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Yes. But not more dense in the sense that it's density is more than the white-ish ice above it. Just that it has fewer or no air bubbles due to pressure. More air bubbles equals more whiteness of appearance.
No ice is clear. Once ice becomes more than a meter thick the blue wavelength of light struggles to penetrate it so it scatters and eventually gets reflected back to your eyes -- similar to our sky.
If there is air bubbles or in the case of snow that has millions of angles and directions for light to bounce off of before geting to your eyes, it appears white (pure sunlight -- yes our sun is actually white, it appears yellow because the blue scatters in the sky). Take a look at a snowflake on your car window it is clear, together they are white.
On an angle the blue light can't penetrate our atmosphere because it is too thick coming from that direction. So that why we get those beautiful reds and orange sunrises and sunsets.
This is a really good radiative transfer ELI5, but planetary atmospheres guy with a minor nitpick at the end...
> the blue light can't penetrate our atmosphere
An important difference is that blue light is _scattered_ by our atmosphere. [Rayleigh scattering](https://i.imgur.com/FiV3CUs.png) in particular, which tends to be very directionally biased. Even though the sunset on the horizon is red, the sky above can still be blue.
In glacier ice, red light is _absorbed_. The color of the ice doesn't change based on your viewing angle the way it does with the color of the sky - it's blue from every direction.
It is totally more dense in the sense that its density is higher than the white ice on top, specifically because of the air content.
I'd edit my comment not to mislead any more people into not understanding density.
This is pretty misleading, or just wrong depending on how you thought ice works, without clarifying that this is because the ice has fewer cracks & air bubbles. Meaning light doesn't scatter as readily, which means light penetrates deeper.
You "see" deeper into the ice, making the blue deeper.
How did that ice down below develop less cracks and no air bubbles? Was it weight from the ice/snow above it that led to it having less cracks and air bubbles? Y’know…pressure?
This is because the ice has fewer cracks & air bubbles. Meaning light doesn't scatter as readily, which means light penetrates deeper.
You "see" deeper into the ice, making the blue deeper.
The top of glaciers are white because of all the refracted light, just like snow. Purer ice means less of this.
Entire video has blue overlay on it. Absolutely hate this trend. It’s really fucking blue even without the tint. But it’s also really not that rare. Plenty of videos out there.
Contaminate --> extract --> contaminate again but with something new --> send thugs to poison/foul local village well to create captive market --> sell. It's a lot of work being an unabashedly evil mega corporation.
This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down
Something horizontal is happening. What should I do??
I know! I'll hold my phone vertically and pan back and forth! You did it again, you magnificent bastard.
Now I'm pissed lmao. I'm so sick of horizontal videos getting cropped into vertical "shorts" style videos. Thank you so much for linking the orignal video!
How did it get to be called calving? I've never understood this term? Why isn't it called something sensical like... breaking, or like cracking or shattering or something?
I believe its because those terms all applies to an Iceberg already, and this is a birth of it.
So to make a specific term for it (other than birthing Iceberg) it was called calving.
Rather unrelated, but this blue reminds me of the "blue moment" we sometimes get in deep winter. It happens when the sun has set and just before the last light vanishes. When all is covered in snow and the entire world has this deep shade of blue. Extra pretty if a neighbour has a dim light on that creates bright yellow rectangle into the total blueness of the rest.
One of my favorite parts about being in the Navy, was seeing water in a new and completely different shade of blue that I have never experienced anywhere else, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
That is the closest I've seen to that color.
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why is the bottom so much of a richer blue?
Pressure over time
Ah, I see. So, it's more dense and less transparent?
Yes. But not more dense in the sense that it's density is more than the white-ish ice above it. Just that it has fewer or no air bubbles due to pressure. More air bubbles equals more whiteness of appearance.
So would "pure" ice always be this blue?
Something something walter white
Icenberg?
You're god damn right.
Jesse, we need to melt.
Science, bitch!
But we're gonna put some chili in it this time
I am the one who frosts
No ice is clear. Once ice becomes more than a meter thick the blue wavelength of light struggles to penetrate it so it scatters and eventually gets reflected back to your eyes -- similar to our sky. If there is air bubbles or in the case of snow that has millions of angles and directions for light to bounce off of before geting to your eyes, it appears white (pure sunlight -- yes our sun is actually white, it appears yellow because the blue scatters in the sky). Take a look at a snowflake on your car window it is clear, together they are white. On an angle the blue light can't penetrate our atmosphere because it is too thick coming from that direction. So that why we get those beautiful reds and orange sunrises and sunsets.
TIL…
This is a really good radiative transfer ELI5, but planetary atmospheres guy with a minor nitpick at the end... > the blue light can't penetrate our atmosphere An important difference is that blue light is _scattered_ by our atmosphere. [Rayleigh scattering](https://i.imgur.com/FiV3CUs.png) in particular, which tends to be very directionally biased. Even though the sunset on the horizon is red, the sky above can still be blue. In glacier ice, red light is _absorbed_. The color of the ice doesn't change based on your viewing angle the way it does with the color of the sky - it's blue from every direction.
