The other bodies of water in this picture are what interest me. Both the Pond and the Tidal Basin look bluer, showing what it would have looked like. Now it’s the color of grift.
They’re probably also deeper, which both provides a less ideal environment for algae to grow and also looks bluer despite algae that might be growing. The water in the tidal basin is also moving and has water naturally flowing in and out. The reflecting pool does not have that and needs to be shallow so that water movement is minimized to create the reflection it’s supposed to give.
Yes the Basin is more “wild,” fair enough.
The Pond is also shallow and manmade, with a similar water system, so it’s a truer comparison.
I’m not sure if it changed, but the reflecting pool was modified to be fed by the tidal basin during Obama’s presidency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool?wprov=sfla1
Still quite deeper I think
Next week these idiots will be saying “It’s supposed to be green” so that dont have to admit they voted for a fool.
Why would they wait until next week?
The talking points need to percolate through Fox News until they all know what opinion they’re supposed to have.
only to show themselves as one instead, truely one of the bigglyist of plays.
I’d rather vote for the algae too
At least Algae is useful.
Algae produce a shitload of oxygen, so it’s super eco-friendly
i guess that’s 1 way to get him to do whatever it takes to change it
except it causes a feedback, eutrophication effect. teh algae dieback, and the consumption of oxygen by bacteria when the alge decomposies causes deadzone in the water. this is not that bad, since its manmade and not connected to another natural water system.
Isn’t it a bit late for St. Patrick’s Day?
Or it’s early.
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Yet still not as shocked as that pool is gonna be.
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I don’t understand why they don’t paint it yellow? The green algae and the yellow paint will make it look blue.
Einstein over here
Type shit
shit
“hooray, we did it?”
It’s green because Iran’s flag has green and Iran’s a winner.
Can’t wait for the Wikipedia page.
I didn’t see a dedicated page to this incident yet, but there is a section specifically for this event here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool
Definitely should be a conflict-style page about algae vs Trump war.
What do you expect when you give the contract for installing the water purification system to a company called Greenwater Services?
Are those green patches of grass to the north the patches that had “8647”?
Wasn’t that on a beach?
Nope
Wait why the “I did that”? I thought the 86 47 was like 86 as a verb to mean “end” and 47 to mean the 47th president. He wouldn’t paint the message to kill him himself right?
Thats how I found it
it was also recently somehow etched into grass somewhere around the whitehouse… like the grass was killed or dried or something
Chlorophyll? More like Bore-o-phyll!
looks like a mini-putt, with a giant hole on the end that he’d still miss by a mile.
Thanks, Obama.
So painting a pool a dark color which will increase the water temperature encouraged algae to grow? You’d have to be some kinda scientist or psychic to know that would happen.
- DJT
