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Nature is finally showing us some of her real treasures! There's no telling what wonders we will discover when all of this permafrost finally melts for good and

Nature is finally showing us some of her real treasures! There's no telling what wonders we will discover when all of this permafrost finally melts for good and mankind is able to access these inaccessible and rich terrains!

jbay808 6y ago
Moria! Moria! Wonder of the Northern world. Too deep we delved there, and woke the nameless fear. -- JRR Tolkien
hutzlibu 6y ago
Are you refering to the gigatons of CO2 frozen in the permafrost and about to be released with the melting? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/arctic-permafrost-is-thawing-it-could-speed-up-climate-change-feature/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/arcti...
- e40 6y ago
  Or perhaps ancient virus and bacteria stores. https://www.google.com/search?q=permafrost+bacteria&oq=permafrost+bacteria&aqs=chrome..69i57.5745j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=permafrost+bacteria&oq=perma...
fractallyte 6y ago
Womankind not included? ;-)
- fractallyte 6y ago
  Admittedly nit-picking and out-of-context, but it's important, everywhere, every time: "Extensive research examined the implications of using the word "man" generically to refer to both males and females, as in the word "mankind", and it was found that it elicited mental imagery that tended to focus more on males than females. The conclusions were that the so-called "generic" senses ofthe word were subconsciously contaminated by the male sense of the word. The result: women were getting lost in our language." - Kerry A. Bodine, "C'mon Guys: This Way to a Study on Language and Sexism"
meekrohprocess 6y ago
There's an H.P. Lovecraft story about that: At the Mountains of Madness. Although, back in his day they thought that Antarctica already had a giant inland sea. Jules Verne also wrote about the idea in some of his stories. It's hard to imagine these days, but there used to be parts of the earth's surface that nobody had ever surveyed in fairly contemporary times.

jbay808 6y ago

Moria! Moria! Wonder of the Northern world. Too deep we delved there, and woke the nameless fear. -- JRR Tolkien

hutzlibu 6y ago

Are you refering to the gigatons of CO2 frozen in the permafrost and about to be released with the melting? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/arctic-permafrost-is-thawing-it-could-speed-up-climate-change-feature/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/arcti...

e40 6y ago
Or perhaps ancient virus and bacteria stores. https://www.google.com/search?q=permafrost+bacteria&oq=permafrost+bacteria&aqs=chrome..69i57.5745j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=permafrost+bacteria&oq=perma...

fractallyte 6y ago

Womankind not included? ;-)

fractallyte 6y ago
Admittedly nit-picking and out-of-context, but it's important, everywhere, every time: "Extensive research examined the implications of using the word "man" generically to refer to both males and females, as in the word "mankind", and it was found that it elicited mental imagery that tended to focus more on males than females. The conclusions were that the so-called "generic" senses ofthe word were subconsciously contaminated by the male sense of the word. The result: women were getting lost in our language." - Kerry A. Bodine, "C'mon Guys: This Way to a Study on Language and Sexism"

meekrohprocess 6y ago

There's an H.P. Lovecraft story about that: At the Mountains of Madness. Although, back in his day they thought that Antarctica already had a giant inland sea. Jules Verne also wrote about the idea in some of his stories. It's hard to imagine these days, but there used to be parts of the earth's surface that nobody had ever surveyed in fairly contemporary times.