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Let us try this with a scientific method, and attack it from a different angle.

Let's assume that Ice sinks when the water cools and turns to a solid.

This is what happens to a large number of things, like lead, steel, etc..

So, if Ice sank, then it would go to the bottom of the ocean and we would get More and More and More Ice down there, till we would end up with only a thin coating of liquid water on the top, and we'd have a bunch of upset whales, dolphins and Nemo type fish.

But, with Ice floating, it stays near the surface, gets hit by wind and rain, and melts, and so the oceans stay relatively free and liquid and Nemo is happy.

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