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Slo-Tek posted:This is a landing site for space Jews.
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:Noticed this while looking for areas to go mushroom hunting.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Salton City used to be a major resort attraction type town, but it never developed as well as planned and was slowly abandoned over time. Apparently it has slowly begun to grow again now that a casino has been built nearby. But there are a lot of abandoned 1950s era houses half-submerged in the water of that lake, and it looks like something out of Fallout 3. The reason it didn't work out as a resort is not so much about bad planning as it is the very nature of the place. They were mining salt from the area that flooded in. There's also heavy alkali and selenium content--in the summer, when the marshes get dry, a heavy white crust forms above the mud in some spots. The selenium causes birth defects in the birds that nest there--the only reason they try to keep the thing alive is as a replacement for wetlands that have disappeared elsewhere. The beach is made up, except for where sand has been brought in, by dead barnacles and fish bones. The water looks like Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup, prepared by someone who wants to kill you. Then there's the smell. On a not-so-good day, it's like the devil himself farting in your face. On a not-so-bad day, it's like the devil farting in the face of the guy next to you. It was like living in Mordor, except all the orcs are busy running meth labs.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Among the hilarious placenames I've come across browsing Google and Bing maps:
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