abelcainsbrother wrote:Yes, ice floats but try this experiment : Take a cupful of ice cubes from your freezer,pour them into a dry metal or stoneware bowl,and place the bowl in the freezer for a couple of hours.Remove the bowl,set it on the counter,and quickly pour a glass of tap water over the ice in the bowl.You will find that the ice will remain stuck to the bottom of the bowl,completely submerged under the water until the bowl's surface warms enough to melt the bond.If you transfer this concept to a mountain glacier,it takes an extended amount of time for the bedrock to warm or for water to seep under it to dissolve a much more extensive bond.
This after you agreed the ice moves, meaning it aint stuck????
But ok..
First, a matter of scale.
Sure, it will hold an icecube down. But scale is why we dont get 777 size aircraft built
of balsa wood with rubber band power. Or giant ants like horses.
Lets calculate the upward force on five miles of ice.
"Buoyed by a force equal to weight of water displaced".
A cubic foot of water is weighs 5.2 lbs more than a cubic ft of ice.
So in 5 miles of ice, the force will be 5.2 x 5280 lbs per square ft.
The weak (it is no super glue) strength of the ice frozen to rock is not going to
hold 25,000 lbs per sq ft. Perhaps if one were to try lifting a 25000 lb safe
with a piece of ice frozen to it? I dont believe you'd want that over your head.
So no, I think you can see freezing it down wont work.
But then you already agreed the ice ice moving; not stuck at all.
The ice is in motion, sliding downhill. Right? (Here is where you say "yes"; dont you forgst, now)
So, even if it were stuck, which it is not, it would still float if flooded.
Side thought..people rather silly and ignorant ones, true.. but some think
thst such as the marine rocks in say, Kansas are left by the flood.
Now IF there had been a flood, AND God miracled the ice so it dont float,
whh isnt there the same rock and fossil assortments found in a " flood layer"
in the ice? Just a side note for the noah -flood fossils on everest grpup.
But never mind. A force of hundreds of pounds per square inch assures that
ice, thst was not stuck anyway, will not stay down.
So now what?