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Re: Chat
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:31 pm
by pommystuart
Good Morning / Afternoon or Evening.
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I cannot seem the get the image to show, Help please Thanks Chris. I just clicked the Copy link button.
Sorry Kevin, no mention of worse flooding over burnt areas.
I general there was a lot of flooding in those areas but that often happens in those areas.
We were very lucky as the heavy rain seemed to skirt around the back of the hills behind me.
Location -33.09253 151.44883
or ///outsell.roundabout.lame or WC4X+XG for those using the new systems .
Re: Chat
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:50 pm
by Hanibal94
Here you go, Stuart - Right-click on the image and select "Copy Image Location", then paste that here:
Re: Chat
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:57 pm
by Michael
Climate change in the logs. Haida took a trip from Cordova to Valdez. On her return, she stopped off the
Columbia Glacier. Her position seemed quite a long way off from the glacier, so I wondered if, indeed, the glacier had retreated so far between 1935 and the time of this satellite photo in Google Earth. The Wikipedia article about the glacier states that it has retreated 9.9 statute miles since 1982. The circle in the image has a diameter of 10 nautical miles. So, they were probably just off the face of the glacier in 1935!
Re: Chat
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 7:41 pm
by studentforever
Oh dear
Re: Chat
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:38 pm
by AvastMH
Re: Chat
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:47 pm
by Morgan
WOW! The image and your circle certainly make it stand out starkly. Thanks
Re: Chat
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 1:57 pm
by Randi
Re: Chat
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 2:37 pm
by studentforever
The good old Beeb used to do April Fool jokes in the good old days. I don't know if you can still locate it but one of the best was the 'Spaghetti Harvest' with commentary by Richard Dimbleby who used to do all the big public events. The number of people who believed that Spaghetti grew on vines or bushes.
Re: Chat
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 2:46 pm
by Hanibal94
Wikipedia's "Do you know" section (main page, lower left) always has some entries that are technically true, but creatively worded.
For example:
"Do you know that
Mr Bean attempted to kill the Queen with a tobacco-loaded gun?"
Re: Chat
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:05 pm
by Randi
http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the ... i_harvest/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date ... 819261.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 591687.stm
Above from
https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary. ... hetti+tree
leelaht wrote:Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:31 pm
Lollia Paolina sees 9 flying penguins 8)
Hanibal94 and gastcra see 8 flying penguins
leelaht sees 4 flying penguins
helenj sees 3 flying penguins
pommystuart sees 2 flying penguins
Lekiam, jil, MAPurves, and kimma001 see 1 flying penguin
hurlock finds 9 April fish ::)
wendolk finds 7 April fish
jd570b finds 4 April fish
propiome finds 2 April fish
Zovacor finds 1 April fish
julietv100 gets 7 tickets to the Swiss spaghetti harvest
Caro gets 2 tickets to the Swiss spaghetti harvest
April Fools
Re: Chat
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:20 pm
by Randi
Re: Chat
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 4:04 pm
by Michael
Re: Chat
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:46 pm
by studentforever
Not quite sure where to put this one since we don't seem to do much on WW2 ships.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56608713
This concerns the wreck of USS Johnston, a WW2 destroyer
Re: Chat
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 3:16 pm
by Randi
Re: Chat
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:30 pm
by krwood
Michael wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:57 pm
Climate change in the logs. Haida took a trip from Cordova to Valdez. On her return, she stopped off the
Columbia Glacier. Her position seemed quite a long way off from the glacier, so I wondered if, indeed, the glacier had retreated so far between 1935 and the time of this satellite photo in Google Earth. The Wikipedia article about the glacier states that it has retreated 9.9 statute miles since 1982. The circle in the image has a diameter of 10 nautical miles. So, they were probably just off the face of the glacier in 1935!
Here's an animation showing how fast the retreat has been.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world ... biaGlacier. Certainly the
Haidi must have been fairly near the face back then.
Re: Chat
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:32 pm
by Randi
Re: Chat
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 11:20 pm
by AvastMH
Re: Chat
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:20 pm
by krwood
Ran across this series of photographs while looking for pictures of Stevenson screens on ships - lots of RN from WW1:
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collec ... 61000.html
Re: Chat
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:25 pm
by Michael
Re: Chat
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:30 pm
by krwood
NOAA Citizen Science Month featuring the WWII project:
https://www.noaa.gov/education/stories/ ... ect-of-day
