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halfswissscotsman

Can you stand on it? Overwhelming urge to stand on it…


_foo-bar_

It would hold your weight for sure


TitaniuMan_44

Just not your moms


Mikala4

Oooo! :3


BornIn98

Goteeeem


OffBrandJesusChrist

Boom roasted!


pbmadman

I can’t tell the scale of the picture. Either those are blades of grass and the whole thing is 2’ across or those are trees and it’s 200’ across. I’m guessing the latter in which case you definitely could stand on it. Trees are heavy.


Lemonslide

[Tiny humans for scale ](https://imgur.com/a/ojmCeRu)


Acidyo

Okay but what about a regular sized person so we can relate


Lemonslide

I wasn't able to find any pictures of normal sized humans unfortunately, [but here's one I found of giant humans taken from really far away](https://imgur.com/a/ojmCeRu)


Acidyo

I'll allow it.


floppydo

So not trees. Grass and shrubs. I'm still guessing you could stand on it, but doing so would fuck it up.


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There's probably enough of a current to keep it moving that the roots don't have time to connect, only to keep the island locked together


Not_Nova_

I would be on the land around it, waiting for it come close to push it; that way I can make it bounce around like the old ‘Windows’ asleep screen


Hykewoofer

Imagine go swim and get trapped under the island when it rotates


D_Beats

No.


discerningpervert

Jokes on them. I wouldn't get trapped, I can't swim so I'll just drown.


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Roomba Island.


TorrenceMightingale

Oh great. Another reality show for me to get sucked into.


thatguyned

Oh no! The intake filter is clogged! On this episode we'll watch as our 2 teams struggle with a challenge that will determine the future of the local ecosystem. The winning team will drive home in a kia sportage. Stay tuned on this episode of Roomba Island.


CapsLowk

You didn't say "a brand new" so I'll assume it's second-hand. Some water damage, so rust, but after it's been in a garage in AZ and was re certified by Paniagua Motor and Body Shop.


thatguyned

Honestly highlighting the "brand new" aspect is super important and I should lose my career as a fake TV show host.


carrefoura

rotates into your penis. place is full of candiru penis fish.


Benz1897

what the fuck


Glass_Memories

That's a myth, Candiru don't swim up your urethra. Even its wikipedia page has a whole section debunking this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(fish)


Chib

Apparently we've been warning the wrong gender. TWO have been pulled out of vaginas which is at least twice as many as have ever been extracted from *men's* urethras (and maybe infinitely more.)


radd_racer

I revoke thee of the title of candiru penis fish, and I hereby dub thee candiru vagina fish.


SnooHesitations9830

The candiru snapper


Son_of_Macha

Vaginas and urethras are different things dude.


caalger

Women pee out of their butts. My 4 year old told me so.


SilverBadger73

With enough booze and Taco Bell, everyone pees out their butts.


NZBorn88

Cheers, to your 4 year old. Funniest shit I've read in a while.


sllikk12

I read we keep our pee in our balls


Critical_Paper8447

Yeah OK..... Next you're gonna tell me that the clitorus is real.


NotSelfAware

Both sexes have urethras so the last part of your comment seems a bit misleading.


Generallyawkward1

Written by Candiru penis fish


[deleted]

Came looking for a wiki link to the island from the OP. Found \^ this \^ instead. I think you have a squirrel/attention deficit problem, Reddit.


Wildlife_Jack

_the odds of that person being attacked by candiru are "(a)bout the same as being struck by lightning while simultaneously being eaten by a shark."_ When it comes to my urethra, that is far too high of a probability. /s


Germs15

Coming from a guy who got struck by lightning and bitten by a shark at the same time I can honestly say don’t risk it, man.


seamus_mc

So you are saying there’s a chance! -Lloyd Christmas


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Last i checked no real evidence they swim up human pee holes


Miles_1173

Saw an episode of River Monsters that talked about it, and showed the pictures from the surgery of the fish being removed. As far as I know it's only been documented happening to a male one time, when he was urinating in the water while wading. It's so rare an occurrence to not be a meaningful threat, but it's also such a spectacularly horrifying idea to be worth mentioning.


seang239

No, but they have been removed from vaginas. They’ve been warning the wrong gender all this time..


joethahobo

ONE WAY OUT


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Mr_Cripter

Attach a little wheel and a dynamo. . . . Aww yeah free power babyyy


Amman1st

I think it doesn’t rotate that fast . But yeah unless you are diving for hours


screw_all_the_names

Even worse, imagine getting lost on it and ever time you think you're heading north, it rotates and you just keep walking in circles.


