All the gunk you see there filling San Francisco Bay is the environmental legacy of gold miners in the 1860's, who scoured the mountain valleys of California with high-pressure hoses in a last-ditch search for gold.https://twitter.com/ISSAboveYou/status/1448043988133371905 …
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Thank you for sharing that fascinating historical information and how that relates to what we can see in this video clip. If you have more info about this - please do share more (perhaps a link). Thanks!
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"Hydraulic mining California" is a good search string for this stuff. I found this short KQED clip on YouTube that gives a lot of the history:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV547grgDL4 …
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That's perfect. One of our goals (wishes) from sharing these views from space is to promote a more detailed understanding of what, exactly, is being viewed and what this means as far as conservation efforts and more. Thank you again!
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My pleasure! Thanks for posting this beautiful video of the flyover for us.
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