mrb 2 hours ago

It's located here for those wondering: https://maps.app.goo.gl/js7miFSkRBa86t15A?g_st=ac

If you click on the little resorts/hotels/towns around the area, there are many pictures and videos of steam rising of this little river. It's obvious the area is well frequented by tourists. Not as remote as I thought it would be.

gitpusher 58 minutes ago

> What he found is one of the strangest hydrothermal features on Earth. Not because it is extremely hot

Neat! I wonder what's so strange about it besides the heat

> because there is essentially no scientific explanation for its existence.

Wait whut

Avicebron 4 days ago

> fault-controlled non-volcanic geothermal feature.

Also known as a great serpent-spirit known as "Mother of the Waters"

1970-01-01 2 hours ago

Life existing at the extreme of liquid water is indeed unique. Dropping some of them into the boiling oceans of Enceladus and waiting a hundred years would be a fun experiment.

  • embedding-shape 2 hours ago

    It's all fun and games until the mutant spiders fight the mutant ants in large-scale wars, and somehow eventually starts being able to contact us back at earth.

    • all2 1 hour ago

      I'm getting WH40k or Helldivers 2 vibes from this.

      "Purge the xenos!"

    • pavel_lishin 33 minutes ago

      Yeah, but they also bring along some <rot13-spoiler>bpgbcv naq eniraf, naq na vafnar sbezre-uhzna ehaavat ba na nag-onfrq fhofgengr.</rot13-spoiler>