Archive for December 14th, 2006
first ever…
AWP forum…
So. My father sent me yet another chain-email today. I expected to scroll down to find some image soaked with bêtise, stupidly funny or “cute” or “frightening.” Instead I found this.
Subject: EVER SEE AN ICEBERG FROM TOP TO BOTTOM?
This is awesome! This came from a Rig Manager for Global Marine Drilling in St. Johns, Newfoundland. They actually have to divert them away from the rig by towing them with ships! In this particular case the water was calm & the sun was almost directly overhead so that the diver was able to get into the water and click this pic. Clear water huh? They estimated the weight at 300,000,000 tons. And now we know why they say one picture is worth 1000 words… And now we also know why the Titanic sank!
Now for the forum part. Please explain – succinctly, of course – why it is that I find this image so disturbing.I’ll start: the feeling that I get from looking at it is something like the feeling that I have when I come across a bug with an engorged torso-ey thing. Like a tick full of blood…
OK… your turn…