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Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts
- restlessforge 5mo agoIs this the start of a Jules Verne novel? Really though super cool
- robot-wrangler 5mo agoOr something darker.. R'yleh where dead Cthulu lies dreaming is out there near Point Nemo too ;)
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- georgemcbay 5mo agoOr something even darker than that... What if this story took place on a planet where the inhabitants collectively decided to value at-all-costs economic growth over a sustainable ecosystem, resulting in a situation where they were losing over a trillion metric tons of ice per year and that is what caused the mysterious island to be revealed...?
- hsbauauvhabzb 5mo agoSo basically Epstein island without the child sexual abuse?
- shawn_w 5mo agoThat scenario is so unrealistic that nobody would be able to suspend their disbelief enough to get into it.
- jmclnx 5mo agoInteresting, I would normally expect small islands like this to disappear. Would be interesting if they find more info on the satellite images they are examining.
- sudb 5mo agoI assumed that satellite data would have been enough to know if something was an iceberg or land - wild that new land is still being discovered!
- phire 5mo agoAppears that nobody ever ran a search. Probably because everyone just assumed there was no new land to discover.
- Maxion 5mo agoThe satellite data persumably also needs to be purchased, the area is huge, and this island is relatively tiny.
- yauneyz 5mo agoI'm sure astronomy solves much harder "needle in a haystack" problems and we could probably use their methods
- crote 5mo agoAren't astronomy problems almost exactly the opposite? In astronomy the background is mostly static, providing an excellent reference frame either when trying to discover/track a moving object, or when trying to overlap multiple images of the same object for better observations. If you're looking for an unknown island your background is constantly changing, but you're looking for something which is somewhat static but might not actually exist.
- bhouston 5mo agoWhat are the gps coordinates? I want to look it up on Google Maps. Generally somewhere around here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/wy1PNDWcvP7h9d4j7?g_st=ic https://maps.app.goo.gl/wy1PNDWcvP7h9d4j7?g_st=ic I notice that this area isn’t fully imaged. Just around the known existing islands.
- robinhouston 5mo agoFrom the article: “The team will publish the exact position of the island once the naming process is complete”
- justinclift 5mo agoWonder if it'll be close enough to Greenland for the US (or others) to put a base on it? ;)
- prmoustache 5mo agoIt is located on antarctic waters.
- justinclift 5mo agoThanks, misread that. ;)
- GJim 5mo ago> What are the gps coordinates? You mean the latitude and longitude. There are many ways of calculating a position beyond one particular GNSS system.
- arcza 5mo agoPeak HN comment
- bulletsvshumans 5mo agoDibs
- teeray 5mo ago> the scientists and ship's crew were surprised by the sudden appearance of an island that had previously only been marked as a danger zone on the available nautical charts. There is definitely cursed pirates treasure on that island
- nl 5mo agoIt's not explicitly stated but it seems that this island was not charted because the area it was in had previously been full of icebergs. > On the satellite images analysed, the island could hardly be distinguished from the numerous icebergs drifting around in the immediate vicinity due to its ice cover.
- arcticfox 5mo agoI have no interest in finding islands, but it seems like it would be pretty easy to find icebergs that never move.
- DoctorOetker 5mo agoSuch a search could still be run to predict new islands before they are discovered in the same way?
- rtpg 5mo agoreading this I was wondering about this. My sort of childlike mental model of satelite imagery of the planet is that we've "covered" everything but does anyone know at what frequency we do get new satelite imagery for places like the antarctic (or, say, the dead middle of the atlantic ocean?) I imagine that satelite imagery is a bit needs based but maybe every square meter of the earth is captured at least once a couple of months (Not the same thing but am reminded of how despite the importance of the internet and undersea cables for fixing things, there are _very very few_ boats that can actually repair them. Maybe there aren't that many satellites pointing at some parts of the globe)
- cyberax 5mo ago> I imagine that satelite imagery is a bit needs based but maybe every square meter of the earth is captured at least once a couple of months Probably, but likely not as thoroughly as you'd think. The problem with most high-resolution imaging satellites is that they are not designed to work over the ocean. They can't track the Earth perfectly, so they use a lot of image processing to "unsmear" the images. These algorithms rely on tracking recognizable features moving across the frames. Which obviously fails with the ocean. So you often get hilarious results with images of offshore drilling platforms or ships. That being said, there are satellites specifically designed for ocean observation, so they likely won't miss something as big as a new island.
- ClassAndBurn 5mo agoUncharted island found. Charted.
- pseudohadamard 5mo agoI think they should name it Islandy McIslandface.
- SilentM68 5mo ago[dead]
- booleandilemma 5mo agoHow much would an island like that set me back?
- throwawaymobule 5mo agoIf it's in the Antarctic, it may be covered by treaty, and not legal to own.
- doublerabbit 5mo agoProbably around $1m maybe less considering it's all ice. Referring to this: https://www.privateislandsonline.com/asia/philippines/marina-island https://www.privateislandsonline.com/asia/philippines/marina... 7acres - $1m
- sanex 5mo agoThis appears to be a relatively scientific institution and yet they don't use the internationally recognized unit of measurement the American football field. I have no idea how big this island is now.
- readthenotes1 5mo agoIt's a little cryptic, but I believe this passage "slightly longer than the Polarstern with its 118 metres and about twice as wide" tells us it's the size of two Polarsterns laid side by side. I still don't know what that is in terms of football fields, I assume you mean United States and not Canada, but maybe someone else can help out as I've gone as far as I can.
- nostrademons 5mo agoIt's about a football field in both length and width. Little bit longer.
- trick-or-treat 5mo agoIt shall be known as Football Field Island.
- jmalicki 5mo agoIn the words of the great General Washington, we use meters and kilometers for certain unpopular sports like swimming. So for measuring an island, use of swimming units seems appropriate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk
- chinabot 5mo agoValuable real-estate, it wont have any tariffs!
- trick-or-treat 5mo agoNot until it has exports at least. After that they will need to allow a Trump hotel.
- dbcurtis 5mo agoThe burning question is whether or not it qualifies as a new DXCC entity.
- littlecranky67 5mo agoIt looks like it is covered in guano, so it is going to be annexed by the USA soon [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act
- pwdisswordfishs 5mo agoThat's ice cover.
- Y-bar 5mo agoThat’s just what Big Bird wants you to believe. I on the other hand get my bullshit directly from the horse’s mouth.
- mghackerlady 5mo agoI thought he wanted me to believe in myself! also, unrelated, but did you know big bird could've died in the challenger explosion?
- igleria 5mo agoNot a shooting star, but the tiny new island reminds me of this Tintin comic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shooting_Star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shooting_Star