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Watch This Gigantic, Terrifying Iceberg Slowly Move Toward a Tiny Greenland Village

posted by chromas on Monday July 16 2018, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-said-"no-ice"! dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

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.

[YouTube video]

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.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/watch-this-gigantic-terrifying-iceberg-slowly-move-toward-a-tiny-greenland-village/

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday July 16 2018, @05:18PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday July 16 2018, @05:18PM (#707950) Journal

    Maybe we need a good War on Ice. Maybe we could win that one.

    Pretty sure we're already winning that one.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @05:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @05:27PM (#707953)

    >> 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...