Source - [url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery_directory.cfm?photo_id=9A43B5CB-B38D-7CBB-B5732A3FF1BB8A18]Scientific American[/url]
[release]Almost exactly a year ago, a 251-square-kilometer sheet of ice broke from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland and started slowly drifting into the open ocean. Now, a year later, satellite imagery reveals that the Petermann Ice Island—a Manhattan-sized chunk of that ice sheet—is now floating in Canadian waters and heading toward the fragmented coastline of Newfoundland.
Gene Patey captured this jarring image of a piece of the towering iceberg looming over the idyllic-looking hamlet of Goose Cove, although NASA's Earth Observatory predicted that the ice island would most likely get grounded on the shallow sea floor before it could strike land. And down the coast from Goose Cove, a Port Hope Simpson crab fisherman captured some footage of a smaller, almost 5-kilometer-long chunk of the ice island floating in open waters. Even if the drifting ice doesn't collide anywhere with the shoreline, it still poses a risk to ships and offshore oil rigs.
This isn't the first time ice sheets have calved from the Greenland mainland, but it's one of the largest breaks. In 2010, the average temperature in Nuuk, Greenland's capital, was the warmest ever recorded, and Climatewire reported that "Greenland's ice sheet is [now] melting faster than it has since at least 1958."[/release]
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Let's hope it doesn't hit anything
Odd how it seems so perfectly shaped
Facepunch Island 2011
Manhattan Island is the only one who can fight this monstrosity. They shall clash and their battle will be legendary. Only one shall prevail.
Somebody should camp on that thing until it melts.
Lets name it 'New Canada'.
[QUOTE=Nikota;31562365]Lets name it 'New Canada'.[/QUOTE]
Not sure how much of an improvement it is over the old
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;31562391]Not sure how much of an improvement it is over the old[/QUOTE]
More ice. You can't have enough ice!
It doesn't look [b]that[/b] big.
Anyone want to drill the ice out and bottle it and sell it to morons for 5 dollars a bottle?
[QUOTE=Nikota;31562464]Anyone want to drill the ice out and bottle it and sell it to morons for 5 dollars a bottle?[/QUOTE]
Or ship it to Africa or something.
[QUOTE=-Ben_Wolfe-;31562521]Or ship it to Africa or something.[/QUOTE]
The militias will just take it and do something violent with it.
[QUOTE=Nikota;31562597]The militias will just take it and do something violent with it.[/QUOTE]
Bottle-Rocket Propelled Grenades and Water-boarding. You're right, just sell it to old people with heat stroke.
[QUOTE=Best4bond;31562327]Facepunch Island 2011[/QUOTE]
All the fat neckbeards of Facepunch would cause it to tip over.
[QUOTE=Jimpy;31562695]All the fat neckbeards of Facepunch would cause it to tip over.[/QUOTE]
That is why we run it aground.
[QUOTE=ReligiousNutjob;31562721]That is why we run it aground.[/QUOTE]
But if we run it aground wouldnt that be considered an invasion, and thus an act of war?
It got the Titanic, and it came back for the rest.
[b]Frost Bite[/b]
Manhattan is smaller than I thought.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;31562810]Manhattan is smaller than I thought.[/QUOTE]
Why do you think there was so much fuss over two buildings falling?
It's all lies.
That chunk of ice is a giant ice-cube that was dropped into the ocean to fight global warming.
-smip-
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;31562810]Manhattan is smaller than I thought.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=itsDivine;31562460]It doesn't look [b]that[/b] big.[/QUOTE]
[quote]Gene Patey captured this jarring image of a [b]piece[/b] of the towering iceberg[/quote]
The one in the picture is just a piece of the Manhattan-Sized one.
napalm the shit out of it
[QUOTE=Khaos-23;31563238]The one in the picture is just a piece of the Manhattan-Sized one.[/QUOTE]
fuck, I was wondering about that
mod edit the title for me thanks
thanks strawplack
Strange that it's so close to shore yet apparently in deep enough water not to run aground. That thing must reach pretty damn far into the ocean.
[QUOTE=-Ben_Wolfe-;31562353]Manhattan Island is the only one who can fight this monstrosity. They shall clash and their battle will be legendary. Only one shall prevail.[/QUOTE]
There can be only one!
We're going to need a bigger Titanic.
[QUOTE=FreakySoup;31563738]We're going to need a bigger Titanic.[/QUOTE]
Why don't we just carve a new Titanic out of the ice chunk?
What's the worst that could happen? I doubt it's going to crash into a giant free-floating ship in the middle of the ocean.
I want to get on it and play ice tennis.
Oh fuck it's just as I predicted. It's gonna hit Canada, and Canada's going to sink, man and mouse!
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