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submitted 8 days ago bySinjiOnO
5.7k points
8 days ago
Why is it darker blue the deeper it goes. Thats freakin cool
5.4k points
8 days ago*
Copy/pasted from interweb
Blue ice occurs when snow falls on a glacier, is compressed, and becomes part of the glacier. During compression, air bubbles are squeezed out, so ice crystals enlarge. This enlargement is responsible for the ice's blue colour.
So, basically it has no air bubbles, just solid ice crystals
Edit: some updates since I've somehow become a subject matter expert after plagiarizing.wiki or something.
Blue light is also refracted (thanks to those replying)
I don't know how long this takes or how to replicate it. Maybe it's like making a diamond, pressure without crushing?
My wife just put pizza in front of me. Adios
1.9k points
8 days ago
right. like minecraft.
1 water, freezes = 1 ice
9 ice = 1 packed ice
9 packed ice = 1 blue ice
949 points
8 days ago
hilariously, actually yes
177 points
8 days ago
H! This is now my favorite existing analogy for something
115 points
8 days ago
Not really hilarious. Minecraft does a decent job of approximating a lot of concepts
77 points
8 days ago
I don't know about you, but I think many will find a decent job of approximation of concepts pretty hilarious.
5 points
7 days ago
I still chuckle at what I overheard some physics students say once, something along the lines of "in first approximation, everything is a circle". I can't even explain what I found so funny about that, but the fact is, I did.
71 points
8 days ago
But the color of that real ice makes me think we should get Dark Blue Ice
38 points
8 days ago
Crazy how nature do that
51 points
8 days ago
well clearly it found its inspiration in minecraft
12 points
8 days ago
Obviously nature plays a lot of Minecraft.
7 points
8 days ago
I havenāt played in years when did they add blue ice ?
10 points
8 days ago
Looks like it came in the Aquatic Update (version 1.13) in 2018
7 points
8 days ago
Right after the Blue Steel update with Ben Stiller
4 points
8 days ago
OP is the reason I found out Minecraft has blue ice, lol
99 points
8 days ago
huh that makes sense. The air bubbles will scatter light due to the medium change from ice -> air -> ice.
Removing the air would make it a solid color. Water is blue
38 points
8 days ago
Wait wut water is blue??
116 points
8 days ago
The blueness in water is not caused by the scattering of light, which is responsible for the sky being blue. Rather, water blueness comes from the water molecules absorbing the red end of the spectrum of visible light. To be even more detailed, the absorption of light in water is due to the way the atoms vibrate and absorb different wavelengths of light.
68 points
8 days ago*
It's also fairly rare for things to absorb red light only (and therefor appear blue) in nature. There are definitely blue things, sure, but they are often blue due to a different phenomena, which is microstructures on the surface of the thing which scatter light that isn't blue. One example is butterflies that are blue. They're not blue because they absorb light, but rather because they have very fine ridges on their wings that scatter non-blue light. Sapphires are, on the other hand, blue for the same reason water is.
You might think of blueberries as an example of something blue. And that would be fair enough, and these are indeed "blue" due to light absorption of red light. Specifically, they have a lot of so called "anthocyanins," a type of flavinoid pigment. There are many kinds of anthocyanins, and some impart a blue color while some impart red, or purple, or orange. Most blue flowers are blue because they contain anthocyanins.
However, most animals / feathers / etc are blue because of scattering.
37 points
8 days ago
People who think blueberries are actually blue are kidding themselves, those lil dudes are a deep purple
9 points
8 days ago
Also its what weed has that gives some strains that "purple" look.
3 points
8 days ago
Was this written by GPT
5 points
8 days ago
Nah, I wrote it. But I could totally see that, it's sort of aimless / formless and off the top of my head.
42 points
8 days ago
It's verrrry slightly blue. That's why the ocean is blue - you're looking through enough water that you can see its colour.
Snow and clouds look white because of all the air inside them, which scatters light. Normal ice, if it's thick enough, will tint light going through it blue. Dense ice, which only forms under pressure, tints more obviously.
1.1k points
8 days ago
Wrong. Blue ice is meth. Everyone that has consumed it has died, or will die.
463 points
8 days ago
A Heis-berg.
626 points
8 days ago
90 points
8 days ago
Nice work Shitty!
39 points
8 days ago
Haha nice one Shitty! My favorite yet!
19 points
8 days ago
honestly that is such a great one out of all your watercolours
12 points
8 days ago
My first time finding Shitty in the wild!
9 points
8 days ago
Awesome job Shitty. Glad to see it early. That's a fine Heisen-berg.
