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Global warming is a lie! The penguins are intentionally breaking up the ice in an attempt to expand their territory! /s
So much for god not building in straight lines.
Its melting because its 90 degrees
From Nat Geo…
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 23, 2018
In a world besieged by climate change-induced chaos and disruption, one satisfying image of order has emerged.
It’s an iceberg, shared online by NASA last Wednesday, that appears to be in the shape of a perfect rectangle with smooth, even walls, and 90-degree angles. The iceberg sits like a giant floating sheet cake near the east coast of the Antarctic peninsula.
NASA’s IceBridge aircraft spotted the iceberg during a routine aerial survey. Operation IceBridge is a research initiative created to better understand how the poles influence Earth’s climate, and it uses a fleet of research planes to regularly collect information.
âThe iceberg’s sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf,â NASA tweeted, referring to the Larsen C ice shelf.
Senior research scientist Ted Scambos with the University of Colorado at Boulder says the iceberg is in the ballpark of 130 feet tall and anywhere from a mile or two long.
âIf you total the tons of ice [it contains], it would fill every swimming pool in California several times over,â he says, noting that it’s only a small piece compared to the ice floating around Antarctica.
A slice of ice
Ice shelfs are full of fractures and fissures, explains geophysicist Kristin Poinar from the University at Buffalo. Tabular icebergs are more common than people realize.
â[Icebergs] look like these beautiful pristine white things from a distance, but if you look a little closer, they’re really mangled and full of cracks,â she says.
âThe Larsen C is a large ice shelf. The ice has time to spread out and become perfectly flat,â Poinar adds, so when an iceberg breaks off from a large ice shelf along an existing fissure, it looks like a large, flat rectangle. Typically, only 10 percent of an iceberg is visible above the water. As it calved, the iceberg may have been smooth and flat underneath, but ocean currents would have quickly changed it.
Eric Rignot, a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and a professor at UC Irvine, agrees that Larsen C’s massive size created the rectangular shape.
âThe ‘bergs detaching from Larsen C are so big, they look perfectly rectangular or with linear features because they were created from rifts that run across the ice shelf for hundreds of kilometers straight,â he notes. âIn Greenland, you would not find these rectangular bergs so much because it is warmer, icebergs break into smaller pieces and the glaciers are smaller as well.â
Melting Antarctica
An ice shelf is a large, floating chunk of ice attached to a nearby land mass, and Larsen C is just the latest on the frontline. Larsen A collapsed in 1995, and Larsen B collapsed in 2002.
In 2017, an iceberg the size of Delaware broke off from Larsen C. The trillion-ton chunk was one of the largest ever recorded. As more ice calves from Larsen C, it makes the ice shelf less stable, and scientists fear this could cause another collapse like those seen with Larsen A and B.
The Larsen C ice shelf is just one of many climate scientists are monitoring. As climate change continues to warm temperatures at the poles, scientists are increasingly concerned that Antarctica is melting.
Poinar notes that one iceberg doesn’t necessarily indicate how stable an ice shelf is.
âYou can think of the shelf like a bank account,â she says. Though icebergs often calve off, a portion of that ice is replaced by snowfall.
Next on Ancient AliensâŚâŚ
Superman built a new Fortress of Solitude in Antarctica!
It’s Aliens – History Channel
I want to play hockey on that
It reminds me of a choc ice and I want to eat it
Just came out of the iceberg factory.
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Welcome to Costco. I love you.
Someone placed a lot of snow blocks for their winter base.
Aliens
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Canât really tell from the pic whether itâs perfectly rectangular
That’s just the cube they got from Hally’s comet to help with global warming.
Lol remember that stupid line in ‘Covenant’ where the character says “God doesn’t draw in straight lines”
It’s as stupid as the people saying ‘nature doesn’t create perfect circles’.
YES IT DOES.
Flat earth confirmed! If the world is round, then why do we have squares!?!?!
[Here](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpuMLroXUAAtKPc.jpg:orig) is a higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://twitter.com/NASA_ICE/status/1052601381712887809/photo/1) 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
Secret Chinese 5 spyce.
Great place for a parking lot
Glitch in The Matrix.
I thought those were patched out.
Nah. Thatâs just the Russian base.
That picture makes it look more perfect than it really is. Here’s [another angle](https://images.theconversation.com/files/242181/original/file-20181025-71042-13sqnq6.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=31%2C838%2C5231%2C2611&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop) It’s pretty cool
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If this shape showed up in nature on Mars conspiracy nuts would go insane for decades.
>ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.
By adding the word, “perfectly” to the title, you opened yourself up to a lot of criticism.
Flat-earthers be likeâŚ
âWhat i tell ya!â
The Cell Games are about to start
âPerfectâ? Its very clearly not perfect. Its not bad, but pretending those sides are smooth is just assinine.
This is actually an Amazon Distribution Center.
Itâs the Amazon fulflment center
Sus
Theres a Costco or Amazon Fullfillment Center under there
It’s Not an Iceberg .
It’s Alien or Government.
âPerfectly rectangularâ my iceâŚthose walls donât look flat to me
If its perfectly rectangular, why do we not see the whole thing? I am thinking it is not perfectly rectangular.
The cell games have begun