Are the Great Lakes really inland seas?
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Are the Great Lakes really inland seas?
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#2I have always loved this song about a shipwreck on the Great Lakes. https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI
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#3I have always loved this song about a shipwreck on the Great Lakes. https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI
I have to say, I grew up on Lake Superior in Wisconsin, and it’s funny to hear the Edmund Fitzgerald referred to as just “a shipwreck.” In this area, the sinking of the Fitzgerald easily has more cultural relevance than the Titanic.
In the small towns that surround Lake Superior, it’s not uncommon to run into someone who lost a loved one, so be careful making jokes in bars — and there are jokes[1].
The mystery of it is also intriguing. To this day no one knows exactly how or why the Fitzgerald sank. The last radio message received from the captain said, “We’re holding our own,” and no distress signal was ever sent. Everyone onboard died.
It’s worth reading the Wikipedia page[2].
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You've misquoted the article, and as a result, have confused your pronouns. Nowhere does the article suggest that the USCG operates in the Black Sea.
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The quote is "Superior and its siblings are capable of storm surges, rip currents, tsunamis, rogue waves, unique extreme weather phenomena, and destructive surf. They have claimed more than 6,000 ships, more than the Gulf of Mexico and the Black Sea combined, according to estimates."
Your creative and ungrammatical editing aside, please don't spam your unrelated political hot takes.
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#8I have always loved this song about a shipwreck on the Great Lakes. https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI
Those in the Rust Belt can visit the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo, OH: https://nmgl.org/
They had an exhibit of finding and searching the Edmund Fitzgerald when I was there last.
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#9I think to call it a sea it must be huge and salty. The arguments against this in the article is that Baltic sea is "pretty fresh", so it actually is salty. They also say the Dead sea is a lake, which is logical because it's tiny.
If anyone can point to a sea that's not salty, I'd be happy to know. Until then, these are just lakes! Which is fine, because a sea is not better than a lake, and vice versa.
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#10"They hold more than a fifth of Earth’s unfrozen fresh water"
I read quite a few stories about the horrible drought in the west, and here I am sitting on a good part of all the usable water in the entire world. I can't help but think at some point a bunch of people are going to come for that water, in one way or another. Either by moving here, or trying to move it there. Some ideas have been floating around about that for a while
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/04/10/g...