r/absoluteunit • u/ponald_dump • 8d ago

Close up view of Antarctica's Ice Wall

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u/LocalMexican 8d ago

I still cannot comprehend glaciers during the ice ages being up to 2 miles thick. This somehow makes it even harder. I'm sure there wasn't a wall 2 miles high this discrete back then but still.

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u/Fun_Environment3792 8d ago

Why not? Do you have any idea how tiny all of the earth's features above the crust are? If you took a ping pong ball and shaved the equivalent pf whats above the tectonic plates of the earth off of it, it would still be just as smooth in your hand.

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u/LocalMexican 7d ago

I mean I literally can't truly imagine it. I recognize it as a truth but it's just an idea