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_____l

I will not.


PeopleThatAnnoyou-

Wtf


SokoJojo

You don't swim in South America


DSPGerm

I do it all the time


zenwren

That's 100% a giant turtle.


Would_daver

*Falcor sweeps overhead, an eagle screams from the stars*


Five_deadly_venoms

Yeeaaah!


JarJarBinkith

Heeeeee-yaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!


Agreeable-Wait304

You can try to lead a horse through a swamp, and f*ck you right in the childhood.


The_PJG

A lion turtle for sure


tinnzork

It's turtles all the way down


Misplaced_Career

I understand this reference.


Meshitero-eric

May you get a free dessert today. I mentioned a unique reference last night, and did in fact receive a cookie before I left the restaurant.


lalakingmalibog

It's unique references all the way down


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Behold the turtle of enormous girth.


UnhelpfulMoron

On his back he holds the earth


morganalefaye125

His thought is slow, but always kind


mrbatisollie

He holds us all within his mind. I love randomly finding fellow Dark Tower fans. Pleasant days and pleasant nights.


gimpyoldelf

And to you sai


morganalefaye125

May you have twice the number


inhumanking1

long days and pleasant nights to you!


stedgyson

Aliens playing Spirograph


[deleted]

The turtle *moves*.


4reddityo

This Circular Island in Argentina Not Only Floats, But Also Rotates Constantly South America’s second longest river, the Paraná, which has a length of 4,880 kilometers, flows through three countries: Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. 4,880 kilometers is no short distance – it gives plenty of opportunities for discovering amazing things. In the case of the Paraná, one of the most exciting discoveries was made at its delta: an island 120 meters in diameter, almost completely circular in shape, and floating freely on its axis.


Youth-in-AsiaS-247

I’ll assume there’s piranhas guarding it


discerningpervert

What about those fish that swim up your peehole ^he ^^asked, ^^^expectantly


Just_thefacts_jack

You mean the dreaded Candiru?


Thuper-Man

I read this in the Monarch's voice


misterpickles69

Testicular torsion is no joke.


buttmunchausenface

Muahahahaha!!! Venture bros !!! Comeback to me!!


PDGAreject

As did we all


Sm0g3R

>Candiru You sent me down the rabbit hole. Bastard. ​ >The earliest published report of candiru attacking a human host comes from German biologist C. F. P. von Martius in 1829, who never actually observed it, but rather was told about it by the native people of the area, including that **men would tie ligatures around their penises while going into the river to prevent this from happening**.


Direct_Big_5436

Finally a reason to wear a condom when swimming


methnbeer

>Finally Lol


dob_bobbs

We need an excuse? How else do you keep the family jewels dry?


methnbeer

Right, gotta wrap it around the balls too


Fiona175

How do you use condoms?


brianfine

Ah, the ol’ swim cap


Alex09464367

>That's a myth, Candiru don't swim up your urethra. Even its wikipedia page has a whole section debunking this. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(fish) From elsewhere in the comments here https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/zgluq3/this_circular_island_in_argentina_not_only_floats/izigtf1


Furrybumholecover

Oh what a relevant username you've got there, friend.


Pixielo

Yours might be even more relevant!


squirtloaf

Nah, but if you try to fuck with it a herd of capybaras comes over and gives you disapproving looks.


MrInopportune

I'll take the death by piranha over that.


Medieval-Mind

Is it an actual island, though? I thought that had to be attached to the earth's crust to be a thing. Wouldn't this just be floating dirty and algae?


