Dockside Gallery

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Michael Purves looking for very obscure Greenland places: "Okay... which no-longer-in-use-and-replaced-by-Inuit-name did they use THIS time?"

That would be me!

My favourite so far is Qaqqatsiaq 66.03 -53.45 Qeqqata

I call it, "Who needs U?"

Great picture.

Composition, lighting, attire ... all first class.

The composition and lighting, yes. However, my family is not known for elegance in attire. Indeed, our attire is far from elegant!

Such sartorial elegance, Michael! Well chosen hanibal He looks a little quizzical - possibly because the lat. and long. provided in the ship's log relates to water. Whereas Michael has discovered that a number of our ships have taken cross country routes - ahem!

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Bob announces the release of the next version of Ice Hunting spreadsheets.

I like the use of a more traditional means of communication - very clever, hanibal!

Excellent!

(Is it just me or does that horn look like a very large parsnip?

Perhaps he hollowed it out and used it as a horn before eating it?
No need to be wasteful!

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Signs of OW Addiction #239: You become so obsessed with OW that it drives you to insomnia!

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"Oh, woe is me! I cannot edit my ship histories because naval-history.net is broken!"

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Science is the light in the darkness, the means by which humanity has gained enormous power and knowledge over the centuries.
By contributing to citizen science, you too can help this great and worthy cause!

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The OW Team & Moderators discuss the issues with our current Server Team.

Letting the server people know we won't be put off much longer!

Nothing succeeds like violence! (Or so they would have us believe.)

I'm almost tempted to ask which lot we are...the pirates or the valiant few on the dock?

Pretty sure we're the pirates - I'm about ready to swing a cutlass myself!

Burnishing my cutlass as we speak!

We shall smash their docks and overwhelm the server people from our mighty ships! They shall fear our wrath!!

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OK - Pirates we are then. After taking the Dock we'll have to go for a general political overthrow at the Dockyard cafe so that we can have a somewhat less dangerous take-over with a bun-fight followed by a few pints of grog tea.

And we can show off our new Togs.

Ooo lovely! Are we still spending the 420,000 on outfits then? Super. I'd like my chain mail in titanium please

I thought the $420 K was for grog!!!

Perhaps it could do for both? I rather fancy my chain mail in platinum, with gold highlights .... though with all that grog, I probably wouldn't mind what it was made of.

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Midnight in the Dockside Cafe.

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Zooniverse moderator giving tour to rich VIP: "In the early years, all our projects were astronomy, but since then we have expanded to a wide range of fields, such as geography, history, biology and... HEY! Wake up!"

that's soooo funny hanibal. When people ask about the zooniverse I keep the explanation short - wouldn't dare mention everything because they'd run a mile.

Michael - I spotted the globe. Would it help to pinpoint any places that you are stuck with?

Another great one, Hanibal. Yes, the globe would help! That and a magnifying glass!

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OW'ers celebrate the return of NavalHistory.net after a long absence.

Three cheers!

Wonderful! This will have us full of joi de vivre

Three Cheers AND a 21 gun salute!!!!

Splice the mainbrace and extra rum all round!

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Scientists showing off Zooniverse project results to the general public.

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OW'er somehow ends up at a completely different Zooniverse project: "Oh! Excuse me, fellas - I must have taken a wrong turn back there!

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Exhausted Ice Hunter in the evening: "Maybe it wasn't a good idea to do a whole month in one go!"

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OW'ers arguing whether science or history is more important, until the moderators (in yellow) arrive to break it up.

(The truth is: Neither is more important than the other. They're both very valuable!)

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OW'er tries to recruit relative: "Are you SURE you don't want to do citizen science with me? I'll give you this pretty flower!"

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The Mods meeting to plan our next area of research.

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OW'ers trying and failing to sweet-talk the mod.

Mods trying to sweet-talk Zooniverse?

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Les reparateurs de forum OW.

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OW'ers are tempted by other Zooniverse projects:
"Come join me! I'm way more fun!"
"No, join me - I am medical, and thus very important!"
"I have fancy statistics and badges!"

Oh what a brilliant picture hanibal! This is soooo true. And the worst are the projects who need to finish but have come to a standstill and that you feel too guilty to leave hanging in mid air and go off and do a day's work for and then feel doubly guilty when you leave them the next day, so then you feel sad for them but you feel guilty about your own project losing you for a day...and....and...and...
OK - I've heard the siren calls

Excellent!

This is one of your best!

Absolutely brilliant! Oh, and just between us, which one offers badges?

Just between us - it's Notes From Nature. They have quite a few.

Well, I'm always open to a bit of bribery, so I may just have to wander in that direction ....

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Signs of OW Addiction #94: You enjoy the ocean too much to care if your clothes get wet!

Not to mention being swept out to sea.

I guess swept out to sea is a good metaphor for an OW addiction.