Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg

Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg(bbc.co.uk)

59 points by al_ramich 7 years ago | 14 comments

rando444 7 years ago |

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"

emiliobumachar 7 years ago | |

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

jeffwass 7 years ago | |

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

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.

thomk 7 years ago | |

Well played.

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.

mmastrac 7 years ago | | |

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

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

Edit: yep, tabloid trash story.

suvelx 7 years ago | |

It wouldn't be the first subterranean military base.

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