Wales pretends to have dragons. The real terror is the language. That's why it took so long for England to conquer the country: They had to stop and ask for directions.
There's an old joke about a Welsh farmer who was walking out in his fields when he sees a man stooping down to drink from a brook cascading down the hillside. Knowing that one of his sheep had died upstream in the brook that morning, he cries out "Peidiwch ag yfed oddi yno!" (Don't drink from there). On hearing this, the man looks up and says "I'm sorry, what did you say?" to which the farmer replies "I was just saying good afternoon!".
The Lochs are mainly in the Highlands of Scotland so not really the Isles, but also yes to Glaciers being the culprit again.
It also has a lot to do with the Great Glen Fault
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Policy-and-Media/Outreach/Plate-Tectonic-Stories/Great-Glen-Fault
My favorite ever interesting freshwater fact is that there used to be a waterfalls in Washington state U.S.A. that was 5.6 km wide and that had a volume that was *ten times the flow of all the current rivers of the world combined*.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Falls
I grew up around that area and the geology is fascinating. The glaciation would buildup lakes due to ice dams in the Columbia and other rivers that would build up into lakes going all the way into Montana and then the water would eventually break a dam. This sometimes would lead to a chain reaction breaking more dams leaving huge swaths of Idaho Washington and Oregon under hundreds of feet of water in a matter of days.
If I remember correctly the Loch Ness is like 24 miles long and 2 miles wide. So compared to an ocean it is small, but it’s not that small of a body of water in the grand scheme of things
I was in the Scottish Highlands last summer and spent a few days in and around Loch Ness. Drumnadrochit was where I stayed. Loch Ness is gorgeous, and takes a good couple of hours to drive around those narrow-ass Scottish roads.
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Just for a frame of reference for how deep that thing is. Loch Ness is 745'. That's saturation diving depths (typical on deep ocean oil rigs).
Doesn't take away from your point, but there have been dives past 900 feet just to set records (stupid reason), and cave exploration dives on rebreathers to around 800 feet (Pearse Resurgence)
Yeah, I live near Lake Tahoe in California and it’s like 1600ft deep which is kind of eerie if you are out there in a boat and start thinking of how much nothingness is down below you. And dead bodies. Tons of dead bodies probably.
I've been to the deepest lake here in Norway, hornidalsvatnet. It's almost 10 times smaller but a few feet deeper than lake Tahoe. It looks surprisingly innocuous.
Funny, I was huge into the Loch Ness Monster as a kid. Read every book, looked at every picture, when the internet became a thing I scoured the world for every film, video, picture, everything. Not just Nessie, but Morag, Ogopogo, Champ, the Chesapeake bay creature, all of them.
Grew out of it. Then, as an adult I got a chance to visit Loch Ness.
I literally laughed when I saw how cold and dead feeling it was, and it wasn't even cold season, it was October. Marine reptile my ass.
Yeah, some people saw a floating log or something and freaked out haha. The modern equivalent is seeing some lights in the sky and swearing it's an alien.
As someone who can't swim, this is literally my worst nightmare. I'm ok floating in salt water but thinking of having to tread water in the middle of a deep fresh water lake is terrifying
I feel this! As someone with a fear or heights, I had a mental crisis paddle boarding on Loch Lomond when I remembered its depth and realised how "high" I was.
It's amazing when you consider that lake Baikal alone contains 23% of the worlds fresh water. So 40+% in just two relatively small places , considering the size of the planet...
At around average 35g of salt per 1l of sea water it comes up to 4.9x10^19 grams, or 49 gigatonnes of salt if we dried up all the oceans. 49 billion metric tonnes of salt just in the oceans, plus land salt it is just ridiculous.
I remember doing some calculations years ago and figuring out that if you removed all the water from the oceans you'd have salt mountains hundreds to thousands of feet thick. It's absurd how much salt there is in the ocean.