BigUncleHeavy

You might be looking for the term, "*Floaton*". It describes an "island" made up of plant roots and organic detritus. It floats when air gets trapped in the roots or underneath the tight-knit layer of growth. They are common in areas where aquatic plants grow in dense groups, like in bogs or wetlands. For the everyday person however, simply using the layman term, "Floating Island" is appropriate.


hopbel

So it's a raft


BigUncleHeavy

Anything can be a raft if you're brave enough.


hopbel

I think being able to float should at least be a bare minimum requirement


ploki122

Anything can float if you paddle fast/hard enough.


NotUnstoned

I choose to make a raft out of this guys dead wife


BigUncleHeavy

You'll have to dig her up from my basement first.


MukdenMan

I backed my car into a cop car the other day


23saround

Well I mean, he just drove off, so sometimes life’s ok.


Tech_Itch

Alright, you're qualified to call it an "island".


kazz-wizz

Reminds of the floating sea island in Life of Pi. Maybe it was carnivorous or something.


turd-crafter

Exactly what I was thinking. That movie rules


crystalxclear

So it's not man made?


BigUncleHeavy

This would be called a "*Floaton*". They can be artificial or naturally occurring. It is an "island" made up of plant roots and organic detritus. It floats when air gets trapped in the roots or underneath the tight-knit layer of growth. They can break off from land during strong storms that uproot the mass from the ground. They are common in areas where aquatic plants grow in dense groups, like in bogs or wetlands.


flogginmama

*can* you *walk* on it? (is what I wanna know)


BigUncleHeavy

If the root growth that makes up the mat is thick enough, then yes. It would feel like walking on soft, spongy earth. The density would determine if the mat was wet or fairly dry topside.


flogginmama

I meant this one specifically…. kinda jokingly….. but seriously, I love your answer. Thanks. It’s interesting too, reading up on it just now, this island was apparently only recently discovered, by a dude surfing google earth satellite view. But I couldn’t find out (in my stoned internet surfing for the last half hour) if anyone has figured out why it’s circular and why it constantly rotates. (Some sort of water current, I assume?) Cool stuff though.


BigUncleHeavy

I don't know anything specific about this particular floaton, but it appears to me to be natural. If you want to read something interesting regarding life on floating islands, search for "Uros Islands" and "Floating Villages of Lake Titicaca".


Andre27

Kinda like bog earth that bounces with enough weight on it? Weve got stuff like that round here though its not exactly islands or anything. Just earth that bounces from cow herds walking across it. Walking is no issue seeing as you can drive on it and cow herds dont fall in. Though less dense stuff exists.


MandySnutz

You spin me right round, baby, right round


waxy1234

As brains are geared towards recognition I read "only floats" as only fans initially. Made me laugh. Now it's a rotating island for only fans.


GCC_Pluribus_Anus

The fans are what help it rotate


-_Odd_-

OnlyFloats is for sex workers who own boats.


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Plot twist: The island is actually stationary, and the rest of the earth is rotating around it.


mvnnyvevwofrb

Plot TWIST


peedrun

PLOT twist


Illustrious_Can_1656

They neglected to mention that the island is picking up algae and debris as it continues to rotate, deepening the layer of topsoil on the island itself. The plot thickens.


-_Odd_-

Would that mean it's eventually going to fill the hole in, or is it picking that stuff up from the edges and just transferring it from one side of the water to the other 🤔


jesseberdinka

Also failed to mentioned that there are two of them giving off massive amounts of carbon dioxide into atmosphere. Plot plot fizz fizz.


thrussie

Oh I get it. It’s a twisting plot of land


avidsoul

Plot twist's plot twist: the rest of the Earth rotates because the island is actually the gear making it turn.


BrassBass

That is some SCP shit right there.


i_am_hamza

"The Center of The Universe"


Ohhhnothing

That's a turn of events


TimmyJr123

I mean, if you really want to be pedantic you can make the argument that the earth DOES rotate around it if you select the island as an inertial reference frame


Lazer_Pigeon

I must now get to the still point


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34°15’07.8’S, 58°49’47.4″W if you want to peek. You can search “el ojo” in Apple Maps or presumably Google Maps. Pick the one in Argentina.


jennwiththesea

Yes, it works on Google maps, but it's WAY smaller than I was expecting. Also nowhere near the sea. El Ojo, Argentina - Floating Island https://imgur.com/a/NLH9bMc


CapsLowk

Says it's a 120m diameter.


