Okay, it’s actually only dinging it up a bit. But our old friend, Iceberg B-15A is on the march again. B-15A is the world’s largest floating object, and TWC readers who don’t suffer from Alzheimer’s or drug addictions will remember that the massive ice chunk already took out the Drygalski Ice Tongue.
Here’s the latest satellite image, as the monster moves in on another ice tongue (why does every piece of ice down there look like a tongue to the eggheads? Fetish, much? I can only imagine what Austin Powers would be calling these things).
Here’s the color(less) commentary from the European Space Agency:
This satellite image taken May 16, 2005 shows the bottle-shaped B-15A iceberg adjacent to the landfast Aviator Glacier ice tongue, toward the top of the image. The Drygalski ice tongue, near the bottom, was struck a glancing blow by the drifting B-15A a month ago. Pieces of Drygalski broken off by the blow can be seen drifting through the sea on either side of B-15A. Credit: ESA/ Envisat
B-15 Bomber: “Be afraid, Aviator, be very afraid! See the shards of Drygalski whimper in my wake, and cower before my massive, massive, mass…!”
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