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For 10 years I’ve been building hotspring pools at one spring. The material you add gets coated in limestone deposits pretty quickly. So it really feels like bu
by fudged71 3y ago
For 10 years I’ve been building hotspring pools at one spring. The material you add gets coated in limestone deposits pretty quickly. So it really feels like building a legacy for my young ones to play in when they’re older.
- bongodongobob 3y agoCareful, generally, diverting or otherwise messing with the flow of waterways is illegal. Got a talking to from a DNR officer when I was a kid.
- explaininjs 3y agoNot just illegal, the potential impact on a waterbed is huge. I spoke at length with a BLM hydrologist about this, artificial deepening of discrete hot spring pools can and has caused entire areas to wash out into a uniform warm muck.
- bozhark 3y agoY’all realize they change all the time, right?
- explaininjs 3y agoI'm sure you know much more about natural rates of mineral deposition and erosion and the potential effects of altering them than a literal industry professional with decades of experience.
- ctrw 3y agoThose terrorist bevers must be stopped at all costs.
- mmh0000 3y agoYou’re joking, but there is concern about the environmental damage beavers cause. https://courses.hamilton.edu/beavers/conservation-and-destruction-a-paradox https://courses.hamilton.edu/beavers/conservation-and-destru...
- ctrw 3y agoOk I'll bite. How did the world survive for millions of years with bevers around before we killed most of them on every continent?
- eru 3y agoJust to play devil's advocate: the first algae were extremely damaging to the environment by releasing toxic oxygen. Of course, that took millions of years to take effect. So beavers could in principle also be damaging, but taking a long time to kill. (And, of course, nowadays a lot of organisms have come to depend on the once-toxic emissions of algae. Beavers might have a similar effect on the ecosystem.) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
- bongodongobob 3y agoKilling off nearly all the wolves, mountain lions, lynx, bears, coyotes, foxes, etc, is probably a good chunk of the problem when talking about small mammal populations.
- s0ss 3y agoThey must be stopped!
- newsclues 3y agoThe environment causes environmental damage as part of the natural cycle of life.
- hunter-gatherer 3y agoChrist, enough of the anti-beaver comments. Beavers co-evolved with species and their environment for a long time and (were) part of the eco system before we nearly eradicated them like we did many other species. From the article you linked: > Even though the beaver destroys life, its actions give way to new life and help conserve the overall environment. The positive effects of the beaver on its environment far outweigh the negative effects.
- aix1 3y agoRelevant: https://lettersofnote.com/2012/07/12/regarding-your-dam-complaint/ https://lettersofnote.com/2012/07/12/regarding-your-dam-comp...
- eru 3y agoYou say 'generally', but then talk about officials of one very specific country?
- lazyasciiart 3y agoYes, probably only relevant to 80% of his potential readers. What tosh!
- morsch 3y agoLess than 50%, actually, though I doubt that it's true that it only applies to the US. Children usually get a free pass because their meddling is ineffective or impermanent. https://web.archive.org/web/20230515211304/https://toolhub.tech/blog/Demographics-of-Hacker-News/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230515211304/https://toolhub.t...
- cykros 3y agoAnd furthermore, they're too busy writing tickets to the beavers, who are doing the real damage.
- happytiger 3y agoNot on this forum. The industriousness of the hacker news kids is legend.
- bongodongobob 3y agoRight, we didn't get a ticket. But a handful of 13 year old boys can move some pretty big logs and trees. It was made very clear that we were not to fuck with the creek or any other waterways, and it was serious business. We had to rip the dam apart and he told us to never do it again.
- lazyasciiart 3y agoFascinating data, thanks!