ton iceberg...that does what when it breaks off and slides into the ocean...it melts...using the numbers given above...each of these massive units of frozen water would then produce 4,793,289,395 gallons of water...that's right...almost 5 BILLION gallons of water...per iceberg...which wouldn't bode so well for you...me...and those with their feet planted firmly on the ground...it would however be a huge advantage to the floaties in the gene pool who bitch about global warming like they were here the last time the Earth went through this process...a couple million years ago...the other important equation in this farce is that a 20,000,000 ton iceberg...which converts to 40,000,000,000 lbs would need to displace 625,000,000 cubic feet of water in order to float...considering that in order to find a TRUE average for icebergs there would hafta be more of them than bergs of smaller or larger size...so if we had let's say 100 icebergs currently loose and roaming the oceans of the world 50 of them would hafta weigh 20,000,000 tons...25 would be significantly LARGER displacing even more cubic feet of water than their AVERAGE counterparts...and 25 would hafta be significantly smaller...but with the AVERAGE number of 50 we can then multiply 625,000,000 cubic feet by 50 icebergs of AVERAGE weight and we can see that there would be 31,250,000,000 cubic feet of water displacement...31 billion cubic feet of water displacement...that might not seem like a lot considering the vast area of Earth that is covered by water...however it would be way more than enough...when taken into consideration with the other 25 BIGGER bergs and the other 25 SMALLER bergs that also displace water and melt...to refill the small feeder lake I have in my little town...which seems to be creating new lake front property by leaps and bounds...and we haven't even discussed the dynamics of weighing such an object accurately...which would take an enormous crane with a tripled counterweight just to budge it from the water and place it on a scale...where did this moron come up with this AVERAGE weight scale for ICEBERGS...obviously ya can weigh the damn things...it's NOT like they are carved off of glaciers in neat little packages...each and every one of them takes on a new shape...taking dimensions and formulating new equations to come up with half ass answers is the dumbest damn thing people on this planet do...you have no idea what the density of the object is by taking simple measurements of the exterior...the middle could be completely empty or have pockets of emptiness that would GREATLY affect the outcome of the weight...they could also contain the remains of several earlier life forms...boulders...rocks...dirt...all the shit that falls onto and into glaciers over the course of time...that's the problem with a majority of information of this nature...it is hypothesized and placed into existence without any forethought...I mean ya don't need a college education to be able to GUESS at somethin...hell I can do that all by myself...do it almost every time I visit Wal-mart...OMG ...didja see that 400lb BESSIE over there break wind in the bed and bath section...there's towels al the way over in the grocery aisles...I mean damn...I don't even hafta do all of the calculations I did for ICEBERGS to know that this lady's girth is gonna drown her children in the living room if she plops down in the bathtub at the far end of the house...it's called PHYSICS...and so far it can't be proven to provide false information...go home...fill a cup half full of water...then take 50 ice cubes and try and shove them in the cup...one of two things is gonna happen...either the water will spill over the edge of the cup...or the cup itself will fall apart and the water and cubes will tumble all over the floor...yeah...it's on a smaller scale than the oceans...but the concept is the same...hell if ya take just one ice cube and drop it from a high enough height you're gonna end up with more water outside the boundaries of the cup than you are inside it...how about we start usin' a little common sense when we put information out there for the gullible...somethin' like...The AVERAGE iceberg is so f**kin' big it can sink things like the TITANIC...that's all I need to know...big chunks of ice...and boats...don't mix...I don't need to know how much each object weighs on AVERAGE...I just need to know how to AVOID them if I am the Captain of an oceanliner!!!
