Why does this article have a picture of the Maroon Bells? As opposed to something along Green River or, ideally, the 700m deep canyon being described?
Darn AI agents, I guess they are still cheaper than interns.
Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
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Re: Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
#12Why does this article have a picture of the Maroon Bells? As opposed to something along Green River or, ideally, the 700m deep canyon being described?
I was confused by the image too:
A few images: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=4e98a81333b88c42&udm=2...
Map with elevation: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gates+of+Lodore/@40.585090...
Re: Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
#13Why does this article have a picture of the Maroon Bells? As opposed to something along Green River or, ideally, the 700m deep canyon being described?
Having recently gotten into watching documentaries or youtube videos of accounts of mountaineering expeditions it's amazing how lazy content creators, film makers and journalists can be when choosing what images or videos to show. You'll get something about climbing a mountain in the Andes and keep getting shown completely misleading pictures of Himalayan mountains, etc.
Simple, lazy stuff like that always drives me up the wall.
The HGTV show House Hunters used to be wildly inaccurate with their map location pins. On more than one occasion they'd say a couple is from the Bay Area but when they show the map the location pin would be in LA County. Like, come on. That's not even close.
Re: Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
#14Why does this article have a picture of the Maroon Bells? As opposed to something along Green River or, ideally, the 700m deep canyon being described?
Darn AI agents, I guess they are still cheaper than interns.
Sadly, they "learned" it from us. People have been doing this sort of shoddy fill work since the dawn of television (and even earlier if you count wildly misplaced / inaccurate textual descriptions).
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#15Why does this article have a picture of the Maroon Bells? As opposed to something along Green River or, ideally, the 700m deep canyon being described?
Darn AI agents, I guess they are still cheaper than interns.
Judging by the performance of AI agents at Geoguessr I suspect such errors are almost 100% humans:
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/testing-ais-geoguessr-geniu...
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#16For people interested in the subject generally I highly recommend John McPhee's anthology "Annals of the Former World." Actually I highly recommend everything John McPhee has written but this is a good start :).
Second for John McPhee! Also Rising From the Plains.
Re: Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
#17For people interested in the subject generally I highly recommend John McPhee's anthology "Annals of the Former World." Actually I highly recommend everything John McPhee has written but this is a good start :).
References to his books should carry a warning - something to the effect of:
"may inspire circuitous road trips involving many stops dangerously examining road-cuts on busy interstate highways"
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#18The actual paper (open access): https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...
Re: Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
#19What about ice pressing down? The repeated glaciations might have pushed in area down and back up several times over 6 million years. Might have even caused that drip to break off.
Re: Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
#20Why does this article have a picture of the Maroon Bells? As opposed to something along Green River or, ideally, the 700m deep canyon being described?
Having recently gotten into watching documentaries or youtube videos of accounts of mountaineering expeditions it's amazing how lazy content creators, film makers and journalists can be when choosing what images or videos to show. You'll get something about climbing a mountain in the Andes and keep getting shown completely misleading pictures of Himalayan mountains, etc.
I think it's largely because they are "content creators" instead of trying to tell a story or share information.