• bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
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    Antarctica is a continent, you can’t send a sub underneath it. Ran discovered previously unseen structures beneath the Dotson Ice Shelf in West Antarctica.

    The Arctic is covered in floating ice, you can send subs under it. Well, it’s covered at the moment, climate change is working on changing all that.

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      And why would you define a continent to only include rock?

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        I mean, the definition of a continent is a landmass. We don’t count the ice shelves in Canada or Greenland either.

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          Sure we do. Do you not consider Glacier National Park a part of North America?

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            They are not part of the continental land mass, even though they are geographically located on the continent called North America. But the Arctic is not a continent because there is no land mass.

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              “Beneath” here just means “beneath the surface of.” You’re being deliberately obtuse.

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                You’re over here arguing about what continents are and you’re gonna call the other poster obtuse?

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                I don’t see how you are coming to the conclusion that a. that is the meaning of “beneath” in this context and b. how that is a relevant point in this discussion.

                Also, “deliberately” is just a dumb, unfounded accusation. Wtf makes you think people would purposefully misunderstand you in such an irrelevant discussion and that I am acting with that intent in this instance?

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              Your mom’s not a continent

              That sounded a lot better in my head

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    Protip: Read the article before you out yourself as a moron for not understanding that they are talking about structural features of melting polar ice.

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      Jokes on you, I read the article and I’m STILL gonna out myself as a moron! Checkmate Evangelathiests!

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      Damn, I was hoping for a slumbering ancient evil that could put us all out of our misery.

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      “In the east and center, Ran saw icy terraces stacked like steps, while the west looked smoother, with channels and scooped depressions.”

      icy terraces = ancient cities beyond comprehension, thank you very much.

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      Pro tip: check if you’re in a meme sub before taking any posts seriously or making judgements of peoples intellects. Big loser energy bud.

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      Excuse me but Ill keep my alarmist hyperbole thankyou verymuch!

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      Those unknown structures?

      Using sonar, Ran mapped 54 square miles of ice underside beneath Dotson Ice Shelf. The maps revealed flat plateaus, terraced steps, and teardrop-shaped pits, all carved by basal melt, melting that attacks the ice from below.

      In the east and center, Ran saw icy terraces stacked like steps, while the west looked smoother, with channels and scooped depressions.

      None of these terraces or teardrop pits show up on satellite images, so they had remained completely hidden until Ran’s mission.

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    That thing looks a bit like a giant red squid.

    Do you think an actual giant red squid would know it wasn’t?

    That device is now at the bottom of the sea after a squid made sweet love to it. 🐙 🦑

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    Earth.com is, in my experience, ridiculously clickbaity and sensationalist. The open-access article recounting this (that the OP article just regurgitates) is here. (I know this is a memes community; don’t @ me.)

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      I know this is a meme sub

      Then why did you comment? You know that everyone who saw this meme chuckled, and then either went “probably bullshit” and moved on, or googled it, found out it’s click bait and moved on. You accomplish nothing but giving yourself a soap box.

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        I’m lazy and stupid. He did me a favor, fuck you.

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            If we don’t stick together dickheads like that might make us use our reading comprehension skills.

            I won’t do it.

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        Then why did you comment?

        Because the OP shared a bad source, some people might want to read about this event (I did, which is why I read this), and this is the original source and open-access. Like goddamn; did the submarine disappear because it went up your ass?

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          If you can’t look at that source, read it for 5 seconds and realize it’s a shithole rag of disinformation and conspiracy theories, then you probably should be relying on other people to parse information for you. If you can’t find another source on the same information by using your thumbs, then you may want to get off the internet altogether. OP clearly wasn’t trying to fool anyone or spread disinformation, it’s a meme and you losers are in here demanding a better bibliography.

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            If you can’t look at that source, read it for 5 seconds and realize it’s a shithole rag of disinformation and conspiracy theories

            Those people are only going to improve their media literacy when they can compare and contrast what good and bad sources look like – whether they do that on their own or with help from someone else. While that muscle is still underdeveloped in so many people, is it obscene to you to just help them a little?

            If you can’t find another source on the same information by using your thumbs

            Centralizing the information means less wasted work. I’d bet I can do the research you can do in an hour in ten minutes, and my actual decade-long hobby is making research easier for others; I don’t need this lecture.

            demanding a better bibliography.

            “Demanding” is when you just do the thing yourself immediately and unprompted without asking anything from anybody.

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                The comment I was replying to was 89 words. I wrote 116 and only used your quotes to establish what I was replying to. If you consider 116 words a wall of text worthy of ridicule, then I think you’re projecting about who the illiterate morons who shouldn’t be on the Internet are here. You should get off the Internet and pay attention; Mr. Winkler is trying to teach you and the other 4th-graders how to use context clues and what the three-syllable word “demanding” means.

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                  Bro actually counted the words lmfao. Touching grass isn’t enough, you might be a lost cause.

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            OP clearly wasn’t trying to fool anyone or spread disinformation, it’s a meme and you losers are in here demanding a better bibliography.

            Providing a better bibliography, in case anyone else wants it.

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    Meta question: can someone enlighten me on the source/background of the image used for this meme? Is it from some movie?

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    Antarctica is a continent made of rock.

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    I wish you’d les with unmanned, but then id’ve never clicked the article