Geo (Gio) Rutherford

But there's tons of ponds across the United States that have lake names and there's tons of lakes that have pond names.

And so it just it doesn't end up really mattering at all.

Yep.

And the Salton Sea.

The largest lake in the world is the Caspian Sea, which is a sea.

And that's because the definition of a lake is a body of water surrounded by land.

So technically, as long as it's not connected to the ocean, then it's a lake.

But you have salty lakes as a result of no outlet for the water.

It's called an endorheic basin.

And that means that the water only escapes via evaporation.

And because of that, it ends up being salty.

So the Salton Sea, the Great Salt Lake, the Dead Sea, the Caspian Sea, these are all bodies of water that have no outlet for their water and it can only escape via evaporation.

It's all dried up out there.

Yep.

Yeah.

So like the future of the Great Salt Lake and the Salton Sea is kind of to end up being these crusty salt flats.

So I just visited Lake Manly, which is the lake in the belly of Death Valley.

During the glaciers, when all the glaciers were here covering North America, there was a ton of these prehistoric lakes.

I don't know why they're called prehistoric lakes because they don't predate history, but whatever.

There was all these giant lakes and a lot of them disappeared.