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Interestingly, the US has ADDED a glacier in the last 30 years, that of Mount St Helens, which was able to form after the explosion in 1980. It is the youngest glacier on earth

We need to go nuclear with the newer type of plants. Built at scale, they are cost effective. Otherwise we are cooked, perhaps quite literally.

Agreed. I would follow a bluesky/mastodon/rss thing that shares every time a Wikipedia article hits the front page.

When I used Kagi, my favourite feature was pinning Wikipedia to the top of all results.

Volunteering as a potential random travel buddy here. I’m not sure if I have the time but let’s see if we can figure something out if you are potentially up for it. My email is in profile

I’m actually surprised there isn’t Timelapse of it already. Seems like a simple enough setup to gather basically all of the information needed for finalizing how they move.

If you put me on that surface I don't think I would have any idea it was a glacier.

If they don't know about tapioca pearls, please keep in mind they resemble fish eggs.

Oh the lies we tell our children to protect them! When is the right time to tell them they’ve been dredged en masse from their homes in the ocean and left to die in a crate on the deck of a shrimping vessel? Or that they were possibly bred into existence in a facility of controlled environments intended to mimic their homes in nature where they’re allowed to live until they’re large enough to be eaten by ignorant people, inconsiderate of the miserable, short lives they’ve lived?

same!

Wait until you hear about Ice Worms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_worm

Also a reminder that a lot of life is basic physics and a simple state machine.

e.g. even the development of eyeballs started with a slightly photoreceptive skin cell and then evolution hill climbing took care of the rest.

> This suggests that this water buoyantly lifts the ice floes with embedded rocks until friction with the playa bed is reduced sufficiently for wind to move them and cause the observed tracks.

Wow, that's nuts!

My first thought as well!

Yes