Christopher Gilmartin
The Physics of Drake's 405-Tonne Ice Block Installation

Paper № III · Heat transfer · May 2026 · 10 pages

The Physics of Drake's 405-Tonne Ice Block Installation

Iceman dropped at midnight on May 15, 2026. The ice was gone well before the weekend.

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For the Iceman album drop, a 405-tonne block of ice appeared as a public installation, then melted. This paper treats the publicity stunt as a heat-transfer problem: how much energy it takes to melt 405 tonnes of ice, where that energy comes from on a city street in May, and how long the block could ever have lasted.

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