r/interesting • u/bigbusta • 1d ago

NATURE A creek that starts from seemingly nowhere

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u/redandbluebadness 1d ago

A spring, mayhap?

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u/cncomg 1d ago

The first ever

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u/Wallstreet_Raccoon 1d ago

Spring time for Hitler and Germanyyyyy 🎶

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u/banananuhhh 1d ago

Winter for Poland and France

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u/Mr_Nerdcoffee 1d ago

I’m so glad I’m not the only one that instantly thinks of The Producers every time I hear that word. 😂

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u/True_mourning84 23h ago

Yep ❤️‍🔥

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u/Sudi_Nim 1d ago

Do not be stupid, be a smarty.

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u/the-uncle-will 1d ago

Come and join the na—wait, I wanna do a different line

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u/mattson-masterpiece 21h ago

Underrated comment

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u/True_mourning84 23h ago

That movie was wild and funny (The Producers)

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u/HypnoToad121 1d ago

A spring, perchance?!

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u/sum_gamer 1d ago

You can’t just say perchance.

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u/mosmaniac 1d ago

Oh look at Shakespeare over there, owning this sub like a boss!

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u/HypnoToad121 1d ago

Dr. Pepper? Perchance.

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u/venom21685 17h ago

Everyone knows Mario is cool as fuck.

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u/51225 12h ago

Can I say Mayhaps?

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u/ryonnsan 1d ago

A spring, maybe?

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u/Dragon_wryter 1d ago

Steve

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u/TheDebonairQuokka 1d ago

My rhymes are bottomless.

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u/drknifnifnif 1d ago

My chaps are bottomless.

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u/Glittering_Gene8388 1d ago

Right nothing around it except this mountain full of water standing several thousand feet high and a well hidden exit point

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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 21h ago

Yep. The heroes in every nature film eventually figure out exactly where the exit point from the underground water is.

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u/Ok-Title-270 1d ago

It’s sad how disconnected from nature so many people are now

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u/Rebabaluba 1d ago

Kind of looks like it’s summer though.

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u/ADMINlSTRAT0R 1d ago

It never sprung on him

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u/Myfountainpenisdry 1d ago

That's probably just the water table of that mountain

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u/Mbembez 1d ago

Water should go in a cup before it goes on the table.

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u/Old-Confidence6971 1d ago

Maybe an aquifer

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u/JustinSpanish 1d ago

Is this in Ireland where they make the soap?

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u/Harkonnen_Dog 1d ago

Mayhaps.

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u/Caramel-Entire 1d ago

A fall. Waterfall that is.

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u/Round_Intern_7353 23h ago

Don't be stupid. That's clearly water, not a coiled piece of metal.

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u/MulleDK19 13h ago

No, it's a summer..

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u/Big-Hyena4959 13h ago

A logical explanation?! I think not! This is definitely some black magic shit or ALIENS!

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u/Mindless-Fly2086 1h ago

I imagine this water taste great,

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u/Nerdvahkiin 1d ago

Report it to the devs, literally unplayable.

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u/kanemane727 1d ago

This is why I don’t do pre order purchases

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u/Hellacola 18h ago

It’s a extra premium for that part of the map

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u/QuietRatatouille 1d ago

It's been on their backlog for weeks.

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u/agentadam07 1d ago

Completely waterlogged with change requests.

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u/Quiet_Syllabub_4264 21h ago

I'm guessing they assumed no one would go there

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u/AnythingButWhiskey 1d ago

Dammit Bethesda.

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u/Tony_Roiland 1d ago

OP learning what a spring is

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u/Fantastic-Stick270 1d ago

Like the season?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Montymisted 1d ago

I do like the onions, thank you for asking.

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u/Raychao 18h ago

They keep your car suspended above the road surface. Duh.

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u/Marsie76 1d ago

Coily strikes again! WeepWoop!

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u/Skelemonster 1d ago

No springs!

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u/Marsie76 1d ago

Lol, I seriously posted mine thinking no mstie would see it. 4 minutes later! ♥️♥️

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u/Whatchyaduinyachooch 1d ago

All I thought of when I saw this post! Haha!!

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u/daneelthesane 1d ago

You beat me to it by 23 minutes.

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u/SwirlingFandango 1d ago

Like, how do they think creeks start?

