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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.)
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Not entirely actually! I just learned earlier today (Wikipedia) that "if its ice is considered not as land, but as water, it is not a single landmass, but several landmasses of much smaller area, since the ice-bedrock boundary is below sea level in many regions of the continent"
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.
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.
When I was younger I used to interpret plate tectonics as meaning all land masses floated on top of the oceans (water). But it's closer to they all float on liquid hot magma.
164 Comments
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 168 pts · 161d
OMG finally we can get off this fucking sinking rock. Chevron one encoded!
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 69 pts · 161d
Chevron 2 encoded
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 161d
Chevron 3 encoded
.......am I doing it right? What's a chevron? Did I do a thing?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 67 pts · 161d
Chevron 4 encoded
The chevrons are the symbols on the Stargate. We need 7 of them to travel to another planet.
Luci@lemmy.ca · 55 pts · 161d
Chevron 5 encoded! Let’s gooooooo
white_nrdy@programming.dev · 53 pts · 161d
Chevron 6.... Encoded
Stiffneckedppl@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 161d
Unscheduled offworld activation
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 52 pts · 161d
It's fucking Baal again
Edlak@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 161d
Chevron 7 Locked
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 45 pts · 161d
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 161d
You technically don't have to say Locked on the last one, but it's Standard Operating Procedure by Walter to do so.
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 161d
Chevron 7… Encoded?
brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 161d
You fool! Chevron 7 is locked not encoded!
Unless…actually I can’t remember. Maybe it still gets encoded if you’re going to another galaxy or something? Anyone remember?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
Oh thank god. For a while there I thought I was stuck on this planet with assholes like elon musk, and trump.
Ok, so, this new planet we're going to.....do they have bacon? Or should we find some left leaning farmers to bring some pigs for breeding?
Look, I'm excited to leave this hellhole called earth, but, c'mon. We gotta bring bacon.
But we don't have to bring pedophiles, or fascists. That's why we're leaving earth to begin with.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 11 pts · 161d
Sorry, Thor says meat eating is primitive and we have to leave the Bacon on Earth
grozzle@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 161d
the yellow ones are not bacon.
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
Someone needs to tell Kevin.
Geobloke@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 161d
To be fair, I'm 50:50 on Elon being an alien that "accidentally" got left behind by his mates
Kanda@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 161d
You want to bring pigs, but also not bring pigs.
Hupf@feddit.org · 8 pts · 161d
!chevron7@lemmy.world
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 161d
Flat earth confirmed
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 161d
When have things gone our way?
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 161d
Just don't send me to Atlantis, I have too much shit to fix here already.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 138 pts · 161d
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.
showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website · 79 pts · 161d
Ya can’t stop the fun train with simple facts. /s
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 161d
Jokes on you, I read the article and I’m STILL gonna out myself as a moron! Checkmate Evangelathiests!
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 161d
OMG. It's Checkmate ApeTheists, not whateverthefuck you said. What a moron!!!
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
See! I told you!
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 161d
ceenote@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 161d
Damn, I was hoping for a slumbering ancient evil that could put us all out of our misery.
Sabata11792@ani.social · 8 pts · 161d
They come to enslave us, it's probably an improvement.
zeejoo@thelemmy.club · 19 pts · 161d
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.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 2 pts · 161d
Thinking this is Reddit and taking the rules of a meme community seriously make you a real winner. ;-)
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 161d
You're not the boss of me! I'll do what I want!
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 161d
Those unknown structures?
Avicenna@programming.dev · 13 pts · 161d
"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.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
Channels and scooped depressions?
Sooo....aqueducts to put the Romans to shame?
Agent641@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 161d
Excuse me but Ill keep my alarmist hyperbole thankyou verymuch!
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 161d
Nope, it's R'lyeh
Nikelui@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
Cthulhu fhtagn
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 161d
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 161d
Herpa derp derp
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 161d
Maybe it's just their dicks
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 161d
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 161d
portuga@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 161d
Makes sense
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 7 pts · 161d
Now we're talking...
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 161d
Get yer P-90s ready, boys. We’re about to go snake huntin’
capt_wolf@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 161d
P-90s? Hell no, grab the flamethrowers and the dynamite!
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 161d
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 38 pts · 161d
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.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · -17 pts · 161d
And why would you define a continent to only include rock?
Incidion@thelemmy.club · 21 pts · 161d
I mean, the definition of a continent is a landmass. We don't count the ice shelves in Canada or Greenland either.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 161d
Sure we do. Do you not consider Glacier National Park a part of North America?
