When a lightly salty body of water evaporates over time in the right way and on the right terrain, the result is a very flat layer of salt. But the surface isn’t anything like glass. It does occasionally rain there. It’s a kind of sticky slush of tiny moist rocks.
Bonneville is large enough, thick enough, and flat enough to run extremely fast straight line machines on. Flat, like a geometric plane. There’s lots of things made of glass that are curved; glass is known for its smoothness.
Salt flats are flat, and not necessarily smooth. Glass is smooth, and not necessarily flat.
Can you explain what you mean here to someone who had never heard of salt flats before?
When a lightly salty body of water evaporates over time in the right way and on the right terrain, the result is a very flat layer of salt. But the surface isn’t anything like glass. It does occasionally rain there. It’s a kind of sticky slush of tiny moist rocks.
Bonneville is large enough, thick enough, and flat enough to run extremely fast straight line machines on. Flat, like a geometric plane. There’s lots of things made of glass that are curved; glass is known for its smoothness.
Salt flats are flat, and not necessarily smooth. Glass is smooth, and not necessarily flat.
Assumed they were referring to the glassy mirage effect you see in hot places.
TIL ;)
It looks like glass 🤦🏽