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[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 116 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What's the little girl looking at?

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 63 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Considering her hand isn't even casting a shadow over her eyes, probably the sun

[–] banichan@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 37 points 10 months ago

I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books?

She’s about to start some shit, Zed.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

The charred lump of shit they're standing on

[–] Papanca@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

The next planet to move to

[–] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 10 months ago

Teenagers, they just do the opposite of what their parents tell them.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 68 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Not really though


from NPS:

The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley (Furnace Creek) was 134°F (57°C) on July 10, 1913. During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129° F (54°C) or above.

I think the dinosaur moment would be more of a global phenomenon, e.g., rising ocean temperature. My understanding is that Death Valley is obscenely hot with or without humans. The rising ocean temperature and melting ice caps, on the other hand...🦖🌎💥

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago

There's doubt about that 1913 temperature being reliable. More likely the 130°F in July 2021 is the actual record.

Also, what's remarkable is not the record high temperature, but the fact that these temperatures are consistently returning each year.

Not even Death Valley is spared by global warming.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, global warming was kind of a bad name for it. Because yes, it will get warmer globally on average, but also colder, drier and wetter at certain places. Northern Europe might get a lot colder when the Gulf Stream is gone for example.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The term "global warming" first appeared in print in a scientific journal article authored by an American geochemist in 1975. I think the mistake isn't the naming, as it's an accurate name that succinctly describes the issue. I think the mistake was not realizing how profoundly science illiterate the American public was at the time and still continues to be.

[–] jadero@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

I'm not questioning the sad state of scientific literacy, then or now, but it really wouldn't have been all that difficult for the news media to properly explain the issue.

I graduated high school the year before that article was published.

While in high school, I wrote reports on the "greenhouse effect". I later found myself helping my parents and others grasp the actual effects of "global warming." Poles heating faster than the tropics. Shifting weather patterns that would cause some regions to at least temporarily see a period of cooling, etc.

If I could do it, getting it right was certainly within the capabilities of university trained journalists.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

When I first heard about it in school in the 90s, the preferred term seemed to be "global greenhouse effect", which still implies warming but better describes the underlying physical principle.

But now we should really call it "global climate catastrophe" or "global climate extinction event" to communicate how dire the situation is.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That 1913 number has been looked on dubiously for over a century. The current numbers are not.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 61 points 10 months ago

It's more like people curiously exploring and taking pictures of a receded beach just before the tsunami.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 52 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I would be so sweaty standing there that you could white water raft down my ass crack.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks mate, you've made me laugh and crack a smile on a big depressive day.

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Sorry it's been rough. Here's a pie 🥧

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This will look great in my unusual-but-highly-descriptive metaphor collection next to "yes, you fart in your sleep, and it is not subtle at all. You sound like a saxophone full of Doritos"

[–] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

That's a simile.

[–] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Please share more of your collection. I'm enjoying these.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

I'd just skip past that and just keel over. I can't even handle 35°C

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How's that ranger on the right smiling??? She's got a fucking cable through her leg!

(I know, confusing perspective, but it took me forever to figure out what I was looking at.)

[–] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

No need for kink shaming thankyou very much.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is it? I know it's not a cable.

[–] consumptionone@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a branch in the foreground behind the person on the right's shoulder that's just sticking up into the frame.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

That could be. I was thinking maybe handheld two-way radio antenna.

Diabetes usually leads to numbness in the extremities.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Someone find that poor gal some pants that fit her, that looks difficult.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Of course it's difficult. Having a FUPA is living life on hard mode. I wonder if government jobs would ever consider offering a mumu option for their uniforms.

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Come on, boys! The way you're lollygaggin' around here with them picks and them shovels, you'd think it was a hundert an' forty degrees...! Can't be more than a hundert an' thirty five!

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dock that ____ a days pay fer napping on the job!

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah I figured I could've completed the line by using dock that ranger

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was there 16 years ago and I remember it said 43 degrees (Celsius) (I remember because my ex at the time said it was too hot for her, but I loved it. But of course I had to leave)

[–] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You enjoy 43 degrees? What are you? A fucking reptile? 🥵

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

lol...l prefer solar camel

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 10 months ago

It hit 40 in the UK a few years back, and I spent the whole day dying. Fucking horrible.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have never been tempted to visit a place called, "Death Valley."

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's pretty interesting actually. Especially on an Enduro motorbike.

[–] cygon@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

You can pay $130 to run a marathon there: https://raceroster.com/events/2024/72825/2024-death-valley-marathon-half-marathon-and-10k

Had that one filed away in my mind because I once watched a documentary about Scott Juarek (a runner popular for being able to manage such feats) where the runners explained that they had to run on the white paint on the road so the soles of their shoes wouldn't melt. Humans are crazy (and I'd love see how far I could go in such heat myself :D).