It’s Sunday and I don’t have anything interesting to write about so instead I have a small gift. I stumbled across an amazing website the other day and have been obsessed with it since. The TL;DR is that you’re presented with a map of the World and can click anywhere on it.
That click represents placing a raindrop in that location. What follows is endlessly intriguing. The path the raindrop takes to the sea or other large body of water is mapped and animated on the map. The result is almost always unexpected. A surprising number of paths in North America end in the Gulf of Mexico, even if the raindrop is deposited in the north central U.S. or, say, Colorado. Even then the path is not as direct as you’d expect.
The above description doesn’t quite capture how amazing and entertaining the site is. Give it a try and see for yourself.