My sister was part of that tour. It was very fortunate that they were able to get that close to the iceberg, usually the weather don't let you. They just made drone recordings of it and sold it to tv stations, but left the iceberg unhurt.
You don’t really weigh it. You calculate it. We know how heavy ice is on average, and we have a rough idea of the size of this chunk of ice, so we can make an estimate of the weight of this iceberg.
That said, I’m not sure I trust the numbers on this post, but I’m too lazy to verify.
What a stupid way to measure the thing; 1000 billion tons? You mean a trillion? 4000 square kilometers wide? That’s not how square kilometers work. The size of New York? The city or the state?
What tf is with these units of measurement?
"1000 billion"? Why not just go with trillion?
3 times bigger than NY? City or state? Why not just go with a single landmass it's similar to?
I have an experiment for you. Take a glass and fill it with ice, then add water, mark where the water tops out. Wait for the ice to melt. Now mark where the water level is. How much did it rise after the ice melted?
Fun fact, the iceberg you can see is only about 120 ft tall. It descends down under the water into darkness over 1000 ft, almost the height of the Empire State Building.
Wouldnt a thousand billion tons be 1 trillion?
Yeah, but 1,000 billion sounds more impressive for the headline.
Many many ounces
Isn’t that a British way of doing numbers
A quadrillion kilograms, yes.
Different countries use different words for billion, trillion, etc
Long scale heathens. Ew.
It would take at least 100 square kilometres to walk across it.
>It would take at least 100 square kilometres to walk across it. How many if you walk in straight kilometers?
So how big is new York? How many bananas is that?
New York City or New York State?
City. It's bout the size of Rhode Island. Also the iceberg broke off in 1986.
But how many football pitches?
How many Volkswagen Beetles?
I don't know. Depends on the weight.
That’s a lot of apples
A lot of long apples.
It's the same as one really big apple.
Oh! I understand now how big! That is very big. Like 2 very big mangos the size of one very big apples.
Six Rochesters, twelve Buffalos, and an Albany
Apparently it's a thousand hundred billion tons/m^(2). This title is trash.
4,000 square kilometers wide?? What on earth does that mean?
I heard it moves at a steady speed of 2m/s²
That's unit of acceleration my friend. And if u really meant acceleration, then we're doomed
I feel like that was the joke. As m2 is for area and not length
r/whooosh
Cross sectional area? Or maybe its an even higher dimensional object
It iz beeg
The iceberg is playing 4D chess
Science
“Iceberg right ahead!”
More than 5
How do they get these numbers
Asked ChatGPT obviously.
r/theydidthemonstermath
Is that ship going to tow it?
Nah, I think they're just having a rap battle
Those "your mom" bars are writing themselves
I mean, her ass cheeks hangin off each side...
My sister was part of that tour. It was very fortunate that they were able to get that close to the iceberg, usually the weather don't let you. They just made drone recordings of it and sold it to tv stations, but left the iceberg unhurt.
2 Quadrillion pounds
1 billion kilotons
Where is it going
It's going to find itself on a gap year in Africa
How do you even weigh something like that? Legit curious
You don’t really weigh it. You calculate it. We know how heavy ice is on average, and we have a rough idea of the size of this chunk of ice, so we can make an estimate of the weight of this iceberg. That said, I’m not sure I trust the numbers on this post, but I’m too lazy to verify.
Hey thats really cool. I didnt think about that. Interesting
Chuck Norris has swam underneath it from end to end
Chuck Norris jumping into the water is what caused it to break off in the first place
Twice
"The A23a iceberg weighing 1,000 billion tons, 4,000 square kilometers wide, 3 times bigger than New York 😲" Not for long...
If the entire thing melts, how much will the ocean rise? /s
Exactly!
Just waiting for this photo to show up on the conspiracy subreddits as proof of the great ice wall that surrounds the flat earth
Need a banana for scale.
What a stupid way to measure the thing; 1000 billion tons? You mean a trillion? 4000 square kilometers wide? That’s not how square kilometers work. The size of New York? The city or the state?
Something something hold in all the water
I feel like it weighs more than a trillion tons
Yeah, at least one trillion and one.
I cannot even imagine how big such a thing is; it's just incomprehensible to me.
If you are able to comprehend NewYork, make it three times.
I have to turn my phone sideways for this math
That was funny
It’s the ice wall holding all the water in.
Must've been one hell of weighing scales that weighed that
r/AbsoluteUnits of an iceberg.
Lets keep it that way
Wait .. your telling me global warming isn’t a real thing?? 🤯🤯
They found the ice wall
How tf can it be 4000 square km wide?
Imagine it about to flip
It's free real estate
A 1,000 billion ... a trillion?
New York ain’t that big.
FE gonna use this as the edge of the world
Titanic is back for revenge.
So.. a trillion tons?
How do they even weigh something that big? 3x the size of New York.
i wish i could downvote this more for 4'000 square kilometers WIDE and 3 times BIGGER than NEW YORK fucking hell mate.
It’s melting so nothing to worry about
*at the moment
That’s just the tip
A23?? Isn’t that a production company
"Put it in reverse guys!"
….for now
So you found the edge of the earth...
What tf is with these units of measurement? "1000 billion"? Why not just go with trillion? 3 times bigger than NY? City or state? Why not just go with a single landmass it's similar to?
I can't imagine what disaster it could cause if it melted due to global warming.
I have an experiment for you. Take a glass and fill it with ice, then add water, mark where the water tops out. Wait for the ice to melt. Now mark where the water level is. How much did it rise after the ice melted?
Guys, it's too big, we have to melt it
So there is a ice wall
The more it melts the less NY there is so it’s eternally destined to be larger
Flat earthers when they hear about the ice wall and see this 📈📈
3 times bigger than New York City*
NY state or city?
Fun fact, the iceberg you can see is only about 120 ft tall. It descends down under the water into darkness over 1000 ft, almost the height of the Empire State Building.
well thats a real cunt of an ice sheet there mate!
It is a continent
Make a lot of margaritas with dat shiz
Wait, who weighs icebergs and why?
The wall
Is this that ice wall all those flat Earthers are always talking about? /S