Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to 99% Invisible - A Sea Worth its Salt
The Salton Sea in California was formed by mistake
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. 99% Invisible - A Sea Worth its Salt launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Marty runs the Alaska Stone and Log Company
2016 · its alternatives →
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After devastating earthquakes; give people half of a house
2016 · its alternatives →
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Aaron designs Field Notes and runs Draplin Design Co.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Missourri small town to one of NYC's biggest designers
2016 · its alternatives →
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It's free to play on steam, but you'll need a computer with a dedicated graphics card. I just released a new version after first releasing it 18 months ago. It's been a hard slog to scrounge time as it's not my day job but that's life. There's a ton of obvious improvements in the future (weather systems, temperature, varying rainfall, ice/snow, more biomes, more plate tectonics, lava, etc) but all suggestions/feedback is welcome.
2023 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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How a shuffleboard club succeeded in Brooklyn
2016 · its alternatives →
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This is an interactive map of US navigational aids and lighthouses, which indicates their location, color, characteristic and any remarks the Coast Guard has attached. I was sick at home with the flu this weekend, and went on a bit of a Wikipedia deep dive about active American lighthouses. Searching around a bit, it was very hard to find a single source or interactive map of active beacons, and a description of what the "characteristic" meant. The Coast Guard maintains a list of active lights though, that they publish annually…
Jan 2026 · lighthouses.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN - My name is Andrew, and I'm a high school student. This is a write-up on StratoSpore, a payload I designed and launched to the stratosphere. The goal was to test if we could estimate physical altitude based on algae fluorescence (using a lightweight ML model trained on the sensor data). The blog post covers the full engineering mess/process, including: - The Hardware: Designing PCBs for the AS7263 spectral sensor and Pi Zero 2 W. -The biological altimeter: How I tried to correlate biological stress (fluorescence) with altitude. - The Communications: A custom lossy compression…
Nov 2025 · radi8.dev · its alternatives →
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How a fisherman fought NY state law w/ pre-colonial law
2016 · its alternatives →
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Each pair helps clean up 24 football fields worth of ocean
2020 · its alternatives →
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Building a trucking empire in New Jersey
2016 · its alternatives →
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Building a trucking empire
2016 · its alternatives →
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