There’s also something very organic about it. I had to keep reminding myself that it’s “just ice” and not a living being.

In short, a titanic event...

It 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.

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.

i suppose its not actually displacing a lot of water volume, unlike a landslide.

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

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

There are different ways to create an iceberg. You are probably thinking of a hard chunk of ice breaking off into the ocean, but probably a more common way is glaciers running into the ocean. A glacier is basically a "river" of snow and ice slowly flowing down a mountain. It would generally not be very compacted.

Fun fact: smaller chunks (less than 15m) are called "bergy bits".

How cold is cold? :-)

Water below ”sea” level tends to stay around -1C (salt water) to 4C. Below that, water becomes ice…

Ambient temperature can drop to -40C … internally these ice blocks hoover around -10C.

My take would be that underwater temps cannot get below freezing. So the surrounding temperatures above water can be lower than under water.

The 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.

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.

It floated into frame like a t-rex on its belly.

Yeah there were parts that were so organic it looked alive. I was imagining the folks at Toho taking detailed notes.

That'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.

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.

Money and utility are often uncorrelated. Many solar panel companies went out of business in the last few years because solar panels are so cheap.

I think culture and politics is more important than divestment.

It 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-cope...

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cdx7lg950gdo

immediate ban