#something i would KILL to see is the topography of point nemo i fucking love that shit

[apollos-boyfriend]

Boyfriend of apollo I need more about Point Nemo. Please infodump. Be mentally ill I'm so invested and interested - 🥺🔥

OKAY SO. the thing about point nemo is that like. not much is known about it, which makes sense. it's isolated, hard to get to, and if anything goes wrong, the chances of rescue are Thin because of the fact that literal astronauts in space are closer to you than any eathbound people. however! there was a really interesting phenomena that occurred nearby once

so, as i mentioned before, when writing his cthulhu mythos, lovecraft got WEIRDLY close to the actual location of point nemo for a place that wouldn't be founded until like, 60+ years later. keep this in mind.

in 1997, one of the loudest recorded underwater sounds was heard, which you can hear for yourself here [link]. the sound seemed to emanate from the approximate area of point nemo and was deemed the bloop, which is SUCH a cute name for something that sounds like That. now, at the time NO ONE knew what the fuck this thing was. theories ranged from bombs to military weapons testing to all kinds of crazy stuff. and, obviously, the most prominent theory was that it was generated by some sort of animal/creature. sperm whales can create frequencies so powerful they could potentially kill a human, and blue whales' calls are able to be heard from 800 km away, so it wasn't necessarily impossible that this sound was organic, too. i bring up cthulhu above because this thing spawned SO many conspiracy theories about aliens, or underwater civilizations we could barely fathom, or, as mentioned, literal cthulu. i think fox news did an interview on it once where they said they believed it was aliens. to no one's surprise

well, in 2005 we got our answer! the bloop wasn't caused by some eldritch monster or government weapons testing conspiracy. it was just an icequake! a HUGE chunk of ice (like, iceberg-sized chunk) had broken from the antarctic glacier, and that was the noise that its breaking off produced! some people still act like it's this huge terrifying mystery to this day, but it was just global warming </3

#muse talk #🥺🔥 anon #something i would KILL to see is the topography of point nemo i fucking love that shit #it's likely just abyssal plains but still.... that'd be so cool to map out