Shanay-Timpishka, a boiling hot river 700km from the nearest active volcano
40 points by camtarn 5 days ago | 9 comments
  • Avicebron 5 days ago |
    > fault-controlled non-volcanic geothermal feature.

    Also known as a great serpent-spirit known as "Mother of the Waters"

  • 1970-01-01 3 hours ago |
    Life existing at the extreme of liquid water is indeed unique. Dropping some of them into the boiling oceans of Enceladus and waiting a hundred years would be a fun experiment.
    • embedding-shape 2 hours ago |
      It's all fun and games until the mutant spiders fight the mutant ants in large-scale wars, and somehow eventually starts being able to contact us back at earth.
      • all2 2 hours ago |
        I'm getting WH40k or Helldivers 2 vibes from this.

        "Purge the xenos!"

      • pavel_lishin 42 minutes ago |
        Yeah, but they also bring along some <rot13-spoiler>bpgbcv naq eniraf, naq na vafnar sbezre-uhzna ehaavat ba na nag-onfrq fhofgengr.</rot13-spoiler>
  • mrb 2 hours ago |
    It's located here for those wondering: https://maps.app.goo.gl/js7miFSkRBa86t15A?g_st=ac

    If you click on the little resorts/hotels/towns around the area, there are many pictures and videos of steam rising of this little river. It's obvious the area is well frequented by tourists. Not as remote as I thought it would be.

  • gitpusher an hour ago |
    > What he found is one of the strangest hydrothermal features on Earth. Not because it is extremely hot

    Neat! I wonder what's so strange about it besides the heat

    > because there is essentially no scientific explanation for its existence.

    Wait whut

    • Diogenesian 4 minutes ago |
      This article is AI slop. There is a reasonable scientific explanation... which the article actually goes in to! Ugh, LLMs.
  • glerk 5 minutes ago |
    > there is essentially no scientific explanation for its existence

    The heat comes from Yacumama, a great serpent-spirit called the Mother of the Waters.