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Imagine you gathered all the ice from Antarctica and compressed it into one massive snow cone, how large would it be? Well, Antarctica contains so much frozen water that if you spread it out at 3 feet deep, it could circle the globe more than 50 times. But if all that ice was molded into a single snow cone, the base would extend 250 miles wide, and the cone would climb nearly 400 miles into the sky. That's tall enough to break through the atmosphere, pass beyond the edge of space, and rise highe