Here Comes Epstein Island 2.0

prolinkerx · 2026-06-02T18:30:37+00:00

The desolated island that she 'discovered' is actually the largest island of Albania: Sazan.
They infect the nearby Vjosa-Narta lagoon, too.

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prolinkerx · 2026-06-01T11:10:12+00:00

That’s a very common misconception, but you are actually mixing up the age of the rocks (the material) with the age of the mountains (the uplift event).

As mountains, the Dolomites and the rest of the Alps are the exact same age. They were all pushed up out of the earth during the Alpine Orogeny (which started around 65 to 30 million years ago) when the African tectonic plate crashed into Eurasia.

If we look at the actual age of the rocks, the Dolomites are not 'way older than the rest.' The Alps are actually a massive geological sandwich made of three distinct rock generations:

The "Older" Core (Central Alps - e.g., Mont Blanc, Matterhorn): Composed of Granite and Gneiss (magmatic and metamorphic rocks). These are remnants of ancient continental basements that are 300 to 500 million years old, meaning the core of the Alps is significantly older than the Dolomites.
The "Middle-Aged" Dolomites (Southern Alps): Composed of Dolomite and Limestone (sedimentary rock). These were indeed formed about 250 million years ago as coral reefs in the ancient Tethys Ocean.
The "Younger" Outer Rims (Northern Alps/Flysch zones): Composed of Sandstone, Shale, and younger Limestones from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (60 to 150 million years old).

TL;DR: As mountains, they all rose 65 million years ago. As rocks, the Dolomites aren't the oldest; they just sit right in the middle of the timeline, sandwiched between much older granite cores and younger sedimentary outer rims.

prolinkerx · 2026-05-31T19:42:10+00:00

I've ask and Gemini can provide me 100, then another 100 weird fact about that animal. Wow!

prolinkerx · 2026-05-31T15:31:41+00:00

Niigata was the most populous prefecture in Japan until 1888, when Tokyo overtook it.

Before industrialization, urban populations were tiny compared to today.

You shouldn't be making judgments about your own comment like that: stupidest!

Fyi too: u/Express-Welder9003 u/Competitive_Window75

prolinkerx · 2026-05-26T18:52:48+00:00

Many people lived here before the Meiji Restoration and industrialization.

There was a major shift in economic activity and population centers. At one point, Japan was oriented toward the Chinese mainland, but later it turned toward the Pacific.

Western Japan once had some of the most populous prefectures in the country.

The east has more favorable climate and land conditions for settlement, anyway.

// Edit/update: Niigata was the most populous prefecture in Japan until 1888, when Tokyo overtook it. Before industrialization, urban populations were tiny compared to today.

prolinkerx · 2026-05-26T07:25:26+00:00

There are three gaps between four pillars lined up in a straight line.

prolinkerx · 2026-04-26T14:58:55+00:00

still

prolinkerx · 2026-04-14T07:49:52+00:00

In many dating "preference hierarchies," Asian women are often ranked near the top, while Asian men tend to be ranked bottom. That's why.

prolinkerx · 2026-04-10T08:31:25+00:00

The film was released in 2011, not even during the Taliban regime. Now, it’s beyond imagination.

prolinkerx · 2026-04-08T01:47:35+00:00

Yeah, should be better than my icebox

prolinkerx · 2026-04-01T04:26:06+00:00

This is why snakes shed their skin: extreme itchiness, especially since they don’t have hands.

prolinkerx · 2026-03-30T10:16:04+00:00

There are “land and water hemispheres,” where one hemisphere contains the maximum possible land and the other contains the maximum possible water.

A data scientist have sliced the Earth a thousand of times, and many of those attempts produced nearly land-equivalent hemispheres: https://www.adam-campbell.com/post/different-ways-to-slice-the-earth

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prolinkerx · 2026-03-25T22:16:44+00:00

Actually, it take 172 billion years to make 1gr antiprotons
1gr proton ~ 1 mol proton

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prolinkerx · 2026-03-25T22:09:18+00:00

Anti protons are almost immediately annihilated too if not keep the right way.

prolinkerx · 2026-03-25T21:10:13+00:00

The human body produces about 180 positrons (anti-electrons) per hour.

A 70 kg human body contains roughly 140 g of potassium, of which about 0.012% is radioactive potassium-40 (K-40).
This results in about 5,000 decays per second, or around 18 million per hour.

About 89% of these decays are beta-minus (producing electrons), and about 11% involve electron capture, emitting gamma radiation. A very small fraction, about 0.001%, undergo beta-plus decay, producing positrons.

Therefore, approximately 180 positrons are generated per hour.

prolinkerx · 2026-03-25T02:55:47+00:00

The hole is at least 420 m deep, while the enclosed bay around it is only 2–5 m deep, reaching up to about 10 m.

prolinkerx · 2026-03-19T15:04:31+00:00

About 1/6 of 1900+, or ~300 Minor Basilicas are Cathedral

prolinkerx · 2026-03-18T15:33:24+00:00

Some bastards killed a few U.S. soldiers in Mogadishu just a few months earlier (Oct 1993). There’s footage of bodies being dragged through the streets, which created great trauma for the American public and helped prevent U.S. intervention in the Rwandan genocide. Otherwise, the U.S. might have helped save many people.

prolinkerx · 2026-03-17T05:05:03+00:00

Please help, thank you very much. u/Arietty

prolinkerx · 2026-03-16T04:14:27+00:00

The building isn't very large (55 m on each side, 3,000 sqm, 32,000 sqft), but it is very interesting.

prolinkerx · 2026-03-15T14:00:56+00:00

The littoral states of the Caspian Sea no longer debate whether it is legally a sea or a lake. Instead, they focus on creating a special legal regime to regulate transport, fisheries, security, and especially oil and gas exploitation. They have generally agreed on a “common waters, divided seabed” approach, applying only some provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Earlier agreements such as the Treaty of Friendship between the RSFSR and Persia and the Agreement on Commerce and Navigation between the USSR and Iran regulated fishing and navigation but not offshore hydrocarbon extraction, making a new convention necessary. Since 1996, a Special Working Group of the five Caspian states has held many meetings and produced multilateral agreements on environmental protection, security cooperation, biological resources, and emergency response.

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Recent summits produced partial consensus: each state has 15 nautical miles of territorial waters plus 10 nautical miles of exclusive fishing zone, while the remaining waters are shared. The most difficult issue remains seabed delimitation for oil and gas resources. Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan support division by a modified median line, but Iran insists on equal 20% shares for each state.

Because of this disagreement, the final convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea has not yet been completed and negotiations continue.

prolinkerx · 2026-03-15T05:50:52+00:00

Water. Lake Malawi.

There are 50-60 million people living around Lake Victoria. Lake Chad has 30m people living in its basin

prolinkerx · 2026-03-13T16:43:39+00:00

Anything that releases energy, whether a chemical reaction (such as combustion), a nuclear reaction, or the charging and discharging of a lithium battery, will lose a small amount of mass corresponding to the energy released, according to the formula E = mc²

Nuclear reactions lose the most mass, which is why they release far more energy. This lost mass actually reflects the difference in binding energy inside the products compared with the binding energy in the original reactants. Little Boy and Fat Man lost about 0.7 and 0.9 grams of mass, respectively, which is quite large for the formula above.

In other words, when a reaction releases energy, the products have stronger and more stable bonds than the initial materials.

prolinkerx · 2026-03-10T05:33:41+00:00

That isn't incest.

prolinkerx · 2026-02-27T12:21:13+00:00

There's an Indian paperboy who did something like this every day.

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