Author Topic: Arctic Image of the Day (Read 899073 times)

Tor Bejnar · « **Reply #1350 on:** May 14, 2019, 08:14:06 PM »

Hey, the perennially open door is closed!

magnamentis · « **Reply #1351 on:** May 14, 2019, 08:32:03 PM »

Quote from: Tor Bejnar on May 14, 2019, 08:14:06 PM

Hey, the perennially open door is closed!

https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,416.msg199146.html#msg199146

as mentioned in kidding form under "B"

Tor Bejnar · « **Reply #1352 on:** May 14, 2019, 08:42:19 PM »

I'm so sorry! I forgot your post (which I did read, honest!) amid the questions about the 'silo' and 'UFO' [my thoughts] sitting atop it. (In my cropped version, the conduit looks like the white line on a paved road!) Now all I see is a field of bitumen wasteland in the foreground, on this side of a raised roadway.

So (belatedly): good catch, Magnamentis!

magnamentis · « **Reply #1353 on:** May 14, 2019, 11:07:30 PM »

Quote from: Tor Bejnar on May 14, 2019, 08:42:19 PM

I'm so sorry! I forgot your post (which I did read, honest!) amid the questions about the 'silo' and 'UFO' [my thoughts] sitting atop it. (In my cropped version, the conduit looks like the white line on a paved road!) Now all I see is a field of bitumen wasteland in the foreground, on this side of a raised roadway.

So (belatedly): good catch, Magnamentis!

Sewn twice holds better haha....

the bitumen is typical flat-roof sealing against water wich in our hemisphere is mostly covered with gravel, so that i don't see when the drainage is blocked with sahara sand and regularly end up with upto 30cm of water above my frightened head) once every 3-4 years LOL

yeah, i know, shouldn't be lazy and clean once a year but then .....

Trebuchet · « **Reply #1354 on:** May 16, 2019, 04:30:33 AM »

Nice view of the ice off Newfoundland.

Pmt111500 · « **Reply #1355 on:** May 17, 2019, 03:46:05 PM »

Quote from: Tor Bejnar on May 14, 2019, 08:14:06 PM

Hey, the perennially open door is closed!

It's become too hot to keep the door open

*"Hey Malaalik, is there any of the frozen walrus left? It's so delicious fried?"
*"No, somebody left the door open from our fridge, and it spoiled!"

Kate · « **Reply #1356 on:** May 25, 2019, 04:31:04 PM »

Such an incredible process of earthly exchange

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1357 on:** May 25, 2019, 04:35:18 PM »

That's really a beauty Kate!

Carex · « **Reply #1358 on:** May 25, 2019, 05:44:47 PM »

Trebuchet: It Looks like it is time to be caught by "The Lore of the Labrador Wild" and begin "The Long Labrador Trail" as Mina Hubbard finds "A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador"

Carex · « **Reply #1359 on:** May 25, 2019, 06:15:54 PM »

If I remember correctly, Kate has a soft spot for melting river deltas.

1rover1 · « **Reply #1360 on:** May 29, 2019, 02:25:20 AM »

Wasn't sure where to post this - For those looking for live images, Nav Canada has a site with Live weather cameras at a lot of Canadian airports. Many of the cameras at northern Airports have a bit of the sea in the background.

http://www.metcam.navcanada.ca/hb/index.jsp?lang=e

Espen · « **Reply #1361 on:** May 30, 2019, 03:14:36 PM »

What a sick world!???

oren · « **Reply #1362 on:** May 30, 2019, 05:06:49 PM »

Overpopulation, even at the top of the Everest.

pearscot · « **Reply #1363 on:** May 30, 2019, 05:54:07 PM »

Quote from: oren on May 30, 2019, 05:06:49 PM

Overpopulation, even at the top of the Everest.

both a simulacra and apt metaphor for so many things right now.

Alphabet Hotel · « **Reply #1364 on:** May 31, 2019, 09:41:14 PM »

@NOAASatellites just tweeted this video of the sun glinting off the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska. I see some ice floes too.

Observer · « **Reply #1365 on:** May 31, 2019, 10:52:23 PM »

Quote from: Espen on May 30, 2019, 03:14:36 PM

What a sick world!???

There are so many thoughts that come to mind--none of them pleasant. What if . . . ? What if there was a guy, only one guy, all by himself in the lower left of the image, climbing up that rock face. What would that call to mind?

magnamentis · « **Reply #1366 on:** June 01, 2019, 12:32:50 AM »

Quote from: Espen on May 30, 2019, 03:14:36 PM

What a sick world!???

empty shells filling the void with valuable assets that in the process loose much of their value for some time until the empty shells have left the face of the earth for good.

