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Great Salt Lake, Utah -- A causeway separates the lake into two sections that get their colors from the unique bacteria that live on each side.
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Andytasteslikecandy
Yuck. What a wasteland
hr0nk
I visited it once a few years ago. It smelled horrific. People were swimming and wading in it, and I thought it smelled like dead fish.
iAmActuallyaDog
DriftJAK
What colour was the lake before the causeway was built?
MothMonsterMan
The one on the left. The right is much fresher water... Still saltier than the oceans.
MothMonsterMan
Forgive me. I meant saltier than @ops moms ballsack.
WisconsinCentral2714
Southern Pacific's Lucin Cutoff, shaved 44 miles off of a journey. from 1904 to 1950 there was a 12 mile long trestle letting water (1/2)
WisconsinCentral2714
flow between the two halves of the lake. It was replaced with a dirt causeway in 1959. There was also a station named Mid Lake in the middle
Ulthirm
eh and we currently are having the bloom go through every lake near here. the salt lake being one of the saltiest may actually not develop
Ulthirm
it.
MothMonsterMan
Fun fact: they added bigger gaps this year to stop this from happening. If they removed it all at once then the hatcheries would be fucked
MothMonsterMan
Since the South has much more salt than the North they were worried it would be too massive of a shock to the ecosystems
Bababarfani
Is that a wall keep the integrity?!?!
shinyRK9
It's red vs red, and blue vs blue; it's I against me and me against you...
AcidicVanLividLove
Rust version and Slime version
Kingduckky
I live near it and i don't remember it being red
MisterRaunchyMudslide
I fly out there everyday. That's literally a picture of my office
randaloo1973
Salt lake rules!
kythorn
Drink some
MothMonsterMan
Wanna die? Cause that is how you die.
TheArtfulReposter
I was a sea monkey wrangler on that lake, scooped up brine shrimp egg and pumped it into one-ton bags. Pink side is so salty it crusts 1/2
TheArtfulReposter
Everything like the rim of a marg glass, and it looks like pink lemonade when you motor through it. Sunsets were acid trip-ish.
shahbrahdaman
The bacteria in the lake is an Archaea. Meaning that it only lives in extreme conditions. Also called an extremophite. Has a pink tinge.
shahbrahdaman
The Archaea is very numerous. Thats why it colours the water. If the salinity were to drop lower than 8% the Archaea would die. It needs it.
ayydubb91
The best part is the stink, the flies, and the stink...oh and the flies.
Vexilaris
fun fact, the lake smells awfull, but even worse it spreads all over the valley
AmyBernadettePenny
Littlebiggiant
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giggleface37
DerpNerpem
Do you even ayahuasca bro?
marcusyoyo
Radiumbreon
Love your username.
Aubble
sentx
Random factoid, a side effect of that railpath was a bacteria developed that helps makes it more toxic
MrAwful
'Helps'
OverMyDadBody
Yeah but what does that sentence mean?
opdeliversifrequested
Toxic railpath . Imgurs inhouse heavymetal band.
BeetleDaddy
sentx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Lake#Elevated_mercury_levels
RufioHasNoBalls
I was there today!
GorgeFloyd
I wasn't!
forreallyandfortrue
I could have been but chose another path for my day!
27yoUGLYvirgin
I like turtles!
grifftang
100 % true. not in anyway random tho.
DoctorFatty
A "factoid", by definition, is not true.
sentx
Is English a 2nd language for you? English, if personified, is that one asshole who refuses to admit you are right by changing the facts.
sentx
By it's definition factoid is an invented truth BUT IT IS also a briefly stated trivial fact... this is an aladeen word.
thorkild91
So this person was both right and wrong by definition. And in context. Wrong. Sooo I guess.... He was incorrect.
sentx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYJ2w82WifU but yeah typical internet pedantic crap.
SightlierGravy
You know, factoid has more than one definition: a briefly stated and usually trivial fact.
DoctorFatty
Don't quote Merriam-Webster at me. Oxford or nothin'.
SightlierGravy
lol okay: A brief or trivial item of news or information.
DoctorFatty
Re-reading this thread the next day, I realize I came off as an asshole, so I apologize for that. I meant my Oxford comment as a joke, but
DerpNerpem
Causeway, railpath; it's in the US, it's a train-track
eggmuffin
Damn arrogant Americans. "My way or no way!" Fuck off.
Jomini001
You understand a causeway is any pathway built on top on an embankment, yes? Whether it is built for trains specifically is irrelevant.
gewalt
TIL
orangearcadi
In California a causeway is a causeway
SnartHelg
Here in real america we call them what they really are: land-canals
itgoeshere
And the smell on a hot windy summer day is indescribable.
dilbobaggins
Bad. Boom, just described it. Idiot.
walcotted
What's it smell like? Is it salty-smelling the way the ocean is?
forreallyandfortrue
AWFUL.The Independence Day scene when Will Smith's dragging an alien in a parachute & he yells 'What is that SMELL?!' was filmed @ the lake.
itgoeshere
Brine shrimp corpses. So quite terrible.
MothMonsterMan
Worse. Ocean has much less salt than this lake. Although, I've come to enjoy the smell of that first summer storm
AnuTheEverything
It's so drained now they should rename it the great dirt lake
MothMonsterMan
Dirt is the least abundant item in this lake..
AnuTheEverything
MoistCrumbs
OhJustPutDownUsernameThatllBeMetaEnoughToGetYouSomePoints
Great Salt Lake? More like Great Salt Fake amirite?
drmount
Mormons. Go figure.
Fejerro
I've lived in Salt Lake almost all my life and have never been in the Great Salt Lake.
Lizardwizard69
You're not missing much smells like shit
TheOneTrueOpinion
Never seen a show at saltair?
OhJustPutDownUsernameThatllBeMetaEnoughToGetYouSomePoints
Same here, pal. I don't know anybody who even *wants* to go to the Great Salt Lake
newold
Antelope island is pretty cool
forreallyandfortrue
So fucking cool. Bison Roundup is 10/28/17! https://stateparks.utah.gov/parks/antelope-island/2017-roundup-rider-registration-information/
Skawomplious
You're not missing much. The floating is fun but the bugs are not.
helpusdrzaius
Have you considered politely asking them to leave?
MothMonsterMan
It doesn't work, they insist they are just trying to spread the word of Jesus.
Ulthirm
nor is the pants that can stand on their own. i swam in it for a school trip and the next day could stand my shirt and pants up on themselve
CorgisoftheStorm
It's like when you scare a bunch of seagulls away by running toward them, except the seagulls are tiny bugs and they don't leave you alone.
humpBackOfNotreDame
There are bugs in the Salt Lake? I'm from VT & always imagined the area to be pristine, bug-free w/ breathtaking mountains in the backdrop.
Skawomplious
At eh wrong time of year? Absolutely. Brine flies, biting midges, etc can get really thick.
wormfood
There is a type of may-fly thing why always called a brine fly. It really, really likes the Salt Lake. So there must be smaller critters.
henzolo
Flamingos would do well there
freebodydiagram
And it smells bad.
brandsilven
Ugh. Decaying brine shrimp. Sometimes the wind blows just wrong and the smell wafts over the valley.