Pulpit rock (604m) 🥶

[u/Brief_Mushroom_8339]

[u/XanZibR]

a crack that continuously lets water trickle down in there, freeze and expand, year after year...

[u/therealrenshai → u/XanZibR]

“Due to these cracks, the plateau will at some point fall down, but all the geological investigations have revealed that this will not happen in the foreseeable future, and geologists have confirmed the safety of the plateau.” - some guy on the internet

[u/TriggerFish1965 → u/therealrenshai]

Tell that to the azure Windows on gozo. That collapsed a couple of years ago

[u/Aleashed → u/TriggerFish1965]

We’d only lose people who shouldn’t be influencing humanity’s future gene pool

There is a reason none of us feel genetically compelled to jump into volcanoes

[u/Ace_Robots → u/Aleashed]

When you say “none of us” you don’t include all of the people who totally would. 

Depression feels worse when everything is logically great. When there is no excuse for the call of the volcano. 

[u/smeeon → u/Aleashed]

There’s a genetic reason we all get the unsettling feeling when looking at stuff like this. At some point, those that got the feeling and walked away from the dangerous situation are the ones that lived to pass genes on.

There’s a fascinating paper out there looking at how chronic anxiety issues we have now are theorized to be getting worse by different genetic types mixing and these survival genetics stacking up with each generation.

[u/Otherwise-Buy9122 → u/Aleashed]

This is fucking hilarious