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"Yellowstone's Hot Springs Could Be A Brilliant Blue If Tourists Didn't Throw Coins, Garbage
Researchers determined what Yellowstone's famous hot springs would look like if coin-throwing tourists had not contaminated them.
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In the case of the yellowed Morning Glory Pool, the researchers were able to simulate what it looked like between the years of 1880 and 1940, when it was significantly warmer. During this time the water was a deep blue, before a collection of trash, coins, and rocks turned it yellow-orange and green."
Linky
mmmmmmmmmmm, "toning".
Researchers determined what Yellowstone's famous hot springs would look like if coin-throwing tourists had not contaminated them.
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In the case of the yellowed Morning Glory Pool, the researchers were able to simulate what it looked like between the years of 1880 and 1940, when it was significantly warmer. During this time the water was a deep blue, before a collection of trash, coins, and rocks turned it yellow-orange and green."
Linky
mmmmmmmmmmm, "toning".
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now it's coins...pure BS if ya ask me
<< <i>darn un agenda 21 laying their claims as to why we shouldn't have access to our country
now it's coins...pure BS if ya ask me >>
Well, you cannot deny that the destruction of certain things in this country are the direct result of incompetence, ignorance or outright arrogance.
For Example.
Not all but a LOT of people have to be told what NOT to do to preserve an area for future generations and it has nothing to do with having free access to the country. It's a simple fact that if the 3 million people per year that visit Yellowstone National Park were all allowed to thrown a single coin into each Hot Spring or geyser they encountered that those attractions would be ruined within two years by the accumulation of 6 millions coins each.
While efforts to control the amount of trash and litter that mounts across the country appear futile, I'm glad that at least some effort is put forth. Living in a rural mountainous area of California, I can guarantee that if folks figure they can get away with it, they'll dump their garbage anywhere they see fit. Again, it has nothing at all to do with controlling free access to the country as much as it has to do with providing written guidelines on what can or cannot be done. Without those guidelines, we'd all live in a public dump.
The name is LEE!
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<< <i>darn un agenda 21 laying their claims as to why we shouldn't have access to our country
now it's coins...pure BS if ya ask me >>
Well, you cannot deny that the destruction of certain things in this country are the direct result of incompetence, ignorance or outright arrogance.
For Example.
Not all but a LOT of people have to be told what NOT to do to preserve an area for future generations and it has nothing to do with having free access to the country. It's a simple fact that if the 3 million people per year that visit Yellowstone National Park were all allowed to thrown a single coin into each Hot Spring or geyser they encountered that those attractions would be ruined within two years by the accumulation of 6 millions coins each.
While efforts to control the amount of trash and litter that mounts across the country appear futile, I'm glad that at least some effort is put forth. Living in a rural mountainous area of California, I can guarantee that if folks figure they can get away with it, they'll dump their garbage anywhere they see fit. Again, it has nothing at all to do with controlling free access to the country as much as it has to do with providing written guidelines on what can or cannot be done. Without those guidelines, we'd all live in a public dump. >>
I shot an arrow into the air and it STUCK.
<< <i>I was a letter carrier on that route and could never resist throwing registered mail into it. >>
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<< <i>"Yellowstone's Hot Springs Could Be A Brilliant Blue If Tourists Didn't Throw Coins, Garbage
Researchers determined what Yellowstone's famous hot springs would look like if coin-throwing tourists had not contaminated them.
...
In the case of the yellowed Morning Glory Pool, the researchers were able to simulate what it looked like between the years of 1880 and 1940, when it was significantly warmer. During this time the water was a deep blue, before a collection of trash, coins, and rocks turned it yellow-orange and green."
Linky
mmmmmmmmmmm, "toning". >>
What is this World coming to........Now even the Morning Glory Pool is AT.
OINK
That being said, you could very well be banned from the forums because of the link you posted. You may want to delete your post quickly. Here's the offending statement:
Glenn Taylor, who pushed over the rock, and the cameraman, David Hall, face charges of criminal mischief and are accused of intentionally damaging, defacing and destroying property, according to the charging document.
The money going into the hot springs would be difficult to remove. The water is scalding hot and the ground around is soft.
