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Grrl Power #1076 - Obsidian crop circle
🕑 Added 2022-08-18 10:00:07 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
"Sydney! What did you do to the desert?!"
"As deserts are defined by the amount of rainfall they receive... technically I didn't change anything?"
So, Sydney had a bold plan, and enacted it. There's something to be said for decisive action, even if it's likely that a much better plan could have been envisioned at a future date with ample time for planning.
I'm not sure if the scale quite comes across like I wanted it to. The bottom panel started off as a screenshot from Google Earth, and I think that obsidian disk is like... 10 kilometers across? I know it looks like a jagged purple mess, but I actually spent a lot of time cutting out little bits and bobs here and there for roads and patches of farmland from the original screenshot. Sydney didn't want to actually fuck up any existing infrastructure, though she's probably caused some headaches for future development and will have definitely will have thrown off some grazing habits.
Tourist attraction wise, I would suggest naming it "Lake Scoville," or "The Scoville Cataclysm."
Comments
John
Hmm, if we're talking about an actual sandstorm, and not just, for example, a tornado in a desert environment, that Glassing needs to be more like 100KM, and that would be just the width of the storm, not the area it gathered dust/sand from.
Marc Vun Kannon
Waiting for the sandstorm to come up behind her and fall down splat on the glass. Can't argue with success. Much.
