By The Generalist Posted on

From the archives: Ice

Battleships made of ice, the death of a glacier, electric viral space ice, and how ice helps aircraft punch holes in the clouds.

Snowflake
Alexey Kljatov [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

There are at least 18 different types of ice, including electric viral space ice.

Ok Glacier
Cornell University Library [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons

Iceland’s Okjökull glacier died in 2014.

Cloud hole
Kittelschürze / CC0

Thanks to the intricacies of ice nucleation, aircraft can punch holes in clouds.

Iceberg
Andrew Shiva / Wikipedia, via Wikimedia Commons

In World War II serious plans were afoot to build battleships out of reinforced icebergs.

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