On: World’s biggest iceberg moving beyond Antarctic wa...

[JumpCrisscross]

> It's already floating and displacing its own weight in water

That doesn’t make it lighter, i.e less subject to inertia. It just means you don’t have to contend with surface friction forces in a non-drag way.

[perihelions → JumpCrisscross]

I mean, what's the purpose of "avoid[ing] it melting quickly once it reaches warm water"—it's a no-op.

[axelthegerman → perihelions]

Guess we'll have to throw it back on the ice sheet.

But ya the fact that it already broke off means we have bigger things to worry about than one specific iceberg