“[Ilulissat Icefjord](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1149/)
Located on the west coast of Greenland, 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord is the sea mouth of Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the few glaciers through which the Greenland ice cap reaches the sea. Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the fastest and most active glaciers in the world. It annually calves over 35 km3 of ice, i.e. 10% of the production of all Greenland calf ice and more than any other glacier outside Antarctica.”
I think this is a fantastic showcase of nature that we can understand and which allows us a glimpse into many cosmic happenings. More so than our human minds can comprehend, the landscape changes because it was meant to and because it was always going to
.We’re just not that special. We are fleas that found self consciousness on a rock. But man are we stubborn.
holy shit
Unbelievable. Great share.
nICE
I wonder how many years of ice that is…
And that’s why you don’t paddle up to glaciers. The shelf underneath is hidden.
Amazing
There goes Miami.
That is one sizable ice cube
Say it with me. “Praise… the… cameraman”
It’s just rolling onto the other side where it’s more comfortable.
What’s the yellow thing in the bottom left, a painted rock?
How do they know to be at that exact certain place at that exact certain time to be able to see this? Do they get a memo or something?
Link just plugged a crystal in to open the ice palace. You know there is some blue mail & sweet gear in that big cave that rose out of the water.
How does that happen? Does enough of the bottom half melt away while under water until the part above the water line is heavier than what’s below?
Switch the playback speed to 2.0 so crazy
Superman is gonna be PISSED when he gets home!
Me turning around on my bed in the middle of the night.
Imagine someone walking on the top. Or camping there overnight.
This seems like a bad thing for people who want the ice to stay ice. So much was shedded in this process.
How many years would you have to go back for them not to be able to stand where they’re standing?
Man, Club Penguin fans are wild.
Maybe its just a trick of the camera, but did anyone else notice literally everything but the people was in slow motion?
Even the birds were flying slowly, but people in frame were moving at normal speed.
And thats only the tip of the iceberg
My take from this:
They’re in the middle of arctic fucking nowhere, and *still* that poor photographer is being pestered by flies.
This is cooler than the other side of an iceberg
congratulations. this is what you get for burning fossil fuels every day
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Assuming you don’t freeze to death.. what are rhe chances of living if you are intop of it when it starts flipping?
Like would you fall off into water or land on ice and die? Or get smashes by falling ice?
Go find the ice calving clip from “chasing ice”. It’s this but in a scale of the end of Manhattan calving off
Beautiful and terrifying. Humans are fucked.
Tiamut is melting…
Check out [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGU) for more crazy ice moving.
Just awesome. I mean truly. I’m in awe.
We are so small.
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“[Ilulissat Icefjord](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1149/)
Located on the west coast of Greenland, 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord is the sea mouth of Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the few glaciers through which the Greenland ice cap reaches the sea. Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the fastest and most active glaciers in the world. It annually calves over 35 km3 of ice, i.e. 10% of the production of all Greenland calf ice and more than any other glacier outside Antarctica.”
[If you look closely enough you can see James Bond kitesurfing the wave!](https://youtu.be/6w6FV8P7HXg?t=41)
Beautiful and terrifying.
I think this is a fantastic showcase of nature that we can understand and which allows us a glimpse into many cosmic happenings. More so than our human minds can comprehend, the landscape changes because it was meant to and because it was always going to
.We’re just not that special. We are fleas that found self consciousness on a rock. But man are we stubborn.
poor fella getting eat up by bugs
If this was in a videogame I would question the physics and call it a bug.
Just great.
Imagine being the unlucky sea animal that was just minding their own business when this happened.
Holy snap
Was hoping someone would cup their hands around their mouth and yell “Do a flip!”
Thats terrifying
What surprised me the most was the refreshing lack of “Whooping” from the people watching
That was sublime!
That is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. It’s almost hard to believe. Seems like some epic CGI footage.
Incredible cool
How did they know this was going to happen?