Just call me an ice-hole

Yup that's right what a strange thing to even think about let alone put a bunch of thought and time into thinking about and even watch programs on because of a fleeting fancy. well that's me though, interested in the unusual.
Think about it, most people have used or have dealt with or even at know about ice. Frozen water, big whoopee right? Well think on it for a little bit though.
I cubes, you throw them into a drink to cool it down and keep you beverage cold, ever notice where the ice usually stays? At the top, everybody knows heat rises, this ingenious substance, made primarily of frozen water stays exactly where it is needed the most in you beverage. Where the heat of the beverage is making the cooler portion of your drink slide down and force the rest of the heated parts to the top, completing the cycle of a nice cold beverage. (Any of you shit heads that want to say well I don't like a nice cold drink, well then don't use ice dumb ass)
Next think about that very same property in a lake, when the lake freezes over. Fish can be frozen solid but not all of them. If ice sank, all the fish would end up losing more and more water the more it froze. Sooner or later the ice would be pushing them out of the water completely, killing them. But because ice floats they safely swim under all that ice and swim, as long as they can, never know, they may be frozen solid, and they should be fine in that case. But that's a different story all together. (craziness there, people could be frozen solid, no life emanations and if they got thawed they have a chance to be fine...)
Now for the last one, and this one is monumental. (though not nearly the last cool thing about ice) Glaciers are comprised of what ever debris they collect and frozen water, ice, sometimes growing to be miles long, wide and even deep. (REALLY FUCKING BIG ICE CUBE) Glaciers are only solid because of the below zero temperature, and they are held together by the way water crystallizes in that cold. But as we all know everything in this world is made up of atoms, you, me, the screen your looking at, and water. Even frozen, even having the state change from liquid to solid doesn't mean the atoms change at all. Atom by nature are always moving, movement, cause friction, and friction causes heat. This long chain of thought leads us back to why a glacier gets so big. Very cold temperatures and lots of water freezing. Expand this thought out to the point of miles of "frozen" water on an atomic level all rubbing together. This friction actually causes the ice to melt, usually in the middle and the bottom where there is the most gravity being pushed causing more friction. This melt then begins to flow, through small cracks and fissures in the glacier, yet more friction from the flow of water. Eventually these flows make entire lakes form within glaciers and one thing leads to another. Crack, a fissure the size of a house is broken open and allows an entire lake to flow out of the glacier and onto where ever the glacier happens to be. This could be anything from the ocean, to a town that never would have seen it coming.
Now granted I don't want to think of those poor unsuspecting people but this isn't about them, this is about the unbelievable aspects about ice that most people just don't stop to think about. This blog is about slowing down and inspecting something that you don't know. Even writing this blog I was talking to some one who was looking over my shoulder, and I went into my description of what I was writing about. He actually talked to me about how water vapor and space debris, forms into huge ice blocks, and is what a comet is and that given the heat of the sun, it causes them to pop and we get meteor showers, which brings nutrition to the topsoil of our planet earth. (that's a much less thought on aspect, so not very well formed)