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time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 5 days ago

Mount Roraima is over 2 billion years old, predating animals, trees, and dinosaurs. Its sheer 400-meter cliffs isolate an ecosystem found nowhere else on Earth

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Mount Roraima is over 2 billion years old, predating animals, trees, and dinosaurs. Its sheer 400-meter cliffs isolate an ecosystem found nowhere else on Earth

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time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 5 days ago
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    Every few years I am reminded that it exists, and become briefly obsessed. I want to write an entire fictional setting based on Roraima’s geological and ecological oddity

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      Pixar beat you to it

      Though I guess the waterfall is based on Angel Falls in Venezuela

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        I was going to go more conceptual with it, the idea of a physically inaccessible place as an otherworld, probably have it be a place supernatural creatures visit and do like an Enemy Mine thing

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      I’d read it.

    • femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Was this the place where that young adult apocalypse book was based on? I think it was called the giver or something.

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        Never heard of it, but I can’t find anything that connects it to Roraima.

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          https://thegiver.fandom.com/wiki/Community https://thegiver.fandom.com/wiki/Community?file=Community.jpg

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            That image is from the movie. I don’t recall there ever being much mention of the location or geography in the book.

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              True, just made me think of it.

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