Also, Mariana Gosnell is the author of "Ice: The Nature, the History and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance." She tells Anne Strainchamps why ice floats, and stories about ice bergs.
Track5 6:21 (42.96) - Do you have favorite kind of ice?
- I [didn't have] partial to icicles actually. I saw some hanging from bridge in Central Park in very begining in the season and I thought " Oh, there, there. There is and old friend" And there is also more complicated [you would] think.
- What's compricated about an icicle?
- Well, it is very often hollowed with the middle. Because of the way it forms, the water comes down off, some overhang, and then forms kind of shell. Then it gets [ridges] around it and they don't completely understand why every [body] seems knows [ribs] around the icicle that's the hollows between the [rib] s and the softer. There's [ribs] themselves but they haven't sorted out why the [ribs] formed in the first place.
Track6 3:32 (47.42) It seems like a joke Prince Physar, Saudi Arabia, formed a company [one point] with intention of [towing] icevergs from Antactica to Saudi Arabia for fresh water supply.