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GIANT 150ft Iceberg Is Floating Past Canada, And It’s 50ft Bigger Than The One That Sank Titanic
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GIANT 150ft Iceberg Is Floating Past Canada, And It’s 50ft Bigger Than The One That Sank Titanic

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A small fishing village on Canada’s East Coast has been hit by a sudden flood of tourists after a 150ft tall iceberg became visible near its shoreline over Easter weekend, and they might have to get used to it.

The bombastic berg has parked near Ferryland, a remote community in Newfoundland famous for “Iceberg alley,” a stretch of its coastal waters which are frequented by Arctic visitors. At a whopping 150 feet tall, the iceberg is even larger than the one that notoriously struck and sank the Titanic in 1912. Though you won’t find Jack and Rose checking out Ferryland’s newest occupant, the village has apparently become jammed up by tourists eager to see it, and photos of the phenomenon are already adding up on social media.

Since the iceberg has reached shallow water and is currently stagnant, it’s not likely to drift away anytime soon. This could spell out big business for Ferryland, although according to residents interviewed by CBC, the town’s only 2 restaurants don’t open until the 24th of May.

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Cat Meow
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As beautiful and spectacular the sight of this huge iceberg is, it's scary. And to know there's still people out there who believe global warming is a hoax...

Robert O
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am not sure that the icebergs are the best evidence to present to climate change deniers as there have always been spring icebergs floating past the coast of Newfoundland. Icebergs which originated in Greenland. Now how climate change affects the icebergs I can not say, not denying, just don't know

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Nancy E
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Greenland, shown by high-tech satellite and GPS measurements show the ice sheet is losing ice. It’s melting 8% faster than previous estimates, particularly in areas where the ice sheet comes in direct contact with the ocean. Rising ocean waters and air temperatures are essentially putting ice in a vise grip of warming and speeding up melt. This does not show that the earth is cooling.

John L
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sweep the Leg , I too have a masters degree, which is Physical Anthropology(human skeleton & early hominids). Generally everything about 'Quaternary Science' interests me most, and over its 2.5 million years it has been one huge ice age(Pleistocene), with many periods of glaciation, followed by interglacials, one of which we are currently at the tail end: Holocene. And being at the tail end of this interglacial, we are steadily cooling down from the peak Holocene Climate Optimum of around 7500 bp. It was warmer then than today, and all these kooks are running around screeching about a world burning up? Give me a Bleedin' Break. I'll show you a chart of this Holocene Interglacial below. There are many charts out, and you know how charts go: you can make them look any way you want. But the biggest key here is that all this talk about the next ice age is ignorance speaking. We're already smack right in the middle of one. People naturally don't understand this. Holocene-t...ef2cf6.jpg Holocene-temperature_crop-58f98b8ef2cf6.jpg

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darknessIsMyOutfit
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As big and impressive as it is, is 50 feet bigger all that impressive? Its an iceberg its already thousands of feet. What's 50 more?

anthonydeleeuw
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4 months ago

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anthonydeleeuw
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4 months ago

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anthonydeleeuw
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is very pretty. It has been proven that the Titanic was not sunk by an iceberg. It was all used as a plan to kill the wealthiest people of the world when they wanted to create the Federal Reserve and not the gold bar, which was the very same reason JFK was killed because he did not want to approve the Federal Reserve. Many history stories either taught to us in school or spread on the media is misinformation, such as the 9/11, the Iraq and Iran war, the Ukraine war and more. The attack on Cuba was planned by the CIA and JFK refused to allow the CIA to make up a false attack, by Cuba, just so they can attack Cuba. There was a ten year court battle with the insurance to deal with the asbestos in the Twin Towers. Only six months before the 9/11, the insurance company won't the court battle. The government should have force the insurance to deal with the asbestos but they chose to ignore it.