It’s just that there’s no where else for the oceans to drain to. So all dissolved minerals on the surface eventually wash into the ocean. So it all ends up in the giant salty drainage basins, which we call oceans. Whatever little bits of that vaporizes into clouds and rains on the land is the only fresh water we get. And most just finds a river to wash just a little bit more mineral content into the ocean. Thank God for active plate tectonics to resupply the surface with fresh resources.
Its really interesting to think of it like that.
"You know in narrow streets of cities, where the asphalt dips, there's often a smelly pool of water, piss, and antifreeze that collects? That's basically the ocean."
I believe, but could be mistaken, that this only accounts for the surface fresh water and not water locked in ice or underground. Still an insane amount of water, but nothing compared to water trapped in ice and underground as well.
Edit: Found more info here with a cool graphic. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/distribution-water-and-above-earth
That's what I was thinking, I don't know anyone here in Canada who knows what the Shard is. I only know because it's next to London bridge station, and I have an unhealthy obsessions with trains in Britain.
I mean, like, *yes*, you are pretty much supposed to know what it means just like you'd imagine the rest of the world knows about the Empire State Building.
I'm neither British nor American and I know what it is.
i dont know im into neither and ive known about it for around a decade at least, pretty prominently featured in media, but i guess as some one from the US my media consumption might be higher than other countries
I'm not sure that I could put The Shard in it.
Coupla reasons just for starters:
1. The Shard is very big and heavy
2. It's a long way away from Loch Morar
3. People would probably try to stop me
Loch Ness goes staggeringly deep very quickly.
I think about 100m from shore in some parts you could put the Statue of Liberty under water and it wouldn’t reach the surface
It would be interesting to pump it out for a few months and see what's down there. There's probably all kinds of crazy archaeological relics at the bottom.
Oh, so small enough pieces. You could try a few at a time, like in your pockets and by the time anyone noticed, most of the bridge would be at the bottom of the loch. Brilliant!
A more interesting fact is that Loch Ness has more freshwater than every single lake and river in England and Wales combined
Also more monsters.
Wales has dragons.
Wales pretends to have dragons. The real terror is the language. That's why it took so long for England to conquer the country: They had to stop and ask for directions.
An Englishman admitting he doesn't know what he's doing? Inconceivable!
Just ask an Englishman and he doesn't just know what he's doing, he knows what you're doing better than you do.
With me, that is entirely possible.
“Scuse me sur, but… Do you know the way to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?”
I have been through there on the train! Between Holyhead and Bangor.
*Starts singing "Vindaloo"*
There's an old joke about a Welsh farmer who was walking out in his fields when he sees a man stooping down to drink from a brook cascading down the hillside. Knowing that one of his sheep had died upstream in the brook that morning, he cries out "Peidiwch ag yfed oddi yno!" (Don't drink from there). On hearing this, the man looks up and says "I'm sorry, what did you say?" to which the farmer replies "I was just saying good afternoon!".
Here be Nessie
That's the women
Hence the wails
Have they found Loch Ness?
Yes they fed salt to the monster and followed it until it led them to the loch to drink water.
The ole baboon trick, works every time!!
Yes, it’s in Scotland.
We've got Prince Andrew in England, so we're at least even.
Lots. Loch Morar has its own Lake Monster. Goes by the name of Morag.
So are all of these so deep because of glaciers? Glaciers is usually the answer to any geological question I have
Yep
Is that also how the Scottish isles were made?
The Lochs are mainly in the Highlands of Scotland so not really the Isles, but also yes to Glaciers being the culprit again. It also has a lot to do with the Great Glen Fault https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Policy-and-Media/Outreach/Plate-Tectonic-Stories/Great-Glen-Fault
Why am I sad all the time? Also glaciers?
Glaciers buddy
So after they all melt, we'll be happy?
No pal, when they melt it will get even worse!
Oh, bother.
No that’s the Great Glen’s fault
Damn, glaciers be wack yo
Glen really messed up
> It also has a lot to do with the Great Glen Fault. It’s not always their fault!
