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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, Disagree) by LVDOVICVS on Monday July 16 2018, @06:12PM (1 child)

    by LVDOVICVS (6131) on Monday July 16 2018, @06:12PM (#707985)

    So the main point is the iceberg is 2700 times bigger than the biggest ship if I ran my slide rule right.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by pvanhoof on Monday July 16 2018, @06:17PM

    by pvanhoof (4638) on Monday July 16 2018, @06:17PM (#707988) Homepage

    Plus most of the mass is underwater. I'm not a physicist but I think this means there is much more water to displace while moving the mass through the water.

    Kinda like how it's harder for you to walk through a shallow swimming pool (one with water that comes to, let's say, your neck) than it is to walk in open air (admittedly your body's buoyancy is going to lift you up, which also ain't helping you pushing against the pool's floor with your feet).

    I'm sure there are actual physicists on this site who can either disprove or acknowledge that