Whale hello there!Lundgren_pup t1_ivw3vsx wrote
You know, I've never been a big fan of so much public sculpture art, mostly because I probably don't understand or am not smart enough to make sense of 99% of it. But every time I drive past these in VT, I think: "Huh. I kind of feel this one." Like it's representing the infinitesimally small point of time we occupy, and even in the middle of the mountains, in a state with no coast line, there were once whales swimming above this spot, and I should remember that, even when I'm on Camels Hump or Mansfield. It was a long time ago, but also wasn't that long ago. And how weird that I'm going to a job site on this ridge, digging through layers to put in a septic tank, and those layers are actually a sea floor, and in the scheme of things, not that long ago. What I'm digging through was once where megalodons pooped.
We should all take a moment to reflect on a billion years of prior poop whenever we're putting in a new septic tank.
sound_of_apocalypto t1_iw01fzo wrote
WikiSummarizerBot t1_iw01ig4 wrote
>Lake Hitchcock was a glacial lake that formed approximately 15,000 years ago in the late Pleistocene epoch. After the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated, glacial ice melt accumulated at the terminal moraine and blocked up the Connecticut River, creating the long, narrow lake. The lake existed for approximately 3,000 years, after which a combination of erosion and continuing geological changes likely caused it to drain. At its longest, Lake Hitchcock stretched from the moraine dam at present-day Rocky Hill, Connecticut, to St. Johnsbury, Vermont (about 320 kilometres (200 mi)).
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