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[–] reinei 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Those are some interesting gradients!

Also I can't unseen that smile in the west now...

[–] PunnyName 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Lakes Tahoe and Great Salt trying to brighten our days.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It’s an axolotl!

[–] TropicalDingdong 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that's lake Tahoe, that's that one uninhabited region of NV. Tahoe much further south and west.

[–] PunnyName 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, looks like it's closer to Black Rock Desert.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What is this color scheme from a red heavy color to blue to red heavy again. Why even bother with gradient at that point, just go all PowerPoint and use random colors

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Some deviation of the rainbow color map, I guess. Like the jet color map, it is not really useful.

[–] TropicalDingdong 1 points 7 months ago

booo this man

[–] Donnywholovedbowling 13 points 7 months ago

Me when I see a neat map

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] ByteJunk 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Damn, never knew the whole US was a geothermal hotspot.

[–] chuckleslord 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The comment you're replying to has the PDF with °F

[–] ByteJunk 1 points 7 months ago

Oh my. How on earth could I have missed that and drawn such an incredibly incorrect conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago
[–] TropicalDingdong 5 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How is 77 degree groundwater not full of bacterial growth?

[–] cymbal_king 6 points 7 months ago

Well there's those brain eating amebas

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lack of nutrients, probably. Life needs useful energy, and the kind of life that you or me would find offensive needs a whole bunch. Therefor, by the second law of thermodynamics a closed system eventually becomes lifeless.