Magus Tech Chapter 619: Fart of the Earth: The Lake Flips
Natural disasters, also known as natural disasters, natural disasters, famines, etc., refer to abnormal phenomena that occur in nature, which will cause serious disasters to surrounding creatures and human society.
This is the definition of natural disasters made by humans.
Putting aside the literary explanations, in fact, since the beginning of human beings, they have been fighting against various natural disasters and paid enough prices.
In winter, snowstorms will kill people.
In summer, drought will kill people.
Plateaus, avalanches, and death.
Coastal, tsunami, people will die.
Usually, typhoons, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and meteorite impacts still kill people.
Natural disasters often break out suddenly, which is unpredictable, so the losses are heavy. Of course, in the long years, human beings have also summed up a lot of experience, learned to detect natural disasters, and used various methods to prevent them.
For example, on a snow mountain, absolutely do not make loud noises and strong vibrations to prevent avalanches. On big rivers, build numerous dams and reservoirs to regulate the flow of river water and prevent floods. In addition, artificial rainfall is used to alleviate droughts, weather satellites are used to warn and evacuate people to reduce losses caused by typhoons, and so on.
However, under the terrifying power of nature, the power of human beings is too small. They can only prevent, avoid, and reduce losses. It is really too difficult to resist.
Take a typhoon as an example.
Typhoons are the most common natural disasters. They occur frequently, are powerful, affect a wide range, and cause serious losses.
Some people asked whether typhoons can be eliminated with the technological level on the modern earth. For example, detonate a large-yield nuclear bomb in the center of the typhoon, destroy the typhoon, and finally calm the typhoon.
Actually, no.
The heat released by an ordinary mature typhoon is basically equivalent to detonating a 10 million-equivalent nuclear bomb every 20 minutes, and the heat released every hour is equivalent to several thousand times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. If it is just a few ordinary nuclear bombs, detonated in the center of the typhoon, it will not have much effect at all.
In a word: Nature is the master of the planet, and human beings are just parasites on the surface of the earth.
Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid with a diameter of about 11 kilometers hit the Gulf of Mexico, causing the Cretaceous mass extinction. About 75% of the world's creatures including dinosaurs were extinct. influences.
The earth has existed for nearly 4.6 billion years, and no accident, it will continue to exist for billions of years.
Human beings with only a few thousand years of civilization and a few million years of biological evolution history, at least for now, are really not worth mentioning to the earth.
For the natural disasters on the earth, human beings can only avoid and prevent them as much as possible, but cannot resist them.
And a headache is that some common natural disasters can be detected in advance because of the obvious signs, and there is sufficient time for prevention.
As for other uncommon natural disasters, no abnormal state can be found before they occur. Once they occur, they will quickly take away a large number of lives. This type of natural disaster, a very famous one, is called... Lake flipping.
There are very few recorded cases of natural disasters involving lake overturning, and there are only two cases so far, but each of them caused a lot of casualties.
The first case, Lake Monaun.
Lake Monoun, located in Cameroon, a country in central and western Africa, suffered a natural disaster on August 15, 1984.
When a natural disaster occurs, there is no warning, and it happens extremely quickly, like a **** of death wielding a scythe, precisely taking away lives one by one, and then hiding in the darkness.
People affected by natural disasters have no ability to resist at all, let alone send messages to the outside world for help, and all died within a very short period of time. In the case of natural disasters, it was not until unrelated people, because of accidental circumstances, entered the scene after the natural disaster broke out that something was wrong.
The first person who discovered it was called Ahaji Abdul. While he was on his way, he saw corpses scattered all over the road, the car hit the road, and no one survived.
According to statistics afterwards, a total of 37 people died in this natural disaster.
This number is nothing, the most important thing is that the dead did not show any signs of struggle, as if they suddenly died of some acute infectious disease, which once caused a huge panic, and it took a long time to investigate clearly.
The second case, Lake Nyos.
Lake Nyos, also located in Cameroon, a country in central and western Africa, suffered a natural disaster in the early morning of August 21, 1986—two years after the first case.
When the natural disaster happened, it was in the middle of the night and it was still located in a densely populated area, so a large number of people who were sleeping were killed collectively before they could react.
There is an eyewitness description of entering the area afterwards: there is no one in sight, or they are all dead.
Because it is located on the outskirts of the area, the witness who was extremely lucky to save a life from the disaster described: I was standing alone in the pile of dead people, the house was full of dead people, the cows, sheep, and dogs were all dead, There are 56 members of the family, 53 of whom are not breathing.
According to posthumous statistics, more than 1,700 people died in this natural disaster, and countless livestock died!
This obviously caused a great deal of panic, especially after just two years of the first case.
To this end, scientists from all sides came to conduct rigorous investigation and research, and concluded that the events of Lake Nyos and Lake Monaun were caused by the overturning of the lakes.
What is a lake flip?
