Enormous iceberg off coast is Newfoundland village's latest and somewhat temporary tourist attraction

[beschizza]

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/20/enormous-iceberg-off-coast-is.html

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[GulliverFoyle]

[rocketace]

must.....climb.....omg....can't....resist....

[Mongrove]

That's exactly how "The Coming of the White Worm", by Clark Ashton Smith, starts -- a mysterious iceberg shows up outside a small fishing village....

Creepy!

[kragtor]

Great... Now the Global Warming hoax crowd will be using this as proof.

[Boundegar]

If only I had a luxury ocean liner, I would ram that thing so hard!

[digitalArtform]

It's obviously very big, but I like how for maximum apparent size and drama they shoot from far away with a long lens.

The Curious Case of Lens Compression

[Missy_Pants]

Pat Dennis (patdennis)

[hecep]

To avoid sinking, name the ship the S.S. "We're All Wearing Clean Underwear".

[pjcamp]

Lookitthat! Climate change is floating by.

[Brainspore]

Sure that iceberg seems pretty big now, but before global warming hit it was known as "Greenland."

[MQtiepie]

. . . Cool.

[euansmith]

I do like Clarke Ashton Smith, his "weird" tales are so often totally gonzo, and I've not heard of the story you mentioned. Thank you for the heads up.

@digitalArtform, I remember seeing a bit of footage of a game of golf years ago, where the TV company was using a telephoto lens. There was a player in the foreground about to tee-off; while, in the background, a 30' tall horse was nibbling grass in an adjoining field.

[larrycovey]

Given the berg's great underwater depth, the seabottom's dropoff from shore must be very steep.

[beschizza]

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