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Tempting to go plant a flag on it and claim it.
by swader999 3y ago
Tempting 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?