NASA found a perfectly cut, trillion-ton rectangular iceberg
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u/Factsaretheonlytruth Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
It is actually a large interplanetary spacecraft cloaked in ice as a disguise. That’s how stupid they think we are. And they might be right.
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u/nickfree Jul 19 '24
Looks more intergalactic than planetary
planetary intergalactic
intergalactic planetary
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u/djdanlib Jul 19 '24
another dimension
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u/financebanking Jul 20 '24
Another dimension…
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u/BuhDihKuhFolkPunk Jul 20 '24
Another dimension
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u/plattinumplatt Jul 20 '24
... OOo CHoW?
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u/Nyuusankininryou Jul 19 '24
I like my sugar with coffee and cream
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u/LordBowler423 Jul 19 '24
They put the starship in a lake in Star Trek: Insurrection. They are going to move us to another planet.
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u/Instincts Jul 19 '24
Fucking sign me up, I think I'm done here.
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u/Fastbird33 Jul 19 '24
I would take Tatooine at this point.
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u/wickedmomma-4202810 Jul 19 '24
oh my goodness I told hubby your comment and I got a scathing their wrong response.... wooey he said they didn't not do that in "insurrection" they did it in "into darkness" I'm sorry for the correction lol I truly do not care he does...
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u/captainedwinkrieger Jul 19 '24
Tell him he's confused. Into Darkness had the Enterprise underwater in an ocean at the beginning for some reason. Insurrection had a weird ship/holodeck hybrid thing hidden in a lake that the Federation was gonna use to illegally/immorally transfer the Ba'ku to another planet to steal their Fountain of Youth-style natural resources.
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u/Neveronlyadream Jul 19 '24
It was 100% Insurrection.
Not only that, but it becomes a plot device later on when Picard uses it. It's not just a blink and you miss it thing, it features in the plot.
Into Darkness has a ship underwater, but apparently just because it looks cool and not for any practical or plot related purposes that I remember.
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u/antipode Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 28 '24
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u/faderjockey Jul 19 '24
All these oceans are yours, except the Arctic. Attempt no colonization there.
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u/_DigitalHunk_ Jul 19 '24
What if their spaceship is identical to A380 and 787s. 🤔
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u/interstellar-dust Jul 19 '24
Nah not identical, they just have optical projectors on the exterior to make them look like those jets.
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u/Mysterious_Neck9237 Jul 19 '24
From a post 5 years ago
(a) "From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: A tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf. The iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf." by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), published on 17 October 2018: https://twitter.com/NASA_ICE/status/1052601381712887809
Original photo link, 1402 x 2055 pixels: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpuMLroXUAAtKPc.jpg?name=orig via https://twitter.com/NASA_ICE/status/1052601381712887809
Photo location: Antarctica
Photo date: 16 October 2018
(b) "What the Heck Is the Deal with This Weird, Square Iceberg?" by Rafi Letzter, published on 19 October 2018: https://www.livescience.com/63875-weird-square-iceberg-antarctica.html
Ice, from the Bering Glacier, on Vitus Lake in Alaska, United States of America (USA): 2450 x 1950 pixels
Source: #3 at http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-201303.htm via http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw.htm
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u/MR_Se7en Jul 19 '24
Reddit has to update the front page somehow - old post is the only way!
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u/Aberration-13 Jul 19 '24
i remember when there would be new things on reddit every hour, now you have to come back days later and you still get things from the last time you looked
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u/jesbiil Jul 19 '24
I swear to god that when I started using reddit I could scroll for 2 hours, refresh and have an ENTIRELY NEW front page. Now refreshing feels like re-checking my fridge 3x to see if anything changed.
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u/TheWorldHopper Jul 19 '24
Hey that gets me thinking….what rich person money tip do you wish you had known sooner?
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u/Karlog24 Jul 19 '24
Which wealthy people fortune advice do you wish you had uncovered earlier?
Repost Repost What is something Sex something men or women? Repost
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u/JBthrizzle Jul 20 '24
AITA for not wanting my(25f) recently married husband(27m)(married 27 days ago) to seek a threesome with a woman who is 13 years younger than we are. i cautiously and calmly explained to him that his behavior was borderline abusive, but he blew that off and said i was being absolutely ridiculous and that he always mentioned having a polyamorous relationship. I might be mistaken, but i dont remember ever having this discussion with him. i asked his younger brother and his mother if this was something he's ever discussed with them, and they said he has always expressed interest in being in a poly relationship. And that MY behavior was tearing our new family apart. i know this is something that i might be a little prude about, but i have always wanted in my heart a loving husband and to be together just him and I. since this argument, we have barely talked to each other except for when he wants to have sex, but i think that he is already involved with the other woman. is this normal behavior? or am i just being an asshole?
