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Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg

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59 pointsal_ramich14 comments

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"

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

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

> 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.

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

My God, it's full of stars!

The people running our sim are getting lazy.

Well played.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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

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

Edit: yep, tabloid trash story.

It wouldn't be the first subterranean military base.

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

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