Neat! This actually happens all the time, although maybe not so dramatically. When I visited the Jökulsárlón (the famous glacial lagoon) in southern Iceland, there was a large iceberg there that had flipped a day or so before. Unlike the ice around it, this iceberg was smooth and deep blue from having been underwater.
Indeed. The title of the post made me think of one of the posters the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences produced to go on the London Underground in 2000:
That's pretty cool, but shit, is even the Smithsonian succumbing to clickbait-style headlines now?
Unfortunately yes. They've been doing it for a while now, maybe even over a year.
If success is measured by page views, sooner or later sites like this will converge to cheap measures. It's sad and one of the reasons why I consider online advertisements and all their tracking to be a threat to our cultural society.