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Trove of dinosaur fossils found high in B.C. mountains
- blueflow 2y agoTIL: "B.C" stands for British Columbia, which despite the name, is neither part of Britain nor near Columbia, but in Canada.
- cryptoegorophy 2y agoThey did add “Beautiful” before British Columbia on the license plates, so that there is at least one word that gives the best description of the province.
- lostemptations5 2y ago"Sure! I'll call you next week!" -- never to be heard from again. Everyone seems very unhappy there socially.
- cdaringe 2y agoSubjective, likely false. No sources listed.
- paul_n 2y agoI live there, that comment made me laugh because there’s definitely some amount of truth in it. I’ve always described west coast Canada as surface nice, but harder to make friends, while Ontario is surface closed off, but a lot easier to make new friends.
- ikmckenz 2y agoThe Wikipedia page for the “Seattle freeze” phenomenon mentions it applying to Vancouver[1], also Vancouver has long been known as “No Fun City” because of laws and cultural norms against partying[2]. 1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze 2 https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/No_Fun_City https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/No_Fun_City
- ghostpepper 2y agoI'm not sure of the root causes but British Columbia does seem to have particularly antiquated liquor laws, even compared to the rest of Canada.
- cdaringe 2y agoY’all aren’t tapped into BC MTB culture. Vibes are thru the roof! Source: me, now :) Just as subjective as the OP, XD
- cjbgkagh 2y agoThat’s normal nice in the Pacific Northwest. Possibly due to the Scandinavian heritage. Another explanation I heard is that people used to be more open there before the many waves of post 90s immigration. Once people there have established their friend groups they’re not looking to add any more to the group as they worry too many new friends will diminish their own place in their friend group.
- pfannkuchen 2y agoScandinavia is similarly dark and gloomy in the winter, I think? Does the darkness cause this effect in people? Is the darkness a filter for people who are like that already?
- cjbgkagh 2y agoI do wonder, could be that for much of human history if you ever saw a foreigner one of you was about to die. PNG blood feuds being a modern example. Perhaps societies with a strong centralized state would evolve a culture open to integrating foreigners. I also wonder how much of modern multiculturalism has its roots in colonial empires. AFAIK many of the Scandinavians that came to the US were escaping the really bad ethnic / religious stratification and famines.
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- deanCommie 2y ago> Once people there have established their friend groups they’re not looking to add any more to the group as they worry too many new friends will diminish their own place in their friend group. That's such a cynical interpretation of a totally reasonable problem of social dynamics. A friendship of 2 has different dynamics than 3 than 4, etc. And all of them are different depending on the composition of intraverts/extraverts. FWIW, the extravert friend groups I know are highly inclusive and are always eager to add new members. For obvious reasons. And the opposite for introverts who are much more careful and cautious (I am one) because they know how fragile good vibes can be and how new strangers are exhausting and can affect them. IMO, the Pacific Northwest attracts introverts because the main activities are fairly individualistic (hiking, skiing) and the social aspects happen before/after which you can easily skip. Not so in something like NYC where everything is orientated around other people. Then extraverts move to the PNW for the hot tech job markets (Seattle/Vancouver) and are annoyed that everyone is so "cold".
- shermantanktop 2y agoAka “Seattle Nice.” People move to a place, are eager to get connected, but the people there are already connected…except for all the other lonely newbies. It’s a boom-town phenomenon, I think. And if you are a long-time resident, it’s a little rich having large numbers of people come clog up your town while doing clueless newbie things and then gripe about how they don’t feel welcome.
- lostemptations5 2y agoThough in other cities you can make friends much more easily, especially on the East Coast...
- pfannkuchen 2y agoNewbies who just moved in are much more likely to leave as well. Why invest the time?
- cjbgkagh 2y agoFor newbies often it's their first time as an expat or immigrant but for the natives usually they've been through these waves of immigrants multiple times already.
- karaterobot 2y agoI've lived in Seattle for 25 years, have been hearing about "Seattle Nice" and "The Seattle Freeze" that whole time. By which they mean that people are friendly and polite on a surface level, but cold and distant when you try to get closer. I think it's a myth, or at any rate I have never experienced it as a trend (individuals, sure). People here are as nice as anywhere else I've been. I think maybe it's confirmation bias: people hear about it, then see it everywhere, like stereotypes about rude New Yorkers, or snooty Parisians. It would be strange if whole a region, with such a huge population of transplants, all shared the same personality. They don't make you sign a contract to be rude when you move here!
- nativeit 2y agoI get this all the time in North Carolina. Maybe it’s just a symptom of the times? Most everyone I know under the age of 40-45 would rather commit hari kari than place a short, friendly phone call.
- nativeit 2y agoAlso, hear me out, maybe it’s us?
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- arresin 2y agoWas it represented as an acronym on the license plates?
- arcticbull 2y agoIt was a British Crown Colony, hence the British — and the Columbia part is a reference to the [edit] Columbia River Basin which I believe was part of the territory before it ended up in Washington. You may be thinking of Colombia. [edit] just to drive home the British part the Union Jack is still an official, ceremonial flag of Canada.
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- themadturk 2y agoIf I remember right, the Columbia River has its source in British Columbia.
