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reluctant friend: puppy dog city is a myth, we should turn back
grizzled mercenary: it's getting dark, keep moving
puppygirl: puppy dog city's real. it's a city full of puppy dogs, a place i'll belong & fit in, it's home. i saw it
eccentric scientist: the implications are astounding
To elaborate on the "pretty sure" part:
The Lituya Bay 1958 wave measurement is a little wacky because the 1750 foot height is the height of the trimline where trees were removed opposite the landslide. That's a measure of runup, where water gets pushed higher up the slope by momentum than the actual wave crest, which was probably more like 490 feet tall (still bonkers)!
So it's possible the Greenland wave is actually taller if they're measuring the wave height, but I'm guessing the quoted number is probably also a runup measurement based on trimlines or other evidence which likely puts the Greenland wave in second place. But also it's kind of a nitpick because like, it doesn't matter if the wave in open water is lower if you'd still have to vertically evacuate almost 1/3rd of a mile to get out of the way!
Washington post article link
A landslide in Greenland created a 650 foot megatsunami and the wave made a seiche in the fjord that lasted for 9 days! The seiche created a mystery seismic signal detected worldwide.
I'm pretty sure that's the second largest wave recorded in history behind Lituya Bay (depending on how you measure stuff). That's taller than the space needle!
It seems like the slide may have been destabilized by glacier melt due to accelerating warming in Greenland.
picking up litter is worth it!!
individual environmentalism gets a lot of flak in the face of corporate pollution but picking up litter makes a significant, noticeable impact. I spend about an hour a week picking up litter from around my dorm complex and I'm literally outpacing my community's litter production. Just an hour a week from one person is enough to offset nearly 200 people's worth of littering.
it would take less than 100 man-hours of labor per week to keep my whole college campus entirely litter-free. If you got two classrooms' worth of people to spend two hours per week each picking up litter, the whole campus would end up spotless and they'd straight up fucking run out of things to pick up.
If you're looking for some way to make a noticeable and positive impact on the world around you, go pick up some litter.
at Easton Glacier Mt Baker
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