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 161d
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
Your mom's not a continent
That sounded a lot better in my head
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 160d
"Beneath" here just means "beneath the surface of." You're being deliberately obtuse.
nomy@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 160d
You're over here arguing about what continents are and you're gonna call the other poster obtuse?
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 160d
Yes.
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 160d
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?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 161d
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.)
Magnum@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 161d
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
@ @ @
zeejoo@thelemmy.club · -23 pts · 161d
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.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 161d
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?
zeejoo@thelemmy.club · -15 pts · 161d
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.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 161d
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?
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" is when you just do the thing yourself immediately and unprompted without asking anything from anybody.
zeejoo@thelemmy.club · -14 pts · 161d
Bro we're in a meme subreddit and you're writing walls of text. Touch grass.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 161d
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.
zeejoo@thelemmy.club · -12 pts · 161d
Bro actually counted the words lmfao. Touching grass isn't enough, you might be a lost cause.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 161d
Providing a better bibliography, in case anyone else wants it.
Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 161d
I'm lazy and stupid. He did me a favor, fuck you.
Leg@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 161d
Thanks for speaking up for the people like us!
Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 161d
If we don't stick together dickheads like that might make us use our reading comprehension skills.
I won't do it.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 33 pts · 161d
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtag
portuga@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 161d
Bless you
menas@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 161d
Bless It
Avicenna@programming.dev · 7 pts · 161d
blessings beyond my comprehension
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 161d
non-euclidean thoughts and prayers
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
Blessings beyond my darkest nightmares
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 161d
Wrong story, more like "Tekeli-li"
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 161d
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 161d
Meta question: can someone enlighten me on the source/background of the image used for this meme? Is it from some movie?
xentrix@infosec.pub · 20 pts · 161d
The Cabin in the Woods (2011) Imdb
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 161d
Ty!
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
Thanks.
gaiussabinus@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 161d
Gargles in incomprehensible horror
Avicenna@programming.dev · 2 pts · 161d
its fine, can not comprehend the horror
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
flosses and spits in moderately comprehensible horror
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 12 pts · 161d
This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it. So it must lead somewhere.
Brewchin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 161d
HP Lovecraft has entered the chat...
daannii@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 161d
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. 🐙 🦑
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
This could also be the alternate plot to Iron Lung
Cordyceps@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 161d
How tf, I just watched the movie last night again after like 8 years and a meme pops up??
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 9 pts · 161d
kyle@europe.pub · 1 pts · 161d
Which movie is it?
weariedfae@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 160d
Cabin in the Woods
ZMoney@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 161d
Antarctica is a continent made of rock.
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 6 pts · 161d
IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
Not entirely actually! I just learned earlier today (Wikipedia) that "if its ice is considered not as land, but as water, it is not a single landmass, but several landmasses of much smaller area, since the ice-bedrock boundary is below sea level in many regions of the continent"
melfie@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 161d
TIL that glacier ice is considered a type of mono-mineralic rock: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/glacier-ice-a-type-rock
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
So did I! Thanks!
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 160d
You're confusing a continent with a craton. A continent is an entire geographic region. It's not a singular object.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 161d
sidelove@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 161d
Yessss I've been waiting for the new Bioshock!
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 161d
You spent seven years on MacGyver and you can't figure this one out?
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 161d
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.
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 161d
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.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
Well… beneath North America is a massive super volcano, so…
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 161d
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.
qualia@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
When I was younger I used to interpret plate tectonics as meaning all land masses floated on top of the oceans (water). But it's closer to they all float on liquid hot magma.
marcos@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
Apparently Antarctica isn't even contiguous. But most of the time, that means beneath the ice on the border of Antarctica.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
I wish you'd les with unmanned, but then id've never clicked the article
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 161d
Get in, loser! We're going to Agartha!
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 161d
Unknown structures filled with giant, albino penguins and one very angry gelatinous cube.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 1 pts · 161d
one very angry incomprehensible gelatinous cube
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
Hollow Earth confirmed. /s
muxika@piefed.muxika.org · 3 pts · 161d
This is how we get Breakers. Smash their brains.
waddle_dee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 161d
Where is this from?
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 6 pts · 161d
Cabin in the woods 2011
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 161d
Anyone asking where this is from, watch it! Its soooo goooood!
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 2 pts · 161d
I totally agree!
Dana: Me? The virgin?
The Director: We work with what we have.
csolisr@hub.azkware.net · 2 pts · 156d
My theory: companies secretly violating international treaties to extract resources from below the ice floor