Too beautiful not to post - Lake Baikal

[eti]

This girl's videos are really enjoyable, and I wanted to share this due to the stunning natural beauty of Lake Baikal, Siberia, and just look at the colour of that ice! 😮😮😮😍😍😍

[MuhScopeBroke]

Lake Baikal is a very unique lake. Its home to the only freshwater seal in the world and is remarkably deep too

[GlennSprigg]

There are MANY places of exquisite beauty, that will never be experienced by the vast general population of this interesting World!!
Unlike SOME of todays Jet-Setters, the vast majority of basic 'Earthlings' have never traveled more than 100-Km from their 'Homes'... 

For those of us that HAVE traveled, we should be utterly amazed at not only the variety, but also the similarity between a lot of cultures!
I'm talking there, about how we build, commute, how we communicate & socialize, and work together, that forms a common 'strand'...   

I know it's a 'Cliche' but I'm always impressed by reports from Astronauts looking back on 'Earth', when they see no 'boundaries', but just
a beautiful homogeneous  ball of "One-Ness"... Now let's just take Politics & Religion out of the equation... Oh, sorry I'll be banned... 

[GlennSprigg]

Just a simplified 'follow-up' from my last reply!!!...
Here in Australia, our 'History' only goes back to my 'Great Grand Father".  While in England, and Ireland, I visited locations/buildings
dated back to 'B.C.' and beyond... 'We' (Aussies) do not have that type of history. And it was amazing to see the types of structures,
some still waterproof today, that were built so long ago, by people with very limited abilities & tools...  It puts things into perspective!!

Thousands of years ago, many races throughout many regions, understood about 'seeds' and crop growing,... yet not all...
'Others', were 'nomadic', meaning that they traversed the country-side indefinitely, without any such knowledge/desire. Local depletion?,
then just move on... Never built with stones. Never 'wrote' as such. Never changed...  When i was a kid...  (nope, I'm going no further) 

[vk6zgo]

Just a simplified 'follow-up' from my last reply!!!...
Here in Australia, our 'History' only goes back to my 'Great Grand Father".  While in England, and Ireland, I visited locations/buildings
dated back to 'B.C.' and beyond... 'We' (Aussies) do not have that type of history. And it was amazing to see the types of structures,
some still waterproof today, that were built so long ago, by people with very limited abilities & tools...  It puts things into perspective!!

Thousands of years ago, many races throughout many regions, understood about 'seeds' and crop growing,... yet not all...
'Others', were 'nomadic', meaning that they traversed the country-side indefinitely, without any such knowledge/desire. Local depletion?,
then just move on... Never built with stones. Never 'wrote' as such. Never changed...  When i was a kid...  (nope, I'm going no further) 

Not sure how much many of the rest of us changed, really, for many years.

Back in the '70s I was in the UK, & had a look at a "fairly old" wool store in Southampton.
I think it dated from the 14th Century or thereabouts.

It looked exactly the same in construction as similar buildings built in the mid 1800s in Fremantle WA.

My guess is that the Soton one was similar to still earlier ones built a similar length of time before it was.

[cgroen]

Just a simplified 'follow-up' from my last reply!!!...
Here in Australia, our 'History' only goes back to my 'Great Grand Father".  While in England, and Ireland, I visited locations/buildings
dated back to 'B.C.' and beyond... 'We' (Aussies) do not have that type of history. And it was amazing to see the types of structures,
some still waterproof today, that were built so long ago, by people with very limited abilities & tools...  It puts things into perspective!!

Thousands of years ago, many races throughout many regions, understood about 'seeds' and crop growing,... yet not all...
'Others', were 'nomadic', meaning that they traversed the country-side indefinitely, without any such knowledge/desire. Local depletion?,
then just move on... Never built with stones. Never 'wrote' as such. Never changed...  When i was a kid...  (nope, I'm going no further) 

When did the first humans live in Australia, must have been long before a "Great Grand Father" (I would have guessed 50.000 years or so) ?

[Simon]

Well we did change the name to "technical" to try and make it clear the section is not for random finds on the internet 
Please don't post any more. We had to quite the general discussion of anything as we always ended up in topics unrelated to electronics that people would argue and fall out about more than anything else.

[eti]

Well we did change the name to "technical" to try and make it clear the section is not for random finds on the internet 
Please don't post any more. We had to quite the general discussion of anything as we always ended up in topics unrelated to electronics that people would argue and fall out about more than anything else.

This is not just some random daft question, this is clearly a thing of great value and astounding beauty, appreciated by the responses. The strongest trees bend in the wind 

To be truthful, there is great scientific content in the video, showing the incredible bubble formations and the clarity of the turquoise ice. Did you watch the video? It might take your mind off worrying about rigid rules so much - it's very relaxing.

Here's an idea - how about a general "General Chat", so that people with topics like this don't have to feel like they are doing something to be frowned upon?

[eti]

Just a simplified 'follow-up' from my last reply!!!...
Here in Australia, our 'History' only goes back to my 'Great Grand Father".  While in England, and Ireland, I visited locations/buildings
dated back to 'B.C.' and beyond... 'We' (Aussies) do not have that type of history. And it was amazing to see the types of structures,
some still waterproof today, that were built so long ago, by people with very limited abilities & tools...  It puts things into perspective!!

Thousands of years ago, many races throughout many regions, understood about 'seeds' and crop growing,... yet not all...
'Others', were 'nomadic', meaning that they traversed the country-side indefinitely, without any such knowledge/desire. Local depletion?,
then just move on... Never built with stones. Never 'wrote' as such. Never changed...  When i was a kid...  (nope, I'm going no further) 

When did the first humans live in Australia, must have been long before a "Great Grand Father" (I would have guessed 50.000 years or so) ?

Since the age of the earth is no more than, at most, 12,000 years, I find that unlikely.

[Simon]

Just a simplified 'follow-up' from my last reply!!!...
Here in Australia, our 'History' only goes back to my 'Great Grand Father".  While in England, and Ireland, I visited locations/buildings
dated back to 'B.C.' and beyond... 'We' (Aussies) do not have that type of history. And it was amazing to see the types of structures,
some still waterproof today, that were built so long ago, by people with very limited abilities & tools...  It puts things into perspective!!

Thousands of years ago, many races throughout many regions, understood about 'seeds' and crop growing,... yet not all...
'Others', were 'nomadic', meaning that they traversed the country-side indefinitely, without any such knowledge/desire. Local depletion?,
then just move on... Never built with stones. Never 'wrote' as such. Never changed...  When i was a kid...  (nope, I'm going no further) 

When did the first humans live in Australia, must have been long before a "Great Grand Father" (I would have guessed 50.000 years or so) ?

Since the age of the earth is no more than, at most, 12,000 years, I find that unlikely.

And this is why the general chat was changed to electronics general chat. So now you want to talk religion. That topic that is banned due to the rows is causes because we are from all over the world and no one will agree. Topiyc locked! you start another like this and you are banned. Yes i watched the video, yes I have to worry about rigid rules, every time i try to relax and have faith in people to be reasonable we end up in one hell of a mess, so it's the forum rules way or the highway! Sorry but with the best will in the world that is that!

[EEVblog]

Here's an idea - how about a general "General Chat", so that people with topics like this don't have to feel like they are doing something to be frowned upon?

No, this has been debated endlessely in the past and even polled a couple of times IIRC, and it's generally agreed that a general chat section will just drag the forum down.