i have an iron grip on my couch watching these vampire girls in van helsing (2004)
i’d give so much of it up
i’ve never been as high as i was last night and got so horny from these women that i had to stop watching it
tbh i don't really get why we divide the oceans into different oceans because they're all connected it's the same ocean
no metaphor here just pure confusion...is there a line where one ocean stops and another begins? or is it like a smooth gradient of percentages of one ocean shading into another ocean?
Yes, there is a line. There are confluences you can see and touch and they are NOT subtle in the slightest.
That's the Atlantic and the Caribbean on a particularly pronounced day.
This is the Indian and the Pacific. It's not always this obvious everywhere but the dividing lines are very much there.
Oceans have their own properties as far as temperature and salinity and unless something like a storm or a current forces them to mix they won't. Mostly this applies to vertical mixing and it gives you things like thermoclines and haloclines but water is wierd and won't mix horizontally either.
The ocean basins tend to have their own currents that go in a circle and define that ocean, and those patterns mix the water within that ocean. Like a washing machine.
The Caribbean has a little loop of its own that not on this map, but that current keeps that ocean pretty internally consistent. It's got clear warm water because of the shallow bowl of limestone sand it sits in. Where it meets the Atlantic with wildly different conditions the water is traveling in opposite directions, and it acts kind of like an oncoming lane of highway traffic. Species that have adapted to a narrow band of temperatures and salinities (most fish) can't cross, while species with a stronger homeostasis hang out there on purpose, (marine mammals, turtles, sharks). Plankton, that cannot control their horizontal movement in the water column, are held in their home territories by these barriers.
THE PHOTOS ARE FAKE.
The first one was taken by Ken Bruland in 2007. He’s a profesor at ocean sciences in university of California. He specifically says it’s water from glaciers meeting another body of water. That’s bcs there’s just so much sediment in the water. People have mislabeled this photo so much and now we are here, calling it ‘ends of oceans meeting’.
Next picture is by Ken Smith. He did think it’s 2 ocean edges meeting but the truth is, it’s simply water from river meeting water from ocean.
When you see those kind of lines in water, it’s always either sediment rich water meeting cleaner water or 2 different temperatures meeting but in the ‚ocean edges’ case this wont be true, the temperature differences aren’t different enough. The waters will mix overtime. The visibility of the lines is highly dependent on weather, currents, etc.
Please let this become net 0 information post
Awwwww. Wait, is the photo showing the specific ocean currents fake?
No, the oceans have specific currents. That poster is right about those, and about the fact that clines form in water - when fresh and salt water meet and haven't started mixing yet, that's a halocline, when two temperatures meet, that's a thermocline, two densities form a picocline, etc. Like, the science they're building on is all present and correct, which is why I suspect they themselves fell for the common internet myth of those photos (as a quick aside, looking at the notes, some people are getting weirdly aggressive and accusing them of deliberate misinformation, and we... shouldn't do that. This is an obvious mistake, that's all.)
They've just overstated a few parts, like this:
Oceans have their own properties as far as temperature and salinity and unless something like a storm or a current forces them to mix they won't. Mostly this applies to vertical mixing and it gives you things like thermoclines and haloclines but water is wierd and won't mix horizontally either.
They will. They absolutely will mix, even without a storm. It takes much longer without a storm, certainly, but they 100% will mix eventually. And to bring the OP's point back in, while it is true that different large bodies of water have different properties, the boundaries are far, far blurrier still, which is why there are one-, three-, four- and five-ocean models commonly used, plus others as well. Here's Wikipedia's handy model to show them:
And of course, those photos are not what is claimed - they ARE showing clines, but one is glacial meltwater meeting an ocean, and the other is sediment in a river meeting the ocean. The second one, in fact, is especially clear, because it's commonly claimed to be the Indian and Pacific oceans meeting, but they only do that around Australia and Indonesia, and there are snow-capped mountains in the background of that image.
So TL;DR - it's mostly true, except the images, and the idea that you can rigidly see or otherwise distinguish two oceans.
OP, this is a genuinely genius method of tricking the human brain into beginning to understand the sort of scale that this looks like.
i learn new things everyday the world is amazing
Okay, it's Tuesday here in Australia. So, that means I'm exhausted and you lovely people get a random animal.
Today: Resplendent Quetzal
Ad Astra
Just some more original character art I drew to test some brushes and to practice my technique. I tried to be a bit more loose with my brushstrokes with this one and leave some parts semi-rough and sketchy.
not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here
reblog heavy
image quite literally heavy
ok.
