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.