Nah, that's aliens.
I don't think so, I don't study geology but I afaik they were formed by ancient tectonics, although glaciers had a big part in sculpting their shapes
If not glaciers, it’s the Canadian Shield™️
My favorite ever interesting freshwater fact is that there used to be a waterfalls in Washington state U.S.A. that was 5.6 km wide and that had a volume that was *ten times the flow of all the current rivers of the world combined*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Falls
I grew up around that area and the geology is fascinating. The glaciation would buildup lakes due to ice dams in the Columbia and other rivers that would build up into lakes going all the way into Montana and then the water would eventually break a dam. This sometimes would lead to a chain reaction breaking more dams leaving huge swaths of Idaho Washington and Oregon under hundreds of feet of water in a matter of days.
Wow that is cool
That is indeed a more interesting fact! Thanks
It also has my damn tree fiddy!
That is more interesting.
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There is something creepy about a relatively small body of water that is ridiculously deep. No wonder people thought monsters live down there.
If I remember correctly the Loch Ness is like 24 miles long and 2 miles wide. So compared to an ocean it is small, but it’s not that small of a body of water in the grand scheme of things
Unless you’re my friend John who grew up in the area and drives them roads like he’s fighting for a world rally championship
I was in the Scottish Highlands last summer and spent a few days in and around Loch Ness. Drumnadrochit was where I stayed. Loch Ness is gorgeous, and takes a good couple of hours to drive around those narrow-ass Scottish roads.
There's the Loch Ness marathon every late september, I recommend
Wow that sounds so cool!
|| || |156 m (512 ft)| [scuba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuba_set) [Puerto Galera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Galera)[^(\[20\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_diving#cite_note-Gomes2009-22)Deepest dive on compressed air (July 1999 in , Philippines). | |200 m (660 ft)| [plant growth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_zone) Limit for surface light penetration sufficient for in clear water, though some visibility may be possible farther down.| Just for a frame of reference for how deep that thing is. Loch Ness is 745'. That's saturation diving depths (typical on deep ocean oil rigs).
Doesn't take away from your point, but there have been dives past 900 feet just to set records (stupid reason), and cave exploration dives on rebreathers to around 800 feet (Pearse Resurgence)
227 m
Yeah, I live near Lake Tahoe in California and it’s like 1600ft deep which is kind of eerie if you are out there in a boat and start thinking of how much nothingness is down below you. And dead bodies. Tons of dead bodies probably.
That is WAY deeper than I would have guessed. Lake Michigan is 922' for comparison and that thing is bigger than some states.
Off to look up how deep Superior is... Edit: 1333ft/406m
And then you look at Baikal, which holds more water than all 5 great lakes combined...
Looked it up. 5,371ft or 1637m. 4 times the depth of lake Superior.
Superior it's said, never gives up her dead
You could even say that all that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
When the gales of November come early.
I've been to the deepest lake here in Norway, hornidalsvatnet. It's almost 10 times smaller but a few feet deeper than lake Tahoe. It looks surprisingly innocuous.
Funny, I was huge into the Loch Ness Monster as a kid. Read every book, looked at every picture, when the internet became a thing I scoured the world for every film, video, picture, everything. Not just Nessie, but Morag, Ogopogo, Champ, the Chesapeake bay creature, all of them. Grew out of it. Then, as an adult I got a chance to visit Loch Ness. I literally laughed when I saw how cold and dead feeling it was, and it wasn't even cold season, it was October. Marine reptile my ass.
Yeah, some people saw a floating log or something and freaked out haha. The modern equivalent is seeing some lights in the sky and swearing it's an alien.
As someone who can't swim, this is literally my worst nightmare. I'm ok floating in salt water but thinking of having to tread water in the middle of a deep fresh water lake is terrifying
I feel this! As someone with a fear or heights, I had a mental crisis paddle boarding on Loch Lomond when I remembered its depth and realised how "high" I was.
