And so today I learned, Venezuela used to have glaciers.
hammock 15 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 14 hours ago [-]
It had 13 glaciers pre-eruption, so perhaps "added" is doing a lot of heavy lifting :)
BenFranklin100 16 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 14 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 12 hours ago [-]
Why don't you use it anymore?
lostlogin 7 hours 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 18 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 16 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
enjrolas 4 hours ago [-]
Heck yeah
networked 13 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 13 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.
madaxe_again 1 hours ago [-]
We have something similar where I live - no glaciers involved though, just river rocks.
The river dries up rapidly in the summer, leaving the smooth exposed bedrock riverbed peppered with rounded river rocks covered with drying algae.
Where the river is partially shaded, the rocks rapidly grow moss and other vegetation on their top surface. They preserve what little precipitation there is, and catch the morning dew. They grow top heavy, and fall over. They then repeat this on the next upwards facing surface. Meanwhile the downwards facing surface dries out from the radiant heat from the bedrock and shrivels into a thin black layer of desiccated biomass, which then partially falls off at the next rotation, further increasing the top-heaviness.
Over the course of a summer, the rocks all collect themselves into the local low-points of the river bed.
Then comes the flood and the cycle repeats.
andrewflnr 11 hours ago [-]
If you put me on that surface I don't think I would have any idea it was a glacier.
comrade1234 20 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 17 hours ago [-]
If they don't know about tapioca pearls, please keep in mind they resemble fish eggs.
nyanmatt 18 hours ago [-]
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sanex 17 hours ago [-]
It's ok they're just bugs
nannal 17 hours ago [-]
I use the same argument with dog meat.
halflife 15 hours ago [-]
You managed to talk with the dog from fallout 1?
NuclearPM 17 hours ago [-]
Dogs are bugs?
ArekDymalski 9 hours ago [-]
I would say they are features.
throwaway173738 16 hours ago [-]
I think you’ll find that words have definitions that can be changed.
the_gipsy 15 hours ago [-]
#define bug dog
encomiast 16 hours ago [-]
Aren’t we all.
Aardwolf 11 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!"
jtd_wakeseed 11 hours ago [-]
same!
ta93754829 3 hours ago [-]
huh funny name that. When I hiked a glacier in Norway, dead mice (and other things) were everywhere under the ice. I assumed that's what the title was referring to.
> "Mima" is a name derived from a Chinook Jargon term meaning "a little further along or "downstream".
To keep the random learning going, Chinook Jargon [1] is fascinating in itself. A few years ago someone on this site suggested a book called You Can't Win, an autobiography of a reformed hobo/thief/addict written in the 20s. It's fantastic, especially the audiobook version on Spotify. Googling now, I'm seeing it got a (poorly reviewed) movie adaptation this year [2].
Anyway, when locked in a British Colombia jail around the turn of the century, the thief/author used it to communicate with his Chinese cellmate [3]:
> A priest visited the jail one day and gave me a pamphlet on which he had printed the Chinook language. In answer to my question he told me it contained about three hundred words—nouns, verbs, and adjectives. It was created by the Hudson Bay traders, years before, and taught to all the Northwest Indians to simplify trading with the different tribes. […]
> One day he came in with a scared-looking China boy about twenty years old. “Yank, here’s a cellmate for you.” He locked the Chinese in, thinking he was punishing me. The China boy later proved the jailer’s undoing and my deliverance. He knew some Chinook, but not one word of English. I learned from the Indian trusty that he was held for trial, charged with stealing a considerable sum of money from his employer, and that his case was about as hopeless as mine.
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 18 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 18 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 17 hours ago [-]
My first thought as well!
sooperT 16 hours ago [-]
Dunno about you, but I was really hoping to see mice not moss :/
dburkland 15 hours ago [-]
Remember seeing these in Iceland
joe-esquibel 13 hours ago [-]
...Poppa was a rolling stone...
trindell4469 14 hours 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.
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.
The river dries up rapidly in the summer, leaving the smooth exposed bedrock riverbed peppered with rounded river rocks covered with drying algae.
Where the river is partially shaded, the rocks rapidly grow moss and other vegetation on their top surface. They preserve what little precipitation there is, and catch the morning dew. They grow top heavy, and fall over. They then repeat this on the next upwards facing surface. Meanwhile the downwards facing surface dries out from the radiant heat from the bedrock and shrivels into a thin black layer of desiccated biomass, which then partially falls off at the next rotation, further increasing the top-heaviness.
Over the course of a summer, the rocks all collect themselves into the local low-points of the river bed.
Then comes the flood and the cycle repeats.
https://glaciers.nichols.edu/iceworm/
https://ismus.is/einstaklingar/5381
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_worm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_algae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mima_mounds
> "Mima" is a name derived from a Chinook Jargon term meaning "a little further along or "downstream".
To keep the random learning going, Chinook Jargon [1] is fascinating in itself. A few years ago someone on this site suggested a book called You Can't Win, an autobiography of a reformed hobo/thief/addict written in the 20s. It's fantastic, especially the audiobook version on Spotify. Googling now, I'm seeing it got a (poorly reviewed) movie adaptation this year [2].
Anyway, when locked in a British Colombia jail around the turn of the century, the thief/author used it to communicate with his Chinese cellmate [3]:
> A priest visited the jail one day and gave me a pamphlet on which he had printed the Chinook language. In answer to my question he told me it contained about three hundred words—nouns, verbs, and adjectives. It was created by the Hudson Bay traders, years before, and taught to all the Northwest Indians to simplify trading with the different tribes. […]
> One day he came in with a scared-looking China boy about twenty years old. “Yank, here’s a cellmate for you.” He locked the Chinese in, thinking he was punishing me. The China boy later proved the jailer’s undoing and my deliverance. He knew some Chinook, but not one word of English. I learned from the Indian trusty that he was held for trial, charged with stealing a considerable sum of money from his employer, and that his case was about as hopeless as mine.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon
2. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1402593/
3. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/69404/pg69404-images.ht...
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!