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Shrug@lemmy.fmhy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

An island is a mountain mostly underwater

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An island is a mountain mostly underwater

Shrug@lemmy.fmhy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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  • Trifictional@lemmy.ca
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    And a continent is just a really big island.

    Therefore a continent is actually just a big mountain.

    • Shrug@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
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      But mostly underwater.

    • csm10495@sh.itjust.works
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      The whole world is a set of mountains of different heights.

    • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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      kinda makes the whole “do you prefer to holiday on a beach or on a mountain?” question irrelevant.

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      And mountains are really the peak of the continent mountain

    • Sean@lemmy.world
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      And the oceans are just really big valleys filled with water

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    From another point of view, the oceans are just a thin film of water clinging to the surface of this ball of rock.

    The depth of the oceans is a rounding error compared to the depth of the planet.

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      If the Earth were the size of a basketball, it wouldn’t even feel wet to the touch because of how thin the oceans would be relatively. Scales are wild

  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@lemmy.ca
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    Salt lakes typically have rivers containing trace amounts of salt flowing into them but no rivers flowing out. That means the only way water can leave is through evaporation, but the salts get left behind and the salinity therefore builds up.

    I learned this in Geography 101. Then I had a shower thought that the oceans of the world are just a giant salt lake.

  • itadakimasu@lemmy.world
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    Tis known

  • U de Recife@discuss.tchncs.de
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    And the sea is just a big lake. The sea floor a long valley. Fish are valley people. Land animals are mountain folk.

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      Are the people living in the real mountains sky people?

  • JackLSauce@lemmy.world
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    This is literally true (Hawaii) except when it isn’t (Key West)

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    Landberg?

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    They mostly come out at night…mostly.

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