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Ice Theft in Antarctica
- johnisgood 1y agoThe term "theft" and "steal" feels really odd to me when referring to ice or glaciers, or anything that is inanimate (?). For example this sentence: "Usually, when glaciers come into contact they merge and continue flowing together. They have also been recorded stealing ice from one another" just left me more confused than before. What does it mean for glaciers to "steal ice" from one another? I understand "merge" but not "steal" in this context.
- detourdog 1y agoI just think the author needs a better vocabulary.
- dfxm12 1y agoAnother way to put it, as the article does, is transfer of ice to one glacier from another.
- hangonhn 1y agoYeah. I think that would have been much more appropriate but a lot less exciting. Before I read the article I was thinking maybe some researchers were stealing ice from each other and was really excited to understand why.
- b112 1y agoI think it's just an extension of clickbait. Theft! Stealing! More emotionally laden terms.
- lupire 1y agoDon't anthropomorphize glaciers. They hate that.
- JCattheATM 1y agoWhy is it giving you trouble, though? The idea is that the glacier is taking ice that 'doesn't belong' to it, putting the other glacier at some sort of disadvantage. Anthropomorphization isn't exactly an uncommon writing tool.
- pryelluw 1y agoThe fact that you don’t understand why he doesn’t understand makes me understand that in this whole conversation you’re the person with the greater misunderstanding.
- JCattheATM 1y agoSo witty! Or, actually he understands just fine but chose to say he doesn't understand as a way to protest something he disagrees with. There's a chance you understood that and just wanted to try and be snarky though, isn't there? Such a valuable contribution!
- johnisgood 1y agoI actually did not understand what it means for a glacier to steal something: take [what exactly] and [why]? I do not disagree with something I have no idea about.
- JCattheATM 1y agoHow can you truly not understand from context? I mean, you guess merge, which indicates you do understand the point being made, but just strongly disagree with the language for some reason. If you truly didn't understand, you wouldn't have been able to suggest your preferred language use of 'merge' instead.
- pryelluw 1y agoOf all the hills in this little pale blue dot, the decision to pick this one as the location to commit seppuku over someone else’s interpretation of an analogy not only seems wasteful, it begets the question: why? But this is the Internet. A modern marvel built for the purpose of inflating one’s ego at the cost of others. Me included, of course. Now, do me. Please.
- madaxe_again 1y agoThere’s plenty of this kinda stuff in the parlance - for instance, bees “rob” each other. Are they criminals? No, but the behaviour can be described as theft. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbing
- IAmBroom 1y agoThat is much closer to the concept of ordinary human theft. This is clickbait.
- OutOfHere 1y agoThis is another case of the theft of the word theft for something that wasn't a theft.
- metalman 1y agothe title could just be an example of how a person ends up thinking after bieng on station in antartica......glaciation starts to become personal
- bell-cot 1y agoIIR, "capture" is the geological term used when one river or stream starts taking water from another. (Generally due to erosion shifting their courses.) No idea if there is a correct geological term for what's happening here - but "theft", "steal", and "piracy" get the clicks, so...