You awake wearing a wet suit, in a well lit room. Near you there is a pair of goretex gloves, and an ice axe. There is a dry floor, a ceiling, and four walls. An eerie fluorescent light is coming from skylights flush with the ceiling. One of the walls seems transparent, and you approach it to find that it seems to be made of ice. Deep in the ice there is another true wall with a door that has a green exit light flashing next to it near a button.

The room is 10 ft wide by 10 ft high by 50ft long. The room you are in has one wall that is made of ice which makes that room temporarily 10×10x10. The room is not airtight towards the ceiling, but the the only escape hatch that is possible is through the door on the other side of 40 ft of solid ice that just began to melt with an ambient temperature of 80F.

Will you die? How? Will you be able to escape? What do you do?

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