And so today I learned, Venezuela used to have glaciers.
hammock
Interestingly, the US has ADDED a glacier in the last 30 years, that of Mount St Helens, which was able to form after the explosion in 1980. It is the youngest glacier on earth
nsilvestri
It had 13 glaciers pre-eruption, so perhaps "added" is doing a lot of heavy lifting :)
BenFranklin100
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.
pineaux
Venus scenario? I wonder if that could happen. Time to explore that rabbit hole
When I used Kagi, my favourite feature was pinning Wikipedia to the top of all results.
yard2010
Why don't you use it anymore?
enjrolas
I did a bit of searching, and couldn't find a single timelapse of glacier mice movement. Time for a trip to the mountains with some cameras!
mettamage
Volunteering as a potential random travel buddy here. I’m not sure if I have the time but let’s see if we can figure something out if you are potentially up for it. My email is in profile
networked
I 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.
Aboutplants
I’m actually surprised there isn’t Timelapse of it already. Seems like a simple enough setup to gather basically all of the information needed for finalizing how they move.
andrewflnr
If you put me on that surface I don't think I would have any idea it was a glacier.
comrade1234
Here in Switzerland when children order shrimp at a restaurant I tell them that they come from the shrimp mines in the glaciers.
nyanmatt
Oh the lies we tell our children to protect them! When is the right time to tell them they’ve been dredged en masse from their homes in the ocean and left to die in a crate on the deck of a shrimping vessel? Or that they were possibly bred into existence in a facility of controlled environments intended to mimic their homes in nature where they’re allowed to live until they’re large enough to be eaten by ignorant people, inconsiderate of the miserable, short lives they’ve lived?
sanex
It's ok they're just bugs
nannal
I use the same argument with dog meat.
halflife
You managed to talk with the dog from fallout 1?
NuclearPM
Dogs are bugs?
ArekDymalski
I would say they are features.
throwaway173738
I think you’ll find that words have definitions that can be changed.
the_gipsy
#define bug dog
encomiast
Aren’t we all.
soupspaces
If they don't know about tapioca pearls, please keep in mind they resemble fish eggs.
Aardwolf
I clicked the picture first without reading any of the article and was wondering "where are the mice? they must be well camouflaged!"
Also a reminder that a lot of life is basic physics and a simple state machine.
e.g. even the development of eyeballs started with a slightly photoreceptive skin cell and then evolution hill climbing took care of the rest.
glimshe
But that's fine too. If the complexity of the natural world is just emergent behaviors, then emergence itself never ceases to amaze. Because one wouldn't normally expect that our "cold" physical laws could lead to the variety of life.
chrisweekly
I highly recommend the book "Deep Simplicity" by John Gribbin.^1
It explores precisely this topic: the emergence of unexpectedly rich, complex behaviors from very simple rules given feedback and sensitivity to initial conditions.
> This suggests that this water buoyantly lifts the ice floes with embedded rocks until friction with the playa bed is reduced sufficiently for wind to move them and cause the observed tracks.
Wow, that's nuts!
eleventen
My first thought as well!
dburkland
Remember seeing these in Iceland
joe-esquibel
...Poppa was a rolling stone...
trindell4469
Am I the only one who immediately thought of tribbles?
> they have been observed in Alaska, Chile, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Uganda and Venezuela
Well, today I learned, Venezuela has glaciers.
Then I googled that, and…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/...
And so today I learned, Venezuela used to have glaciers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_worm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_algae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mima_mounds
e.g. even the development of eyeballs started with a slightly photoreceptive skin cell and then evolution hill climbing took care of the rest.
It explores precisely this topic: the emergence of unexpectedly rich, complex behaviors from very simple rules given feedback and sensitivity to initial conditions.
1. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/71851/deep-simplici...
https://nikolaykukushkin.com/book
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones
Wow, that's nuts!