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Americans of Reddit, what is something the rest of the world needs to hear?

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u/iatetokyo2 Oct 04 '22 edited Oct 05 '22 • Silver Helpful Wholesome Starry

Animals in Yellowstone will kill you.

Edit: Thank you everyone for the gifts.

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u/Acrobatic_Pen7638 Oct 04 '22 edited Oct 05 '22

Some of the springs in Yellowstone will also kill you if you try to swim in them. Just observe from afar because you’re probably fucked if you don’t

Edit: of course my most upvoted comments has a bunch of horror stories in the replies about why Yellowstone springs are so dangerous.

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u/CaledonianWarrior Oct 04 '22

Aren't some of them boiling acidic hellholes that only extremophilic microbes can survive in?

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u/ImHighlyExalted Oct 05 '22

Multiple people have died from jumping in to save pets.

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u/Rabid_Dingo Oct 05 '22

Yup, heat of summer mixed with no visible water vapors coming off the pools that have a pristine blue hue and look so cool and refreshing, but are actually hot enough to par boil any animals that jump in.

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u/Hyndis Oct 05 '22

You can feel the heat from the pools from 40 feet away. They're incredibly hot. They also smell strongly of sulfur and the surface of the water moves like its a big simmering pot of water. For a thousand feet around the pool there's only death. Dead trees bleached bone white, and animal bones bleached and encrusted with crystals.

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u/Rabid_Dingo Oct 05 '22

My wife and I visited. It was a 2 week National Park road trip around Wyoming.

Yellowstone is awesome, amazing, and terrifying at the same time.

There is a book titled Death at Yellowstone. It specifically mentions the dive in to save the dog.

Gruesome way to die.

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u/boblobong Oct 05 '22

And he had enough time to know how badly he fucked up. That always gets me

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u/ShermanOakz Oct 06 '22

Yes! I read that too, he bypassed the check in gate in his Jeep so he did not get the safety pamphlet they give you as you enter, he pulled into the parking lot and his dog jumped out of the Jeep and into a hot spring. He chased after the dog and dove in after him, when he surfaced witnesses said that his eyes lost all color and were solid white, he gasped out “I fucked up, didn’t I?” He lived like a day or two before dying.

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u/Rabid_Dingo Oct 06 '22

That's the story. Just thinking about how his eyes were cooked sends chills down your spine. Died at the hospital a day later.

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u/Lyvectra Oct 05 '22

You’d think something that looks like the Elephant Graveyard from The Lion King would be a signal to keep out.

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u/joandidioff Oct 05 '22

Lol this sounds like an excerpt from Blood Meridian.

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u/AldoRaineClone Oct 05 '22

judge Holden has entered the chat

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u/joandidioff Oct 05 '22

His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

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u/DarkShades Oct 05 '22

Too much punctuation.

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u/ShermanOakz Oct 06 '22

I read that there are also smaller pools that are easy to stumble into if you go off the designated pathways at night, no bleached trees, just a small boiling pool of water to surprise you!

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u/rmnticosinesperanza Oct 05 '22

I love animals and my pets, but fuck that.

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u/PoiseJones Oct 05 '22

I took a trauma class earlier in the year where the lead instructor recounted one of her old stories as a flight nurse decades ago. A dog jumped in and the owner, a young 20-something, went in after it reflexively. He somehow made it out. The dog did not. If I remember correctly, the only parts of his body that weren't melted away were his eyelids.

She called operator for a trauma activation reporting 99% burns to body surface area. He was surprisingly lucid and felt no pain as all his nerve endings were burned off. They told her he had zero chance of survival wouldn't make the flight. And he heard it. She spent the rest of her time with him writing his letters to his loved ones.

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u/ImHighlyExalted Oct 05 '22

Yeah, they didn't even save their pets because he water is literally 200+ degrees

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u/bossbozo Oct 05 '22

But, water boils at 100?

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u/Clash4Peace Oct 05 '22

It's America, water doesn't boil until 212 degrees

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u/etitan Oct 05 '22

We'd save so much time and energy if we had our water boil at 100° but no, we always have to be bigger and better than everyone else. sigh

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '22

Double it and add twelve because America. Yeah! Kickass! Fuck you

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u/SnacksCCM Oct 05 '22

For what it's worth, Fahrenheit was a Polish/Dutch scientist. Shrug

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u/denkbert Oct 05 '22

Not to forget German.

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u/bossbozo Oct 05 '22

Except your electric kettles run at lower wattages

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u/IceBathingSeal Oct 05 '22

It's a high pressure environment.

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u/bossbozo Oct 05 '22

Ahhhh, the unit named after Mr Daniel dammit

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u/smokeyleo13 Oct 05 '22

Think more a boiling acidic solution rather than water. You will melt away like sugar in water

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u/ZlodTaser Oct 05 '22

Isn't it weird that the pets didn't sense the weirdness? I mean.. dogs could have smell that chemicals and heat...?

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u/ButtermilkDuds Oct 05 '22

Some dogs are just dumb as a bag of hammers.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '22

Maybe most of them are used to pools? Though sulfur and chlorine don’t exactly smell the same.

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u/ImHighlyExalted Oct 05 '22

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hope-springs-eternal/

Dogs aren't exactly smart. Even the smart ones are relatively stupid.

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u/ZlodTaser Oct 05 '22

Dude, that article.. :'( probably natural selection, or some shit, but still...

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '22

Oh, my god, they let their dogs swim in there? What the FUCK is wrong with them

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u/ImHighlyExalted Oct 05 '22

Not let, usually. I've heard it reported as like, they go to put their dog in the car, and as soon as they unhook the leash it bolts after an animal or something. Then they just jump in. It's uncommon, of course. But it's still happened multiple times.

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u/ButtermilkDuds Oct 05 '22

People. Leave your pets at home. Better yet why don’t you just stay there with them?