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Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg

bbc.co.uk

59 points by al_ramich 7 years ago · 20 comments

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rando444 7 years 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"

princekolt 7 years 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.

  • vwcx 7 years ago

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

gmuslera 7 years ago

My God, it's full of stars!

pavel_lishin 7 years ago

The people running our sim are getting lazy.

jaequery 7 years 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...

  • princekolt 7 years 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...

  • mynewtb 7 years 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.

  • moftz 7 years 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.

  • suvelx 7 years ago

    It wouldn't be the first subterranean military base.

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

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