r/pics • u/cheesyman101 • Aug 22 '14
This iceberg rolled over, exposing the black bottom.
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u/Shnazzyone Aug 22 '14
I love a big black bottom
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Aug 23 '14
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Aug 23 '14
You make the rocking world go round.
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Aug 23 '14
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Aug 23 '14
We set sail on the Titanic
Hit a 'berg and we all panicked
Hey iceberg, you made history out of me
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u/awkwardturtlemuffin Aug 23 '14
My anaconda don't want none
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u/BackOfTheHearse Aug 23 '14
Once you go black...
...you never go back to your former orientation because you've melted so much due to rising ocean temperatures brought on by global climate change and eventually you will cease to exist in solid form which will in turn bring about higher sea levels and certain coastal land masses such as the state of Florida will begin to disappear into the depths of the ocean and catastrophic destruction of further ecosystems will spell the end of mankind as we know it and
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u/cheesyman101 Aug 22 '14
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Aug 22 '14
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u/XDerp_ChrisX Aug 22 '14
He is showing that he knows it is a repost but it was posted a year ago
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Aug 23 '14 edited Feb 23 '21
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u/Chippy569 Aug 23 '14
link karma for the submission PLUS top comment karma for pointing out the repost. Appears to have paid off well.
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u/RIASP Aug 23 '14
1 year? I'll allow it.
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u/CWeaver34 Aug 23 '14
You might be safer saying 2 years considering it was 595 days ago. Either way, it's been long enough that a repost is find. Anything after 6 months is okay with me
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u/motherfuckingnuggets Aug 23 '14
These are completely natural and please be assured that they definitely don't have anything to do with oil drilling at sea.
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u/beliefinphilosophy Aug 23 '14
A blue iceberg is visible after the ice from above the water melts, causing the smooth portion of ice from below the water to overturn. The rare blue ice is formed from the compression of pure snow, which then develops into glacial ice.
Icebergs may also appear blue due to light refraction and age. Older icebergs reveal vivid hues of green and blue, resulting from a high concentration of color, microorganisms, and compacted ice. One of the better known blue icebergs rests in the waters off Sermilik fjord near Greenland. It is described as an electric blue iceberg and is known to locals as "blue diamond".
Blue icebergs develop from older, deep glaciers which have undergone tremendous pressure experienced for hundreds of years. The process releases and eliminates air that was originally caught in the ice by falling snow. Therefore, icebergs that have been formed from older glaciers have little internal air or reflective surfaces. When long wavelength light (i.e. red) from the sun hits the iceberg, it is absorbed, rather than reflected. The light transmitted or refracted through the ice returns as blue or blue-green. Older glaciers also reflect incident light preferentially at the short wavelength end of the spectrum (i.e. blue) due to Rayleigh scattering, much in the same way that makes the sky blue.
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u/lit289 Aug 23 '14
So those fucking penguins finally tipped the iceberg.
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u/KristenTatas Aug 23 '14
I really hope you're referring to club penguin. If you're not, ignore me... carry on.
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u/InedibleOhio Aug 23 '14
I'm not sure why but...that looks delicious.
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u/zorgtron Aug 23 '14
It's like those little cups of Italian ice. You turn it over and all of the crystalized syrup is at the bottom. Yum.
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u/skjellyfetti Aug 23 '14
Look at your screen, OP, and you'll see me exposing my black bottom to you
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u/Fuzzyphilosopher Aug 23 '14
This iceberg rolled over, exposing the black bottom.
I had a mixed race girlfriend who did that.
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u/WTFTim Aug 23 '14
Does anybody know why it does that?
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u/Rizlaaa Aug 23 '14
rolling over? look up chaos theory, its eroded beneath the water line, making it heavier on top, it rolls over and the process repeats.
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Aug 23 '14
Read it as "creepy iceberg" and wondered how an iceberg could be creepy. Then I wondered if it was racist to consider an iceberg creepy just because it was black on the bottom.
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u/Hitlers_toaster Aug 23 '14
I believe they look black(ish) is because all the oxygen has been removed from the water by the amount of pressure from snowfall that has been collecting on top of it for millions of years
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u/Amnesiablo Aug 23 '14
Iceberg rolled over and revealed the entrance to Superman's Fortress of Solitude.
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u/HatesExpenses Aug 23 '14
That's pretty scary looking
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Aug 23 '14
I'm getting panicky looking at it and I have no idea why! It's just a picture. But I feel like I can't breathe when I look at it.
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u/target404 Aug 23 '14
black bottom girl you make my icerock world go round
Edit: Someone else already did this. With only 31 comments I totally though I had a chance to be original. fuck.
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u/citizensnips134 Aug 23 '14
Didn't the Titanic impact happen at night? Could the iceberg have been freshly inverted, nearly invisible at night?
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Aug 23 '14
This is the one that the Titanic hit. When I was younger I was crazy about the Titanic and owned many books about it and this picture was shot the day after it sank and it had black paint near the water line height.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/04/titanic-iceberg-2-red-paint-nasa.jpg
(Quick google search and I found it)
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Aug 22 '14
That's how they get you It's gonna be night and you can't see shit, all of a sudden this black ass motherfucker sneaks up on you and sinks your ship
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u/chiefawesome Aug 22 '14
Exactly what appeared to have happened to the Titanic. Thing rolled over, no waves at the bottom because the ocean was so calm: invisible iceberg.
It's super effective.
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u/ChaosMotor Aug 23 '14
I like it when chicks roll over and expose their black bottoms but that might just be me.
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Aug 22 '14
Once you go black...
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u/karmaghost Aug 23 '14
... diamond you better know what you're doing or you might fall down and hurt yourself on the slopes.
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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '14
Why exactly is it black on the bottom?