Iceberg!

An iceberg’s seismic breakup, believed to be the largest ever caught on camera, is described by the person who filmed it as the equivalent of watching “Manhattan… breaking apart in front of your eyes.”

Filmmaker Jason Balog recorded the spectacular calving event while making his documentary “Chasing Ice” about global climate change. He had set up his camera on Greenland’s Ilulissat Glacier, which has retreated approximately 10 miles in the last 12 years.

Balog figures almost 2 cubic miles worth of the Ilulissat broke up over the course of 75 minutes.

“Pieces of ice were shooting up out of the ocean 600 feet and then falling,” he says in the film, which contains bass-thumping audio that makes it almost as impressive to listen to as watch.

“The only way you can really put it into scale with human reference is if you imagine Manhattan, and all of a sudden all of those buildings just start to rumble and quake and peel off and just fall over and fall over and roll around.”

via higher powered: Iceberg!.

http://youtu.be/YoA_Z7y8f6Q

 

Miracles…

English: Walt Whitman. Library of Congress des...

Blogger David Kanigan shared this great Walt Whitman poem…

“Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,
Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,
Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,
Or animals feeding in the fields,
Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring;
These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.
To me the sea is a continual miracle,
The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships with men in them,
What stranger miracles are there?”

Source: Miracles… – Lead.Learn.Live.

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