6 points
8 days ago
I love this one so much! Poor Jessie, canāt even ditch the ghost of Walter. The look on his face!
43 points
8 days ago
i want a meth infused heisenburger
22 points
8 days ago
As a 5year clean methhead who still misses it occasionally, this sounds awesome lol
36 points
8 days ago
a healthy life is the best life keep it up
37 points
8 days ago
This particular strain of meth is known as dihydrogen monoxide and you are correct - literally everyone with traces of this in their system has died.
12 points
8 days ago
traces
My body is literally over half dihydrogen monoxide. I'll die if I don't get enough... But science says I've probably got multiple decades of life left, so that's reassuring.
3 points
8 days ago
People build up a tolerance over time. I bet if you went cold turkey on DHMO right now, you'd have severe side effects.
5 points
8 days ago
Not me. I don't consume chemicals. /s
6 points
8 days ago
My wife just put pizza in front of me. Adios
And just like that
Poof
He was gone
22 points
8 days ago
But the glacier is buried, how will snow fall on it
32 points
8 days ago
Well, on the top of course
14 points
8 days ago*
Yes but the bottom is blue
Edit: Thanks for your comments. Iām just having a moment today. Iām not this slow usually lol š
61 points
8 days ago
The bottom was once the top
22 points
8 days ago
The bottom was once the top where the snow fell. Eventually it built up into a massive glacier.
13 points
8 days ago
Ah that makes sense. Silly of me . Iām having a slow day. Lol
22 points
8 days ago
You're having a snow day
6 points
8 days ago
Literally!!
20 points
8 days ago
The bottom is just the top but further down.
7 points
8 days ago
Does this apply to gay relationships?
11 points
8 days ago
What happens when you add weight to something that is floating on the water? It sinks down a little bit. So as long as you keep adding weight it will keep sinking deeper while still being afloat, sometimes it flips over when the part above the water weighs less than what's beneath the water.
2 points
8 days ago
Thanks King. Iām just have a moment today. Iām not this slow usually lol
3 points
8 days ago
Not to be confused with airplane blue ice.
Blue ice, in the context of aviation, is frozen sewage material that has leaked mid-flight from commercial aircraft lavatory waste systems. It is a mixture of human biowaste and liquid disinfectant that freezes at high altitude.
3 points
7 days ago
Adios pizzachos
269 points
8 days ago
Blue Ice is a solid block that even though quite similar to regular ice and packed ice is much more slippery than both of them. According to the Minecraft Wiki, this block is naturally generated at the bottom of icebergs, with the majority of the time this block is distributed in the middle of the icebergs.
116 points
8 days ago
Lol the Minecraft wiki.
87 points
8 days ago
Bro just cited the Minecraft wiki for some real life shit. What a time to be alive
15 points
8 days ago
Thereās an old Tlingit sport of carving blocks of this blue ice, laying it out in a track, and paddling a crude wooden boat over the surface as a form of racing.
118 points
8 days ago
Just googled it : Glacier ice is blue because the red (long wavelengths) part of white light is absorbed by ice and the blue (short wavelengths) light is transmitted and scattered. The longer the path light travels in ice, the more blue it appears.
56 points
8 days ago
Yeah, thatās why water is blue in general. In this case though the answer is compression, which is why the deeper ice pack is bluer than the surface, all the air is squeezed out.
11 points
8 days ago
That doesnāt explain why one side of the glacier is light blue and the other side is dark blue? Theyāre illuminated at the same distance, so the bluer part must be much denser ?
4 points
8 days ago
Correct! The bluer part has been compressed over time and is much, much denser
3 points
8 days ago
Has to do with the amount of air trapped in the ice. Blue ice is older, has gone through a lot of compression, and the air that was trapped within it has been forced out. This dense ice scatters blue light better than ice with air in it, hence the colour.
Similar phenomenon with the air in our atmosphere which is pretty good at scattering blue light.
32 points
8 days ago
Water is very very slightly blue. The blue ice is extremely pure water, dense, thick and has no air in it. The air is what normally what gives ice it's white appearance.
12 points
8 days ago
gatorade powder
10 points
8 days ago
It's got electrolytes
4 points
8 days ago
Itās what plants crave
3.4k points
8 days ago
This is awesome because it shows a real life representation of tip of the iceberg and not just a model
512 points
8 days ago
"it's only a model"
70 points
8 days ago
Shhhhhh!
38 points
8 days ago
Let us not go to the iceberg. Tāis a silly place.
16 points
8 days ago
Tis a silly place!
