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And now, for a Water Rating Special Feature:
The Lost Sea, Tennessee
About 20,000 years ago, a giant Pleistocene jaguar ventured into a small opening in the mountain foothills, but soon found that this cave was far bigger than it bargained for. It lost its way in the dark, winding passageways, wandering for several days before eventually falling to its death in a narrow crevice, leaving behind its bones and perfectly preserved paw prints for us to find thousands of years later.
This was the first, but not the only, record of those who ventured into Craighead Caverns. Pottery, weapons and jewelry from the Cherokee people have been found in rooms up to a mile from the entrance, dating back at least a thousand years. Later, the caverns were used as a refrigerator for storing food in the summer, as a mine, a mushroom farm, and even as a dance hall. All throughout its history, there were legends of a great underground lake somewhere inside the vast caves, but no one knew where.
This changed in 1905, when a 13-year old boy was exploring the cave. Three hundred feet below the surface, he crawled through a narrow tunnel, and found himself standing in an enormous, half-submerged chasm. It was so large, in fact, that his light illuminated nothing but water. He began to throw balls of mud in an attempt to find the walls of the cavern, but he only heard splashing in response.
We now know that this lake is about four and a half acres, making it the largest underground lake in North America and the second largest in the world. But that’s only on the surface.
Diving explorations have revealed that this lake is seemingly bottomless. Beneath the ethereal water lies a series of caverns so deep that no end has been found. Divers have mapped about 1,500 feet in depth in just one of the main passageways. One diver, descending into a previously unknown chamber with a sonar device, hugged the wall and took readings all around him. There was nothing but more water in every direction.
At present, there are no further plans to continue exploration, due to the hazardous conditions in the depths of the sea. It seems, then, that the true scope of this lake may forever remain a mystery. Perhaps it is best that we leave alone this strange, bottomless abyss far beneath the ancient Appalachian mountains, to remain as dark and unknown as it was when that jaguar took its first ill-fated steps inside.
i’m like touch starved but for a river
as much as i love seeing orcas launching what appears to be intentional coordinated attacks on human ships it also makes me very sad because if it starts to become a genuine problem or even an extremely minor disruption to business people are going to just start killing them and i don't know that the orcas really understand the power differential they're dealing with here. that is why i am starting an organization whose mission will be to establish communication with the orca populace and provide them with equipment and training in order to level the playing field and empower them to take control of the seas, with the potential to open up trade and diplomatic relations on their own terms
Sam Hensley’s Creamthing made from repurposed plush by Cat’s Chimerical Creations
Absolutely obsessed with Creamthing by @samsketchbook so I made one out of an old charity shop stuffie!
And remember, you can unlock one fun fact about any repurposed Beanie Baby hybrid plush beast of your choosing by donating over at https://ko-fi.com/catschimericalcreations!
"Many species of polychaetes undergo epitoky whereby sexually immature worms transform into pelagic morphs capable of sexual reproduction. After fertilization, they release their gametes through rapid disintegration." worms are out here having insane sex we can't even comprehend
logging back into cohost for the first time in months like troypizzafire.gif
I would like to play video games but unfortunately in order to be allowed to play video games I have to solve a secret puzzle inside my head that I do not understand and am only dimly aware of.
haha ❤️ hilarious post my friend! *eyes narrow and my face goes stone serious* but it does not resonate with my own ideological schema, so i shall not be reblogging it
hayley kiyoko wrote a ya novel about being a seventeen year old lesbian stuck in rural oregon in 2006?????? and there’s livejournal in it????
it does more harm than good to prop up the myth of the ‘neurotypical’ who completes tasks cheerfully with no issues. this person is a capitalist fantasy. the more you define yourself in comparison to this myth the more you justify social structures staying the same with minor accommodations to the ‘exceptions’ and the continued pathologizing of discomfort under hostile conditions
One under-appreciated breed of fic writer are the ones who hyperfocus on logistics to the exclusion of all canon shortcuts, and thus usually strike upon an awesome way to flesh out the worldbuilding or characters.
Like, I’m not necessarily talking realism here since often it’s still pretty far from realistic, but more like, “someone has to be running spies in this fantasy kingdom, and we’ve seen the whole royal court, so which background character is it? How does that change these three major interactions?” Or “real life historical nobility did in fact have some things to do that were like jobs, how does this human disaster cope with running an estate?” Or “there’s no reason for a sci-fi robot detective to know how to whitewater kayak, where’d she learn?” Or “if this guy is serving the emperor directly he has to be way high up in the space empire servant hierarchy, why is he doing this menial task for someone else? What’s his motive? Does he perhaps have the secret space telepathy?”
Anyway I’m always DELIGHTED to find a fic or writer who asks these questions because the fics themselves are universally bangers.
i think the funniest possible star trek viewing order might be strictly chronological.
you’d have to start with that Voyager episode where they go to before the Big Bang, then work your way through every other time travel episode, the one with the whales, and First Contact before you even get close to anything approaching a normal viewing order.
at some point you’d have to watch “City on The Edge of Forever” followed by “Little Green Men” followed by “Far Beyond the Stars” which is about the most tonal whiplash you could possibly get from three consecutive episodes of star trek. I think I want to try this now.
alright what are the preferred editing softwares of vidding on PC in this the year of our lord 2023. i haven’t cut up an episode in like seven years
if you are a freak just work in pathology. this is the secret. just get in here the pay is comparatively bad and you get to look at all the human organs you could ever want
not to be a guy whose meds are working but i am having a good time and i like my job
not to be a guy whose meds are working but i am having a good time and i like my job
gnawing my own leg off because i can’t find specific hannigram vids from 2014
Winston, this is everybody. Everybody, this is Winston.
man remember tim/jaime. i think dc comics tumblr peaked in that era
Hello what is the scariest online video?
all communication is a sort of terror
I’ve never gone out of my way to listen to The Offspring so I thought that was one of their songs from the 90s that just kept getting radio play around that time?? I had no idea it released in 2008 until today lmao wtf
Music polls are fun tbh
The year is 2008 and your friend offers to split the headphones on their iPod Nano with you. You get to pick the song that comes next
just woke up from a dream that some of the reasons people were complaining about the new season of Picard was because they gave him superpowers and kept featuring the music of this obnoxious ska band that usually did daredevil stunts at their live shows