Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg (opens in new tab)

(bbc.co.uk)

59 pointsal_ramich7y ago14 comments

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Not that it's particularly interesting, but I also took a photo of a rectangular iceberg:

I bet with some cropping or from a different angle it could be made to look as rectangular as the one in the photo.

This was taken off the east coast of Greenland in a helicopter. It's kind of hard to get an idea of scale, but it's rather enormous. 20x bigger than the typical "big ice"

emiliobumachar7y ago

By the way, "cropping" as you used it could mean either of two things.

jeffwass7y ago

How tall do you think that tabular one was in your photo?

princekolt7y ago

> It's difficult to tell exactly how big the iceberg is from the photo, but experts said it was probably more than 1.6km (1 mile) across.

This is mind-blowing. I'm trying to picture the scale of that thing, and realized a small plane could probably safely land on top of it with much room to spare.

vwcx7y ago

Not just a small plane. Even an Airbus A320 could handle a mile-long runway.

gmuslera7y ago

My God, it's full of stars!

pavel_lishin7y ago

The people running our sim are getting lazy.

thomk7y ago

Well played.

jaequery7y ago

I saw this the other day that may be even stranger than this rectangular iceberg, which is pretty weird too btw.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1016610/weird-news-yout...

princekolt7y ago

There is nothing weird about that. It's just Kohnen Station. They even have a website[1].

[1]: https://www.awi.de/en/expedition/stations/kohnen-station.htm...

mynewtb7y ago

Before anyone clicks the bait:

> What is this TWO KILOMETRE long secret city unearthed by melting ice in Antarctica? > A TWO kilometre long series of 22 sinister-looking structures have been revealed by thawing ice in Antarctica - prompting claims the installation is a World War 3 fall out shelter for the global elite or even a landing pad for incoming aliens.

'Discovered' on Google Earth. My bet is on simple data processing artifacts.

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moftz7y ago

Everything on that site is sensational conspiracy theories and hoaxes. "Sailors fused to ship during electro-magnetic invisibility test", "Secret Alien Bases Found on Moon Using Google Earth"

That site is trash and isn't shouldn't be considered news.

mmastrac7y ago

Isn't that the plot for The Philadelphia Experiment movie? [1]

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087910/

Edit: yep, tabloid trash story.

suvelx7y ago

It wouldn't be the first subterranean military base.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Ujx_pND9wg

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rando4447y ago

Not that it's particularly interesting, but I also took a photo of a rectangular iceberg:

https://imgur.com/a/XNWz0IO

I bet with some cropping or from a different angle it could be made to look as rectangular as the one in the photo.

This was taken off the east coast of Greenland in a helicopter. It's kind of hard to get an idea of scale, but it's rather enormous. 20x bigger than the typical "big ice"

emiliobumachar7y ago

By the way, "cropping" as you used it could mean either of two things.

jeffwass7y ago

How tall do you think that tabular one was in your photo?

princekolt7y ago

> It's difficult to tell exactly how big the iceberg is from the photo, but experts said it was probably more than 1.6km (1 mile) across.

This is mind-blowing. I'm trying to picture the scale of that thing, and realized a small plane could probably safely land on top of it with much room to spare.

vwcx7y ago

Not just a small plane. Even an Airbus A320 could handle a mile-long runway.

gmuslera7y ago

My God, it's full of stars!

pavel_lishin7y ago

The people running our sim are getting lazy.

thomk7y ago

Well played.

jaequery7y ago

I saw this the other day that may be even stranger than this rectangular iceberg, which is pretty weird too btw.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1016610/weird-news-yout...

princekolt7y ago

There is nothing weird about that. It's just Kohnen Station. They even have a website[1].

[1]: https://www.awi.de/en/expedition/stations/kohnen-station.htm...

mynewtb7y ago

Before anyone clicks the bait:

'Discovered' on Google Earth. My bet is on simple data processing artifacts.

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moftz7y ago

Everything on that site is sensational conspiracy theories and hoaxes. "Sailors fused to ship during electro-magnetic invisibility test", "Secret Alien Bases Found on Moon Using Google Earth"

That site is trash and isn't shouldn't be considered news.

mmastrac7y ago

Isn't that the plot for The Philadelphia Experiment movie? [1]

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087910/

Edit: yep, tabloid trash story.

suvelx7y ago

It wouldn't be the first subterranean military base.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Ujx_pND9wg

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