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I assume I shouldn't label this as OC.
Open world game biomes.
Right? It's like Minecraft or something! I thought it would be some sort of gradual buildup.
The scrubland that the photo is taken from is the gradual buildup ~~between the Conglian Rainforest and the Sahara~~.
This is definitely Merzouga in eastern Morocco.
Conglian Rainforest
In Morocco?
The view from the top of those dunes. I went there in the beginning of this year, would absolutely recommend it!
Wow! I would love to see that someday! Thanks for sharing.
Why wait? Just click his link.
Thanks, it works as a direct link on Boost, so I didn't notice. Any hints on how best to share direct image links (also outside of imgur) would be appreciated.
The way I share is using imgchest or find random images on duckduckgo and just copy the image address and link them.
Is it hard work to walk on that kind of sand?
My calves have never hurt more in my life, it was insanely hard to climb the dune. But we rode dromedaries out there, not that it's that far.
what's the difference between dromedaries and camels?
Iirc a camel has two humps and a dromedar has one, but that's something I learned, like, 30 years ago, so I might be wrong.
Edit: so a dromedary is a one humped camel. A bactrian camel has two humps.
Nice. TIL. thank you
Been to Morocco a couple of times. Zoom in on the photo
The amount of dumped rubbish is quite frankly fucking shameful. There's a sea of plastic bags and coke bottles everywhere to the point they're blowing all over the Sahara too
It could be such an amazing tourist spot, being so close to Europe, but the locals treat it like a giant rubbish dump. It's such a shame
Yes, absolutely. Tunisia too. Time for some new religous rules that's relevant today. It should be haram to disrespect nature.
It already is? It's not a religious problem, it's a third world country problem. People just have more important things to worry about than plastic littering but I agree it needs to be changed.
There should be prohibitions against plastic bags in general but there's no caliphate now, so it's not a monolith that sets the rules.
Edit: i would also like to mention that a lot of third world countries do not have the system to recycle or process plastic waste. Even if you hand them over to municipality, it gets thrown into open waste dumps and get burnt.
5 pieces of rubbish have been circled in a field. It would not surprise me to find 5 pieces of rubbish in a field of similar size in the US.
Yeah, they're as bad as the US
What's your point?
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I've been in Marocco last September near Merzouga, at the edge of the desert. Had the same experience: looks like littering is an accepted habit.
I wonder how much faster plastics break down on sand vs in the ocean... if it is faster. And does it drop below the size of a microplastic in sand.
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Correction: that's the edge of the Sahara for now.
I suppose that's true about anything on a constantly changing planet, but it's definitely going to get dryer the further south you go with global warming.
And north as well. Every county in the state of Massachusetts is currently rated as being in a critical drought right now.
Damn squid, is there anything your family group doesn't do.
And for the record, id still call it OC. Its not your photo, but you posted it first so it is "original".
No, my whole family is as weird as me. I come from one long line of weird-as-fuck people.
I have a cousin who's got a knighthood. He's a physicist. He also has an IgNobel prize. He cares a whole lot more about the other one.
Yep, that is legit awesome. If I were related to someone with an IgNobel prize, I'd be bragging about it to everyone I know. Which I suppose isn't a lot of people, and I'm not sure how many would know what an IgNoble prize is, but I figure that is on them.
That is awesome. Also, your cousin sounds like my kind of people!
Have bones.
Morock on! I would love to toboggan down those sick dunes.
Tight.
Bruh, me and my cousin once flopped on a plabdoe on the flavored side of the rocket shlim. He was all, “noooooo!” and I was all, “yoooooo!”
Sickest slides and slices I ever encountered. Slip pops were ruffin bro! I’d be buggin in the slop if I had a buggy.
I’m so sorry. :p
Gnarly
Its like a reverse coast line.
Why is the sand green?
Biocrust! You have some in the US too:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00374-002-0452-x
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128211397000738?via%3Dihub
ah yiss motherfucking cryptobiotic soil! I love me some cryptobiotic soil. It's cool stuff, and it looks really neat close-up. For anyone ever visiting national parks in southern Utah, please stay on the paths. It takes decades for cryptobiotic soil to build up, but it only takes a second for a footstep to destroy it.
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someone must have painted it
Look at that cute biocrust!
look at all those raw materials for glass.
i jeard that sahara sand is practically useless for that
or maybe that was just for concrete or something
It can't be used for concrete because it's too smooth due to erosion. Industrial sand is manufactured to have sharp edges so it holds better.
I heard beach sand is pretty good for concrete. Apparently there is something called sand mafias in (iirc) India which basically steals sand from beaches and sells it.
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damn, we will be back in greater numbers!
Shoulda made a left turn at Tatooine
neat!
Sahara to Savannah.
I think I played this level in Squad
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