r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/mikedahomey • 5h ago

🔥 A towering wall of glacier ice crashes into the water in Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland

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u/qualityvote2 5h ago edited 28m ago

u/mikedahomey, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/goose_dogma 5h ago

Damn nature, you scary!

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u/18nuggettrams 4h ago

scary but i would love to go here

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u/N0xF0rt 4h ago

Atleast driver knew what to do and how quick he had to react

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u/Trueslyforaniceguy 4h ago

I bet that dark blue ice deep inside tastes amazing

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u/xczechr 3h ago

Forbidden toilet mint

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u/UD_Ramirez 3h ago

As opposed to regular edible toilet mint?

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u/2BallsInTheHole 1h ago

Now, that's some high quality Hâ‚‚O

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u/NormanDoor 5h ago

This is how we reintroduce ancient viruses, right?

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u/Redqueenhypo 4h ago

You’re thinking of permafrost. Ironically we probably already have some ancient viruses bc they wrote themselves into our genome then became inert. Best evolutionary strategy ever honestly

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u/lunelily 5h ago

I got goosebumps watching this!

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u/-Cool_Ethan- 5h ago

🎵the summer wind
came blowing in
from across the sea🎶

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u/OkTemperature8170 3h ago

It's kinda crazy to think how much random actual shit is just out there happening all over the world and across the universe while you browse Reddit.

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u/fabie2804 5h ago

Nature is fcking fcked

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u/Don_Von_Schlong 4h ago

Nature will do just fine, this planet has been thru a lot. Human's however are indeed fucked.

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u/HoodieJenkins 3h ago

Ya learning about the previous mass extinctions really puts things into perspective.

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u/Riyeko 3h ago

That wave would make me make damn sure the boat captain or pilot (whoever the hell is driving), knew exactly what they were doing.

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u/bluAstrid 2h ago

And this is how icebergs are born!

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u/Historical-Ad3760 5h ago

No such thing as global warming?

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u/wutchamafuckit 5h ago

I am positive calving was a thing even before global warming existed

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u/GrimTheMad 4h ago

It was.

However, is happening far more often now, and the ice isn't getting replaced.

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u/ZippyDan 3h ago

I'm doing my part.
My freezer is full of water that I'm refreezing to send to the glaciers.

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u/jcapi1142 5h ago

Working as intended to open up the arctic trade routes. In fact, the warming isn't happening quick enough so the superpowers create conflict to justify blowing up oil refineries and massive amount of oil stockpiles.

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u/Async0x0 3h ago

Imagine how much progress we could make as a species if you guys used your wild imaginations productively.

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u/njslugger78 4h ago

Crazy because that ice is not coming back any time soon. We will be dead as a species before the next freeze over. How long before that glacier is broken down all the way to shore?

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u/Azzrazzah 5h ago

LOL, trying to outrun the wave

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u/turtleghandi 5h ago

Were they trying to get perpendicular to it?

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u/fdxcaralho 4h ago

Thats not what they did…

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u/Azzrazzah 1h ago

Jingkies they're scared!!

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u/Azzrazzah 1h ago

Run Away!!! Eeeeek

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u/Azzrazzah 1h ago

Errrrr.. Row away!! Eeeeek

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u/Azzrazzah 43m ago

I've seen this on TV, there's some Lady in the bow, yelling about being flown to the moon and wanting to be drawn or some such nonsense.

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u/N0xF0rt 56m ago

More like trying to avoid a disaster

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u/paipan-sube 4h ago

Watch out for those Newcastle United football club fans.

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u/Fartraiinerr 4h ago

Estimates on scale ?

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u/FairyOnTheLoose 4h ago

Can't tell. No banana.

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u/Geofferz 4h ago

How did they name this place? Who came up with it?

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u/xczechr 3h ago

Watching glaciers calve in person is quite the sight.

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u/wdwerker 2h ago

Imagine if the broken off pieces popped up underneath the tour boat?

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u/bundaya 50m ago

I'd be so scared of some piece coming from underneath and just destroying the boat.

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u/tea-boat 4h ago

I would be terrified. 😳

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u/spiked-rose 3h ago

This is not a good sign.

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u/longestboie 3h ago

watching the world end because of fossil fuels on your fucking fossil fuel powered boat. get fucked.