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knoxknifebroker t1_islza11 wrote

Incredible it would still be frozen(60% I cant math, 40%melted) thats gotta be a long ship ride(4+ months)

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pixel-painter t1_ismp9qf wrote

One time I was shoveling through a big pile of mulch that had been sitting there for awhile. It was in the middle of July, but by the time I got to the middle, I hit snow/ice.

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Link7369_reddit t1_isn2kjk wrote

Mulch can do the opposite and get combustion going depending on the circumstances

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Kent_Knifen t1_iso7jrc wrote

Look up "Pykrete" because that's exactly what you had lol

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shinobi500 t1_ism4dra wrote

How much of it though? I would imagine if they start off with 1 ton of ice they might maybe reach their destination with half that?

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knoxknifebroker t1_ism62nb wrote

40% melted but they brought a metric fuck-ton(400 tons, 240 made it there)

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shinobi500 t1_ism8z6c wrote

Interesting. Ice must have been a total luxury commodity back then.

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worldbound0514 t1_ismxzp9 wrote

There's a saying that the rich man gets his ice in the summer, and the poor man gets his ice in the winter. Ice was very much a luxury in the summer time before the days of refrigeration

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PublicSeverance t1_isnj48b wrote

Ice and ice boxes almost as soon as invented became about as luxurious as a dishwasher is today.

Imported ice cost about as much as cotton. It was relatively cheap, even transported.

A man with a horse drawn cart would deliver blocks of ice to your house weekly, or you got it from the butcher, fishmonger or chemist. The ice blocks would get placed in the top of your fridge and allow the home owner to store leftovers. Before the ice box, fresh food had to be purchased and eaten same day.

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TocTheEternal t1_ismgzvu wrote

If it was 240 tons over a period of decades, it could probably have been used for minor industrial and artisanal purposes that weren't strictly high class luxury. That's a lot of ice and it's not like Perth had a huge population overall.

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clebekki t1_iso0akh wrote

In my country ski centres keep massive piles of snow under sawdust and fleece-like material for about half a year, from spring to autumn. Depending on how hot the summer is, only 15-30% will melt, and I think ice would melt even slower than snow.

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longer one, (pretty terribly) autotranslated.

They still use basically the same methods as 150+ years ago!

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