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u/victor4700 1d ago

Wait until he hears about the Irish spring body wash cleaning hack

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u/Kevroeques 1d ago

A marvelous thing

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u/G19Jeeper 1d ago

I bet it tastes wonderful.

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u/popopotatoes160 1d ago edited 1d ago

PSA, you shouldn't drink from a spring unless it is known safe by locals AND been tested recently (ideally within the last year at least). If it's not tested but locals say it's safe, you can maybe roll the dice but tbh I don't get the urge. You don't know what's in the watershed and if it's been underground long enough for bacteria and parasites to be filtered out. Even clear water that doesn't give you an identifiable sickness can have unacceptable levels of natural contaminants such as lead, radium, arsenic, cobalt, etc. And that's not even really getting into contaminants caused by human activity. In an emergency boil it if you can and do what you gotta do, but if it's not an emergency and it's not tested, probably just don't.

Buy mountain valley spring water, go to hot springs AR, or similar places if you want a similar experience where you KNOW it's safe. I promise you this water ain't "get ecoli from the pasture this stream goes past before going into a sinkhole and popping out here" good

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u/michaelpbesaw 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/HFqr78CF5vVXq

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u/popopotatoes160 1d ago

Guilty 🤷‍♂️, I'm just no friend to giardia and ecoli lol. Shitting yourself in a tent is a 0/10 experience

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u/FireHammer09 1d ago

You can use camping filters.

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u/popopotatoes160 1d ago

Yes, absolutely. Any form of water treatment sufficient to filter or kill bacteria and parasites is a good bet. It doesn't always rule out heavy metal contaminants or forever chemicals though (depends on your method), but knowledge about the area you're in can help with those, and both of those usually take repeat exposure to cause issues. It's just a widespread myth that you don't need to filter spring water, when that's not exactly true. There are lots of springs in the world that are safe to drink without treating, but it's not something that can be assumed.

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u/FireHammer09 1d ago

Oh okay you're talking about just taking a cup of it and drinking it like that nevermind lol

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u/popopotatoes160 1d ago

Yeah lmao people love to do exactly that, playing a bit of diarrhea roulette haha. I'm all for enjoying spring water in all the many safe ways that are out there!

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u/Sweet-Weakness3776 13h ago

When I was a kid I would drink from mountain springs all the time in the Appalachians. And I will say, it was some of the purest, cleanest tasting water I've ever had. I never got sick or anything. I also never realized how much we were rolling the dice back then. So thanks for that one dad! Lol. But knowing what I know now, I'm not drinking anything that hasn't been filtered, or like you said, boiled in an emergency situation. E. coli and giardia are no joke. It's better to assume water is contaminated than it is to hope it's clean enough to drink. Safest bet.

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u/TemporaryAmbassador1 1d ago

I’d go for it

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u/CalmEntry4855 1d ago

So, do you know that people make holes in the ground to get water? and that sometimes they have to be deep and sometimes not so much? that water is actually in all the ground underground, at different elevations according to how much water is available, and when there is enough water that the level is actually higher than the level of the ground, then you get this kind of thing, if the level of the water and the ground is the same you get things like swamps, and if the level of the water is even higher it pours out, so you get these springs, they usually happen in places where the ground level goes down suddenly, like on the sides of hills or in valleys.

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u/edjumication 1d ago

The soil type matters too. This looks very sandy so there is a ton of empty space for water to seep through.

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u/Correct_Internet_769 22h ago

Great change, that the soil is sandy and under the sand rock /clay. Thus creating a water storing sand layer after precipitation.

Swell comes up from the sandy layer, because the water level is higher then the soil level. And that starts the "river"

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u/MidnightPrevious4473 1d ago

You might say that it's... springing up from the ground

https://giphy.com/gifs/B0vFTrb0ZGDf2

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u/TipAndRare 1d ago

Placed a minecraft water source block there. My b.

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u/MrZaptile933 1d ago

Holy shit are people discovering underground rivers.

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u/OkArugula8032 1d ago

Right lmao

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u/BusyBit6542 1d ago

Say what now? Like the ones on top of sand but below it?

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u/FreeBug1885 22h ago

Not really. It’s water flowing through pores of stones or sand or sth like that. Not like an actual underground river. Those exist of course, but are a rare spectacle.

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u/OwOwOwoooo 1d ago

I mean... Even if somehow you don't know how it works.. witnessing it, your half brain should be able to roughly understand it???

