this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
304 points (97.2% liked)

Mildly Interesting

17494 readers
769 users here now

This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ABCDE 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A small pond the size of a large pond

[–] RainfallSonata 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Anything smaller is a drainage ditch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

California has completely dry ditches they call rivers

[–] Boris_NotTooBadinoff 5 points 6 months ago

Americans will use anything but the Metric system 😆

[–] Treczoks 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

At least it was a pond without any connection to other bodies of water. There is a Tom Scott video about a canal in the US that is charged with an electric field that zaps any fish coming through in an attempt to block a certain invasive fish species.

Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3oLeSPINOk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=t3oLeSPINOk

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] isles 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The area of the water at Jack B Tomlinson Park in Arvada, CO is 2.8 acres, about 11,300 M2. There's no universal definition of "pond", some saying smaller than 10 acres (that's the Minnesota Land of 10,000 Lakes definition) , while Wikipedia says less than 12.