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Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]
- catlikesshrimp 2mo agoI would have described flipping it over before collapsing. The title seems a clickbait, but is no quite that. Keep in mind that most of the iceberg is off camera, as shown during the first minutes. It lost 80% or 90% of its total mass but most of it isn't seen until the end, when the iceberg goes back to the right.
- programmertote 2mo ago[flagged]
- margalabargala 2mo agoGlaciers have been calving huge icebergs into the sea for as long as glaciers have met ocean. Those icebergs eventually melt and collapse just like this. Rising temps contribute to the rate at which icebergs are produced and the speed at which they melt, but there's nothing in this video in particular that wouldn't have happened 200 years ago aside from the motorboat going by at the beginning.
- blondie9x 2mo ago[dead]
- Espressosaurus 2mo agoLook at the glacial retreat around the mouth of the fjord (which is why tourists go to the town) and yeah, the amount of change is insane. Any particular iceberg isn't that interesting, but the source! That’s the sad part.
- eamag 2mo agoCrazy how the most liked comment under the video as of now discusses AI video generation
- maxlin 2mo agoEspecially as physics-oriented and long videos are exactly the kinds that are easiest to figure if they're AI. Artificial Intelligence isn't the issue. Natural Stupidity is.
- saalweachter 2mo agoThe music also gets talked about quite a bit. My immediate reaction to a "what is with this loud music, I can barely hear the actual audio" comment on YouTube was to assume the channel was afraid of being copystruck by the iceberg's lawyers.
- thisisauserid 2mo agoIt stops first? Maybe the bottom hit the seafloor?
- readthenotes1 2mo agoOne of the comments said just that. "Grounded near disko bay" iirc. Another comment said that icebergs melt blow water faster than in the air and that flipping is a fairly common thing to do because the center of gravity changes.
- maxbond 2mo agoYou can see bathtub rings on the underside as it's lifted up. The rings are caused by it's melting faster under the water than in the air, so there's a discontinuity at the waterline.
- dotancohen 2mo agoThat's what I thought too. The sudden stop is actually two phenomenon compounded. One, the mountain of ice contacts bottom. Two, the video speed changes from ~8x to 1x.
- pixl97 2mo ago4:40, so this is where people came up with the idea for Godzilla.
- csnizik 2mo agoStructural review clearly got skipped. Somebody is losing their job over this.
- raphinou 2mo agoI would have thought it would generate enormous wave, but that's clearly not the case. I think some of the biggest waves was generated by a mountain sliding or collapsing in the sea. I expected something similar here. Anyone know why not?
- cucumber3732842 2mo agoThe amount of water actually being displaced isn't changing much, it's just kind of rearranging around where is water and where is ice.
- dist-epoch 2mo agoMaybe because ice floats, and it's almost the same density as water?
- staplers 2mo agoAll its mass is already on the water so it's not displacing anything. It probably made some splashes but it seems like a fairly round object rotating rather than smashing into anything
- GuB-42 2mo agoIt is not a very energetic event for its size. The iceberg is floating, it can't accumulate a lot of potential energy before flipping, so when it happens, there is not enough to make big waves. The center of gravity of the iceberg barely moves. A mountain sliding into the sea is different, these higher up rocks have a lot of potential energy, that convert into kinetic energy as they fall, which is transferred to the water as they splash down, making big waves.
- tlavoie 2mo agoHere's an excellent example of the latter, from a short ways up the BC coast from me. Not caught on film, but found later by heli pilots, and on seismic data: https://hakai.org/stories/the-big-slide https://hakai.org/stories/the-big-slide
- javier2 2mo ago
- jcranmer 2mo agoHonestly, my first thought watching this video is "I want a root beer float." Something in the way the icefalls as the iceberg is flipping over just makes me think of that...
- atbpaca 2mo agoBeautiful and scary at the same time. Almost like the iceberg was a planet on its own with mountains, valleys, crevices. Then everything goes haywire. The fall of a majestic titan. The destruction of a world.
- GuB-42 2mo agoIn short, a titanic event...
- baubino 2mo agoThere’s also something very organic about it. I had to keep reminding myself that it’s “just ice” and not a living being.
