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And we still come back to the same issue because Caroline showed that the glaciers with tall cliffs appear to be more "pristine" and lack the extensive crevassing that we see in many glaciers with lesser ice thickness. You can only get tall cliffs if you don't have flaws.

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Caroline managed to measure the height of something like 15,000 cliffs, which is a remarkable feat. Ice is still a giant heterogenous pain in the ass, but now we have a huge catalogue of cliff heights to explain.

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To calculate this, he needed to know the strength of ice. He asked the physicist Max Perutz, who was involved in the pykrete debacle about the strength of ice. *Yes, this is the same Max Perutz that shared Rosalynd Franklin's data with Watson and Crick about the structure of DNA.

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If this isn't illegal, it ought to be

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