Posted by Bender 15 hours ago
Which brings us to the video itself - horrible. Presumably the original sound was recorded, because we hear it under the music. Just let us hear the sound! The people watching this video are people who appreciate nature, not people who need a dramatic soundtrack to be entertained.
And what is with changing the speed of the video every 60 seconds? Either show it at real speed, or speed it up, but not both intermittently! At first I thought there was an issue with the video playback hanging.
I would absolutely love to watch the original, unedited source.
From the linked video's info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ5PhjFYRSo
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.
I'd have assumed it would be colder and more compacted (being toward the bottom and further under water), and therefore harder.
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.
Yep, density of water changes with temperature—it's the only thing that has that phenomenon—and therefore the colder water is always at the surface. That's actually what made life possible since life could survive despite a frozen surface.
Happy to be proven wrong, but that's what I learnt making cocktails and investigating clear ice :)
Right!! Thanks for correcting me.
Supercooled water is a thing: (and I've seen it a few times myself)
Nevermind I just learned about CCT diagrams. I guess having only one year of materials engineering means I should STFU. :)
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.
Artificial Intelligence isn't the issue. Natural Stupidity is.
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.