- seabrookmx 2y agoCorrect. I just did a 5 hour paddleboard down the Columbia near its starting point in Invermere BC (it's a huge wetland). It's absolutely gorgeous out there.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoI went on a road trip and stuck around Invermere for a week or so once. It’s beautiful. I hung out at a hot spring, swam in a remarkably clear lake, camped, and generally loved it. Before that was Nelson. I’m very glad I live in this place.
- seabrookmx 2y agoDitto. I'm from Vancouver Island and while it's also beautiful, you cross like 4 different biomes driving East across BC and it never ceases to amaze.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoSame, and yeah it’s incredible! Going through Osoyoos (it was my first time) was such a mind trip. It’s a desert! I went on a little boardwalk tour and kept seeing cacti and all kinds of panels with text describing deserts. Coming from the island this was not at all what I expected. I’d been to cache creek and seen dry dusty places plenty, but that area is extra cool. And yeah, this island is absolutely amazing too.
- PeterHolzwarth 2y ago"Columbia" was a word used to refer to the New World. It's use shifted over time (sometimes just the tropics, sometimes both continents, sometimes just America, etc). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification)
- thangalin 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Langley#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Langley#History > [Fort Langley] dates from a time when the boundary between British and American possession of the trans-mountain west, known as the Columbia District had not yet been decided. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_District#Hudson's_Bay_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_District#Hudson's_Bay... > With the creation of the Crown Colony on the British mainland north of the then-Washington Territory in 1858, Queen Victoria chose to use Columbia District as the basis for the name Colony of British Columbia, i.e. the remaining British portion of the former Columbia District.
- bee_rider 2y agoThe dinosaur is from B.C. geographically, and from extremely B.C. temporally.
- seabrookmx 2y agoWe typically don't use the periods, and abbreviate it like any other Canadian province or US state like BC, AB, WA, NY etc. Are you American? I'm surprised to hear some people don't know we exist!
- blueflow 2y agoI'm from Saxony.
- seabrookmx 2y agoAh, fair enough. We're about 9 time zones away!
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- freeslave 2y agoThese days B.C. seems to be preferred due to the colonial connotations of "British Columbia". https://tnc.news/2024/02/21/stop-saying-british-columbians/ https://tnc.news/2024/02/21/stop-saying-british-columbians/
- dkga 2y agoIt's really interesting to have so many fossils close to the surface, especially in an area with a considerable amount of seismic activity. I always thought earthquakes & the such would serve to disperse fossils rather than pool so many together.
- dredmorbius 2y agoMountains tend to erode more quickly than lowland areas, for fairly obvious reasons. Somewhat related: the current peaks of the Appalachian mountains are the former valleys of the original range. Presumably of more consolidated material.
- alex_young 2y agoShe said finding dinosaur fossils at a high elevation — in this case, 2,000 metres above sea level — is unusual because it means they would have been living there. No indication of geological age, but presumably more than 65mya, so maybe it wasn’t that elevation when they were left there?
- Tagbert 2y agoThe Cascade Range did not exist during the Cretaceous era. Those mountains arose through subduction and volcanism starting around 37 Mya. Even if there were mountains around, 2K meters is not that high. I used to live in a town at 2500 meters elevation in Colorado.
- jeff_carr 2y agoBlack rock around white bone could be volcanic ash or mud buried the bones, then pushed down into the mantle just right, heated it under lots of pressure and cooked it all into rock like a kiln?
- Tagbert 2y agoHeat and pressure like that would convert that ash into a metamorphic rock and destroy any fossils. Surface rocks don’t get down to the Mantle except through subduction where they are melted and mixed with other melted rocks. If those fossils were buried in ash or mud, the normal rock-forming processes would have fossilized the bone and converted the ash and much to sedimentary rock. You see the same thing in other fossils bearing rocks like limestone and sandstone.
- cgh 2y agoI might be misinterpreting your comment, but the mountains of Spatzizi and BC in general are not part of the Cascades, other than a small area near the border around Chilliwack.
- birriel 2y agoI'm not a geologist, but 2000 m in 37 million years is ~0.05 millimeters per year. Is that about the right rate of growth for mountains formed through subduction and volcanism?
- ZunarJ5 2y agoMost fossils we know about come from wetland and marine environments. It's extremely rare to find things for mountains and jungles. Fossils require quick deposition and the right conditions... Exciting stuff.
- throwaway918299 2y agoMy grandfather told me about this yesterday. He said something along the lines that they needed helicopters to get where they are to retrieve them. To which I said: this is the most important discovery about dinosaurs, who would’ve thought they had helicopters! Didn’t quite land like I had hoped. My transition to Full Dad is complete.
- nativeit 2y agoI hereby award you three knee-slaps and a yuk-yuk. Congratulations!
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- xyproto 2y agoWhat were they smoking?.
- robofanatic 2y agoPotosaurus?
- edm0nd 2y agosmoking on that dinosaur pack
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- dukeofdoom 2y agoDoes anyone know what it might be? When I was a child I would go fishing in this one spot. And somehow come across or split one of the stones. And inside was a worm like imprint, and I later split a few stones and found more. This was close to Toronto.
- Mabusto 2y agoOf course they were high, it's British Columbia.