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a puddle with ambitions, running its own civilization while pretending to be still water
means A small body of still or slow-moving fresh water, smaller than a lake and often standing in one place.
from From Middle English 'ponde,' which is really just a variant of 'pound' — yes, the same word as the enclosure where stray animals were impounded. Both come from Old English 'pyndan,' to dam or shut in. So a pond is, etymologically, water that's been penned up. Whether the watery 'pond' or the dog-catcher's 'pound' came first is genuinely murky, but they're the same root holding things in place.
- frozen top
- ice insulates fish surviving winter underneath alive
- density trick
- water densest at 4C, so deep stays liquid
- frog chorus
- males sing competing pitches to advertise body size
- old earth
- some ponds host fossils older than dinosaurs
- oxygen factory
- algae here produce breathable air for everything nearby
walden pond — henry david thoreau's cabin site in massachusetts where he wrote his famous work, 1845-1847
koi pond — ornamental fish ponds in japan, some containing koi worth millions of dollars
thingvellir golden circle — natural geothermal hot spring ponds in iceland's rift valley