That is absolutely fucking adorable. Lord have mercy.

Excuse me, what the fuck? I always thought that they’re kind of like a butterfly’s.

Clickbait title. For everyone who imagines an actual ocean with waves of liquid water and whatnot: it’s not. It’s molcules contained in the crystalline structures of special mineral deposits.

It turns out there’s a huge supply of water 400 miles underground stored in rock known as ‘ringwoodite’.

Scientists previously discovered that water is stored inside mantle rock in a sponge-like state, which isn’t a liquid, solid or a gas, but instead a fourth state.

The scientific paper titled ‘Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle’ was published in 2014 and laid out the findings.

There’s three times as much water below the surface than in the oceansiStock

“The ringwoodite is like a sponge, soaking up water, there is something very special about the crystal structure of ringwoodite that allows it to attract hydrogen and trap water,” said geophysicist Steve Jacobsen at the time.

"This mineral can contain a lot of water under conditions of the deep mantle,” added Jacobsen, who was part of the team behind the discovery.

He added: “I think we are finally seeing evidence for a whole-Earth water cycle, which may help explain the vast amount of liquid water on the surface of our habitable planet. Scientists have been looking for this missing deep water for decades.”

Scientists made the findings at the time after studying earthquakes and discovering that seismometers were picking up shockwaves under the surface of the Earth.

From that, they were able to establish that the water was being held in the rock known as ringwoodite.

If the rock contained just 1 per cent water, it would mean that there is three times more water under the surface of the Earth than there is in the oceans on the surface.

Still interesting, though. Sadly pop science articles will always have shite titles.

I remember when I saw pictures of Mars. Like, actual, real pictures from another planet. From its surface. From something from us that’s physically there.

I grew up on Star Trek and whatnot.

Seeing pictures and films from between the stars is blowing my mind. We’re living in the most boring dystopia. No jetpacks, no flying cars, no cities on the moon or the bottom of the sea. Not even general prosperity fueled by the robots that increase our productivity, no, on the contrary actually.

But recordings like this. This is a pinch of future.

Uranus in general. Obvious jokes aside, the bloody thing is really weird in so many ways. Rotation, temperature, density, weather, magnetic field, nothing about Uranus is normal.

Well, fuck. Everytime I talk to people about everyone’s future, advise them to move up north near the coast where the droughts will be less severe and the harvest more plentiful. Their children won’t have much of a future anywhere else, especially their children’s children and so on. But not too close to the coast as not to fucking drown, you know. Guess I’ll have to revise that a bit to move them even further inwards.

Of course. And while it’s easy to blame people getting tired of doom and gloom, it’s even easier to ignore the much lower journalistic standards of today. Clickbait everywhere, nothing matters but money. If you want to get actual information, you have to cross-reference half a dozen semi-quality sources five days after the fact when the storm of disinformation made way for what actually happened.

Everyone lies about everything and nobody is being held accountable, least of all by journalists who are more likely to be in on the scam rather then uncovering it.

How bizarre. I’ll keep that in mind! Thanks for letting me (us) know. :D

No, not how to get to the post, but how to get to a place that accepts your reply. I know that while I tried to join, you try to post a reply. What connects us is the spinning wheel. I bypassed it by joining via my “Local Copy”, so you may be able to post a reply via your Local Copy as well.

On a sidenote: I tried to click the text field on your screenshot on three seperate times.

Yep, my fix was to go to my local copy and join from there.

Try something like this: https://lemmy.wtf/c/YOURCOMMUNITYNAMEHERE

Lemmy.wtf is federated with kbin, so that was a roundabout way to get in there as well. I assume there is a similiar way to answer posts on different servers?

To someone who has no idea of bearded dragons, that guy looks paraplegic. I realize that it’s most likely not, I hope, but…damn…

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