Uyuni Salt Lake

Here’s a really amazing slideshow that I received on the Uyuni salt lake in Bolivia, I was fascinated by it and thought that I’d share.

The Largest Mirror in the World: Uyuni salt lake

Note to Bearsy, we haven’t discussed embedding powerpoint presentations on The Chariot, is this okay? It works fine on my test site.

13 thoughts on “Uyuni Salt Lake”

  1. It works OK, so why not?
    But on one of the slides the text says “comprised of” which grates.
    It’s wrong – comprise doesn’t take ‘of’.     😦

  2. Cheers, I’m always keen to run ‘new’ innovations passed you, if you follow my link there is actually a feature for ’embed in WordPress’ so I thought that I’d give it a try.

    It’s a great presentation with some really cool facts which I wanted to share, grabbing it online is a bonus!

    Salt, who would have thought?

    Apologies for the grammar, but it ain’t my work 🙂

  7. Amazing photos.

    If salt is constantly being taken from it, I left wondering if it is replenished in anyway? if it is mined too hard will we loose it?

  8. Hello Pseu, from the information given it appears that at a removal rate of 25,000 tons a year, the estimated reserves should last about 400,000 years!

  10. Try this explanation, Christopher, taken from languageandgrammar.com –

    I don’t know when or how it started, but comprise and composed of have somehow become intertwined, resulting in the use of comprised of. Well, unfortunately, comprised of is a faulty construction.

    Comprise means include, as in Haydn’s Piano Sonata No. 6 comprises (includes) four movements. If you say Haydn’s Piano Sonata No. 6 is comprised of four movements, then you’re saying Haydn’s Piano Sonata includes of four movements. Now, that just can’t be music to anyone’s ear!

    You could also say Haydn’s Piano Sonata No. 6 is composed of four movements. That means Haydn’s Piano Sonata No. 6 is made up of four movements.

    Let harmony be restored.

    I did some Googling on this, only to find that many American “sources” do not understand what they are talking about and erroneously advise people that ‘comprises of’ is correct. It equates to “consists of of” – quite daft! 😀

  11. ‘Comprise’ has come to English, like lots of words, through Norman French. It is the past participle of the verb ‘comprendre’, which is obviously to understand, although it has an all embracing, holistic feel in French, and can therefore also mean to include. We also use it in both senses in English;we comprehend – or understand – we use the word ‘comprise’ as a verb when we want to include, and we have comprehensive schools which are supposed to understand and to be all inclusive in the original, spiritual and moral sense of the word.

  13. Mr Bear: thank you. I can at least use the excuse that German is my first language. What the septics do is somewhat unforgivable. It’s the cold blooded murder of the English tongue.

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