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World’s biggest iceberg moving beyond Antarctic waters
- swader999 3y agoTempting to go plant a flag on it and claim it.
- redeux 3y agoThis was my first thought as well. I wonder how long it will last floating in the ocean and what a storm would potentially do to it (and anyone attempting to reside on it).
- samplatt 3y agoWhat would happen if a storm flipped it over? Would it be virgin territory again?
- foota 3y agoI think we'd have bigger problems if a 1 trillion ton icerberg flipped. Well, not me in particular, but whoever is on that side of the Antarctic might be in trouble.
- wincy 3y agoI feel like this would be exceptionally dangerous, like the plan would be something along the lines of 1) navigate a vessel to the site with a helipad and helicopter, while avoiding accidentally making that classic Titanic move of running aground on hidden ice or something 2) fly a helicopter to the center of the iceberg, hope the weather’s nice, as the terrain of this is likely to be “extremely dangerous and tall cliff faces on all sides” 3) plant a flag in the center of the iceberg, hoping you didn’t land your helicopter in a hidden crevasse or something equally gnarly in the process?
- arlattimore 3y agoKind of crazy, but I wonder if it could some how be towed back and tied to the main shelf to avoid it melting quickly once it reaches warm water.
- zrail 3y agoHow would you approach towing a 1500 square mile chunk of ice?
- chihuahua 3y agoThat's a perfectly reasonable SWE interview question.
- kibibu 3y ago"I would definitely use a linked list, or maybe a hash map"
- chihuahua 3y agoNo, it's more along the lines of the "Why are manhole covers round?" and "How many barbers are there in Portland?" questions that Microsoft used to love a long time ago.
- linkjuice4all 3y agoIt looks like you’ve got a lot of experience but we’re a crushed ice shop and you’re mostly familiar with cubed ice - so I’m sorry it won’t be a good fit.
- stavros 3y agoWind turbines running in reverse.
- esafak 3y ago"The miles aren't coming off in reverse."
- senectus1 3y agois it fresh water I wonder?
- wincy 3y agoI think this is a definitional thing. If it’s made of salt water, that’s called sea ice which is formed when water just freezes on the surface of the ocean. An iceberg on the other hand is a broken off piece of glacier, which is ultimately made of snowfall, and therefore should always be freshwater (at least on earth!)
- CPLX 3y agoBasically all ice is fresh water. Ice that forms from sea water (sea ice) will be composed of fresh water ice and pockets of salt water (brine) which generally drain themselves out reasonably quickly. Ice that comes from glaciation which I believe this iceberg is would just be fresh water from the start.