"Chasing Ice"

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"Chasing Ice"

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Just saw this documentary with the wife. Some gorgeous visuals. They placed several dozens of cameras to photograph the movement of glaciers around the world over 3 - 4 years.

This is a clip from the film. For three weeks, two photographers camped out in front of one of the word's most active glaciers, in order to film a "calving" event. They wound up filming the largest such event ever recorded. As they show in this clip with an overlay for scale, the area that calved away from the glacier was the size of a good chunk of Manhattan island.

The film is available on Netflix DVD & streaming.

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another example that we will only exist as long as nature allows it. :)
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Jeez, that's freaky just watching on a monitor.
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Post by darcy »

when i saw the youtube clip, i knew i had posted about it because it was so cool { http://pcabusers.org/forums/showthread. ... hlight=Ice } , ~ but i didn't know it was available on DVD. thanks for the heads up : )
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