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Ice is much more than those little cubes you put in your [ martini] shakers, ya'll. Big Al 'members when he was a child how he loved to watch the snow flakes falling and was particularly impressed with the absolute individuality of each flake's crystalline structure. The first time he saw the Ice Queen he was walking in the snow under a shining "evening star" [ Venus] (there ain't no ice on Venus, that's for sure). Big Al was immediately smitten and will never forget her pristine beauty.
Betcha don't know that most of the gas produced by a [ comet] comes from an ice particle halo. The International Cometary Explorer [ "ICE"] in its the first close encounter of the comet kind found that ice particles are blown off the nucleus of the comet by the wind created as ice boils off the surface. Although the particles are only a fraction of the total mass of the comet, they could be responsible for as much as ninety percent of the gas seen in the coma, a cloudlike mass that with the nucleus forms the comet's head. Holy shit, there's even [ ice on the moon]!
Mysterious [ Antarctica] lies at the very bottom of our planet. It is the coldest, windiest, driest and highest of all the continents. Over the last half-century, the coastal ice on the Antarctic Peninsula has been gradually disappearing. Scientists are beginning to wonder if we are on the verge of a great flood that may consume the world's coastlines and [ warnings from the ice] abound.
Big Al isn't scared because all he has to do is dream of his Ice Queen, her ice castle and her icy beauty. Can ya blame him? Thoughts of her sure keep him warm and snuggly on a snowy evening.
