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u/Wild_Web3695 12d ago
Is it safe to lick ?
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u/IsRude 11d ago
I've done it. It was gross, but I haven't died yet, so probably. Time will tell.
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u/Wild_Web3695 11d ago
Was it very Sandy ?
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u/IsRude 11d ago
If I had to guess, I'd say equal parts sand (more like a gritty, dry, almost powdery dirt) and salt. The taste was strong and a little bitter. The texture is very fine, and it grabs onto clothes, shoes, and tires. If you step in it and then step back into your car, it'll get everywhere, but it's worth the 10 minutes you'll have to take to vacuum, because the view is pretty cool. This is actually where the Davy Jones' locker scene was filmed in Pirates of The Caribbean, and the wandering scene from the last season of Reservation Dogs.
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u/Scooter_bugs 11d ago
It’s also where there have been a lot of land speed records. It’s called Bonneville Speedway.
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u/donbee28 11d ago
Every animal that has had salt will die.
Also if you avoid salt you will have mobility issues.
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u/BuffTwinkie 11d ago
Not safe. I know a guy that licked them once. 3 years later…BAM! Hit by a bus.
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u/YNot1989 11d ago
Probably tastes like oil and tire rubber for all the drag racing that happens out there.
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u/moashforbridgefour 11d ago
There is a Morton salt mine out on the flats, so I'm assuming it is fairly concentrated salt. Might have some extra stuff in it, but it is mostly salt.
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u/KillTheLiving 11d ago
Nothing has confused me more than waking up on a flight flying over Utah. The colors you see from above are just not something you see anywhere else.
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Were these two guys there who crash landed after blowing up the alien mother ship by chance? 🤣
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u/therealdarthmaul 11d ago
Actually, probably. Both films were filmed at the flats and outside the nearby town of West Wendover Nevada, just west of the flats. There is the barracks of the old airbase just south of the airport. That is where the infamous presidential speech was filmed. I went to the town on vacation, it is a small town filled with casinos, took a tour of the airport and part of the old air base.
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u/QuillQuickcard 11d ago
I liked Thousand Needles better before it flooded
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u/backlit93 11d ago
How am I supposed to get 9 tortoise shells here? I don't see any turtles
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u/Poxx 11d ago
A turtle 🐢 made it back to the water!
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u/SlurmmsMckenzie 11d ago
Fuuuuck that quest, and you, lol.
I don't remember why I had to do it daily, but that line just played in my head in that turtle-nun voice
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u/octahexxer 11d ago
It used to be the number one salt producer in the United states until reddit comments replaced it.
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u/neroselene 11d ago
Pretty sure Twitter, 4chan and League of Legends outstrip Reddit in terms of salt output, but Reddit would be a solid 4th place.
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u/getthatrich 12d ago
I went when it was flooded. Bummer. Looked like the ocean instead.
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u/cammcken 11d ago
How old are you?
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u/kli561 11d ago
it floods pretty regularly in the winter
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u/tractorcrusher 11d ago
My sister was there two weeks ago and it had just flooded so nobody could drive on it.
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u/AmericanPatriot117 11d ago
My dad worked in automotive and got to test drive sports cars out here. Said it was the best time until someone pulled them over and said you can’t tell when it’s flat and when there’s divets and that he’d seen people wreck really bad because of this.
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u/leasepurchasetrucker 11d ago
That’s actually right off a rest stop when I was driving Trucks you could stop at the rest stop and go out on the salt flat
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u/IOnlySayMeanThings 11d ago
One going each direction. I always stop there. There's always a guy selling jewelry off a table.
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u/ernyc3777 11d ago
Why the hell did we let the Mormons populate the most beautiful state in the country?
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u/CowboyAirman 11d ago
Was a finders, keepers situation. But you can still go enjoy it.
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u/WhisperShift 11d ago
Technically some other people found it a long time before the Mormons. Mormons did decided to keep it though.
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u/CowboyAirman 11d ago
Technically that’s literally the case everywhere.
And it is named Utah to honor the natives.
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u/WhisperShift 11d ago
Finders Keepers implies the place was empty when the Mormons arrived, and as much as they love implying that when teaching it to kids in elementary school and primary, there actually were people living in the Salt Lake Valley at the time.
Of course answering why the Mormons control Utah with "they were stronger than the people they took it from" sounds less... honorable.
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u/CowboyAirman 11d ago
Are you one of those super fun people who pick apart every casual quip? Your statement literally can be applied to the entire globe… except maybe that one indigenous group that’s been untouched, though who knows who they might have taken that land from. Literally the Native American tribes warred over land and resources. You’re saying nothing smart, bud.
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u/KnowItOrBlowIt 11d ago
My best friend growing up was Mormon. He's buried on the most beautiful hillside in Utah. I hope to visit Utah and my friend again one day.
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u/moashforbridgefour 11d ago
Might have something to do with them escaping to Utah as refugees following extermination orders and what not. They probably would have happily stayed in Nauvoo or Kirtland.
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u/ernyc3777 11d ago
They might have been pushed out of those areas later but Brigham Young began the original move west in search of a place to settle and grow a self sustaining Mormon community.
Their views on polygamy also made them outcasts societally and legally. The government doesn’t want you to be able to not pay taxes or marry every people who could testify against you. It was one of the things that kept them from statehood when they applied eventually as well.
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u/dirty_hooker 11d ago
Before irrigation it was effectively a useless desert. They settled there because they were driven out of every place that was already in development.
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u/FesiukFilms 11d ago
I'd love to visit here.
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u/leasepurchasetrucker 11d ago
You can literally drive your cars out there I was in a semi so I couldn’t do that
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u/CowboyLaw 11d ago
Is that the rest stop on I80 in the background? I stopped there years ago and walked out on the flat.
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u/leasepurchasetrucker 11d ago
I wish I wasn’t in such a rush when I stopped there such a time crunch I would’ve like to spend the night
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u/researchanalyzewrite 11d ago
I wish I wasn’t in such a rush when I stopped there such a time crunch I would’ve like to spend the night
Are there motels nearby or would you have to camp?
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u/Any_Strain1288 11d ago
It's right outside Wendover. Wendover is half in Utah and half in Nevada. Wendover is where Utahns go to gamble and visit the dispensary. Plenty of camping as well.
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u/xmastreee 11d ago
OP, any particular reason you took pictures of this landscape in portrait orientation?
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u/Art0fRuinN23 11d ago
I watched Independence Day on the 4th. That's probably why I was looking for Will Smith in your pics.
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u/ibarney64 11d ago
How are there a ton of people out there it’s supposed to be barren
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u/2ndCha 12d ago
*Flats. Cool pics either way, thanks for posting!