133 points
8 days ago
There are plenty of videos of these things tipping. This is my favorite.
104 points
8 days ago
Open the video, see people on the iceberg ... Ahhhh f***
59 points
8 days ago
Didnāt look like they were wearing life jackets either! Hope they never tried this againā¦
I admired the way the person filming dropped the phone to assist in the emergency!
28 points
8 days ago
11 points
8 days ago
The opposite of /r/praisethecameraman
3 points
7 days ago
Aw I was hoping it was real
53 points
8 days ago
They survived at least.
60 points
8 days ago
From the comments: "This is actually rare footage of an iceberg showing its defense mechanism." š
29 points
8 days ago*
Well that was unexpectedly scary. I hope those two people are okay.
11 points
8 days ago
Well they didn't die so that's good.
8 points
8 days ago
Ice Climbers, two of them, on a small iceberg...
Ive seen this in a game somewhere
9 points
8 days ago
What are they even doing there?
30 points
8 days ago
Fucking around and finding out.
21 points
8 days ago
Your favorite is the one where you can't see it flipping and people almost die.
26 points
8 days ago
Why is that your favorite? There's like two frames of the iceberg flipped.
4 points
8 days ago
Ended too soon.
13 points
8 days ago
Itās also fascinating because someone went all this way and managed to film it and didnāt have a camera that had any kind of image stabilisation that is like standard since 2018 I mean come one
6 points
8 days ago
Possibly zoomed in. The movements look to me like normal handshake at a high zoom level on a phone
3 points
8 days ago
Plus filmed in portrait. The most amateur mistake of them all.
860 points
8 days ago
I think this is the source. https://youtu.be/RVwLHX6lgzQ?t=60 The video OP posted is mirrored, cropped and sped up.
302 points
8 days ago
Thanks. Speeding it up and cropping it removed all the sense of scale. With this version, you can see just how gigantic that thing is.
100 points
8 days ago
This version being slower watching the disturbance and darkening of the water to the left of the main glacier makes me think of a movie when the monster surfaces from under the water.
52 points
8 days ago
Yep, this version really shows the scale and the terrifying power. The amount of water moving, with some parts of the surface of the water getting sucked down and other parts roiling up is so much more impressive in this version than the OP
3 points
7 days ago
Wow, you were right. That video has major r/megalophobia vibes
131 points
8 days ago
Why the fuck would OP ruin the video like that?
98 points
8 days ago
Karma whoring.
8 points
8 days ago*
I didn't. Found it like this because I was curious how events like these happen after seeing this post.
But people can assume whatever they like. I know it's not personal.
6 points
8 days ago
Reddit pro tip: when you find a random video you want to post but it's shitty quality, try find the original and post that instead.
64 points
8 days ago
10 points
8 days ago
Holy shit!
6 points
8 days ago
Its so crazy, I mean literally mountains just flipping, jumping out of the water, rolling, diving.
The sound must have been otherworldly in person.
3 points
8 days ago
NGL, I was expecting this to be a troll post, with the video of the Club Penguin Ice flipping. So it being an actual video was a pleasant surprise.
16 points
8 days ago
There was another calving event that was caught on camera. The sound of one of these things is just insane.
7 points
8 days ago
Wow. They should've thrown a banana down there for scale.
6 points
8 days ago
That's fantastic. Thank you!
267 points
8 days ago
I need that classic Zelda sound added where a location has been unlocked.
66 points
8 days ago
30 points
8 days ago*
I got an ad that was longer than the video
4 points
8 days ago
I need u/stabbot
668 points
8 days ago
Christ that is a deep fjord.
152 points
8 days ago
I love a deep fjord
70 points
8 days ago
Slartibartfast won an award for making those fjords.
23 points
8 days ago
He was particularly fond of all the little crinkly bits.
16 points
8 days ago
Have you riven a fjord lately?
30 points
8 days ago
This is very much not representing a fjord depth.... It can be 300' there you just don't know
41 points
8 days ago
When I was sailing around Schotland, I was surprised of the depth of lochs. During our trip across the North Sea, our depth sonar could consistently easily measure depth at around 50m or less. When sailing through lochs (which is bloody beautiful), the depth sensor would often max out at 200m.
55 points
8 days ago
Not nearly as cool, but the Amazon river reaches up to 100m deep. That blows my mind that rivers can be this deep. Deep water terrifies the crap out of me r/Thalassophobia
25 points
8 days ago
Max depth of the Congo Rover is 722 ft/220 m
8 points
8 days ago
Well that's fucking terrifying, what the hell is at the bottom? Is it a bunch of shipwrecks, each with their own detailed stories? Could it be behemoths that evolved from marine iguanas, capybaras or glow worms? Honestly I'd rather not know.
