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Re:Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temper... by zelly on Sunday August 16, 2020 @11:36PM (#24183644)
Don't stop, just keep flooding it. Aren't the ice caps melting? Eventually an ecosystem will form.
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Re:Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temper... by anigbrowl on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:01AM (#24183806)
There's an ecosystem there now, people just don't want to learn about it.
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Re:Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temper... by refurb on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:17AM (#24183910)
Ok, a better ecosystem?
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Re:Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temper... by AlotOfReading on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:31AM (#24184004)
Like the Salton Sea not too far away? F that, give me the clean desert over that mud pit.
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Re:Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temper... by refurb on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:19AM (#24184235)
Salton Sea is indeed gross, but it used to be a lake, but then drained, so I understand it's a mix of farm runoff and dead fish.

My comment was in jest anyways, nothing wrong with the Death Valley ecosystem.

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Re:Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temper... by aww_dang on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:43AM (#24184618)
One of the proposals for flooding the Salton Sea includes using the local geothermal power for desalination and irrigation.
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Re:Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temper... by kethinov on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:48AM (#24184095)
Continuous inflow isn't the problem, outflow is the problem. With no outflow aside from evaporation, it would just get continuously saltier.
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Re:Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temper... by redisman on Sunday August 16, 2020 @11:40PM (#24183672)
Like the Dead Sea?
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Re:Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temper... by alicemaz on Sunday August 16, 2020 @11:42PM (#24183684)
could call it the death sea
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