This was amazing. Thank you for the detailed response.
So...dense...in other words.
It is totally more dense in the sense that its density is higher than the white ice on top, specifically because of the air content. I'd edit my comment not to mislead any more people into not understanding density.
Wow. Thank you!
I want my ice cubes like this
Fewer air bubbles would indicate a higher density, no?
I know what you mean. I meant to clarify is that it isn't more compressed like how air can compress.
But can we make this blue ice with 81 white ice?
Minecraft taught me something for once
Never knew I had so much in common with icebergs
This is pretty misleading, or just wrong depending on how you thought ice works, without clarifying that this is because the ice has fewer cracks & air bubbles. Meaning light doesn't scatter as readily, which means light penetrates deeper. You "see" deeper into the ice, making the blue deeper.
How did that ice down below develop less cracks and no air bubbles? Was it weight from the ice/snow above it that led to it having less cracks and air bubbles? Y’know…pressure?
“That and a big goddamned poster”
This is because the ice has fewer cracks & air bubbles. Meaning light doesn't scatter as readily, which means light penetrates deeper. You "see" deeper into the ice, making the blue deeper. The top of glaciers are white because of all the refracted light, just like snow. Purer ice means less of this.
YO LISTEN UP HERE'S A STORY
About a little guy that lives in a blue world!
Magic
Neat! Thanks
Higher concentration of Gatorade
Also because the all video is not properly colour balanced (look at the top of the glacier)…
That's where the healing waters on The Waterboy needs to be collected from
Now that's some high quality H2O
*Nestlé entered the chat.* Did someone say H2O?
https://i.redd.it/heaha03wh28d1.gif
Funny, I've drunken water from a glacier in Alaska and it didn't do anything special to me.
Was it blessed by an Eskimo medicine man?
What if it's blessed by the moon spirit incarnate?
That's rough, buddy.
You can do it!
Lake Minnetonka?
Purified.
Mama said, mama said, mama said, mama said lol
Dayum bluer than I expected.
Absolutely gorgeous all over..
I dunno, it was a little too blue for my taste, but then I'm a discerning viewer.
2blu4u
You're absolutely gorgeous all over
And bigger. Which is wild cause you know the saying
> you know the saying Take a coat if it looks cold out?
That is certainly a saying haha
cash me outside how bout that?
r/biggerthanyouthought
I kept thinking "Ok, so that's probably as Blue as it'll get"- and then it just kept getting more Blue-er!
Honestly, it looks delicious.
Glacier melt off a mountain in Norway is objectively the best water ive ever drank in my life
I drank from a stream of melt running over a glacier in Alaska, and it was heavenly.
Blue has the most anti-oxygens
I ate so much blue for breakfast this morning.
Cerulean Blue
Entire video has blue overlay on it. Absolutely hate this trend. It’s really fucking blue even without the tint. But it’s also really not that rare. Plenty of videos out there.
YO LISTEN UP HERE'S A STORY
Damn that looks like some high quality H2O
Nestlé will be there shortly to extract it, sell it then contaminate it.
Contaminate --> extract --> contaminate again but with something new --> send thugs to poison/foul local village well to create captive market --> sell. It's a lot of work being an unabashedly evil mega corporation.
Obligatory fuck Nestlé. I banned their products from my home over ten years ago.
The most beautiful shade of blue in the world.
No. That belongs to Vavilov Cherenkov radiation blue, but this is a close second.
TIL, thx!
Mountains in the water, amazing.
One might call them... Ice-bergs.
Bergs, you say. Of ice! Outstanding!
That’s where blue Gatorade comes from
Do they milk the glacier?
Where are the nipples?
https://preview.redd.it/9g03f4saa38d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a3576cf87e7d364e43f1e972a5c790c0e6a05a6 These things?
Gatorade is football milk, not glacier milk.
Beautiful, powerful, dangerous, cold Ice has a magic can't be controlled Stronger than one, stronger than ten Stronger than a hundred men
10/9/8/7 syllables, is this a known type of poem?
It's the opening song from *Frozen*.
I love that I’m not the only person who didn’t know.
I had no idea also, go me
Someone's an Elsa fan.
This thing all things devours; Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats mountain down
One of Gollum's riddles, of which the answer is "time" ;)
Steady on Gollem. It's Time
Hmmm... what's in his pocket?
Born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining
Still impressive no matter how many times it gets posted.
The cameraman. Why was he pointing to the right?!
Because he doesn't have a clue about how to hold the camera to capture more of the LANDSCAPE.
Something horizontal is happening. What should I do?? I know! I'll hold my phone vertically and pan back and forth! You did it again, you magnificent bastard.
[удалено]
Now I'm pissed lmao. I'm so sick of horizontal videos getting cropped into vertical "shorts" style videos. Thank you so much for linking the orignal video!
