How the Hell Did an Island Suddenly Appear, Then Vanish?
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#2Literal definition of "404".
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#3It's like a type of floating bog island that grows from piled up downed trees and other biomass and then breaks off from the main land.
Happens on lakes in Wisconsin. See [0] for a very interesting example of what happens when one gets real big and floats away.
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#4It's like a type of floating bog island that grows from piled up downed trees and other biomass and then breaks off from the main land. Happens on lakes in Wisconsin. See [0] for a very interesting example of what happens when one gets real big and floats away. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2AG6LAOBYo
How this biomass expands?! I don't think this happens anywhere else on earth. Usually tress downed into the water simply become bare trunks in the water.
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#5It's like a type of floating bog island that grows from piled up downed trees and other biomass and then breaks off from the main land. Happens on lakes in Wisconsin. See [0] for a very interesting example of what happens when one gets real big and floats away. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2AG6LAOBYo
How this biomass expands?! I don't think this happens anywhere else on earth. Usually tress downed into the water simply become bare trunks in the water.
The article states that it grows on driftwood so it is buoyant and mentions it is not that rare (not explicitly but it talks about it happening before)
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#6Anybody else immediately think of "Lost" when they read this headline?
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#7https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadoon
Brigadoon is a musical with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and score by Frederick Loewe.[1] The plot features two American men who stumble upon Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every 100 years; one man soon falls in love with a young woman from Brigadoon.