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Glacier Mice
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait until you hear about Ice Worms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_worm
Thanks to your comment TIL that snow algae is a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_algae
Another fun one is Mima Mounds, mounds found all over and especially in North America that don’t have established causes
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#43TIL. Life never ceases to amaze.
Wait until you hear about Ice Worms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_worm
And sailing stones, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones and toneballs https://luthierblogmartinahawe.wordpress.com/toneballs/
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#45Always love seeing a link to wikipedia.org on the front page. Pretty much guaranteed to make me go "oh, neat " :)
Agreed. I would follow a bluesky/mastodon/rss thing that shares every time a Wikipedia article hits the front page.
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#46I 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.
If you put me on that surface I don't think I would have any idea it was a glacier.
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#47I clicked the picture first without reading any of the article and was wondering "where are the mice? they must be well camouflaged!"
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#48I clicked the picture first without reading any of the article and was wondering "where are the mice? they must be well camouflaged!"
same!
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Venus scenario? I wonder if that could happen. Time to explore that rabbit hole