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GM has signed an agreement to extract lithium from beneath the Salton Sea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27866965 - July 2021 (180 comments)
In California, a journey to the end of the road: the Salton Sea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25891036 - Jan 2021 (46 comments)
Salton Sea Notes: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s California Travel Journals (1961) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10240296 - Sept 2015 (3 comments)
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The extra bits were superfluous, and we've taken them out now, but I don't see why you'd assume "non-native Californians" did it.
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How many treaties with the Native Americans has the government has broken? Nevermind the number. It is "All of them". This is not bombastic or exaggeration, it is simple truth.
That’s patently false. The reservations are still observed by the government. If all of them were broken the reservations would just be gone.
They aren't.
The reservations were very one sided. Not a treaty!
Prove me wrong. I welcome it.
The article has an overlay wanting me to put in my email address. Can't seem to close it with the X in the corner. S9 Android with Chrome browser. Renders the website useless unless I put in my email
Seems like certain website elements haven't recovered from being hugged to death earlier, but the "x" is there, just not visible. Keep clicking and it will disappear.
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I drove through once; my feeling is that it takes a fair amount of guts to live in the desert-that desert, in the summertime. 120F+ is lethal to the unprepared who are out in in it for more than a brief period.
Nonsense, I grew up in the Middle East and it was regularly above 120F during the summer. Just wear a hat and make sure you have water. You’re making it sound like you immediately die.
If you grow up in the area surrounded by people who know the area, you'll do fine.
If you're casually wandering into an area like that coming from San Francisco or London expecting a fun weekend, you may very well pass out or worse.
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That’s patently false. The reservations are still observed by the government. If all of them were broken the reservations would just be gone.
They aren't allowed to control their mineral rights. Just one of many injustices these sovereign nations are subjected to.
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How? You push the dust 10000 ft up over the San Jacinto range against the prevailing winds… somehow? You don’t even get a downslope enhancement because the Salton Sea is lower than the Pacific. Or somehow the wind curves through the San Gorgonio Pass and back around to Los Angeles? You and what pressure gradient? I’m a meteorologist, so if you know the dynamics here, please explain.
Would a strong low be enough to help? Sea level isn't really what you care about right, isn't it pressure? And the pass there is https://snoqualmiewx.blogspot.com/2019/03/will-it-happen-aga... I assumed the dust from the Salton sea drying was more of a risk to Palm Springs and Mexicali, the general basin I suppose. And maybe places to the east like Phoenix? Looking at a map that seems like a stretch though.
It’s definitely a risk to Palm Springs and El Centro. LA is just a breeze too far.
Anybody here ever been to Slab City? I'd love to get the HN perspective on it.
I drove through once; my feeling is that it takes a fair amount of guts to live in the desert-that desert, in the summertime. 120F+ is lethal to the unprepared who are out in in it for more than a brief period.
That's not to say its _easy_ and without AC it can be uncomfortable. But you can survive. If you have an RV, fans, perhaps a make shift swamp cooler, and tin foil on the windows could get the internal temp down below 80 pretty easily.
Generally speaking anything over 100 degrees can be dangerous to the under prepared. At 110 degrees direct sun exposure can be lethal if you are not drinking approx. a quart of water per hour of exposure. But it _all_ comes down to exposure. Shelter changes the entire game.
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I drove through once; my feeling is that it takes a fair amount of guts to live in the desert-that desert, in the summertime. 120F+ is lethal to the unprepared who are out in in it for more than a brief period.
120F is not lethal when the humidity is low, you're in the shade, and you have water. I lived in Tempe for six years, and it was regularly 115F+ in the summer, hit 118F a handful of times when I was there, and that's not counting the extra heat if you're standing in a parking lot. I used to bicycle four miles to work when it was 115F, and walked a couple times. If you look at the Wikipedia climate tables for Slab Cit…