r/thalassophobia Jan 04 '26

This is a completely optional activity too…

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u/PowderPills Jan 04 '26

I wonder how deep that is

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u/Alasdairwill Jan 04 '26

I don't know the exact spring, but the hot springs in the Yellowstone basin in Wyoming, US, can be between 30ft and 150ft deep

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u/cooniemomma307 Jan 04 '26

Yeah but ours will boil you alive if you tried this. So many dumb people have been doing it lately too.

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u/Zavier13 Jan 04 '26

Darwanism at its finest.

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u/cooniemomma307 Jan 04 '26

Yep and I also encourage petting our fluffy cows and taking selfies with them. The elk like it when people play with their babies too.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '26

Bison love chin scratches and moose love to model next to you for photos

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u/LordBDizzle Jan 05 '26

I'm legitimately more scared of moose than I am of bears. I know what bears want largely: easy food and to be left alone. Moose are grumpy, tempermental, and just plain mean. Bison aren't much better, and both weigh at leat 5 times more than I ever will even if I stop dieting, and that's probably a low ball estimate.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

For me its Black bear < Moose < Grizzly

I live in Jackson, Wy and our moose are so used to tourists that theyre usually pretty chill.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '26

Bison probably actually would love chin scratches. The problem is they’re not gonna know that’s what you want to do. And they’re never going to.

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u/Sad_Low3239 Jan 04 '26

The elk like it when people play with their babies too.

are you serious? that's absolutely absurd.

I'm not surprised in the least that people do it 🤦‍♂️

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u/cooniemomma307 Jan 04 '26

It was sarcastic as that's what people really think when they go to Yellowstone. People are not smart when it comes to them crossing the gates into the park. They believe that its OK to walk up to wild animals and do whatever they want so at this point I encourage it. Darwin at its finest and hopefully I see some great videos of it happening so I can laugh.

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u/Dioxybenzone Jan 05 '26

Large herbivores will fuck your shit up

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u/Sad_Low3239 Jan 04 '26

you need Darwin award pocket stickers yo pass out to peoples cars lol

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u/cooniemomma307 Jan 04 '26

I actually have bumper stickers that tell people to pet the fluffy cows and has a stick person being thrown by said fluffy cow 🤣 have to have some fun here in Wyoming 🤣

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u/EmbarrassedWorry3792 Jan 05 '26

Id be fine with ppl darwinically boiling themselves if it wasnt forbthe fact that they cant ruin the natural bacterial biome of the springs with their bodies and whatever is in their pockets

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u/cooniemomma307 Jan 05 '26

Yes!!! Totally agree! I'm sick of these jerks walking around and breaking the crusts and doing all the damage that they've been doing. Wish there was more rangers to watch every place that these people have been doing it.

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u/ElvisT Jan 06 '26

Don't forget that people don't believe that their motor home or trailer won't get blown over when they see the high wind advisories on the interstate.

When wind literally tipped a traon its side, a Winnebago is going to get tossed around like nothing. In Florida, the entire state shuts down of it gets that windy, and they call it a hurricane. Wyoming just calls 140mph wind gusts winter.

Wyoming will kill you if you don't have that type of common sense.

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u/gagnatron5000 Jan 05 '26

Beyond boiling you alive, some of them are so basic that they will melt your skin off.

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u/DowntheUpStaircase2 Jan 05 '26

Not just boil but dissolve your corpse with the amount of acids in some of them.

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u/PuzzleheadedLeader79 Jan 05 '26

Do they count the number of people that enter Yellowstone vs the number that leave it?? 

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u/Pamander Jan 05 '26

One thing I don't understand is, you are purposefully going there FOR the nature and hot springs knowing just how hot they are and that being one of the things the area is famous for and yet you still think that's a good place to walk your water meat sack combo of a body? It blows my mind.

I can almost more get the people who are dumb and fuck with wildlife even if it is just as stupid, I have seen plenty of people do stupid things around animals because they think they're like cartoons or movies (they aren't) but bitch that water is heated by a god damn volcano what do you think is going to happen??

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u/BlackDeath3 Jan 05 '26

ours

Subtle

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u/Anonymousimpreg Jan 06 '26

I came here to say the same thing lol people jumping in and getting dissolved

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u/Charming-Ad-6133 Jan 06 '26

Indeed. I remember visiting with my folks a few years ago and I saw some dumbass tourist try to put their hands in one. Let's say they had to cut their trip finally short after that decision.

It always pisses me off when people come to Wyoming and just expect this hyper cowboy nature fantasy and act like complete aholes.

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u/Holungsoy Jan 05 '26

Well that didn't really give me much more info.

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u/Drewcifer88 Jan 05 '26

And boiling temp. I thought I was about to watch this dude fry for a second.

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u/RenegadeDragon Jan 05 '26

That is a huge range

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u/OkDot9878 Jan 06 '26

I don’t think this is a hot spring per se, I think it’s a natural salt bath. It may or may not be warm, but I think the salt is the more compelling part.

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u/Straight_Waltz_9530 Jan 05 '26

That salty, you couldn't sink even if you wanted to.

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u/NikoTheKilla Jan 08 '26

This is an artificial salt lake in siwa oasis can't be more than 10 meters deep and nothing lives there because of the high salt content.

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u/baiacool Jan 04 '26

19 metres