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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UufMqwyO7pY
75•Bender•1h ago

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catlikesshrimp•47m ago
I 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•46m ago
Amazing and kind of sad (because it must have taken hundreds, if not thousands of years to create this iceberg, and I'm guessing that rising temperature of the oceans contributed to this event at least partially?) to witness...

Thanks for sharing!

margalabargala•23m ago
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.

Espressosaurus•22m ago
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 is t that interesting, but the source! That’s the sad part.

eamag•38m ago
Crazy how the most liked comment under the video as of now discusses AI video generation
maxlin•6m ago
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.

thisisauserid•38m ago
It stops first? Maybe the bottom hit the seafloor?
readthenotes1•36m ago
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.

maxbond•14m ago
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.
pixl97•31m ago
4:40, so this is where people came up with the idea for Godzilla.
csnizik•27m ago
Structural review clearly got skipped. Somebody is losing their job over this.
raphinou•23m ago
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?
dist-epoch•18m ago
Maybe because ice floats, and it's almost the same density as water?
cucumber3732842•18m ago
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.
staplers•16m ago
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
jcranmer•23m ago
Honestly, 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•10m ago
Beautiful 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.
maxlin•10m ago
now that's epic!

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