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

For the Iceman album rollout, 405 tonnes of ice blocks went up as a public installation in Toronto, then came down. This paper treats the stunt as a physics problem in three parts: whether the stack could ever have failed under its own weight, how much work the crowd put into smashing it, and how long it would have lasted if the fire hoses had stayed away.

I wrote this in May 2026, before the series started, and corrected it in September 2026.