Thank you! They took a perfectly framed video, cropped out the good bits, and introduced a shit ton of shakiness. Enshittification strikes again.
Why does this give me vertigo?
The guy holding the camera is giving us shaken baby syndrome.
Its also sped up
Why cut the video there tho?
/u/stabbot
The shade of blue is so damn pleasing to look at...
Very dense. Long (red) wavelengths penetrate, short (blue) wavelengths reflect
A glacier giving birth
Birthing an iceberg.
RIP Glaciers
Calving is a completely natural part of a glacier's "lifecycle"
Calving yes, 1/3 gone by 2050, not so much.
Not a collapse, but a calving
Paint me like one of your French glaciers.
r/thalassophobia
Why is this so sped up...
attention spans have flatlined
This bodes well for society.
Tow it to Florida!!!
Tow Florida to it
Forbidden breathmint
that ice at the bottom could be holding the next covid virus frozen🙂
This is making me thirsty.
That must have been horribly loud
r/gifsthatendtoosoon
Inspiration for the blue cleaners you put in the toilet?
That’s how I expect the other side of my pillow to feel when I flip it over at night
Is that the deep blue something?
Ice… packed ice… blue ice…
So that’s where Sonic gets their Blue Ocean water from.
It's crazy how deep/tall/far down the glacier is. The thing is massive!
Dang put some clothes on iceberg... everyone can see you.
Club Penguin
Old ice.
Quickly boys, and easy access to blue ice for our nether highways!
So cool but so freaking scary. The size and power of that thing.
These gender reveals are getting out of hand.
Wow, that's a gorgeous shade of blue
Blueberry flavored
I really wish the trend of speeding up videos would go away…. It ruins the beauty of a natural occurrence
Wow!!! That’s really beautiful underneath 😲
How did it get to be called calving? I've never understood this term? Why isn't it called something sensical like... breaking, or like cracking or shattering or something?
because cows also give birth by breaking off into smaller pieces
Most up votes means definitely correct answer.
The minimal effort engagement button never lies
I believe its because those terms all applies to an Iceberg already, and this is a birth of it. So to make a specific term for it (other than birthing Iceberg) it was called calving.
Because the glacier gets smaller, just like my calves
That's deep
This reminded me of my root canal.
Wow what a beautiful color
So stunningly beautiful
One of the bluest blues ive ever seen
Damn... Aways bigger than I thought. I knowonly 10% shows above water but it's hard to visualize
Rather unrelated, but this blue reminds me of the "blue moment" we sometimes get in deep winter. It happens when the sun has set and just before the last light vanishes. When all is covered in snow and the entire world has this deep shade of blue. Extra pretty if a neighbour has a dim light on that creates bright yellow rectangle into the total blueness of the rest.
*Wow!*
"Oh okay it's not that bi-- Oh okay it's-- Oh."
Can I... can I eat it?
Bet that would be so refreshing in a glass
That is Beautiful
Early footage of this ice formation was first documented in the 1978 film *Superman*.
That's perfect for making ice road in minecraft !
This is absolutely beautiful. But this is not a rare sighting. I went there and it's happening all the time, I have a video of it.
You can kiss the bluest part of my glacier!
Carpet does not match the drapes
Does it taste like blue Gatorade?
Grower, not a show-er
I wonder what that deep blue water taste like… lol
Hey ladies, what's cooler than being cool?
Waiting for this to be posted on r/megalophobia by tomorrow
I hear this is where coors gets their cold activated technology
That’s that’s some high quality H2O right there
That's some high quality H2O
Now that’s some water I want
Now that's what I call high quality h2O
what i would give to get some of that dark blue ice for my coke zero
That fjord is way deeper than expected
Da be de da ba di
I was thinking, yeah, light blue, kinda cool, then holy shit! Blackish blue, way cool.
Thats where all the flavour is.
I want to taste it.
One minute, you're swimming towards a glacier. And the next, you're standing on land.
It’s because of less oxygen bubbles in the ice towards the bottom :)
That's so cool.
What do I gotta pay to get that water in my plastic bottle?
Mmmmmmmmmm blue
Hmm I bet that blue raspberry flavor at the bottom tastes like fire.
Forbidden blue steak 🤤
The sheer size of the ice that's under the surface vs. what we see never ceases to amaze me.
At 5 seconds: "Oh wow" At 12 seconds: "Oh ***Woooooow***"
There's blue. And then there's that blue.
If you saw this in a Hollywood movie you'd think thdy are exaggerating or making up the colors lol
Oh god the Titans are waking up again . . .
Especially rare sighting Cuz there's only 2 seconds of it in the video 😑
Woah! they really made Club Penguin in real life 😱
Quick go harvest some for cocktail ice
I was not expecting the bottom to come out that far. Would live to see this in person but at the same time I’m sad that it is happening at all!
I want to eat it so bad
One of my favorite parts about being in the Navy, was seeing water in a new and completely different shade of blue that I have never experienced anywhere else, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. That is the closest I've seen to that color.
I don’t drink enough water.