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Kyle Memoir 🍉4d ago

Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat, which transforms into 'the world's largest mirror' (used for calibrating the altimeters of Earth observation satellites) during the rainy season, when a thin layer of water covers the surface. This creates a breathtaking natural phenomenon where the sky and clouds are perfectly reflected, offering surreal and stunning views.

Edit - images from https://www.thelegacyuntold.com/destinations/the-worlds-largest-natural-mirror/

Logan 5 and 999 others 4d ago

@TheBreadmonkey That is how you get trapped in the Phantom Zone.
(It is really pretty though.)

*sparkling anxiety* Evelyn 4d ago

@TheBreadmonkey Salar de Uyuni: where you don't have to be Jesus to walk on water

@TheBreadmonkey Can we actually perceive the curvature of the Earth in how much the scale of the reflection changes as it nears the horizon?

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Surreal indeed…

@TheBreadmonkey Took some nice photos on a trip there in the early 2000s. A mate of a mate said he could develop photos for a decent price. Photo lab lost all our photos 😭

Nooooooooooo

Elena Rossini ⁂4d ago

@TheBreadmonkey thank you for sharing! This place is definitely at the top of my bucket list 💙

😊

Ariadna Vigo 4d ago

@TheBreadmonkey Isn't it corrosive for your footwear and thus potentially dangerous to you to walk on a salar? I was told NOT to walk over a salar in Chile (I don't remember the name, I think it was Punta Negra) for this reason. Maybe the chemical composition was different?

David Cohen 4d ago

@ariadna @TheBreadmonkey They just didn’t want to clean footprints off the mirror.

@ariadna @TheBreadmonkey we have something similar in Utah, we call the salt flats. The crystallized salt and sand is really terrible for footwear and feet, but it was worth it for the shot, too beautiful not to walk into it. The Great Salt Lake still has some water and it is painful to swim in, gets into cuts and hurts the eyes. The flats also get runoff from copper mining, so arsenic is in it, huge poison dust problem as the lake dehydrates, heartbreaking beauty 😭

DB Schwein 4d ago

@MamaLake @ariadna @TheBreadmonkey

Visiting there was one of my favourite parts of my last cross country road trip. I've never seen that one with water though!

Ruud Steltenpool 4d ago

@TheBreadmonkey As we need to reflect away a lot of energy, something to learn here?

𒌉𒀭𒆠𒀀🏳️‍🌈Qwynnyx🏳️‍⚧️𓅮𓅱𓏏𓏭𓏖𓏞 4d ago

@TheBreadmonkey Oh... so certain video game final areas are rooted in this real world phenomenon

Oliver Schafeld 4d ago

Made me think of that wonderful scene in the animated film Away.

https://youtu.be/cSI85iGoH_s?si=hPrlcCcljrTyI25N&t=87

Away Trailer 1

YouTube

July! Our Sex Is On Fire! 🔥☀️🧨4d ago

@TheBreadmonkey

Wild. Don't remember anyone ever talking about that before. Really cool.

@TheBreadmonkey Album cover material. I think I once did a jigsaw puzzle like this.

Greg Lloyd 4d ago

@TheBreadmonkey
Great images, but it would be helpful to cite photographers / credible sources to highlight real photos and avoid possible AI fakes.

Quinn Comendant 4d ago

@TheBreadmonkey I appreciate seeing an empty water bottle floating off to the side of the first image. It tells the image is not AI generated.

😂 I didn't see that

gkrnours 4d ago

@TheBreadmonkey I thought these were drawing

peachfront 4d ago

@TheBreadmonkey

wowwwwwwww

@TheBreadmonkey @compfu and when it’s dry you get to take fun pictures with forced perspective

Stefan Ihringer 3d ago

@TheBreadmonkey Ha, that's a good one!

@powerllama The Hobbit (2012)