Ah yes, because the world was desperately waiting for a photo shoot featuring frozen water ❄️📸. Let's all marvel at the groundbreaking revelation that #snowflakes actually exist. In 1885, Wilson Bentley single-handedly saved humanity from the ignorance of thinking snow was just white rain. 🙄
https://www.openculture.com/2017/12/the-first-photographs-of-snowflakes.html #frozenwater #WilsonBentley #history #ofscience #winterwonderland #HackerNews #ngated
The First Photographs of Snowflakes: Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley (1885)

What kind of a blighted society turns the word “snowflake” into an insult?, I sometimes catch myself thinking, but then again, I’ve never understood why “treehugger” should offend.

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