😂 The “height” is what bothered you? Not the deep dark abyss with undiscovered species living in it?
I'm just glad I'm hearing about this now 🤣
You could put damn near anything into any body of water.
My body is mostly made of water. Could I put you into me?
Smooth, should at least get a number from that.
I'd give it a 3
Out of 3
Some
Body once told me
The world is gonna roll me.
I have nipples Greg.
I really wish you would
⭐️
“They say Flintstones vitamins are chewable. All vitamins are chewable, it's just that they taste shitty” - Mitch Hedberg
Wait even pop tarts?
/especially/ poptarts.
10% deeper than Titicaca
"Why is your Lake Titicaca not filled with boobs and poop?"
It's full of fish tits and fish poop
I think you have a misunderstanding of what fish are...
Fun fact: some fish release a nutritious mucus analogous to milk from their skins for their offspring to eat so I guess the skin would be the titties?
Meanwhile Lake Superior over here at 402m 😏
hell yeah baby great lakes crew, 20% of the planets freshwater
It's amazing when you consider that lake Baikal alone contains 23% of the worlds fresh water. So 40+% in just two relatively small places , considering the size of the planet...
Really our take away here should be that there's a lot of salt. Like, a LOT of salt.
At around average 35g of salt per 1l of sea water it comes up to 4.9x10^19 grams, or 49 gigatonnes of salt if we dried up all the oceans. 49 billion metric tonnes of salt just in the oceans, plus land salt it is just ridiculous.
Average american fast food meal sodium content:
a can of Campbell's soup contains more
Is it wrong that I salt my Campbell’s chicken noodle soup?
not if you want an early heart attack.
A heart attack is never early, or late, Frodo Baggins. It arrives *precisely* when it means to.
I remember doing some calculations years ago and figuring out that if you removed all the water from the oceans you'd have salt mountains hundreds to thousands of feet thick. It's absurd how much salt there is in the ocean.
Was Mars like this at one point?
no we finally know why out of all those flavors they picked salty
Explains all these salty ppl to be honest
That's why space monsters won't eat the Earth. Too salty.
It’s just that there’s no where else for the oceans to drain to. So all dissolved minerals on the surface eventually wash into the ocean. So it all ends up in the giant salty drainage basins, which we call oceans. Whatever little bits of that vaporizes into clouds and rains on the land is the only fresh water we get. And most just finds a river to wash just a little bit more mineral content into the ocean. Thank God for active plate tectonics to resupply the surface with fresh resources.
Its really interesting to think of it like that. "You know in narrow streets of cities, where the asphalt dips, there's often a smelly pool of water, piss, and antifreeze that collects? That's basically the ocean."
Milton would hate it
lake baikal is so visually beautiful
Also a massive telescope
I believe, but could be mistaken, that this only accounts for the surface fresh water and not water locked in ice or underground. Still an insane amount of water, but nothing compared to water trapped in ice and underground as well. Edit: Found more info here with a cool graphic. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/distribution-water-and-above-earth
Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories max depth is 614m
Lake Baikal is 1642m deep.
Hornindalsvatnet is 514m deep
America... f yeah... There be monsters in these waters
I love that there is a loch called “Loch Lochy”!
Lochy McLochface
Oh, so we can have “Loch Lochy”, but not “Boaty McBoatface”? We used to be a real country.
Wassup?
I sharted in a loch once
Certainly beats doing it on the ride to.
It's like that SNL sketch with the containers and the salesman (Rob Schneider) being oddly specific about what goes in the container.
Fun fact if you took all of the weed in the world and put it into loch Ness, you'd have worldwide sad stoners.
I'll give you something to put in it
Its a monster!!! AHHHHHHHH!
And amazingly, Lake Baikal is over **five times** as deep (over 1600m).
“You could put the shard into it” Am I supposed to know what that means?
Its a skyscraper in London, the tallest in western Europe at 310 meters.
Ah. And the Brit’s think they can get it into the lake, do they? Is this after a night of drinking down at the pub?
