How the Hell Did an Island Suddenly Appear, Then Vanish?

▲ How the Hell Did an Island Suddenly Appear, Then Vanish?(404media.co)

14 points by Brajeshwar 14 hours ago | 6 comments

▲ mk_stjames 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's like a type of floating bog island that grows from piled up downed trees and other biomass and then breaks off from the main land.

Happens on lakes in Wisconsin. See [0] for a very interesting example of what happens when one gets real big and floats away.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2AG6LAOBYo

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lifestyleguru 8 hours ago | parent [-]

How this biomass expands?! I don't think this happens anywhere else on earth. Usually tress downed into the water simply become bare trunks in the water.

	▲	chocrates 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The article states that it grows on driftwood so it is buoyant and mentions it is not that rare (not explicitly but it talks about it happening before)

▲ ElijahLynn 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anybody else immediately think of "Lost" when they read this headline?

▲ ButlerianJihad 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadoon

  Brigadoon is a musical with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and score by Frederick Loewe.[1] The plot features two American men who stumble upon Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every 100 years; one man soon falls in love with a young woman from Brigadoon.

▲ danc2050 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Literal definition of "404".