The puzzling thing missing in the picture and the story? Where is the money and trash in the pool? Taken out? Where are the foot prints? Done carefully? At what distance and using gloves or a retrieval tool?
also water is constantly flowing out of pools like that. How much junk is in the deep end that it is still causing discoloration? Also, the mineral content of Japanese hot springs is known to have changed over time, although they don't like to admit it.
Leo
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<< <i>Well for crying out loud, they named it Yellowstone. I'm sure if everything was so damn blue back then they would've called it Bluestone. >>
It was named Yellowstone because of the rock in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (River). Not the water. The name actually goes back to pre-European times.
<< <i>Maybe they need a full time remotely operated submersible to gather the junk out of the springs / geysers . >>
The water in hot springs can exceed 200 degrees. I don't think any submersible would work. Thermal expansion would kill it. Hot Springs (geysers, fumeroles, mud pots and hot springs are all hot springs) are also hundreds of feet deep, most with very narrow throats and chambers below the ground, impossible to reach. (It's the nature of how geysers and hot springs work.)
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<< <i>darn un agenda 21 laying their claims as to why we shouldn't have access to our country
now it's coins...pure BS if ya ask me >>
Well, you cannot deny that the destruction of certain things in this country are the direct result of incompetence, ignorance or outright arrogance.
For Example.
Not all but a LOT of people have to be told what NOT to do to preserve an area for future generations and it has nothing to do with having free access to the country. It's a simple fact that if the 3 million people per year that visit Yellowstone National Park were all allowed to thrown a single coin into each Hot Spring or geyser they encountered that those attractions would be ruined within two years by the accumulation of 6 millions coins each.
While efforts to control the amount of trash and litter that mounts across the country appear futile, I'm glad that at least some effort is put forth. Living in a rural mountainous area of California, I can guarantee that if folks figure they can get away with it, they'll dump their garbage anywhere they see fit. Again, it has nothing at all to do with controlling free access to the country as much as it has to do with providing written guidelines on what can or cannot be done. Without those guidelines, we'd all live in a public dump. >>
I shot an arrow into the air and it STUCK.
And you almost started an intergalactic war shooting that cloaked spaceship.
Happy now?
If you look at the really, really old films about the parks, even Park Rangers would do things unconscionable today. Entire dormant geysers disappeared as people stole the travertine. The petrified forest in Yellowstone has a single (protected) tree left because people stole it all as souvenirs.
Most of the big damage was done decades ago. That doesn't mean there aren't still stupid people there (read the book "Death in Yellowstone"), but the park is much better protected today. Even though the park visitorship has skyrocketed, there is probably less damage being done to the parks today than 100 years ago.
Okay, off my soapbox...
<< <i>Well for crying out loud, they named it Yellowstone. I'm sure if everything was so damn blue back then they would've called it Bluestone. >>
That actually makes sense. Also, you would think there would be some early written record describing the springs including their color. I guess that's no worse than the ancient Native Americans who put their graffiti on rock walls.
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<< <i>I will never get my 2 mins back I wasted reading this thread. >>
So, how is this different than most threads?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
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<< <i>darn un agenda 21 laying their claims as to why we shouldn't have access to our country
now it's coins...pure BS if ya ask me >>
Well, you cannot deny that the destruction of certain things in this country are the direct result of incompetence, ignorance or outright arrogance.
For Example.
Not all but a LOT of people have to be told what NOT to do to preserve an area for future generations and it has nothing to do with having free access to the country. It's a simple fact that if the 3 million people per year that visit Yellowstone National Park were all allowed to thrown a single coin into each Hot Spring or geyser they encountered that those attractions would be ruined within two years by the accumulation of 6 millions coins each.
While efforts to control the amount of trash and litter that mounts across the country appear futile, I'm glad that at least some effort is put forth. Living in a rural mountainous area of California, I can guarantee that if folks figure they can get away with it, they'll dump their garbage anywhere they see fit. Again, it has nothing at all to do with controlling free access to the country as much as it has to do with providing written guidelines on what can or cannot be done. Without those guidelines, we'd all live in a public dump. >>
I shot an arrow into the air and it STUCK.
So goes it in the Gaming Arena!
The name is LEE!
<< <i>I will never get my 2 mins back I wasted reading this thread. >>
Sure you will.
Go to your room. Do nothing but stand in the corner.
Come back in 2 minutes.
The name is LEE!