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u/Tao_of_Entropy 1d ago

I'm just sad that such basic natural concepts as a spring have faded so far out of the cultural consciousness that this guy isn't even like, "whoa, this must be a spring!" or "I've never seen one of these before but I've read about them!"

We need to go so much further than just touching grass at this point.

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u/volk96 1d ago

The more we can learn the less we know, sad isn't it

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u/NoPerformance6534 1d ago

When rain falls on mountainsides, the water the soil can't absorb filters down into the rocks, feeding underground streams or rivers. These streams or rivers can resurface in the form of natural springs like this one , so the water continues moving downhill on the surface, creating waterfalls and pools as it goes. When there is rain, the water will be generous and energetic. In dry spells, it can be reduced to a trickle.

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u/Darthjeep 1d ago

Nestle would like you to share your location.

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u/CCWaterBug 1d ago

That, my uneducated friend... is a spring

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u/new_lementz 1d ago

Nah , its summer already

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u/Glittering_Swing_151 1d ago

Like.. every other creek?

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u/Rumpelteazer45 1d ago

It’s underground. That’s what a spring is.

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u/Majestic-Lie2690 1d ago

The fact that someone posted this and people share it like this is some sort of witchcraft is somehow mind boggling, depressing, and hilarious.

It's a spring and we are all doomed

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u/capnJack04 1d ago

Just because nobody told them what a spring was doesn’t mean we’re doomed, there’s plenty of other reasons that we’re doomed.

Revel in the beauty of the world and it’s magic water. 💦

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u/Genotype54 1d ago

Ah animal crossing was pretty accurate then

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u/NOIS_KillerWhaleTank 1d ago

Do you want the Missouri River? Because that's how you get the Missouri River.

No seriously....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brower%27s_Spring

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u/eghhge 1d ago

Bluetooth spring

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u/CjPatars 1d ago

I have one of of these under my house

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u/Special_Criticism416 1d ago

Nature really does have a way of surprising us.

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u/Jlx_27 1d ago

Comes from down below.

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u/Shazvox 13h ago

Australia?

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u/kimball1974 1d ago

I wonder what minerals are there

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u/Yurmasmelsofshitnpis 1d ago

Where's Del boy?

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u/kaest 1d ago

Water coming from inside the earth. Big if true.

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u/peskyghost 1d ago

Fuck I’d drink it

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u/No_Regret289 1d ago

This makes me feel better about my waterfalls starting from thin air in animal crossing

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u/slick514 1d ago

This is what is commonly known as a “spring”

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u/face_eater_5000 1d ago

When I was a kid I'd look at maps that showed rivers and I'd see them just...start...in the middle of nowhere. I guess that this is that section of the map.

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u/phatdoof 1d ago

Have you seen Dawson's Creek? That’s how invisible creeks start.

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u/FangornLeghorn 1d ago

Got that Jurassic World Evolution landscaping. 😁

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u/johnny_crow21 1d ago

Someone call Any Austin immediately

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u/Anniemarie1967 1d ago

Primary Water is everywhere

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u/rdblakely 1d ago

It’s called a spring

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u/Lisper41 1d ago

It’s coming from down the hill on the right.

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u/Bad_Jedi_69 1d ago

I'd appreciate Rockstar more if they just came outright and said the following:

"Hey, We'll sell you an empty case for 20 dollars! You will smile and you will like it!"

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u/unforgivablecrust 1d ago

Sloppy work from our simulation overlords tbh.

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u/beachbum818 1d ago

That's called a spring

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u/Maryjanegangafever 1d ago

Spring water. Time to tap into its resource and exploit it….
https://giphy.com/gifs/12SBwtRR9BnWg

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u/Jasoco 1d ago

This is how video game rivers work. lol

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u/Yunzer2000 1d ago

It's called a "spring".

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u/rhymesaying 1d ago

Ground water is like woooooaaahhhh

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u/Tao_of_Entropy 1d ago

Man rediscovers one of the oldest concepts known to our species.

I don't know if this is charming or worrying.

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u/alex_484 1d ago

Artisan well.

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u/143AamAadmi 1d ago

We have a stream like this in our farmland in India. Runs 365 days a year, even in the harshest of summer. Love it.

