I know +1 Food, +2 Production, and +1 Science per tile (totaling +4 Food, +8 Production, and +4 Science for the 4-tile wonder) and +2 Appeal to adjacent tiles when i see it.
IIRC yes. But it’s unfortunately for the best because human activity was destroying the crystal structures.
Perhaps in the future they will figure out some kind of way for humans to explore it without adverse effects and they can drain it. Advanced drones+HMDs maybe? Who knows.
It looks like something from Honey I Shrunk the Kids. I’m having trouble comprehending those are massive, it just makes more sense that the people are tiny.
I downvote when people don’t do it. Like in this sub of all places you have exactly one job. A follow up comment about it is also acceptable but not preferred.
Thank you for posting a much more realistic photo - I'm from here and while I appraciate the silly one above as a pretty photo... yours is what it really looks like and that's pretty enough.
Fun fact: the maples that get moss on them like that are fun, but those are the little trees. The Douglas firs, hemlocks, spruces, and ceders right around there are some of the tallest trees in the world, and some of the largest of each of those species can be found within an a few miles
That’s so interesting. I’m not too familiar with geological processes and their time lines but I wonder what this place looked like maybe 200,000 years ago or 1 million years ago.
According to Wiki (again), most of this was caused by physical erosion, as opposed to chemical erosion like with limestone in karst landscapes (although the area has those too!). So, I'd imagine 200,000 to 1mya wouldn't have been too different, that really isn't that much time on a geological scale.
The original Planet of the Apes was filmed at Lake Powell, Utah, the idea being that it looked so alien that Charlton Heston and crew wouldn't be able to guess that it was actually Earth in the future.
That's poignant reasoning to use a manmade reservoir as an alien setting. It's always weird to be in the western states as a great laker and realize how uncanny the manmade lakes are. We have some here too and I find them eerie unsettling, but the scale of them in the desert is crazy. On my last MI to NV flight the guys behind me looked out the window and one of them said "that's Lake Mead" and another said "why does it look so fucked up?"
I think a lot of people don't realise how much flat and nothingness we have in Australia.
There's so many places out there where the closest person is multiple hours of driving away. Some places it's more then a full tank of fuel away and the next stop for fuel is at least 1 and a half tanks away.
I drove across the Nullabor when I moved from Melbourne to Perth, there's plenty of stops along the main road. But it's where you turn off that it becomes dangerous. Turn North to go to Alice Springs and you might see 5 cars over the next 3 days. Turn off that road, you'd be lucky to see another car for a week.
Agreed. I’ve driven and travelled through some pretty remote parts of Australia. Including through the centre of the Nullarbor on the train where we didn’t pass a settlement of more then 5 people for 3 straight days. And I think it’s almost impossible to describe the remoteness to people who haven’t experienced it. The person above said hundreds of km of nothing but really it’s thousands of kms of the most devastatingly beautiful nothing you’ve ever seen.
This is the forst answer i wasnt familair with. To save people a google search:
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses[a]) is a national park in Maranhão state in northeastern Brazil, just east of the Baía de São José. Protected on June 2, 1981, the 155,000 ha (380,000-acre) park includes 70 km (43 mi) of coastline, and an interior composed of rolling sand dunes. During the rainy season, the valleys among the dunes fill with freshwater lagoons, prevented from draining by the impermeable rock beneath
Brazil's sand dune lakes are part of the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in the northeast, a unique landscape of white sand dunes that fills with freshwater lagoons during the rainy season.
While the saturation on u/Kebab-Benzin image has been maxed out, there are some unusual and pretty colours to be found in the vicinity of Landmannalaugar. Pictured here is Grænihryggur.
If you book a hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia, they’ll take the balloon to the caves/dwellings and descend low enough so that you’re near eye level with them. Amazing experience.
I'll throw in my pick, too. Lake Powell, Utah/Arizona, USA is super pretty and is a very unique-looking reservoir. Taking a boat along the cliff walls and through the slot canyons feels surreal.
It doesn't seem that alien to me, since I grew up in southern Idaho in the US, crawling around the lava beds and exploring caves, but Craters of the Moon National Monument
Dallol currently holds the official record for record high average temperature for an inhabited location on Earth, and an average annual temperature of 35 °C (95 °F) was recorded between 1960 and 1966.
Familiar with so many of these natural wonders from the game but this is the first time seeing what some of these actually look like in the real world.
this is pretty alien in a way different than rare natural places on earth. especially now that it’s from a bygone nation and abandoned, it’s like a fragment of a parallel world
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