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It looks like something badly CGI'd into a disaster movie, but it's real: an 11 million ton iceberg, slowly moving toward a village, threatening to destroy everything in its path.
Just look at this thing.
A massive section of the iceberg falls off at around 30 seconds in, which gives you a sense of the scale here. If the iceberg becomes destabilised, and a larger chunk is broken off, it could create a tsunami, which could potentially destroy the town of Innaarsuit. This sped up GIF does a good job of illustrating the iceberg's movement.
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Watch This Gigantic, Terrifying Iceberg Slowly Move Toward a Tiny Greenland Village
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poverty, n.:
An unfortunate state that persists as long
as anyone lacks anything he would like to have.
(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Monday July 16 2018, @03:23PM (13 children)
I'm pretty sure repairs to the damaged village is going to be less expensive than just one AGM-114 Hellfire. Plus breaking off large chunks of ice ain't going to do good for the village's infrastructure, either. Plus you need to bring a bunch of equipment in the proximity of that village in Greenland to start doing drone flights like that. Politically sensitive, plus, expensive, plus, you need that equipment in actual current war zones (the US is involved in plenty already, no need to add Greenland to that list).
You could also just rig the iceberg with conventional explosives.
Or you could just wait and see. It's quite unlikely that the village will get much irrepairable damage anyway.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday July 16 2018, @04:07PM (2 children)
The Russian military use artillery pieces to precipitate avalanches for similar purposes.
Might as well do something useful during training excercises.
(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Monday July 16 2018, @05:24PM (1 child)
I like the idea of cheap artillery pieces more than sending over expensive drones shooting even more expensive Hellfires. However. How about simply rigging the mountain with conventional explosives?
Or how about not doing anything until there is an actual problem and only if there ever will be an actual problem?
Admittedly the 33 people who have left the village together with the 169 who so far have stayed, will enjoy the fireworks show of the artillery command doing the shelling from the top of that mountain at the other side of the point where the camera was set up of that video made by this local resident. I'm sure the homeowners there can organize a nice barbeque with a nice after party inviting the soldiers for some sangria later in the evening.
Maybe they should bring some tents, in case it's cloudy that day and it starts raining.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Tuesday July 17 2018, @09:15AM
I think they use conventional explosives to clear mountains above some of the Canadian highways. But I take your point that doing nothing is a sensible option.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 16 2018, @04:10PM (9 children)
Oh, I dunno. We've had a war on poverty, war on crime, war on poverty, war on cannabis, war against stupidity. Maybe we need a good War on Ice. Maybe we could win that one.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Monday July 16 2018, @04:21PM
and then a war on booze to go with the ice.... i think you're onto something here, Runaway! :)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Monday July 16 2018, @05:16PM (3 children)
You'll win the War on Ice before you'll win the War on Stupidity. That's exactly right. But .. concerning this war on Stupidity. Did you manage to kill or convince any of the enemies?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @05:34PM
I suggest we combine this new war on Ice with the ongoing war on Stupidity. It's easy, offer this iceberg as target practice for NRA members. A quick look suggests that Greenland won't have to change their gun laws to any great extent,
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/greenland [gunpolicy.org]
That low population country already has plenty of guns--
> Small Arms Imports (US$) - Customs
> The annual value of small arms and ammunition imports to Greenland is reported by Customs to be US$1,044,858 (2011)
(Score: 4, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Monday July 16 2018, @05:44PM (1 child)
The War on Stupidity was over a long time ago. Stupidity won.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Monday July 16 2018, @05:49PM
Yes, but did any of the enemy combatants either get convinced to cease being stupid or got killed? It even looks like they took over government in the US. Didn't NOFX have a song about that? The Idiots are taking over or something. Yes, The War on Errorism was the album called.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday July 16 2018, @05:18PM (1 child)
Maybe we need a good War on Ice. Maybe we could win that one.
Pretty sure we're already winning that one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @05:27PM
>> Maybe we need a good War on Ice. Maybe we could win that one.
> Pretty sure we're already winning that one.
Yes we are. But you have the wrong time scale to save the threatened village...
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday July 16 2018, @06:21PM (1 child)
Don't forget the Emu War. Humanity lost that one.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday July 16 2018, @11:32PM
Did you mean the Emu War, which humans won, or the Emo War, which everyone lost?
Washington DC delenda est.