Posted on 10/04/2015 3:25:54 AM PDT by knarf
In the early twentieth century, a farmer decided that he needed to improve the agriculture on his ranch in Nevada.
He figured that a well needed to be dug to bring water and nutrients to the soil above. He lived in a barren desert and the water stored deep beneath the Earth’s crust would have provided a more sustainable crop for this harsh and dry area. He knew that a well with ample water was needed to supply bountiful crops.
What he didn’t know was what was waiting for him deep below the soil. He began to dig a deep well when problems soon arose.
After digging deep into the Earth searching for water, he found what he was looking for. The problem was that the water was incredibly hot. Over 200 degrees in fact, making it impossible to create a well at the time. He capped off his ventures and was forced to forget about supplying the area with a sustainable water source.
I’m from the Dick & Jane & Spot & Puff generation.
Now this is funny. From wikipedia: In the Simpsons episode “They Saved Lisa’s Brain”, the Comic Book Guy’s T-shirt reads “C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN”
Missed that./s
There are fish there.
Where did they come from?
the fish gods ?
In 1955 my third grade class was in a tiny Calvert System school for military and diplomat and business kids in Istanbul. The principal was notified that children returning to the States were being demoted in school because they had not read the Alice and Jerry or Dick and Jane series. We were reading stuff that in American public schools was deemed to be 8th grade level and higher, some way higher. One day the teachers sent all the kids in the first 4 grades out on the playground with complete stacks of A&J and D&J in pairs of one upper class (3rd & 4th) kid and one lower class kid to read both whole series to each other after which we were all certified as having completed the public school requirements and were officially able to read “on level.” We were all done in less than an hour.
Actually ... I would guess whatever they’re seeing is some kind of water spider something or other ....fish are cold blooded
I would guess that there will be / is a discussion thread going between (at minimum) Bureau of Land Management, EPA and Corps of Engineers about how quickly they can classify this as ‘Navigable Waters’. From that start, the welfare of the country takes precedence over mere property rights!
It does look a lot like Yellowstone maybe "The Great ObamaNation" will eminent domain all the land in between and add it to that park.
In the beginning a guy dug a hole ... early 20th century
THEN (early 60's) a company came in to do professional drilling, got nowhere and walked away
OBVIOUSLY ... the company that walked away left the unstable area with a token bit of caution / warning.
Add some shrubbery,
a snak bar,,
What planet is this “Nevada” on?
Is it really possible to have that much rock formation in only 50 years?
And then they’ll steal the land from the owners and declare it a national park....
I wasn’t sure at first but, yeah, it would appear that while drilling for water a farmer accidentally created a fly geyser in Nevada.
Neat pictures, but very difficult article to read that keeps repeating the same words and sentences over and over.
From your link
“History[edit]
Fly Geyser is not an entirely natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for sources of geothermal energy.[4] The well may not have been capped correctly, or left unplugged, but either way dissolved minerals started rising and accumulating, creating the travertine mound on which the geyser sits and continues growing.[4] Water is constantly released, reaching 5 feet (1.5 m) in the air.[1] The geyser contains several terraces discharging water into 30 to 40 pools over an area of 74 acres (30 ha).[5] The geyser is made up of a series of different minerals,[3] but its brilliant colors are due to thermophilic algae.[4]”
and
Other local geysers[edit]
A prior well-drilling attempt in 1917 resulted in the creation of a man-made geyser close to the currently active Fly Geyser; it created a pillar of calcium carbonate about 12 feet (3.7 m) tall, but ceased when the Fly Geyser began releasing water in 1964.[4]
Two additional geysers in the area were created in a similar way and continue to grow.[3] The first geyser is approximately 3 feet (0.91 m) and is shaped like a miniature volcano; the second is cone-shaped and is about 5 feet (1.5 m).[3]”
Looks like this e-mail is conflating to different geysers.
I did some checking and this looks like the only one.
Even Snopes says it is true. No mention of any others.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/flygeyser.asp
More links here about it.
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/fly-geyser-nevada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8kLQehE5iI
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