• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    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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    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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      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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      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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    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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        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.

  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
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    I can think of nothing worse than having to relive the story of AVP in real life. I barely made it to the credits the first time.

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    There is no “beneath antartica”. Antarctica is a continent. That would be like “beneath north america”. The best you can do is under one of the ice sheets.

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      Apparently Antarctica isn’t even contiguous. But most of the time, that means beneath the ice on the border of Antarctica.

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        No. A volcano is a vent or fissure in a planetary crust. The volcano itself is a geologigal structure and integral part of the north american plate.
        A hotspot is what lies under that volcano and thereby under the north american plate.

        However, those areas are not reachable by submarine (or any human vehicle at this point in time or the past). And that was the original commenter’s point. There is no “under a continent” for a submarine.