Giant Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctic Glacier 278 sq miles now floating freely in the Amundsen Sea (photo gallery)

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Photo Gallery: Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Cracks
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If you enlarge you can see that's a pretty significant berg.
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Last Edited by AKObserver on 07/10/2013 05:37 PM

Imagine the size of the drink you can put it on!
But seriously, this one is so big, that can even affect ocean currents, even thou slightly

yes and this doesn't sound good
Still, if the glacier's flow speeds up, it could have serious consequences, the researchers said. The Pine Island Glacier currently acts as a plug, holding back part of the immense West Antarctic Ice Sheet whose melting ice contributes to rising sea levels.



Last Edited by AKObserver on 07/10/2013 05:58 PM

The problem is other chunks will break off now.

Imagine if it fractures like a dropped plate into a few big pieces and then they just float off.

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Isn't it dark thirty down there and clutched in the icy throes of mid-winter?

Time to buy a boat.

Winter til' September 21st

More photos and updates
Antarctic glacier calves iceberg one-fourth size of Rhode Island
This week a European Earth-observing satellite confirmed that a large iceberg broke off of Pine Island Glacier, one of Antarctica’s largest and fastest moving ice streams.
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Update
Iceberg Antarctica: Ice mass the size of Chicago breaks off Pine Island Glacier
Posted on July 13, 2013
July 13, 2013 – ANTARTICA – An iceberg in Antarctica recently broke off a glacier and is now floating freely in the ocean. What makes this so incredible is that the size of this icy mass is reportedly bigger than the city of Chicago. According to German scientists, this gigantic iceberg broke off Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier Monday, with the body of ice floating throughout parts of the Amundsen Sea. The scientists said the iceberg was spotted floating in the area by an earth-observing satellite operated by the German Space Agency. The satellite, referred to as TerraSAR-X, further identified a crack forming in the iceberg, which was originally spotted back in October by NASA. When the space agency did a fly over the Pine Island Glacier to investigate a survey of the crack, they studied the fracture that was 15 miles in length and 164 miles wide. A second fissure formed soon after near the top side of the first crack, which was discovered back in May via satellite images. Yet researchers note that icebergs breaking off of the Pine Island Glacier is nothing new or rare. In fact, back in 2007 and 2008, the glacier saw two large icebergs severe and float away, making this Icelandic mace the fastest-changing on the West Antarctic Sheet. However, researchers caution that rapid ecological changes can come from the Glacier’s rapid flow, as it “acts as a plug, holding back part of the immense West Antarctic Ice Sheet whose melting ice contributes to rising sea levels.” –Science World Report
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yeah, those rising sea levels eh?

fucking scary shit that is.

Epic.