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Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

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Re: Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

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Glaciers 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.

Re: Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

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Look 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.

Re: Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

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I 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?

Maybe because ice floats, and it's almost the same density as water?

Re: Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

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I 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?

The amount of water actually being displaced isn't changing much, it's just kind of rearranging around where is water and where is ice.

Re: Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

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I 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?

All 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

Re: Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

#16

It stops first? Maybe the bottom hit the seafloor?

One 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.

You 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.

Re: Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

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Glaciers 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.

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Re: Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

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Crazy how the most liked comment under the video as of now discusses AI video generation

Especially 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.

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