Tim and the Tin Titan

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Ice, Ice, Baby
If you made a boat, call it the Habbakuk, that was 60 feet long and 30 feet wide, weighing in at 1,000 tons but made entirely of ice, how long would you expect it to take to melt? How about almost a whole year?
This is a very interesting story of the war-time invention of Pykrete, super strong ice that took forver to melt.