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Perfectly rectangular iceberg

NASA photographed a rectangular iceberg puttering around off the coast of Antarctica.

Kelly Brunt, a glaciologist with Nasa and the University of Maryland, said the process of formation was a bit like a fingernail growing too long and cracking off at the end.

They were often geometrically-shaped as a result, she said.

“What makes this one a bit unusual is that it looks almost like a square,” she added.

The point of the postmodern notion of hyperreality is not that reality is a simulation. It’s that you can’t tell if it is or it isn’t, even when it’s totally fucking with you.

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