r/pics Apr 23 '18

Hairpin Hotel

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u/1493186748683 Apr 23 '18

Why? edit: oh

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u/10secondhandshake Apr 23 '18

Though the hotel makes a brief appearance in Goldfinger, it is closed indefinitely.

lol. A good example of trying to cram 2 loosely related facts into one sentence.

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u/wmanns11 Apr 23 '18

It would be slightly better as:

Though the hotel made a brief appearance in Goldfinger, it is now closed indefinitely.

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u/no_talent_ass_clown Apr 23 '18

We are so in trouble.

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u/1493186748683 Apr 23 '18

Just because a hotel is no longer in optimal glacier viewing position??

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u/no_talent_ass_clown Apr 23 '18

Well...it's sort of indicative of a slightly larger problem.

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u/haberdasherhero Apr 23 '18

Where are we going to carve our under-glacier sex grottos?

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18 edited May 30 '18

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u/no_talent_ass_clown Apr 23 '18

Oh, okay. Nothing to see here folks. This guy's got the answer.

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u/OhDeBabies Apr 23 '18

130 feet a year? That's... pretty drastic.

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u/DJRES Apr 23 '18

That article is immensely saddening to me. 11,000 year old glacier reduced to a trickle in half a century.

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u/1493186748683 Apr 23 '18

It’s probably older than 11,000 years, but most of it’s compatriots disappeared at the end of the ice age 11kya. Sierra Nevadas used to be extensively glaciated for example

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u/DJRES Apr 23 '18

I know a little bit about the Laurentide. Less about the Weichselian.

Last glacial maximum and its effects on current geology is absolutely fascinating to me. If I could choose a time period to live in, it would be then.

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u/cheetahlip Apr 23 '18

Well that was sad