Alien-like chatter of the world’s deepest lake as photographer shares eerie sounds of newly-formed ice. Alexey Kolganov films himself skating on transparent ice of lake Baikal, as new cracks form under his skates
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Bro that is literally nature telling you to stop
Lake Baikal is just like that
always something new with this fucking lake
why is this weak ass font over a lake and some mountains they deserve better
THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT
why is this weak ass font over a lake and some mountains they deserve better
THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT
WHERE are the lesbian mountain women
in the mountains. fuck. of course theyre in the mountains. i fucked this post up
Anonymous asked:
Tell us about the Edmund Fitzgerald?
Yee Haw lets go
The Edmund Fitzgerald was a gigantic freighter ship launched in 1958. At the time it was the largest ship on the Great Lakes and continues to be the largest ever ship sunk on them.
In 1975, she was carrying a load of ore to an island off the coast of Detroit from Wisconsin. She had to travel Lake Superior to get there.
The thing about the Great Lakes is that they’re lakes only by name. In every other aspect, they’re seas. They’re gigantic and angry and if I were to plop you down on the beach in front of one you would think you were facing an ocean.
Superior is the ‘angriest’. It’s the largest and deepest of the lakes. There’s legends about this lake that go back to the Chippewa and Ojibwe tribes about just how ruthless it is. “It never gives up her dead” is a common quote, made even more famous by the Gordon Lightfoot song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”.
Anyway. November 10th, 1975. The Edmund Fitzgerald was trying to make Whitefish Bay when a storm struck the area. The winter months are especially cruel on the Great Lakes, considering they’re often subjected to the polar vortex.
Early November is a little early in the season for such a harsh storm to occur so it sort of took the ship by surprise. This particular storm had hurricane force winds and 35ft waves.
The thing was, the ship wasn’t alone, it was briefly in contact with the SS Arthur M. Anderson, another ship setting for Gary, Indiana. Throughout the afternoon the storm pummeled the Fitzgerald, while the Anderson couldn’t do much more but listen to their calls over the radio before, at around 7pm, they went completely dark.
The Fitzgerald never sent any maydays, technically, but the captain did report over the radio that “I have a bad list, lost both radars. And am taking heavy seas over the deck. One of the worst seas I’ve ever been in”. Note, this was a gigantic ship, the crew were very experienced, and hearing that from Cpt. Ernest M. McSorley, a man with over 40 years experience, is troubling. His last message to the Anderson was “We’re holding our own”.
Her entire crew of 29 perished, and no bodies were recovered. The exact cause of the sinking remains unknown, though many books, studies, and expeditions have examined it. They may have been swamped, suffered structural failure or topside damage, experienced wave shoaling, or a combo. The disaster is one of the best-known in the history of the Great Lakes. The ship currently rests in two pieces at the bottom of Lake Superior, 530ft deep.
The thing is, if it had just gone 15 more miles, something that would have taken less than an hour at the ship’s speed, it would have made Whitefish Bay. It wouldn’t have sunk.
It’s a story I grew up hearing every year as a Michigander. Our school played documentaries every year. In the vast world history of shipwrecks, it’s not much. It wasn’t a Titanic level sinking by any means, but every kid knows the story. Every year, the Mariners’ Church in Detroit rings its bell 29 times.
"lake michigan is a vibe right now" (@swoodlife ig)
List that under both “nature is powerfully beautiful” and “horrifying new ways to die.”
Anonymous asked:
did you know that some people actually surf the waves on lake superior??? look it up on youtube it’s insane
I’ve wakeboarded / skimboarded on Lake Huron before lol. Could never afford a surf board but I don’t doubt it
How on earth would you feed a city of over 200,000 people when the land around you was a swampy lake? Seems like an impossible task, but the Aztec managed it by creating floating gardens known as chinampas, then they farmed them intensively.
These ingenious creations were built up from the lake bed by piling layers of mud, decaying vegetation and reeds. This was a great way of recycling waste from the capital city Tenochtitlan. Each garden was framed and held together by wooden poles bound by reeds and then anchored to the lake floor with finely pruned willow trees. The Aztecs also dredged mud from the base of the canals which both kept the waterways clear and rejuvenate the nutrient levels in the gardens.
A variety of crops were grown, most commonly maize or corn, beans, chillies, squash, tomatoes, edible greens such as quelite and amaranth. Colourful flowers were also grown, essential produce for religious festivals and ceremonies. Each plot was systematically planned, the effective use of seedbeds allowed continuous planting and harvesting of crops.
Between each garden was a canal which enabled canoe transport. Fish and birds populated the water and were an additional source of food. [x]
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This is literally so cool. Not only does it contribute to spacial efficiency, but the canals would easily keep pests, weeds, and possibly even diseases out of the respective plots. Companion planting and bio-intensive planting would be so much easier. Water-wise systems would be inherently present. Plus it looks so super neat aesthetically. I am just all about this.
Yeah, that doesn't prevent pregnancy.
Dfgajagakala it’s so you don’t get a UTI 😂
*facepalm* So, given that sex ed in the US is a tire fire:
Vagina-having people have a shorter urethra, which means we’re more prone to UTIs because the bacteria doesn’t have to travel as far to get up into your bladder and cause a problem.
Which means if you’re exposing your bits to bacteria (as with sex), peeing will flush out bacteria in the urethra. (Urine isn’t actually sterile - that’s a myth - but you’re *supposed to* have a little bit of bacteria - that’s how bodies work. But it still flushes things out that shouldn’t be there.)
Oh! You should ALSO pee after you masturbate, especially if it involves penetration with fingers/toys/etc
So I’ve blocked like five transphobes on this post, which I feel should have been relatively uncontroversial.
If you’re one of the people saying “You meant ‘women’”, fuck you. I meant “people who have a vagina, regardless of their gender or lack thereof”, and you can go fuck yourself with a cactus.
And you should pee afterward, so you don’t get a UTI.