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Today I channeled my energy into this very unofficial but passionate petition for scientists to start drawing icebergs in their stable orientations. I went to the trouble of painting a stable iceberg with my watercolors, so plz hear me out.
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The "classic" image of an iceberg is usually some kind of ice cream cone-shaped hunk of ice with 90% of it below the water's surface and 10% above (source: every iceberg stock photo on the internet).
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While it's true that only ~10% floats above the surface of the water, the "classic" orientation is unstable and would actually not be found in nature. An elongated iceberg would not float on its head, but instead on its side ( https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4373).
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Although the elongated vertical iceberg is what we're used to seeing, I propose that scientific diagrams show stable orientations that are more likely to exist in nature. Here's an example from Nye and Potter, 2017 ( https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annals-of-glaciology/article/use-of-catastrophe-theory-to-analyse-the-stability-and-toppling-of-icebergs/6C8065F61DA7ECCD8DEE9FDFD2DAF3A6)
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Thinking about printing some #TipTheIceberg stickers! Anybody want one?
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