Mildly Interesting

17321 readers

37 users here now

This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

marcar@lemmy.world

Jimbabwe@lemmy.ml

WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world

Terevos@lemm.ee

304

Huge invasive carp species pulled from a small Colorado pond (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

29 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"small pond"

[–] aeki 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

A small pond the size of a large pond

[–] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anything smaller is a drainage ditch.

[–] cerement 2 points 5 months ago

California has completely dry ditches they call rivers

[–] Boris_NotTooBadinoff@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Americans will use anything but the Metric system 😆

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

At least it was a pond without any connection to other bodies of water. There is a Tom Scott video about a canal in the US that is charged with an electric field that zaps any fish coming through in an attempt to block a certain invasive fish species.

Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3oLeSPINOk

[–] isles@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The area of the water at Jack B Tomlinson Park in Arvada, CO is 2.8 acres, about 11,300 M2. There's no universal definition of "pond", some saying smaller than 10 acres (that's the Minnesota Land of 10,000 Lakes definition) , while Wikipedia says less than 12.