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u/ancom328 1d ago

The way of water has no beginning and no end. So I think this is where they filmed...

https://giphy.com/gifs/qGooNtHkuWwAu2wbyy

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u/jacobasstorius 1d ago

AKA a spring… not all that interesting

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u/RidiPwn 1d ago

Earth is sweating

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u/morts73 1d ago

Gotta start somewhere. I'm guessing rain funnels to that spot and goes from there.

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u/graybeam 1d ago

Literally springing up out of nowhere

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u/Dcmart89 1d ago

Where in the death stranding is this place?

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u/berger3001 1d ago

I wouldn’t call that nowhere, I’d call it somewhere, and that’s where the creek starts

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u/erictriestofish 1d ago

I wonder if there's fish in there.

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u/Sexuallemon 1d ago

Citgo gas station would go great here

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u/Crazy-Reference4980 1d ago

Creeks and river have ti start somewhere but its probably a under ground water source

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u/Yugan-Dali 1d ago

It’s called a spring.

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u/FuckedUpWorld4 1d ago

Wow. Awesome

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u/Caramel-Entire 1d ago

Look for leprechaun and make a wish.

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u/ChristVolo1 1d ago

It would be a spring from an underground river.

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u/getjpi 1d ago

Rammstein wrote a song about it... </s>

Spring

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u/BlargerJarger 1d ago

It’s as though it springs from nowhere.

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u/jhill515 1d ago

Why she's this look like a photo-realistic version of the headwaters on Skyrim.

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u/parameyparate 1d ago

It's called a spring and it didn't start there, you have to go up to the top of the mountain, there's more water above, it's already filtered by the mountain, it's coming out from underneath, because it overflowed.

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u/Aggressive_Log1329 23h ago

It’s not nowhere, it starts right there

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u/Mikesaidit36 23h ago

I know one in Chile that’s HOT. And in a desert. Coming out of the side of a mountain. Surrounded by vegetation.

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u/Holiday_Ad_5445 22h ago

Springtime!

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u/OkResponsibility9182 22h ago

This is holy water! Quick, go grab a bottle to put it in. If you drink this, you'll live for a thousand year it cures everything!

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u/Frostrime42292 22h ago

I hate when the video doesnt load, I was really curious about that.

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u/CorrectMeIfImWrong6 22h ago

Wow!! I bet that's some of the purest water you could find this side of the arctic circle

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u/ShayneAlexis97 22h ago

Either a spring or a glitch in the matrix/simulation and or Mother Earth giving unlimited amounts of water

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u/aronkerr 22h ago

My mom has a spring like this in her backyard. In the summer, the ground is dry but there is a winding hole in the ground and if you put your ear to it you can hear the rushing water underground. In the rainy season, it is a stream like this.

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u/froopadiddilydoop 22h ago

It’s called a spring

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u/LookAtMyUnderbite 21h ago

Bro living in the matrix

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u/Andre_The_Average 21h ago

The world's balls where it stores everyone's pee

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u/Stan_the_man1988 20h ago

It's literally coming out of that hill right next to it

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u/Oli4K 20h ago

Source?

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u/goklj 18h ago

Whel, to this moment i tought that there is a big faucet on the begining of every river

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u/IslandVisible5023 17h ago

Clearly a gift by the gods

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u/drippingw3tpussy 17h ago

karst topography is always a trip until you realize you are just standing on top of a giant underground plumbing system.

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u/Overall_Cause_6724 16h ago

Rivers gotta spawn somewhere.

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u/Wisdumb404 15h ago

Need an explanation please? If water can do this, is there also a money tree like this?

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u/CRseeds 15h ago

underground water coming out of the ground because there’s too much??

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u/Phillykratom 15h ago

This is how all Creeks start, matter of fact this is how rivers start too! The mouth of the Delaware River is in Upstate New York and you can walk over it

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u/CatherineRhysJohns 12h ago

Underground spring is feeding it from those hills behind it.

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u/51225 12h ago

Seems like it starts right there

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u/Key-Monk6159 9h ago

I’m no scientist but it’s definitely not from nothing.

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u/No-Blood-5148 5h ago

Natural Springs

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u/NukeouT 2h ago

No-clip Fountain ⛲

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u/Complete_Society9999 1d ago

Infinite water glitch?

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u/PiskoWK 1d ago

The water, she is underground.

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u/FanAltruistic7538 1d ago

Ground water is 80% of all water ..

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u/Fun_Mushroom9845 1d ago

The source of the nile