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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts) Wed Oct 9, 2019, 09:23 AM Oct 2019

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What would happen if all the ice on Earth melted overnight?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/watch-what-would-happen-if-all-the-ice-on-earth-melted-overnight/vi-AAIsmsh?ocid=mailsignout

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What would happen if all the ice on Earth melted overnight? (Original Post) mfcorey1 Oct 2019 OP

We would all be dead. OnlinePoker Oct 2019 #1

All the heat absorbed by melting the ice would Prosper Oct 2019 #2

be beachfront property in midwest beachbumbob Oct 2019 #3

We'd have to drink our scotch neat? n/t customerserviceguy Oct 2019 #4

Interesting answers Delphinus Oct 2019 #5

OnlinePoker

(5,727 posts)

1. We would all be dead.

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Wed Oct 9, 2019, 09:36 AM

Oct 2019

The heat required to melt all the ice in one day would be enough to kill every living thing on earth.

Prosper

(761 posts)

2. All the heat absorbed by melting the ice would

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Wed Oct 9, 2019, 09:41 AM

Oct 2019

probably cause an instant ice age.

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)

3. be beachfront property in midwest

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Wed Oct 9, 2019, 10:55 AM

Oct 2019

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)

4. We'd have to drink our scotch neat? n/t

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Wed Oct 9, 2019, 01:39 PM

Oct 2019

Delphinus

(11,841 posts)

5. Interesting answers

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Wed Oct 9, 2019, 03:54 PM

Oct 2019

from post reply 1 and post reply 2.

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