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I saw this the other day that may be even stranger than this rectangular iceberg, which is pretty weird too btw.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1016610/weird-news-yout...

Before anyone clicks the bait:

> What is this TWO KILOMETRE long secret city unearthed by melting ice in Antarctica? > A TWO kilometre long series of 22 sinister-looking structures have been revealed by thawing ice in Antarctica - prompting claims the installation is a World War 3 fall out shelter for the global elite or even a landing pad for incoming aliens.

'Discovered' on Google Earth. My bet is on simple data processing artifacts.

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Everything on that site is sensational conspiracy theories and hoaxes. "Sailors fused to ship during electro-magnetic invisibility test", "Secret Alien Bases Found on Moon Using Google Earth"

That site is trash and isn't shouldn't be considered news.

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> It's difficult to tell exactly how big the iceberg is from the photo, but experts said it was probably more than 1.6km (1 mile) across.

This is mind-blowing. I'm trying to picture the scale of that thing, and realized a small plane could probably safely land on top of it with much room to spare.

Not just a small plane. Even an Airbus A320 could handle a mile-long runway.
Not that it's particularly interesting, but I also took a photo of a rectangular iceberg:

https://imgur.com/a/XNWz0IO

I bet with some cropping or from a different angle it could be made to look as rectangular as the one in the photo.

This was taken off the east coast of Greenland in a helicopter. It's kind of hard to get an idea of scale, but it's rather enormous. 20x bigger than the typical "big ice"

By the way, "cropping" as you used it could mean either of two things.
How tall do you think that tabular one was in your photo?
>> The US space agency said the object's sharp angles and flat surface suggested it had recently broken away from an ice shelf.

Cover-up. This is clearly the forth monolith warning us to abandon the Europa-clipper mission.

Who is with me to make some iceberg crop circles?

YC - fund a giant helicopter with a laser to cut out elaborate designs in the ice?

I am not saying it's aliens, but...

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