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Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100k years old
- m3kw9 1y agoWhen are these going on sale in drinks?
- HocusLocus 1y ago"Fisher Hallur Antoniussen took a photo of it to show crewmates, but it quickly took off after being posted on social media." I don't blame it, I would have done the same.
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- bee_rider 1y agoDo black Labrador icebergs also have webbed feet, to swim better?
- bregma 1y agoNo, but golden Labrador icebergs are the friendliest of all the icebergs and can make a great addition to any family.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoThe vet bills and cleaning up after them is really ridiculous.
- morkalork 1y agoWill the icebergs broken off get older and older?
- cess11 1y agoAs long as we keep pushing CO2 into the atmosphere and don't run out of ice, yeah, most likely.
- tromp 1y ago> He guesses the ice in the berg is at least 1,000 years old, but could also be exponentially more ancient — even formed as many as 100,000 years ago. That's not exponentially more (which would be a preposterous 2^1000 or 10^1000 years old). It's just 100 times more. Should I stop being annoyed at how media use the word and just accept their alternative meaning of "a lot" ?
- jhrmnn 1y agoThis is how language develops, I’m afraid. But imagine that the age is 10^k where k is something like “age class”. Then indeed the age grows exponentially :)
- serial_dev 1y agoIt still doesn’t grow exponentially, it is just orders of magnitude older. Possibly, because if I read between the lines, their answer is “huh I dunno”.
- parineum 1y agoOrders of magnitude is an exponential measure. 1*10^n
- WithinReason 1y agoso then every change can be called exponential
- serial_dev 1y ago> This chair is 4 years old. Or, maybe 5 years old. Yeah, exponential growth!!!
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- tantalor 1y agoCheck around it for Super Samples!
- jvanderbot 1y agoI wish I didn't think this immediately as well.
- creaturemachine 1y agoWait until the Democracy Officer hears of this lack of faith!
- dylan604 1y agoAfter reading, I'm less interested in a black iceberg as much as now wondering what a fish harvester is as it's not a term I've seen before. Have we changed the term to reflect the vast quantities of fish that fisherman is inadequate?
- dan-robertson 1y agoI think it might be a gender-neutral version of fisherman. Not something like a factory ship.
- tanseydavid 1y agoI am guessing that it is a translation artifact.
- creaturemachine 1y agoNewfoundland is predominantly English-speaking, so it's unlikely this reporter used anything else when preparing this story.
- soperj 1y ago>Newfoundland is predominantly English-speaking That's quite generous of you to say.
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- scoot 1y agoIs this just of passing interest, or something that "ists" (scientists, geologists, climatologists etc.) would gain potentially valuable data by taking samples from it?
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- tickerticker 1y agoThe exposed portion of the berg is roughly spherical. The submerged portion must be enormous and approximately symmetrical to hold that sphere in such an upright position.
- Frummy 1y agoSo the tip of the iceberg is just the tip of the iceberg
- lucyjojo 1y agoIndeed, that tautology is a true statement.
- Retric 1y agoWith just one photo we can’t really say if the exposed portion is roughly spherical. However, the guy taking the photo who presumably got a better look seems to think it was “diamond shape.”
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- juahan 1y agoU
- IncreasePosts 1y agoWouldn't this melt "quickly" due to solar radiation based on how dark it is? That is to say, I wouldn't it most likely be closer to 100 years old than 100,000 years old?
- malfist 1y agoI'm sure you know more about iceburg ages than the professor of oceanography that dated it.
- dotancohen 1y agoTo be fair, the guy who just dated it likey knows the least about it. It's the guy who broke up with it that knows the most.
- IncreasePosts 1y agoI was literally asking about the range that the oceanographer provided. I didn't assert anything
- burnt-resistor 1y agoThat's for new soot depositing on ordinary, existing glaciers with previously high albedo. That causes a spiraling feedback effect of more forest fires and accelerating glacier melt, It's probable that these dark glaciers are mostly sludge with only a bit of ice. We won't know until some field researchers go out there and gather data and samples.
- marcusverus 1y agoThis post--which actually engages with the content of the article--is being downvoted, while "Do black Labrador icebergs also have webbed feet, to swim better?" is being upvoted. Where do we run once the redditification of HN is complete?
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- trod1234 1y agoWhy would an iceberg be a "he is all black?"