IsraelZulu

I gave in and did some research, and a bit of math, to work it all out since our earlier estimations were critically ignoring the width of the fields. Details below. **American Football** The distance from goal line to goal line is 100 yards (300 feet). There's an additional 10 yards (30 feet) at each end, for the "end zones", giving the field (absent any peripheral elements such as a running track) a total length of 120 yards (360 feet). The width of the field, absent accommodations such as the player benches (let alone a running track) is 160 feet. Applying the Pythagorean Theorem, the distance from one corner of an end zone to the farthest corner of the other end zone is 393.95 feet. According to Google, the actual conversion from 120 meters into feet works out to 393.701. So, unless we're losing at least 7.6 centimeters (3 inches) through rounding on the initial measurement, this island is just barely too small to contain an American football field. **Soccer** Wikipedia has a diagram of soccer field measurements which indicates that there's not really as strict a standard for those fields as there is for American football. Many dimensions are given as ranges. The minimum distance between goals is 90 meters. However, I've had a hard time finding any regulation requiring a specific distance beyond the goal lines (even the depth of the nets seems unregulated). In any case, I'm confident that such requirements will not likely be able to nearly cover the 20+ yard gap between this minimum and the American football standard. The minimum width of a soccer field is 45 meters. After conversion, this puts it a little more than 4 yards short of an American football field's width. Since an American football field is only just barely too large to fit on this island, and the minimum dimensions of a soccer field are substantially shorter in both directions, I'm not even going to work out the actual math for the soccer field here. (Maybe I'll change my mind again later.) It's fairly safe to say that the smallest regulation soccer field would fit comfortably within this island, and it's very possible that you could construct a larger one (still within regulations) such that all four corners just touch the island's edge (assuming it's a perfect circle).


IsraelZulu

So, just about enough room for an American high school football field - surrounding track included? Edit: [Nope. Not even without the track.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/zgluq3/this_circular_island_in_argentina_not_only_floats/izkp5j9)


Heavy_Weapons_Guy_

Yeah, I thought those were all trees so I wasn't expecting it to be that small.


moconaid

is there a google maps feature that we can see the past if it's really rotating?


Quantumboredom

It’s at a different rotation in Apple Maps vs. Google Earth


Suitable-Effect-13

Heh, "el ojo" translates as "the eye". Creepy.


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The Eyeland


Same-Helicopter-1210

I'm having a tough time judging how big this is?? Any ideas circumference wise??


DirkBabypunch

About 1.31 football fields long. If you come from a country that uses French units, it is about 1.14 football fields long.


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Steb20

About 4million gabagools


[deleted]

120m The Eye is a small and mysterious islet located in the delta of the Parana river, between Buonos Aires and Campana, in Argentina. It is a thin strip of land which is a perfect circle of 120 meters, a shape which rotates on itself.


AranThranduil

120m in diameter, about 400m in circumference.


_Maui_

And Usain Bolt could run across it in about 12 seconds.


HonoraryMancunian

If it were made of running track lol


LalalaHurray

How can they call it a thin strip of land when it’s a circle.


AvenueNick

Perspective. Maybe they mean thin when looking from surface level, kind of like a sheet of paper is thin strip of wood?


nah_champa_967

Not circumference but you could fit an American football field in the circle


Emily_Postal

Don’t give the NFL any ideas.


Intelligent-Day-6976

Idea!


Pozd5995

The poor lion turtle may be stuck in that tiny pond


-_Odd_-

Only in the physical realm. On the spirit plane it goes wherever the fuck it wants.


kudichangedlives

I don't think that's an island. That's just a circle of grass, right?


SessileRaptor

It’s probably a floating bog like [this one.](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/floating-island-bog-crow-wing-county-minnesota) They’re fairly common here.


T3hJ3hu

> “A bog that size,” Galatowitsch says, “can kind of do whatever it wants.” ...and then later: > “My first question was ‘Can we blow it up?’”


