Much has been said about lake Baikal, how there are monsters and aliens down there, mysterious lights entering and leaving the lake, soviet experiments, etc.
But to me, the weridness of baikla comes from it's "oceanic like" species while being a fresh water lake, Giant Amphipods and Copepods, species of sponge much larger than any other fresh water sponge, and even the world's only species of fresh water Seals, and who knows what else is down there.
Why only there? There are other great lakes in the world that don't have species that look that closely to oceanic marine life, sure those lakes aren't as big and deep as Baikal, but still.
it's like baikal is an experiment to make a freshwater, inland sea that mirrors the actual sea, but the lake is 30 million years old, who would conduct this experiment and why?

>>40757893 (OP)
Here's the Amphipod, larger than any other freshwater species and rivals some of the biggest oceanic ones.

>>40757904
And here's the Sponge, it's green due to it's symbiotic relationship with a plankton species, something that also rarely occurs in freshwater but is common on the oceans.

Finally, a good fucking /x/ thread

>>40757893 (OP)
I'm only posting this one because it's probably the longest one I've seen about it. Hard to find good stuff related to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SqAYSK_0hE

>>40758538
Yeah, for all the "soviet experiments" stories out there, very few seem to relate to Baikal.
For me, the fact that this gigantic freshwater body seems to be "evolving into some miniature ocean seems like an eons long experiment, hell, there are fucking volcanic vents at the bottom of the lake, no other freshwater body on the planet has volcanic vents, and the ones in Baikal are less studied than the ones at the bottom of the ocean.

1 Ancient marine ancestry
• Baikal sits in a rift valley that was once connected to ancient seas, and it’s likely that the ancestors of some Baikal species were marine or brackish-water animals.
• When the lake became isolated, some marine-like traits persisted or re-evolved because the deep, cold, oxygen-rich environment resembles some ocean habitats.

2 Unique deep-lake conditions
• Other freshwater lakes usually don’t get deep enough, cold enough, or old enough to mimic marine conditions.
• Baikal’s depth, pressure, darkness, and stable cold temperatures resemble some parts of the ocean — so species there evolved traits that help them live in deep-sea-like conditions (e.g., transparency, live birth, large lipid stores).

3 Isolation + time
• Most lakes are too young or too unstable. They dry out or freeze during ice ages. Baikal survived for tens of millions of years, giving evolution time to work.
• Its isolation means species didn’t get diluted by newcomers from rivers and other lakes — instead they evolved in their own “bubble.”

4 Rich oxygen
• Unlike many deep lakes that run out of oxygen at depth, Baikal’s deep waters stay oxygenated due to unique mixing. This allows life to thrive even at great depths — like the ocean’s deep sea.

>>40757893 (OP)
tldr in the same way that water transitions to air with a discrete surface tension water can also transion to brine with the same kind of surface. below the face of the deep there is another surface, the brine. in the same way the face of the deep is a different world from the sur(this is french is means above)face, the world there is another world below the face. baikal is strange because in the brine below the face something like an eldergods tape worm is still still alive and influencing the region.

I love the baikal seals so much

>>40761337
>People think aliens are reproducing with humans
>They are actually reproducing with Baikal seals
Look at the eyes on those fuckers, ayylmaos for sure.

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>>40761295
>Isolation + time
Which is weird, the Baikal seal are relatively new there, how the fuck did they get there?

>>40757893 (OP)
>it's like baikal is an experiment to make a freshwater, inland sea that mirrors the actual sea, but the lake is 30 million years old, who would conduct this experiment and why?
Aliens (idk, boiler plate answer) and to test what makes life in our oceans what it is and how to replicate it. Creating an artificial, closed-off oceanic eco-system is quite the geo-engineering feat.
But to take a devil's advocate position: I don't think one necessarily has to bring intentionally to it. It has ununsually ocean-like traits because it's an unusually ocean-like lake. Basically a deepwater trench marooned in-land.
>>40765333
It could have technically swam there. Baikal is not Endorheic, though it could also be some ice age nonsense.

>>40765453
>It has ununsually ocean-like traits because it's an unusually ocean-like lake
it' would explain it having amphipods that evolved to look and behave like krill, I wonder if those seals might eventually evolve into filterfeeder "whales".

Lobster Man

Russia has recently sent submarine drones to the bottom of the ocean, why aren't they sending them to the bottom of lake Baikal?
What are they hiding?

>>40769170

I think they dud and found a tentacle monster they killed most of the people sent down. Organism 46-B.

>>40769398

Nevermind, wrong lake, but maybe there is a Squid monster there given how oceanic it is.

bk

>>40769406
>but maybe there is a Squid monster there given how oceanic it is
That would be something, since there are no freshwater cephalopds.

Bump

>>40757893 (OP)
wasnt an anon investigating this? or some other spooky lake?

Test

>>40758273
What? You mean you don't like to talk about Jesus and nofap?

>>40757893 (OP)
>Much has been said about lake Baikal, how there are monsters and aliens down there, mysterious lights entering and leaving the lake, soviet experiments, etc.
>But to me, the weridness of baikla comes from it's "oceanic like" species while being a fresh water lake, Giant Amphipods and Copepods, species of sponge much larger than any other fresh water sponge, and even the world's only species of fresh water Seals, and who knows what else is down there.
>Why only there? There are other great lakes in the world that don't have species that look that closely to oceanic marine life, sure those lakes aren't as big and deep as Baikal, but still.
i think that's neat

>>40773412
that anon investigated lake Tahoe, somehow no other thread or updates from him

>>40757893 (OP)
Buy кaл