And so today I learned, Venezuela used to have glaciers.
hammock 9 hours ago [-]
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
nsilvestri 8 hours ago [-]
It had 13 glaciers pre-eruption, so perhaps "added" is doing a lot of heavy lifting :)
BenFranklin100 9 hours ago [-]
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.
pineaux 7 hours ago [-]
Venus scenario? I wonder if that could happen. Time to explore that rabbit hole
When I used Kagi, my favourite feature was pinning Wikipedia to the top of all results.
yard2010 5 hours ago [-]
Why don't you use it anymore?
lostlogin 43 seconds ago [-]
I'm not happy to have any of my money go to Russia (Yandex).
The number of US companies I support is usually queried, and I do avoid several of them too.
It's certainly tested my will more than more than I expected - Kagi is an amazing search.
enjrolas 12 hours ago [-]
I did a bit of searching, and couldn't find a single timelapse of glacier mice movement. Time for a trip to the mountains with some cameras!
mettamage 10 hours ago [-]
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
networked 6 hours ago [-]
I have found a video (under a minute long) of a backpacking group walking through a herd of glacier mice in Alaska: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4fHfDrfoJw. I'd love to see a timelapse of glacier mice moving.
Aboutplants 6 hours ago [-]
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.
andrewflnr 5 hours ago [-]
If you put me on that surface I don't think I would have any idea it was a glacier.
comrade1234 13 hours ago [-]
Here in Switzerland when children order shrimp at a restaurant I tell them that they come from the shrimp mines in the glaciers.
soupspaces 10 hours ago [-]
If they don't know about tapioca pearls, please keep in mind they resemble fish eggs.
nyanmatt 11 hours ago [-]
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?
sanex 11 hours ago [-]
It's ok they're just bugs
nannal 11 hours ago [-]
I use the same argument with dog meat.
halflife 9 hours ago [-]
You managed to talk with the dog from fallout 1?
NuclearPM 10 hours ago [-]
Dogs are bugs?
ArekDymalski 2 hours ago [-]
I would say they are features.
throwaway173738 9 hours ago [-]
I think you’ll find that words have definitions that can be changed.
the_gipsy 8 hours ago [-]
#define bug dog
encomiast 10 hours ago [-]
Aren’t we all.
Aardwolf 5 hours ago [-]
I clicked the picture first without reading any of the article and was wondering "where are the mice? they must be well camouflaged!"
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.
glimshe 12 hours ago [-]
But that's fine too. If the complexity of the natural world is just emergent behaviors, then emergence itself never ceases to amaze. Because one wouldn't normally expect that our "cold" physical laws could lead to the variety of life.
chrisweekly 11 hours ago [-]
I highly recommend the book "Deep Simplicity" by John Gribbin.^1
It explores precisely this topic: the emergence of unexpectedly rich, complex behaviors from very simple rules given feedback and sensitivity to initial conditions.
> 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!
eleventen 10 hours ago [-]
My first thought as well!
dburkland 8 hours ago [-]
Remember seeing these in Iceland
joe-esquibel 6 hours ago [-]
...Poppa was a rolling stone...
trindell4469 7 hours ago [-]
Am I the only one who immediately thought of tribbles?
jb1991 6 hours ago [-]
Yes
emirenesergin 8 hours ago [-]
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aaron695 12 hours ago [-]
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Rendered at 00:49:16 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
> they have been observed in Alaska, Chile, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Uganda and Venezuela
Well, today I learned, Venezuela has glaciers.
Then I googled that, and…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/...
And so today I learned, Venezuela used to have glaciers.
The number of US companies I support is usually queried, and I do avoid several of them too.
It's certainly tested my will more than more than I expected - Kagi is an amazing search.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_worm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_algae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mima_mounds
e.g. even the development of eyeballs started with a slightly photoreceptive skin cell and then evolution hill climbing took care of the rest.
It explores precisely this topic: the emergence of unexpectedly rich, complex behaviors from very simple rules given feedback and sensitivity to initial conditions.
1. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/71851/deep-simplici...
https://nikolaykukushkin.com/book
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones
Wow, that's nuts!