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the r/curatedtumblr -> tumblr migration is so funny to me. it's like going to the zoo and enjoying it so much you climb into the enclosure to live with the monkeys

this reply evokes such an incredible image in the mind’s eye

I like the early game spore animals. They’re just little loafs.

what’s the pink they put in pink lemonade that makes it so poppin

that’s pussy babe!

now THIS is a world heritage post

my mom finally bought a toaster

why did this get notes

we’re happy for you

its just a toaster

it’s been three years since i made this post. stop congratulating me on the toaster! stop asking me how the new toaster is doing!! i don’t know!! i haven’t lived with my mom in almost a year! i haven’t seen that toaster in months!! she might even have a new new toaster now!!! who knows!? not me!

@egberts how’s the toaster?

well the 10 year update to this saga is that I don’t talk to my mom and I have my own toaster 👍 don’t let your dreams be dreams

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:

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.

*blows a kiss 2 the sky* for captain america

i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken

His ghost is setting those cars on fire actually

I hadn’t really considered “the agnostic demigod of electromagnetism is the reason Musk’s companies fail” before, but I like the concept. 

don’t ever put them in a situation

Oh god please turn the sound on

Your daily dose of cat memes

this video is putting me in a daze i swear

Opening up the skittles portal

XVII. The Star

the next time someone asks what this country is like i’ll just send them this

-  Velký noční hlídač / Watchman

- author of the videomaping Milan Cais 

-photography ©ČTK,  ©David Peltán, MAFRA.

such a beautiful take. allies take note. 

Popular opinión: America is a sad joke

dude it’s so fuckin crazy that there are little kitty cats in the world and they just have little hands and fluffy tails n all that. how do you guys even handle it havin a little kittums just living with you

*slaps ur ass* good post good post