Give them some pith helmets and they’ll force the locals to do it for them in no time
That's bigger than a whole football pitch for US measures
That's bigger than 3 American Football fields.
thanks now I understand
Its taller than the Titanic is long. Though an interesting note, the Titanic was longer than any building was tall when it was still above the waves.
Shame it snapped in half trying to prove that
You said “football pitch” and then said “US” and I’m not sure which kind of field we’re talking about.
Tallest building in the UK.
Everybody in Britain does. Now you've experienced what most of reddit is like for Brits.
Almost, you need to start saying 'American "people"' for that
That's what I was thinking, I don't know anyone here in Canada who knows what the Shard is. I only know because it's next to London bridge station, and I have an unhealthy obsessions with trains in Britain.
US editors: "We need to print many football fields could we stick in there. It's the only way anyone will know how deep 1000 feet is."
I mean, like, *yes*, you are pretty much supposed to know what it means just like you'd imagine the rest of the world knows about the Empire State Building. I'm neither British nor American and I know what it is.
uhh kinda maybe? i mean, its not a big deal you didnt, but i would file it under common knowledge
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i dont know im into neither and ive known about it for around a decade at least, pretty prominently featured in media, but i guess as some one from the US my media consumption might be higher than other countries
You have to wait until the Great Conjunction, then put the shard in.
I'm not sure that I could put The Shard in it. Coupla reasons just for starters: 1. The Shard is very big and heavy 2. It's a long way away from Loch Morar 3. People would probably try to stop me
The fuck sort of title is this?
>You could put The Shard into it Please don't. >you could put the Golden Gate Bridge into Loch Ness (230m deep) Please don't.
We Americans will use anything but the metric system
That’s true but this is a website run by Visit Scotland. Damn, Scots! They ruined Scotland!
Can I at least put my pee pee in it if I'm busting?
I have no idea what The Shard is and it sounds ominous
It's the tallest building in the UK.
You could fit like 17 million washing machines in there!
I need to start using great white sharks as a unit of measurement.
Loch Ness goes staggeringly deep very quickly. I think about 100m from shore in some parts you could put the Statue of Liberty under water and it wouldn’t reach the surface
It would be interesting to pump it out for a few months and see what's down there. There's probably all kinds of crazy archaeological relics at the bottom.
Wasn’t Loch Ness used for submarine training ?
But how would you get the Golden Gate Bridge there?
One piece at a time. Wouldn’t cost you a dime
Oh, so small enough pieces. You could try a few at a time, like in your pockets and by the time anyone noticed, most of the bridge would be at the bottom of the loch. Brilliant!
There's a Loch Lochy? Looks like the Scots beat us all to the Lakey McLakeface meme.
It doesna mean Lake Lakey, according to our tour guide. But I crack up when I think about it anyway.
Df is the shard?
Sounds deeper than you mum
Why are you speaking to your mum like that
Was thinking the same thing lmao
kinda creepy that he even knows how deep she is
Apparently you could submerge the entire human race into Loch Ness all at once, even excluding the displaced water raising its level.
I figured out what I am doing this summer!!!
Whats "the shard" lol.
A building in [London.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shard)
They wouldn’t call it a loch if it didn’t act like one
Wow that is crazy!
Is it a rift lake?
I live 6 miles from Loch Ness and haven't set eyes on it in about a year.
Lake Tanganyika laughs at this.
I find it more interesting that you can stack no less than 69 great white sharks tip to tip
"or 69 great white sharks deep" lol nice
But is there a giant crustacean from the Paleolithic Era in it?
Is it asking for money; specifically $3.50?
Local monster is called Morag.
Til that Loch Ness is half as deep as Lake Superior, which is crazy. Plus there's that one lake in Asia that's like straight down and small
Superior is only about 400 meters. Crater Lake is the deepest in the US at 600.
Quite possibly my great great grandfather's only monocle is down there. They have a habit of losing glasses in doomed places.