And so today I learned, Venezuela used to have glaciers.
hammock 2 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 1 hours ago [-]
It had 13 glaciers pre-eruption, so perhaps "added" is doing a lot of heavy lifting :)
BenFranklin100 3 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 55 minutes ago [-]
Venus scenario? I wonder if that could happen. Time to explore that rabbit hole
noncovalence 3 hours ago [-]
Always love seeing a link to wikipedia.org on the front page. Pretty much guaranteed to make me go "oh, neat" :)
lostlogin 24 minutes ago [-]
When I used Kagi, my favourite feature was pinning Wikipedia to the top of all results.
hrldcpr 2 hours ago [-]
Agreed. I would follow a bluesky/mastodon/rss thing that shares every time a Wikipedia article hits the front page.
enjrolas 5 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 3 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
comrade1234 7 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 4 hours ago [-]
If they don't know about tapioca pearls, please keep in mind they resemble fish eggs.
nyanmatt 5 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 4 hours ago [-]
It's ok they're just bugs
nannal 4 hours ago [-]
I use the same argument with dog meat.
halflife 2 hours ago [-]
You managed to talk with the dog from fallout 1?
NuclearPM 4 hours ago [-]
Dogs are bugs?
throwaway173738 3 hours ago [-]
I think you’ll find that words have definitions that can be changed.
the_gipsy 2 hours ago [-]
#define bug dog
encomiast 3 hours ago [-]
Aren’t we all.
kaffekaka 2 hours ago [-]
jökla-mýs is a wonderful name, you gotta love icelandic. A swede might also associate it too "jäkla mys" - god damn cozy!
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 5 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 5 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 4 hours ago [-]
My first thought as well!
trindell4469 33 minutes ago [-]
Am I the only one who immediately thought of tribbles?
> 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_worm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_algae
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!