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All of this is just so amazingly cool! Having lived in Seattle, I appreciate the reference to Mt. Rainier because i have a really good idea what that is like in scale. And when you fly in and out of Seattle you sometimes bank right around that mountain top, so it's easy to imagine these crazy huge pillars on it. And storytelling course? yes please!

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Since I have the latest Flight Simulator (which is frankly astonishing, in how real it seems) I just went and virtually flew around Rainier. What. A. Whopper.

And as soon as that course is good to go, you're in with a golden ticket.

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So much delight here, as always! And Lake Baikal -- tell me you've seen this?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4oanrNQV0

#lifegoals

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I HAVE NOT. (But shortly, the answer will be "yes!" Brb...)

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Update: well, that was absolutely delightful. And ice-skates are such a fabulous invention, because they allow people of advancing years to fly along under their own power like they're a leaf on the breeze. What a gift to someone's sense of independence.

My turn. Tell me you've seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3O9vNi-dkA

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I confess when you brought in Europa I *immediately* thought of the movie *2010*. :D

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Ah I really love this! Anything about geological phenomena is my 100% my bag. I did laugh when I read the hydrothermal field name… much less romantic than “Atlantis.” I really love the concept of underwater mountains and this slow expansion deep under the ocean’s surface — I think it’s a great metaphor for how things are always changing and developing even if we don’t perceive it.

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Thank you, Olivia. Geology cooks my noodle too! And this season, I've allowed myself to really geek out about it (this, for example - https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/in-search-of-a-flood-like-no-other - and this one too - https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/europes-lost-world-and-the-megaflood). I have a thing where I refocus my nerdiness each season onto a new topic, but *I kinda don't want to leave this one*. So I will have to engineer some cunning way to circle back in a later season...

And yes, you hit upon what I love the most about the Mid Atlantic Trench as well - that renewal and remaking and "everything's changing, it's just that we mayfly-like creatures live far too quickly to see it". Humbling. A good reminder for humanity to get over its own astonishing self-importance and pay homage to the natural forces that govern us all, while perhaps becoming better stewards of the biospheres we *can* actually influence...

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Europa here we come! And how fun seeing one of our home state's most iconic images as part of the tour!

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We need to talk. I have the Boxford Mosaic or the effect of the Napoleonic Wars on Europe’s topography or UAPs and just what the hell is flying around in the sky? Pick one, Mike, and let’s do this in June.

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