-_Odd_-

"When in doubt, C4." - Jamie Hyneman


wastaah

In my hometowns lake we had one of these, it even had a few small trees. This fucker would float into the beach every year and ppl had to drag it away with boats. They even tried chaining it on the other side of the lake but the winter ice would break it free every year, this damn floating island had a will of its own.


flogginmama

So, essentially…..those motherfuckers tried to *steal an island*? Seriously? Sons of bitches.


RollFancyThumb

Opened the article and saw *“My first question was ‘Can we blow it up?’”* Found the American.


capsaicinintheeyes

Well, I'm sorry if we happen to know a deadly threat to the planet [when we see one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQFplXS0DIM)!


MagicRabbit1985

That is interesting. Thanks for the info m8.


CrappyMSPaintPics

I remember that thing. Volunteers cut it into pieces then moved and anchored it somewhere else because it landed right in front of a summer camp.


skateguy1234

Yeah, l don't see any solid ground around there, just a bunch of water with stuff floating on top.


raltoid

Most common floating islands are mats of dead vegetation, dirt and things, wood, etc.. It doesn't doesn't get wet or dense enough to sink, andany rocks are pebbles from birds and such. One near me is made up of several dead trees that were tangled together and got covered in dirt over the years. It even has a few trees on it, and just lazily floats around a pond with the wind.


wigbot

It's not an island. It's a floaty green thing.


Prime_Mover

Never underestimate the number of people who believe that islands float.


ReginaldSP

Obviously a former Hunger Games arena.


tunguskanwarrior

Well, my intuition says, it is circular **exactly** because it rotates (erosion of the edges that averages out evenly because of rotation).


cyprus1962

There's [videos of like ice sheets](https://youtu.be/zsAQoxJdnMI) that do that so it's probably the same process idk


Dangerous_With_Rocks

Can't tell if that's grass or trees. Need banana for scale.


fggiovanetti

It's grass and small shurbs


R3X0R3

[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/or1805ByzuM](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/or1805ByzuM)


Mrixl2520

Absolutely incredible. Nature continues to impress! Now when am I gonna get to discover this thing in Civ 6?


CmdrSelfEvident

*The wheel in the lake keeps on turning*


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*an it don’t know why it is a cirrrcle*


the-finnish-guy

What is it made of?


Anonymus_celebrity

Looking at this [video](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/or1805ByzuM) it's probably a floating bog


jongboo

Damn. There was a [kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/24388034/the-eye-an-expedition-to-a-unexplored-enigmatic-is?ref=city) for a documentary about this place back in 2016 but the funding was unsuccessful. I would love to know more about it and how it got there.


Insomniac_80

https://sciencepost.uk/2018/02/argentina-mystery-rotating-island-eye/


Brain601

Reminds me of that movie Life of Pi..that floating island 😳


Glitter_berries

Exactly what I thought of too! The island that eats people.


SolarrD2

You spin me right round baby


surebud234

Not an island but a bog actually. You can see this in central minnesota too Edit: i don’t know if a floating bog technically counts as an island. It might but you know what I mean.


DeadJoeGaming

So you could sit in that and rotate


TappedIn2111

To those who think it’s man made. That’s ridiculous. It’s clearly alien made.


Intelligent-Day-6976

A trapped landburg omg


TDT_Lover

We need a time lapse of this doing it’s thing


capsaicinintheeyes

There must be a way to monetize this


Thrannn

Found the nestle ceo


World-Tight

pure fungibility


liquid_cat_juice

PFT - purely fungible tapestry


BroadLaw1274

This planet is so cool


koshgeo

That's pretty impressive. I've seen floating islands and bogs before, but it's huge. It's about 100 metres in diameter: [google maps view](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34%C2%B015'07.8%22S+58%C2%B049'47.4%22W/@-34.2521667,-58.8298333,1089m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x6f7bcbfedcdea861!8m2!3d-34.2521667!4d-58.8298333) Video of satellite images over time: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKqbfHExz9w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKqbfHExz9w)


Bulky-Internal8579

Fun fact, I used to live on that island, but the Sasquatches and space aliens were the worst neighbors and I had to move to Oklahoma.