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Unread 08-10-2011, 11:41 AM
 
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Default Glacier Collapses On Tourists
The tourists were on a boat near the 200-foot glacier, when they heard a rumbling noise. Within seconds parts of the Glacier collapses and chunks of ice go flying injuring someone on the boat.

Video with link: Alaskan tourists assailed by collapsing glacier ice | The Upshot - Yahoo! News

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzR3Odq_N4c
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Unread 08-10-2011, 12:52 PM
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And then you see all the black smoke coming from that boat as it fulls away. Probably got a lot to do with why glaciers are falling apart and melting anyway....
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Unread 08-10-2011, 01:46 PM
 
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And then you see all the black smoke coming from that boat as it fulls away. Probably got a lot to do with why glaciers are falling apart and melting anyway....
LOL..I saw that...good point. Glaciers always melted and regenerated on Earth in the past, but the speed its melting points to another contributor other than the "natural" cycle
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