+1 my thoughts since days and all this bullshit for bragging rights and a few selfies. $:-\$ $:-\$ $:-\$

Niall Dollard · « **Reply #1367 on:** June 04, 2019, 08:02:14 PM »

Beautiful sentinel image (dated 030619) of the blue ice at the head of Tanquary Fiord, north central Ellesmere Island.

Reminds me of a leopard's head.

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1368 on:** June 04, 2019, 08:25:44 PM »

I x-posted that one Niall:

Quote from: b_lumenkraft on June 04, 2019, 08:24:25 PM

Well spotted by Niall Dollard here:

Quote from: Niall Dollard on June 04, 2019, 08:02:14 PM
Beautiful sentinel image (dated 030619) of the blue ice at the head of Tanquary Fiord, north central Ellesmere Island.

Reminds me of a leopard's head.

Pragma · « **Reply #1369 on:** June 06, 2019, 06:24:23 AM »

Quote from: magnamentis on June 01, 2019, 12:32:50 AM

empty shells filling the void with valuable assets

+1 my thoughts since days and all this bullshit for bragging rights and a few selfies. $:-\$ $:-\$ $:-\$

I refrained from commenting until now, but our national broadcaster presented (for far too long) the story of one person that complaining that he nearly lost his life due to the line ups. It was prompted by the fact that "so many"people had been dying on Everest lately. Where the helll are our priorities, have we lost our collective minds?

He never realized that he *was* the line-up, but somehow thought he was "special". He was portrayed as heroic, rather than what he really was, entitled and self-indulgent.

I have decided that the "mountain climbing adventurer" epitomizes why we are so royally screwed. Selfish, narcissistic individuals, caring only for themselves, are engaging in a pointless exercise and in the process, leaving their shit behind, both literally and figuratively.

I take faint comfort in that the majority of the commenters about the above article were having none of it, many in harsh but valid terms.

Cue Pogo quote here.

</rant>

Observer · « **Reply #1370 on:** June 06, 2019, 09:09:44 PM »

Quote from: Pragma on June 06, 2019, 06:24:23 AM

Quote from: magnamentis on June 01, 2019, 12:32:50 AM

empty shells filling the void with valuable assets

+1 my thoughts since days and all this bullshit for bragging rights and a few selfies. $:-\$ $:-\$ $:-\$

I refrained from commenting until now, but our national broadcaster presented (for far too long) the story of one person that complaining that he nearly lost his life due to the line ups. It was prompted by the fact that "so many"people had been dying on Everest lately. Where the helll are our priorities, have we lost our collective minds?

He never realized that he *was* the line-up, but somehow thought he was "special". He was portrayed as heroic, rather than what he really was, entitled and self-indulgent.

I have decided that the "mountain climbing adventurer" epitomizes why we are so royally screwed. Selfish, narcissistic individuals, caring only for themselves, are engaging in a pointless exercise and in the process, leaving their shit behind, both literally and figuratively.

I take faint comfort in that the majority of the commenters about the above article were having none of it, many in harsh but valid terms.

Cue Pogo quote here.

</rant>

Is climbing a mountain evidence that one can conquer nature? (Is that still a thing?, in popular parlance.) Might such energy be better spent encouraging nature not to conquer us?

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1371 on:** June 07, 2019, 09:14:23 AM »

Puffy clouds over Nares Strait. <3

Rich · « **Reply #1372 on:** June 07, 2019, 10:08:00 AM »

Nice clear image. Thanks for sharing.

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1373 on:** June 07, 2019, 10:19:24 AM »

You are welcome, Rich.

A picture with Hans is always a good picture.

Juan C. García · « **Reply #1374 on:** June 07, 2019, 09:06:31 PM »

Quote from: Jontenoy on June 07, 2019, 05:51:09 PM

Interesting article in the Guardian regarding the Carbon Pump caused by zooplankton...
See https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/07/oceans-demise-the-end-of-the-arctic-as-we-know-it

From The Guardian link, great video to watch the vulnerability of the ASI (with waves, small floes and people above):

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1375 on:** June 08, 2019, 05:59:25 PM »

From r/NatureIsFuckingLit

🔥 Morning traffic on the road in Svalbard 🔥

Link >> https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/by6ka4/morning_traffic_on_the_road_in_svalbard/

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1376 on:** June 08, 2019, 06:56:39 PM »

04.06. vs 08.06. (in the west of Lena)

(Click to play)

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1377 on:** June 10, 2019, 01:06:56 PM »

Again Lena Delta.

As surreal as beautiful.

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1378 on:** June 12, 2019, 05:52:33 PM »

This is what an overturned iceberg looks like

magnamentis · « **Reply #1379 on:** June 12, 2019, 07:48:14 PM »

Quote from: b_lumenkraft on June 12, 2019, 05:52:33 PM

This is what an overturned iceberg looks like

not showing

however i took the link that shows on reply and yes, a great picture like an organ from some alien world or the remainder of superman's arctic how LOL

at least, for now, everyone understands what bottom melt means and how it can look like

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1380 on:** June 12, 2019, 07:50:08 PM »

That's strange. Works for me.

