ATTENTION ARGONAUTS! Get Ready For The Clashing Rocks!

Iceberg_showdownRocks of ice, that is! Right down near the mountains of madness.

Yee-haw!

Are you ready to RUUUUUMMMMBBBBLLLLLE???

It’s a polar showdown grudge match between two bodacious beefy blocks of ice!

Take it away . . . NASA!

Get Ready for the Largest Demolition Derby on the Planet
Scientists say Slow-Motion Collision Near Antarctic Research Station Imminent

It is an event so large that the best seat in the house is in space: a
massive iceberg is on a collision course with a floating glacier near
the McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica. NASA satellites have
witnessed the 100-mile-long B-15A iceberg moving steadily towards the
Drygalski Ice Tongue. Though the iceberg’s pace has slowed in recent
days, NASA scientists expect a collision to occur no later than January
15, 2005.

"It’s a clash of the titans, a radical and uncommon event," says Robert
Bindshadler, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and if
the two giant slabs of ice collide, we could see one of the best
demolition derbies on the planet.

If the collision occurs as predicted, this could be an event that we
witness again and again. The tides that drive the iceberg’s motion tend
to push it in circles.

Hoooooooooooooooo-eeeee! YEAH! Clash! Rocks! Clash!

GET THE TITANIC STORY!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

18 thoughts on “ATTENTION ARGONAUTS! Get Ready For The Clashing Rocks!”

  3. Careful Jimmy.
    Those Aussies don’t handle their convict past very well, unless they can prove a direct ancestry with the First Fleet.
    Imagine being clawed by a cranky cockatoo –
    Or having your arms and legs plaited by a non-platonic platypus;
    Being boxed about by the famous boxing kangaroo –
    Or for the ultimate indignity, being buried under a heap of enraged wombat dung – a fate worse than death

  4. Understood. Actually, it’s a riff on a line from the movie Steve was alluding to: The Princess Bride.
    There’s a bit in it where actor Wallace Shaun (a.k.a. Grand Nagus Zek in his DS9 role) is doing a complicated, absurdist chain of reasoning which hinges on the fact that “Iocain powder comes from Australia, which, as everyone knows, is peopled entirely by criminals!”
    Inconceivable!

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