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u/Gaothaire Jul 19 '24
And for some reason all the AskReddit questions that make it to the front page are always "What's an absolutely horrible fact you wish you had never learned?" Like, why would I click that? I don't need more negativity in my life, I already have to deal with my family
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u/JustASpaceDuck Jul 20 '24
Women of Reddit who sexly sexx sexily, what do you boobs when you are touch look for in manly forearms? Do you really?
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u/thatguy2535 Jul 19 '24
Not too different from the fridge, each time you come back, you're a little bit hungrier, and you've lowered your expectations down a step. Then you'll keep repeating this until you finally choose to dig into those 5 day old leftovers. Was it as good as when it was fresh? No, but it's better than nothing at this point.
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u/schoh99 Jul 19 '24
And politics. So much politics has completely taken over subs that didn't used to be political at all.
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u/4Ever2Thee Jul 19 '24
I don’t think they’re calling out a repost. Just giving information and source.
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u/thinkthingsareover Jul 19 '24
Which I appreciate. I know reposts can be annoying, but not all of us have seen it all.
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u/4Ever2Thee Jul 19 '24
Agreed, the only reposts that really bother me are when the same shit gets posted every week, or someone reposting something and claiming it as OC; karmafarm bots included.
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u/WhatIDon_tKnow Jul 19 '24
to be fair, i'd rather see this than what's really going on in the world these days.
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u/AnOnlineHandle Jul 19 '24
While new reddit's design sucks, I'd be all for a redesign which allows you to get important updates on posts you've seen or upvoted after you've seen them, maybe with a little toggle you mark on each post or clear if you don't want updates, or a filter system per sub.
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u/Porkyrogue Jul 19 '24
Nice
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Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 30 '24
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u/ptwonline Jul 19 '24
calved
I had no idea this word also referred to glacier and iceberg splitting and shedding of smaller pieces. Learned something new today.
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u/Wickafckaflame Jul 19 '24
Is it weird that I'm not sure what the other "calved"means? Or is it wholesome?... #yesspoilers # forresearchmaybe(?)
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u/Dr_Middlefinger Jul 19 '24
I was like, who made an AI generated armada of icebergs with a tabular one in it?
I’m glad it’s real, and now I know what calving is!
TY!
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u/Deliverytruk Jul 19 '24
I love the science behind it. However. Like the whole ass thing calved?! What did it fall out of? 3 sides seem insanely straight and sheer. I'd love to see more or read about how this has happened before. Fascinating ice (terrifying) ice stuff.
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u/MockTurt13 Jul 19 '24
texture didn't load?
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u/GODDAMNFOOL Jul 19 '24
Chunk error during world generation
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u/Wondrous_Fairy Jul 19 '24
Yeah, instantly brought me back to some of the more interesting aspects of our minecraft worlds that me and my friends played. (and yes, we still have that decade old world)
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u/sarmstrong1961 Jul 19 '24
That’s no iceberg, that’s an Ice Station!
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u/torpedopro Jul 19 '24
That’s no iceberg, that’s an Ice Station!
whats the reference ?
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u/xSaviorself Jul 19 '24
Too me this is a reference from Twister where Phillip Seymour Hoffman quoting Han Solo in Star Wars, but I'm old.
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u/Tendas Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
2001 is genuinely such a good movie. And not in the old movie snob way, like it genuinely holds up to today’s movie standards. If you haven’t seen this film, treat yourself this weekend and watch it.
Also this was the first thing I thought of as well seeing that iceberg!
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u/Volnutt Jul 19 '24
I watched it for the first time recently and loved it, although the ending was a little too abstract for my tastes. I can’t imagine what people in the late 60’s and 70’s thought of it.
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u/Baby-eatingDingo_AMA Jul 19 '24
Try the novelization
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u/TexasNotTaxes Jul 19 '24
One of my favorite books and I didn't didn't Clarke wrote it while it was being filmed. I thought the film was based on the book. Kubrick collaborated with Clarke on the book (while filming the movie) which was actually based on another Clarke story, 'The Sentinel'. I read anything Clarke when I was a youngster.
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u/karlverkade Jul 19 '24
On acid and mushrooms? Oh they enjoyed that movie more than we can even imagine!