- dotancohen 2mo agoEspecially the spine. If you had shown me a portion of the video with that thing moving as such, I would have believed it to be some leviathan. Which brings us to the video itself - horrible. Presumably the original sound was recorded, because we hear it under the music. Just let us hear the sound! The people watching this video are people who appreciate nature, not people who need a dramatic soundtrack to be entertained. And what is with changing the speed of the video every 60 seconds? Either show it at real speed, or speed it up, but not both intermittently! At first I thought there was an issue with the video playback hanging. I would absolutely love to watch the original, unedited source.
- artine 2mo ago> I would absolutely love to watch the original, unedited source. From the linked video's info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ5PhjFYRSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ5PhjFYRSo
- dotancohen 2mo agoThank you!
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- maxlin 2mo agonow that's epic!
- joshuat 2mo agoMassive appreciation for whoever adjusted the position of the camera at 7:23 (3:18 in video)
- nomilk 2mo agoSurprised the bottom of the iceberg crumbled so easily (like sand) at 4m 16s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UufMqwyO7pY&t=4m16s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UufMqwyO7pY&t=4m16s I'd have assumed it would be colder and more compacted (being toward the bottom and further under water), and therefore harder.
- FromHoiPolloi 2mo agoMy take would be that underwater temps cannot get below freezing. So the surrounding temperatures above water can be lower than under water.
- nh23423fefe 2mo agoplus thermal conductivity of water vs atmosphere
- mrloopex 2mo agoFreezing point of water changes with salinity and impurities. By definition a liquid cannot be below its freezing point until it has completed its phase change.
- FromHoiPolloi 2mo agoYes. My point was that it's easier(?) to get below freezing point above water than below. So while the cold air keeps the upper part of the iceberg (relatively) intact - it will slowly melt below the sea until the center of gravity changes enough to flip over.
- RetroTechie 2mo ago> By definition a liquid cannot be below its freezing point until it has completed its phase change. Supercooled water is a thing: (and I've seen it a few times myself) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling
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- rlam2x51 2mo agoI was expecting more waves. I am wondering if this video was AI generated. I hate that it is so hard to trust your eyes nowadays… Edit: Did a quick background check, video seems legit.
- nh23423fefe 2mo agoimmediate ban
- hk__2 2mo agoI felt like watching a big animal moving
- troyvit 2mo agoYeah there were parts that were so organic it looked alive. I was imagining the folks at Toho taking detailed notes.
- therealdrag0 2mo agoIt floated into frame like a t-rex on its belly.
- xnx 2mo agoAnyone who enjoys that video (I did!) should watch the largest glacier calving ever recorded: https://youtu.be/hC3VTgIPoGU https://youtu.be/hC3VTgIPoGU
- quercusa 2mo agoA fun game to draw your own iceberg: https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html First seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26201160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26201160
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- Jeremy1026 2mo agoNice of the iceberg to float into frame before decided to do it's gymnastics routine.
- tristramb 2mo agoReminds me of a 'mimoid' from Stanisław Lem's Solaris.
- ilamont 2mo agoCan more experienced people describe how to verify this video as non-AI generated? Is there a scientific source in Greenland or Denmark that tracks such incidents? Or could satellite passes before vs after confirm what happened?
- LeoPanthera 2mo agoIt is the work of but a moment to check for trustworthy sources. It's sad that this skill seems to have been lost. https://eu-space.europa.eu/components/earth-observation-copernicus/image-of-the-day/iceberg-turns-over-ilulissat-greenland https://eu-space.europa.eu/components/earth-observation-cope... https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cdx7lg950gdo https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cdx7lg950gdo
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- moffkalast 2mo agoGotta say, I haven't seen anything this jawdropping in a long while.
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- lriesberg 2mo agoBeautiful!
- DoctorOetker 2mo agoNot saying its fake, just that what I see surprises me: ice is only slightly lighter than fresh or sea water, so vaguely only 10% of ice mass is above surface level; when it "flips" multiple times, it just seems like 50% of the ice is above water as if the other supporting 80% helping it float that high are totally missing...