From: Ellen K. 

I'm having a hard time imagining that one cubic meter of water weighs a
ton, one cubic meter isn't very big.  Didn't the VW Beetle weigh about a
ton?

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:13:50 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message :

>A ton of water would be 1 cubic meter. An olympic pool is 50 meters long and
>what, maybe 20 wide and 2.5 deep in average, so that comes to 2500 cubic
>meters / tons. Sounds about "ballpark" right.
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
>(heavy stuff)
>
>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>news:dssqj1prdnuqflfvog0t3n0cmpued9casm{at}4ax.com...
>> 3,000 tons is only "a bit more than an Olympic swimming
pool"?  3,000
>> TONS?
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:03:41 +1200, black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don
>> Hills) wrote in message :
>>
>>>In article ,
>>>Ellen K.  wrote:
>>>>    ...      Canadian Iceberg Vodka Corporation expects to
"harvest"
>>>>about 3,000 tons of ice in 2005.
>>>
>>>That's not a lot. (A bit more than an Olympic swimming pool.)
>>>And as someone else pointed out, it'll likely be glacier or lake ice.
>>>Canada has plenty of that.
>>
>

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