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How can water be so self-absorbed? (lemmy.world)
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[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 61 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Akshually, Michigan-Huron is a single lake, hydrologically speaking of course, which has 1.5 times the surface area of Lake Superior.

But Superior still manages to contain 1.5 times the water volume in just 66% of the surface area, comprising 10% of the surface fresh water on planet earth. That's one deep boi. Aptly named I must say

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[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 13 points 6 months ago

If you make that argument to Midwesterners at best you will be noggied, have your underwear pulled over your head, and all your linch money taken.

At worst the Cost Guard will come give you a stern talking to since international treaties have determined that Lake Michigan is an entirely US owned body of water that Candad has to keep their dirty paws off of.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

Indeed, hence why I specified hydrologically. Geographically and politically, they are two separate lakes.

Canada couldn't handle Lake Michigan anyway, it's too warm for them

[-] dankm@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Wait? Are there really warm lakes? I live way North of the great lakes and have never experienced such sorcery that wasn't attached to a spring.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah, big time. I don't think any of the great lakes would actually fit that description though. The problem with warm lakes is that there's usually a lot more biological activity going on, so the water tends to be much less clear.

I'd prefer to swim in a cold, clear lake instead of a warm, murky lake any day of the week. That's how you get infected by one of these bad boys.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

Spoken like someone who has never been in the bathwater that is Erie's western basin.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

I actually have been in Lake Erie. The great lakes are not solely the domain of the Midwest and Canada. But you do have a point

[-] lemmingnosis@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

Gracious of u.s. to share some of them with you guys eh?

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

I don't think this lake named itself.

[-] Chestnut@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Lake is named after a group of indigenous people

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavey

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 months ago

Slavey or just Slave is a translation of Awokanak,[2] the name given to Dene by the Cree "who sometimes raided and enslaved their less aggressive northern neighbors".[3][4][5] The names of the Slave River, Lesser Slave River, Great Slave Lake, and Lesser Slave Lake all derive from this Cree nam

The name Slavey is seldom used by the people themselves, who call themselves Dene. Indigenous ethnonyms for South Slavey people and language are Dehcho, Deh Cho Dene ("Mackenzie River People") or Dene Tha.[6]

Not really any better

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 20 points 6 months ago

Did you know that the word "slave" comes from the late Latin word scalvus, meaning "slav"? This is because the overwhelming majority of slaves were slavic prisoners, so "slav" just became synonymous with forced laborer

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

I did not know that. How depressing, thanks.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Slavic history is absolutely wild with stuff like that. Eastern Europe has seen countless mass movements of people through it ranging from peaceful Romani migration from India to Operation Barbarossa torching, killing, and raping everything between Gdansk and Moscow.

Life in Eastern Europe has always been hard, and i really do admire the people that continue to live there after 3 thousand years of pillaging, plagues, famine, and genocide from all directions.i once had a history professor describe Eastern Europe as "the world's genetic dumping ground" which is pretty brutal, but fairly apt.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago

It's still slavery themed, if not perpetrated by the usual suspects.

Slavey or just Slave is a translation of Awokanak,[2] the name given to Dene by the Cree "who sometimes raided and enslaved their less aggressive northern neighbors".

They were literally named slaves by their neighbours, and that is the name we have for them, nice.

[-] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago

In Superior’s defense, the name was given by French speakers and it refers to the lake’s higher elevation. So, superior as in “higher” or “upper”.

[-] Blackout@kbin.run 10 points 6 months ago

Poor Lake St. Clair, the smallest and least non-great great lake

[-] Blackout@kbin.run 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Here's a photo of it:

Pathetic Lake

[-] Ioughttamow@kbin.run 12 points 6 months ago

Oof, lost my lunch. Disgusting

[-] atocci@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago

I've never seen a more disappointing lake in my life. Truly a stain on the Canada/U.S. border.

[-] Coldus12@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

wouldnt that make it the most non-great great lake? Or least great great lake?

[-] Whatsinaname@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 6 months ago

Lake 5 seems to think itself superior. What is it called?

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 months ago

Lake Everyone Else Is Inferior.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

"Fun" fact about Superior - it's so cold that there isn't much oxygen down there so there are lots of preserved corpses from shipwrecks.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Not just corpses. The wrecks themselves are well-preserved. It's cold, it's freshwater, and has been navigated for long enough that it is one of the best places on earth to study shipwrecks.

But due to the corpses more recent wrecks are very restricted. Basically if the crew members are in living memory they don't want people exploring the wrecks since the bodies are still recognizable.

[-] Lizardking27@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Cold water actually holds more suspended oxygen than warm water, but the cold itself does inhibit bacteria that would decompose the bodies, so you're mostly correct.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

LAKE 5: I'll be Gichi-gami

[-] inkican@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

Kinda like Black Lion going 'and I'll form the head.' Like, didn't anyone else on Voltron go 'hey, I wanna be the head today!'

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I thought that was GZA's line?

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Youre all wet

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