anthonydeleeuw
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The story of the Titanic sunk by an iceberg has been proven to be a false story. It had to do with killing a few of the wealthiest people in the world. A lot of evidence has been leaked on many false stories such as the Titanic, the Twin Towers, the Ukraine War, Iraq and Iran war, the attack on Cuba and more. One example is about the Twin Towers, when they had a 10 year court battle with the insurance to deal with the asbestos in the towers. It was only six months before the Twin Towers were struck, when the insurance won the 10 year court battle. The government should have made the insurance to take care of the asbestos but they chose not to and made a false claim saying the Twin towers were struck by terrorists. Now let's talk about the Covid pandemic that was all fake and planned to start the Great Reset. Kary Mullis invented the PCR and he fought for 15 years with Anthony Fauci. Kary explains that the PCR was not designed to test for a virus.

anthonydeleeuw
Community Member
4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kary Mullis explains how you can find anything in anybody with the Polymer Chain Reaction by blowing anything up to any size, depending how much you turn it up. He explains how the PCR testing, for Covid 19, created a flood gate of false positives.They call it Asymptomatic-19 because it is fake. The False-Positive Scam! Thirty years ago Anthony Fauci pushed for the AZT scandal for testing for AIDS in 1989. Kary Mullis was hired to measure HIV in people's blood samples with his PCR machine. He was under the impression that HIV was the cause of AIDS, but when he went looking for the proof, he found out there was none because they just made it up. He wanted to know where to go looking for that paper with all the proof. He started asking a couple other urologists, of that company, about this and they said he does not have to reference that. Kary Mullis was determined to get this information because he wanted to reference if any of this information was even true.

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AspieGirl88
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they aren't cautious; this larger iceberg might get the second one, too. I heard they were making a "Titanic II", though I'm not sure what part of the world it's in or when exactly it's supposed to be ready for travel. I wouldn't buy a ticket, though, even if I could afford to (& not even if they had enough life-boats the second time around). I wouldn't want to tempt fate... 😨

Micaela silva
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, Wow..Amazing pictures iceberg in ferryland.. Meet Friend online visit: http://www.amorpalop.com

Robert O
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rather than the size, what about those years that had the currents and winds bringing more icebergs into view, far more impressive watching large numbers of bergs rather than one large berg

John L
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7 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

It clearly shows that we are cooling down. As Greenland ice builds up in the higher elevations, gravity pushes the ice toward the sea where it breaks off and floats away with the current. The more ice accumulates, the greater the number of icebergs. And the next Grant Solar Minimum really won't begin until the next solar cycle, around 2020. This century is going to be an interesting one.

Cat Meow
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As beautiful and spectacular the sight of this huge iceberg is, it's scary. And to know there's still people out there who believe global warming is a hoax...

Robert O
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am not sure that the icebergs are the best evidence to present to climate change deniers as there have always been spring icebergs floating past the coast of Newfoundland. Icebergs which originated in Greenland. Now how climate change affects the icebergs I can not say, not denying, just don't know

Load More Replies...
Nancy E
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Greenland, shown by high-tech satellite and GPS measurements show the ice sheet is losing ice. It’s melting 8% faster than previous estimates, particularly in areas where the ice sheet comes in direct contact with the ocean. Rising ocean waters and air temperatures are essentially putting ice in a vise grip of warming and speeding up melt. This does not show that the earth is cooling.

John L
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sweep the Leg , I too have a masters degree, which is Physical Anthropology(human skeleton & early hominids). Generally everything about 'Quaternary Science' interests me most, and over its 2.5 million years it has been one huge ice age(Pleistocene), with many periods of glaciation, followed by interglacials, one of which we are currently at the tail end: Holocene. And being at the tail end of this interglacial, we are steadily cooling down from the peak Holocene Climate Optimum of around 7500 bp. It was warmer then than today, and all these kooks are running around screeching about a world burning up? Give me a Bleedin' Break. I'll show you a chart of this Holocene Interglacial below. There are many charts out, and you know how charts go: you can make them look any way you want. But the biggest key here is that all this talk about the next ice age is ignorance speaking. We're already smack right in the middle of one. People naturally don't understand this. Holocene-t...ef2cf6.jpg Holocene-temperature_crop-58f98b8ef2cf6.jpg