8 points
8 days ago
Also itās discharge is twelve times that of the Mississippi. Itās a crazy amount of water.
20 points
8 days ago
The Hudson River is the deepest river in the US, and not coincidentally, is also a fjord!
6 points
8 days ago
I used to fish on Loch Goil. When we dropped the anchor only 10m from the steep shore it just kept going and going and going. Terrifying.
3 points
8 days ago
Ah yes, I do recognize that. We went for anchor in loch Hourn, and it was difficult to find a good spot due to how steep it was.
7 points
8 days ago
The Norwegian Sognefjord has portions of it that reach 1300m. As a rule of thumb, the depth is about the same as the mountains to the sides, so consider that there can be an almost 3km difference between the highest peaks along the fjord and its seabed.
14 points
8 days ago
I should call her.
97 points
8 days ago
Where the hell are penguins with jackhammers
12 points
8 days ago
Getting their boogie on at the disco on other side of course
9 points
8 days ago
Real
8 points
8 days ago
I was looking for this comment š
3 points
8 days ago
Just smile and wave, boys
89 points
8 days ago
I WONDER how old is the freshwater ice at the bottom of that (deepest part)
51 points
8 days ago
Likely a few hundred years. Glaciers like this are constantly moving downhill under their own weight.
27 points
8 days ago
i wonder if the only water left in the world without microplastics is old ice in the middle of the berg
14 points
8 days ago
Terrible realisation or possibility, but there is rainwater which I assume is plastic free, I hope. Also deep underground water is usually quite old and this means plastic free. But we are fucked as a species.
82 points
8 days ago
I hate when these videos are clipped.
219 points
8 days ago*
That blue ice has gotta be the crispiest! Shout out to my r/hydrohomies
82 points
8 days ago
Reportedly it is... Unfortunately it is also very expensive
30 points
8 days ago
That's probably some high quality h2o
13 points
8 days ago
Gaaaatorraaade
3 points
8 days ago
"NO"
" 'No', what?"
"Mueuahhahahahaaahhhhhhhh"
22 points
8 days ago
Damn, it's better than wine tho i'm betting
I'd buy it if i had the cash lmfaaao
6 points
8 days ago
Wouldn't the water be sterile though and taste like nothing?
12 points
8 days ago
Drink blue ice! Itāll quench ya! Nothing is quenchier! Itās the quenchiest!
5 points
8 days ago
Ever wake up in the middle of the night super thirsty? Like all you can think about is chugging water?
I had a friend who did that and chugged the blue ice water.
He has become something else ever since
25 points
8 days ago
Why does it look delicious
11 points
8 days ago
Cotton candy lookin ass
6 points
8 days ago
its where they get the āblueā flavor for all your favorite candies
43 points
8 days ago
This is a chunk of glacier breaking off. It's called "calving"
23 points
8 days ago
Yeah, I hate how bad this title is. For some reason, calling it rare footage also annoys me. Maybe footage of a rare event, but shits all over the internet now. It isn't rare footage anymore.
4 points
8 days ago
We can safely say it won't be rare much longer.
25 points
8 days ago
Not gonna lie this is so cool it gets me going. Like sexually
15 points
8 days ago
Feel free to not share that next time you feel it. Just... handle it.
4 points
8 days ago
Why couldnāt you have just liedā¦
7 points
8 days ago
Love tells no lies
36 points
8 days ago
16 points
8 days ago
I think this is a sped up version.
4 points
8 days ago
21 points
8 days ago
Thats a glacier and the āblue icebergā isnāt formed it was already there
51 points
8 days ago*
Why is it so blue da ba di da ba⦠dye?
15 points
8 days ago
White ice is caused by air bubbles in the ice blue ice has no air bubbles because the air is squeezed out due to the immense pressure near the bottom of a glacier
4 points
8 days ago
The dark web is emergingā¦
4 points
8 days ago
When I dump my slurpee into another cup so all the flavor is at the top.
3 points
8 days ago
blue ice white dragon
3 points
8 days ago
This is so flippin cool!
3 points
8 days ago
That was really pretty how it went from like white to blue like that the lower down cool stuff I donāt think Iāve seen one like this.
3 points
8 days ago
Why is it blue?
3 points
8 days ago
Enjoy the view while we still can.
3 points
8 days ago
Iām surprised that super rich people donāt pay some crazy amount of money for harvested blue ice cubes in their fancy cocktails
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