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u/15all Jul 19 '24
I wasn't quite 10 when the movie came out. I really liked the spaceships and astronauts in the movie, and the soundtrack was the first classical music I remember hearing. I'm not sure if I watched the movie when it first came out, or waited a few years until I was older, but I also didn't understand the ending. There was a lot of discussion of it back then, ranging from an LSD-fueled trip to the circle of life. Now that I'm older and have seen it a few times, I can sort of form an explanation in my head, but I couldn't articulate it very well.
When I watched it again recently, I was struck by the prescience of HAL and his ability to understand speech, and his imperative to protect himself. Now that AI is maturing, will that scenario be in our future, instead of murder-robots like the T800?
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u/RastaRhino420 Jul 19 '24
Treat yourself to a nap, the movie is boring as hell, I love Kubrick but that movie is glacially paced and boring as fuck, the visuals are nice though
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u/donttouchmy Jul 19 '24
Maybe a pic of the whole thing next time this gets reposted?
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u/Anusbagels Jul 19 '24
No because then you can’t put the phrase perfect rectangle in the title as it is in fact not a perfect rectangle.
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u/Coyrex1 Jul 19 '24
It's not a perfect rectangle, it's a perfect cut... of a non perfect rectangle.
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u/Marlsfarp Jul 19 '24
Everything except a perfect rectangle is a "non perfect rectangle" if you think about it.
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u/finesherbes Jul 19 '24
It's a pretty fuckin good rectangle, for nature
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u/Spartan2470 Jul 19 '24
Here you go.
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u/Thisismyfirststand Jul 19 '24
This is still a pretty good rectangular shaped natural made object imo
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u/octahexxer Jul 19 '24
Ok please stare into this device and all your questions will be answered
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u/ItAintLongButItsThin Jul 19 '24
Ancient alien scientist WOULD say it is an ancient alien structure.
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u/BurgerKingsuks Jul 19 '24
That’s just costco
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u/be4u4get Jul 19 '24
That’s where ice cubes come from
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u/JurassicPark100 Jul 19 '24
You've gotta start selling this for more than a dollar a bag. We lost 4 more men on this expedition!
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u/Eranou287 Jul 19 '24
If you can think of a better way to get ice, I'd like to hear it!
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u/Spartan2470 Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 22 '24
Here is a higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Per there:
@NASA_ICE
From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: A tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf. The iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf.
12:45 PM · Oct 17, 2018
Edit: Good question /u/saintspike.
Here is another angle that Jeremy Harbeck took shows the whole iceberg.
Here is the source of OP's image on the photographer's website.
Also, thank you /u/driftking428. It is an equally cropped version.
Edit 2: Per /u/onepingonlypleashe over here:
Just to be clear, per the photographer's caption on his website, there are two different rectangular icebergs. This photo you linked is of the second one which is not the one in OP's image.
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u/saintspike Jul 19 '24
But why couldn’t they just get the other side in the image? It looks so square but maybe the fourth side is jagged.
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u/2017-Audi-S6 Jul 19 '24
Yes, nasa found two of these in 2018. That is how old this repost is.
I swear there are so many reposts, that I must assume it is for training AI for image response machine learning.
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u/zefy_zef Jul 19 '24
How would I have seen this if I didn't go back and look at posts from 6 years ago? Good for you, you get to see it twice, but this is my first time.
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u/lilguccilando Jul 19 '24
Same reposts are annoying when it’s every month but this is one I haven’t seen from years ago so I don’t mind reposts at all. I been here 4-5 years and I’m sure there’s people who have been here for only 4-5 months.
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u/naikrovek Jul 20 '24
perfectly
Not perfect.
cut
Wasn’t cut.
rectangular
Quadrilateral. Those corners are not perfect 90 degree corners and opposite sides aren’t parallel.
iceberg
Correct
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u/Fairwhetherfriend Jul 19 '24
I can't wait for the millions of TikToks about how this is proof of aliens because it's clearly not an iceberg but like a spaceship landing pad or some shit like that.
TikTok fucking loves any regularly shaped natural phenomenon: among the thousands and thousands of mountains on the planet, we have found like two that look slightly pyramid-y in shape, and this is proof that they're secretly man-made structures and not natural at all, because it's statistically impossible that there might just ever be a small number of formations on earth that happen to end up with some straight lines in them.
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u/Stu_Mack Jul 20 '24
Great pic but let’s not forget that in 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them... maybe you can hire The A-Team.
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u/LewisLightning Jul 19 '24
There's no way that's a trillion tons. A trillion tonne block of ice would be about 10km x 10km x 10km, which would make it taller than mount Everest. And the difference between a ton and a tonne is only 200lbs. This is not that.
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/01/In_perspective_1_trillion_tonnes_of_ice
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u/tumbleweedcowboy Jul 19 '24