Load More Replies...
darknessIsMyOutfit
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As big and impressive as it is, is 50 feet bigger all that impressive? Its an iceberg its already thousands of feet. What's 50 more?

anthonydeleeuw
Community Member
4 months ago

This comment has been deleted.

anthonydeleeuw
Community Member
4 months ago

This comment has been deleted.

anthonydeleeuw
Community Member
4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is very pretty. It has been proven that the Titanic was not sunk by an iceberg. It was all used as a plan to kill the wealthiest people of the world when they wanted to create the Federal Reserve and not the gold bar, which was the very same reason JFK was killed because he did not want to approve the Federal Reserve. Many history stories either taught to us in school or spread on the media is misinformation, such as the 9/11, the Iraq and Iran war, the Ukraine war and more. The attack on Cuba was planned by the CIA and JFK refused to allow the CIA to make up a false attack, by Cuba, just so they can attack Cuba. There was a ten year court battle with the insurance to deal with the asbestos in the Twin Towers. Only six months before the 9/11, the insurance company won't the court battle. The government should have force the insurance to deal with the asbestos but they chose to ignore it.

anthonydeleeuw
Community Member
4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The story of the Titanic sunk by an iceberg has been proven to be a false story. It had to do with killing a few of the wealthiest people in the world. A lot of evidence has been leaked on many false stories such as the Titanic, the Twin Towers, the Ukraine War, Iraq and Iran war, the attack on Cuba and more. One example is about the Twin Towers, when they had a 10 year court battle with the insurance to deal with the asbestos in the towers. It was only six months before the Twin Towers were struck, when the insurance won the 10 year court battle. The government should have made the insurance to take care of the asbestos but they chose not to and made a false claim saying the Twin towers were struck by terrorists. Now let's talk about the Covid pandemic that was all fake and planned to start the Great Reset. Kary Mullis invented the PCR and he fought for 15 years with Anthony Fauci. Kary explains that the PCR was not designed to test for a virus.

anthonydeleeuw
Community Member
4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kary Mullis explains how you can find anything in anybody with the Polymer Chain Reaction by blowing anything up to any size, depending how much you turn it up. He explains how the PCR testing, for Covid 19, created a flood gate of false positives.They call it Asymptomatic-19 because it is fake. The False-Positive Scam! Thirty years ago Anthony Fauci pushed for the AZT scandal for testing for AIDS in 1989. Kary Mullis was hired to measure HIV in people's blood samples with his PCR machine. He was under the impression that HIV was the cause of AIDS, but when he went looking for the proof, he found out there was none because they just made it up. He wanted to know where to go looking for that paper with all the proof. He started asking a couple other urologists, of that company, about this and they said he does not have to reference that. Kary Mullis was determined to get this information because he wanted to reference if any of this information was even true.

Load More Replies...
AspieGirl88
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they aren't cautious; this larger iceberg might get the second one, too. I heard they were making a "Titanic II", though I'm not sure what part of the world it's in or when exactly it's supposed to be ready for travel. I wouldn't buy a ticket, though, even if I could afford to (& not even if they had enough life-boats the second time around). I wouldn't want to tempt fate... 😨

Micaela silva
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, Wow..Amazing pictures iceberg in ferryland.. Meet Friend online visit: http://www.amorpalop.com

Robert O
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rather than the size, what about those years that had the currents and winds bringing more icebergs into view, far more impressive watching large numbers of bergs rather than one large berg

John L
Community Member
7 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

It clearly shows that we are cooling down. As Greenland ice builds up in the higher elevations, gravity pushes the ice toward the sea where it breaks off and floats away with the current. The more ice accumulates, the greater the number of icebergs. And the next Grant Solar Minimum really won't begin until the next solar cycle, around 2020. This century is going to be an interesting one.

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