ime one of the upsides of gas is that as long as you have gas or electric your home has heat and cooking capability
also I’ve never had a gas outage. presumably they run those underground? whereas I’ve lived in places where you were, at some point, definitely going to have the electric out for hours
…how is your heat set up? Is that from having a gas stove?
I have an electric stove and a gas furnace (also a gas dryer and water heater), and I would have said the exact opposite: one of the *downsides* of gas is that your heat needs *both* gas and electricity to work, and fails if either is missing.
(Not that gas has ever been missing, true, but “works when electricity is out” is like the *one* major advantage combustion-based heating can have, and it can’t even fucking do *that*. It had one job! What am I paying all this carbon for, if not that?!)
(I can*not* fucking wait to get a heat pump and some hybrid solar.)
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You were born of a sacrilegious union. Your green dragon mom never figured the knight she seduced while masquerading as a noblewoman was a silver dragon in disguise. You’d no idea either, born a human orphan. When your dragon blood awoke, so did the dangers which all your heritage entails.
The Cave of the Crystals, discovered in 2000 in northern Mexico, is an underground cavern (formerly and now again filled with water) with enormous gypsum crystals in it; it is deep enough, and humid enough, that when scientists went down to study it they required refrigeration suits to survive the high temperature, and to keep the extremely wet, warm air from filling their lungs with condensation.
Obviously it’s not a surprise that such a thing can exist, but it still feels like a startling discovery to me. That it does means there may be more like it; or other similarly spectacular underground formations in Earth’s crust (or maybe even mantle?) that we’re totally unaware of. It’s a cool reminder of just how little of the world around us, or the further universe, is directly accessible to observation and how many spectacular or interesting things remain to be discovered.
How could you not post photos? “giant” doesn’t convey what these caves are.
One sensory superpower I think most humans have is that of being able to tell, without looking, whether a water glass they are filling is almost at the limit. Because the pitch changes. Isn’t that amazing?
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