#Salt -> Earth and Water

[spotsupstuff]

On the Echoes, cosmology, Saint's quest(/inner identity) and the Rubicon. Half of these are from February...

bonus Théta doodles:

[ragnar0c]

Even worse. I thought about him some more and he's probably a noble's illegitimate son. So his actual name isn't anything fancy. It's just. Clay.

I imagine by 3rd stratum he'd tell Kenji and Hai and they'd squint and go. "Ough.... Why don't we keep calling you Aer?"

Back at it again with giving my guild members silly names.

Ragna lore: for some reason I never select landsknechts for my guild. I can't really say why. I just dont use them and favor the gimmick classes.

But there's always a quest requiring a lvl xyz landy WJSJSJ Eo2 I picked one. Named him "Aer".

Aer sounds like Air. WHICH SOUNDS LIKE HEIR.

So just now decided he's some noble and he goes "I'm HEIR!!" Angrily before realizing he's not supposed to say that and claims that "Yeah uhmm... that's my name HAHAHAH. I'm Aer. " *Sweats profusely*

[looseartist]

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[weepingwonderlandharmony]

𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐱 𝐒𝐚𝐠𝐚 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏)

[fallensapphires]

Elements of Nature

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

[fira54funko]

This still from Google Earth reminds us just how much of our planet is covered by water. In fact, 71% of the planet is made up of water, and we've ony explored 5% of it!!

It begs you to ask the question,

What Secrets Lie Beneath The Cover Of The Ocean?

It's actually terrifying thinking about what new creatures we have yet to discover.

Considering how strange and terrifying some of the creatures we already know about are.

(Whole lotta "fuck no")

#Things to think about before going to bed.

[wayti-blog]

Satellites detect ocean tides' magnetic signatures

A study using data from ESA's Swarm mission suggests that faint magnetic signatures created by Earth's tides can help us determine magma distribution under the seabed and could even give us insights into long-term trends in global ocean temperatures and salinity.

Swarm is a constellation of three satellites that study Earth's geomagnetic field. This magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior into space is thought to be produced largely by an ocean of liquid iron in the planet's outer core. Other sources of magnetism include magnetized rocks in the crust.

(The tidal flows of Earth’s salty seawater across Earth’s magnetic field lines generate electric currents within the ocean. These in turn induce secondary magnetic fields that form part of the planet’s complex magnetic field signal that can be detected from space. ESA’s Swarm satellites can measure these tiny oceanic magnetic fields and distinguish them from other magnetic fields such as those from the core, ionosphere, magnetosphere and magnetized crust. Credit: Lina Jakaitė)

"And although we might not normally think of oceans as generating magnetism, the salty sea water is a moderate electrical conductor. This means that as tides flow across Earth's magnetic field, they generate weak electric currents, which in turn induce small magnetic signals that can be detected from space."

"Swarm's ability to detect the faint ocean signals was also helped by the sun's less active period around 2017. "These are among the smallest signals detected by the Swarm mission so far," says lead author Alexander Grayver, of the University of Cologne.

"The data are particularly good because they were gathered during a period of solar minimum, when there was less noise due to space weather.""

study

continue reading

[underwhelmingalchemist]

Currently trying to convince a recruiter for the US marines who cold texted me that I don't believe in the ocean

[thesecondspell]

18 June 2025 ~ Sun Moon Ocean Earth

Many people incorporate the staple four elements of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water into their craft. While they still hold meaning in mine, my four corner foundations are actually Sun, Moon, Ocean, and Earth.

I might get into these in greater detail one day; when I feel more confident publically dissecting my values. But, for now, I place here four representational objects in honour and in hope. A decal for Sun, a sphere for Moon, sea halite for Ocean, and tigereye for Earth.

May this miniature altar bless us with miniature strength, wisdom, protection, and growth.

[notvil]

looked at l*wis' birth chart again today and moaned. one like that please.

