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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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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 16 2018, @06:45PM (3 children)
This is precisely why I said to wait for a time when the wind and the water are working in the direction you want to go. The tug boats will be doing little more than trying to influence the course. Yes, they add a little to the kinetic energy, but their primary purpose is steering. As I mentioned, if the ice is grounded, then no amount of tug boats are going to move it. They have little chance of moving a ship that has run hard aground!
(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Monday July 16 2018, @06:57PM (2 children)
I think a better idea would be to deposit massive amounts of sand in front of the iceberg, similar to how they do land reclamation projects*. That might actually divert the iceberg away from the village or might stop it from crashing into the shore of the village.
But anyway. I stick to that this iceberg probably wont do much damage anyway. Let it be. If necessary evacuate the village. When the iceberg problem is gone, repair the village's damages and bring back the local residents. Compensating them and paying for the repairs of the village will be much much cheaper than any conceivable project that would stop 11 millions tonnes of ice mass. I for example don't think many nuclear weapons would displace enough mass to do much to this iceberg. Plus the fallout wouldn't be nice.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_island [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 18 2018, @02:02AM (1 child)
I just saw this video, a time lapse of the berg moving north, and away from the village - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny7A6So9QIk [youtube.com]
Kinda cool. Let the wind and the water do the work!!
(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Friday July 20 2018, @01:03PM
Imagine how much needless damage the village would have if we'd send Rambo over with his bow. Or Drones. And all the pollution we'd have of tug boats pointlessly attempting to move 11 million fscking tonnes of ice.