Direct link >>

magnamentis · « **Reply #1381 on:** June 12, 2019, 07:53:23 PM »

Quote from: magnamentis on June 12, 2019, 07:48:14 PM

Quote from: b_lumenkraft on June 12, 2019, 05:52:33 PM
This is what an overturned iceberg looks like

not showing

however i took the link that shows on reply and yes, a great picture like an organ from some alien world or the remainder of superman's arctic how LOL

at least, for now, everyone understands what bottom melt means and how it can look like

Pragma · « **Reply #1382 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:03:45 PM »

Quote from: b_lumenkraft on June 12, 2019, 07:50:08 PM

That's strange. Works for me.

Direct link >>

It shows a broken image icon in the first instance and works fine in the quoted instance.

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1383 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:16:42 PM »

It's a rather large file. Perhaps your download just took some time to load.

Patience people...

Tor Bejnar · « **Reply #1384 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:20:02 PM »

I sometimes see attachments and sometimes don't. Sometimes it is because my work environment blocks things (like twitter); other times, who knows? I sometimes go to "Properties" and copy the URL (if not twitter, etc.) and paste into a new tab, like I did with the down-side up ice. [Who knows were the top side went - I sure cannot see it!

]
Example attached.

Trebuchet · « **Reply #1385 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:21:21 PM »

5 days of bottom melt in Baffin bay of the coast of western Greenland.

etienne · « **Reply #1386 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:21:30 PM »

Well the Icebergs I saw in 2003 in the Ilulisat Ice Fjord look more that way, one picture is overturned, the other one not.

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1387 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:24:33 PM »

Those are freshly calved ones, right Etienne?

I suspect the one i posted above to have drifted around for some time.

etienne · « **Reply #1388 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:37:22 PM »

Not so fresh because the pictures were taken between Aasiaat and Ilulissat, it means that they had to go out of the Icefjord.

I have another picture with some small boats, just to give you an idea of the size of these things.

etienne · « **Reply #1389 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:39:24 PM »

If I remember well, there is not much overturn in the Icefjord, but depending of the way the calving happens, they are up side down or not.

etienne · « **Reply #1390 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:43:46 PM »

One picture of Ilimanaq at the end of the Icefjord, always taken in 2003. It was my only trip north of the polar circle.

etienne · « **Reply #1391 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:47:59 PM »

And a last one, a boat going out of the Ilulissat harbour

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1392 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:48:14 PM »

That must have been awesome to see with your own eyes, Etienne. I envy you.

etienne · « **Reply #1393 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:55:53 PM »

It was really beautiful., but I wonder how much it has changed. We took the ship from Narsarsuak to Ilulissat, and that was also an experience, with storms and all what you can dream of, we were all sick, even the guide.

etienne · « **Reply #1394 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:57:03 PM »

Conditions were quite difficult, I hope they still are and that it makes industrial tourism impossible.

magnamentis · « **Reply #1395 on:** June 12, 2019, 09:02:01 PM »

Quote from: Tor Bejnar on June 12, 2019, 08:20:02 PM

I sometimes see attachments and sometimes don't. Sometimes it is because my work environment blocks things (like twitter); other times, who knows? I sometimes go to "Properties" and copy the URL (if not twitter, etc.) and paste into a new tab, like I did with the down-side up ice. [Who knows were the top side went - I sure cannot see it! ]
Example attached.

thanks and sure that's how it is, i thought he might be interested that it works for everyone and be informed.

apparently it's now available because in the quoted post by @pragme it was showing for me too.

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1396 on:** June 12, 2019, 09:10:38 PM »

Quote from: magnamentis on June 12, 2019, 09:02:01 PM

thought he might be interested that it works for everyone

He is Mag.

Thanks for telling me. I made an own GIF of it so i could upload it to the forum myself, but it was just way too big even with compression.

Thought linking it might be the smarter choice.

oren · « **Reply #1397 on:** June 13, 2019, 02:43:44 AM »

Quote from: b_lumenkraft on June 12, 2019, 07:50:08 PM

That's strange. Works for me.

The first post contained the mp4 as an image, therefore it didn't show.
The second post contained it as a direct link, which enabled the forum software to recognize it as an mp4.

b_lumenkraft · « **Reply #1398 on:** June 13, 2019, 08:54:58 AM »

That makes sense, on the one hand, Oren. On the other, it doesn't explain why it works for me.

Kate · « **Reply #1399 on:** June 13, 2019, 03:06:21 PM »

What a glorious day at Summit

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Author Topic: Arctic Image of the Day (Read 899073 times)

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