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[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Climate change.

The poop's been there for decades. But it used to be frozen solid. If it's starting to smell, I can only surmise it's because it's melting.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That raises questions about how the corpses are faring with the warming.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, I think we're about to discover they're very much alive and teeming with activity, just not the kind we expect from pre-mortem mountaineers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Off the top of my head, I can imagine a dozen or so industrial uses for scp-5140. The creepy pasta is sometimes in how society might respond to SCPs.