It turns out that Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun are not ordinary lakes, and there is a magma belt under the bottom of the lake. The existence of this magma zone will allow carbon dioxide to continuously leak into the water and accumulate at the bottom of the slow-moving, extremely high-pressure lake.
When the carbon dioxide accumulates to the limit, it will erupt. At that time, hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide will rush out of the lake and spread around.
Because the density of carbon dioxide is 1.5 times that of air, a large amount of carbon dioxide is like a thick carpet laid on the ground. The next step is to create a pure carbon dioxide area, which will dissipate after a long time.
As a part of the air, carbon dioxide, a gas, is not harmful at a low concentration, such as 0.04%.
But when the concentration rises to 1%, it will make people feel stuffy, dizzy, and heart palpitations.
When it reaches 5%, people will feel shortness of breath, headache and dizziness.
When it reaches 10%, the functions of the human body will be seriously confused, causing people to lose consciousness, lose consciousness, stop breathing and die.
As for the higher concentration, reaching the level of pure carbon dioxide, let alone humans, plants, animals, and microorganisms that rely on oxygen for aerobic respiration cannot survive.
This is lake flipping!
Some people vividly gave this natural disaster a title, it's called... The Fart of the Earth.
Well, fart of the earth.
The earth farted and took hundreds of lives.
And this is the power of natural disasters.
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Taklamakan Lake is a lake that periodically undergoes "lake inversion", which is certain.
However, when Richard first became interested in Lake Taklamakan, he didn't know this. The reason why I am interested in Taklamakan Lake is entirely because of the name.
After all, not every desert is called Taklamakan. The name of the desert on the earth is actually pressed on a lake in the current world, which made Li Cha curious.
Afterwards, he heard the legend about the Taklamakan Lake Death God from the wizard Teddy, and Richard really wanted to explore the secrets of the lake.
At that time, there were many speculations, and later in the process of exploring the small village of Artis, more discoveries were made. After entering the lake to check it out, it was finally confirmed that Taklamakan Lake is a lake where the natural disaster of "lake overturning" will occur.
Then everything can be explained.
In the legend of Taklimakan Lake, the so-called God of Death is nothing but hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide gas accumulated at the bottom of the lake. And every few hundred years, the **** of death will wake up from his deep sleep and take away all the lives he sees, because it takes a long time to re-accumulate carbon dioxide every time it is erupted to the outside world. Hundreds of years is an accumulation cycle.
After understanding this, Li Cha raised his vigilance towards Taklamakan Lake, and warned Nancy, Gero and others that it is best to stay away from the lake at ordinary times.
Although he can see that the amount of carbon dioxide accumulated at the bottom of the lake is not far below the limit and will not be erupted to the outside world within a few decades, many things are not absolute.
A small earthquake, or even a boulder falling into the water, is enough to upset the delicate balance between the carbon dioxide on the bottom of the lake and the water, allowing the carbon dioxide to be released prematurely. At that time, the killing effect and the killing range may be somewhat reduced, but the people in the core area, without sufficient defense, will undoubtedly die.
After figuring this out, the matter is considered to have come to an end. With the holding of the exchange meeting, Richard threw Taklamakan Lake aside. After all, his main purpose is the treasure of the Black Spirit King, the ultimate secret of the Black Spirit Empire ~IndoMTL.com~ rather than the great geographical exploration.
He only wanted to wait until after the exchange meeting, and find a way to stay and continue digging and searching for the small village of Artis. He would not invest too much energy on a lake, even if this lake is very rare, and three of them have been discovered in the entire earth so far. .
But who knew, the development of things was unexpected, the exchange meeting turned out to be a big trap, Deep Blue Fort actually colluded with a mysterious organization, and planned to kill all the wizards attending the meeting.
For such traps, conspiracies, etc., Li Cha is not very cold, and he is not prepared to participate in it at all. After helping Gero, Nancy and others to break through, he is ready to leave.
I was thinking more about one thing: After the disturbance in Deep Blue Fort, the entire east coast was in chaos, and the surrounding area of Deep Blue Fort became extremely dangerous. If I want to continue digging and find the small village of Artis, I'm afraid it will be very difficult, and I need to find another way.
Just like when thinking about a solution, a new problem came. The black-robed wizard of the mysterious organization, for some reason, regarded him as a sure-fire target and mobilized a large amount of power to surround and kill him, making it impossible for him to escape even if he wanted to.
Under the crisis, he remembered the dangerous existence of Taklamakan Lake. He simply fled to Lake Taklama, and when the enemy didn't notice anything wrong, he released a large amount of carbon dioxide at the bottom of the lake in advance to solve all troubles.
For this behavior of taking advantage of the situation, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong, nor did he feel that the victory was invincible.
No matter how you say it, with this method, he doesn't need to spend any more effort to kill people or continue to escape. Now he only needs to receive the spoils from many corpses.
Well, receive the loot.
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