[looseartist]

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[craigtowens]

Links & Quotes

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[foobars-cool-car]

points to thermodynamics, paranoia, twisted relationship with media, and extistentialism!!!

minus points for weed, working of course on a "golf" or "operation" type of scoring system

[bitstitchbitch]

my family is lucky enough to own a 26 acre mountain property, log cabin and all. Most people would go up there and think that it is fairly pristine nature. There’s the cabin, and a few dirt roads for 4-wheelers, but the surrounding woods look untouched.

But we actually carefully maintain that nature. We cut down the deadfall. We pull invasive plants. We trim the elderberry bushes. We get more animals than almost anywhere else on the mountain because we put up salt licks and water troughs.

some of these same things are true of national parks. A lot of places that you think of as “untouched wilderness” are influenced heavily by human care and maintenance. And this isn’t a bad thing. We are animals too. In many ways, our ecosystems depend on us to keep them healthy. Many “wild” plants that are useful for food or building materials are actually semi-domesticated because indigenous groups cared for them and encouraged their growth so they do better with human care.

we have a place in nature. We just need to be conscious of our actions.

EDIT: since this post took off, I thought I should add some sources

Also a disclaimer that I am not indigenous or an ecologist. I am putting time and effort into learning, but I am not an expert.

[demigodofhoolemere]

Watching 6x05 and why the heck are James and Siegfried so chill about having Willie the salt thief back? Dude literally removed ALL of the salt from the entire house to force the others (mostly Calum) to conform to his ideas, salt that was paid for with their hard-earned money in very bad financial times (on top of them already not being good at getting money out of their clients), and while it doesn’t seem that salt was particularly being rationed I imagine it would likely still cost a fair bit like many things did in not-very-many-years-post-war Britain. Total waste of a necessary food item, especially if what he got rid of included the salt one would have to use to preserve other things in that time and place, not to mention the insane levels of being an absolute control freak, and in someone else’s home! I wouldn’t care how badly I needed an extra hand in the practice, I wouldn’t let this guy set foot in my house ever again!

[reasonsforhope]

"Calling it “a fridge to bridge the world,” the Thermavault can use different combinations of salts to keep the contents at temperatures just above freezing or below it. Some vaccines require regular kitchen fridge temps, while others, or even transplant organs, need to be kept below freezing, meaning this versatility is a big advantage for the product’s overall market demand.

Dhruv Chaudhary, Mithran Ladhania, and Mridul Jain are all children of physicians or medical field workers in the [city] of Indore. Seeing how difficult it was to keep COVID-19 vaccines viable en route to countryside villages hours outside city centers in tropical heat, they wanted to create a better, portable solution to keeping medical supplies cool.

Because salt molecules dissolve in water, the charged ions that make up the salt molecules break apart. However, this separation requires energy, which is taken in the form of heat from the water, cooling it down.

Though the teen team knew this, it remained a challenge to find which kind of salt would have the optimal set of characteristics. Though sodium chloride—our refined table salt—is what we think of when we hear the word “salt,” there are well over one-hundred different chemical compounds that classify as salt.

“While we did scour through the entire internet to find the best salt possible, we kind of just ended up back to our ninth-grade science textbook,” Chaudhary told Business Insider.

Indeed, the professors at the lab in the Indian Institutes of Technology where they were testing Thermavault’s prototype were experimenting with two different salts which ended up being the best available options, a discovery made after the three teens tested another 20, none of which proved viable.

These were barium hydroxide octahydrate and ammonium chloride. The ammonium chloride alone, when dissolved, cooled the water to between 2 and 6 degrees Celsius (about 35 to 43 degrees Fahrenheit) perfect for many vaccines, while a dash of barium hydroxide octahydrate dropped that temperature to below freezing.

“We have been able to keep the vaccines inside the Thermavault for almost 10 to 12 hours,” Dr. Pritesh Vyas, an orthopedic surgeon who tested the device at V One hospital in Indore, said in a video on the Thermavault website.

Designing a prototype, the teens have already tested it in local hospitals, and are in the process of assembling another 200 for the purpose of testing them in 120 hospitals around Indore to produce the best possible scope of use and utility data for a product launch.

Their ingenuity and imagination won them the 2025 Earth Prize, which came with a $12,500 reward needed for this mass testing phase."

-via Good News Network, April 22, 2025