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This is what used to happen to the old sailing ships. The crews had to use axes to constantly cut away the ice, or the weight of it would capsize the ships.

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They still do that on the fishing ships in the bearing sea.

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It happens to modern airliners too. Crews have to watch a computer screen and observe the that the ice detector automatically turned on heating for the wing and tail leading edges and the engine inlets.

Wasn't all that long ago we used to hear of planes crashing due to icing. That technology must have greatly improved.

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Above 10,000 ft in the US there is no speed limit and jets typically have sufficient ram air heating from speed alone. Speed also helps move through the affected area and altitudes quicker and faster ablation erodes the ice quicker when out of it. A turboprop is slower and spends more time at altitudes where ice is a problem. When I flew the DeHavilland Dash-8 we were constantly accumulating and shedding ice. American Eagle lost an ATR-72 from ice buildup RIP. Jets also tend to heat the leading edges with engine bleed air or electric elements (787) rather than using pneumatic boots to break it off. Heat is better IMHO. The move from turboprops to jets with more altitude and speed capability helped. Yet even recent GE GenX jet engines on the 747-8 had some problems with ice on the inlet guide vanes and the initial fix was to avoid medium or greater intensity radar returns leading us to joke that it was a VFR-only aircraft. I don't know what they're doing now. Unfortunately my current aircraft is the antique 757/767 and we have no ice detectors, but plenty of performance and an effective bleed air heating system. The 757 is the F-350 Super Duty of airplanes so no complaints there. Ice can also freeze the pitot tubes leading to erroneous airspeed indications and that lead to the Air France A330 upset that pancaked into the ocean RIP. It's still quite a treat to watch a modern automated system work, especially considering the history all the way back to axing it off a ship.

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Whoa! That's nuts... would love to see the structural engineering calcs on that

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The ice is self-supporting in the photograph of the lighthouse. So, not a problem so far as its weight goes.

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It doesn't look remotely self-supporting to me. You can see the ocean at the bottom, especially where the bridge adjoins.

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THAT'LL keep the Nogs away from the place for sure. No chance of Burn., Loot, Murder there.

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If only the gun laws were as lacking as here in Missouri.

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If you were inside the lighthouse, you could suffocate

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You think?

It seems to be completely sealed

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Lighthouse attendants train by sleeping inside sealed tupperware beds, and this is also why they always look young and live long, because the freshness is sealed in.

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That's crazy but maybe. I'd assume you could melt some of it off with a fire but would the CO2 finish you first.

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They don't build things the way they used to.