^ Was going to say.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 20 February 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
Mauna loa is the highest mountain in the world!
If you measure from the sea floor
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 February 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
Tallest don't mean highest though!
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2020 03:22 (four years ago) link
Coastline measurement is a notoriously difficult definitional problem.
― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, February 19, 2020 7:04 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Nah man you just walk along the beach with one of those sticks with a wheel on the end
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 February 2020 06:44 (four years ago) link
One thing I remember from James Gleick's book Chaos is that coastlines are kind of like Mandelbrot sets: the closer you look, the more intricate they become. Measuring them accurately is close to impossible.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Thursday, 20 February 2020 11:19 (four years ago) link
My embarrassing geography-related example is that Denmark isn't, and has never been, an island. I can't even really remember why I thought it.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Thursday, 20 February 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
Looking at a map, Spain's Atlantic coastline does seem longer than Portugal's (and not even counting the Canarias).
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 February 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
For whatever reason, I have a serious block in my brain when it comes to geography. Like I may have read multiple books about the history of a particular region, all festooned with maps I've pored over extensively, and I will still find myself regularly surprised to (re-)learn, oh, that place is next to that place! Huh!
I mean I have difficulty visualizing the layout of even just the states that circle my own. It's kinda ridiculous.
― Hot, Now, and Oh-So-Very Wow! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
I'd've done all right generalizing the location of Ukraine, though, fwiw.
― Hot, Now, and Oh-So-Very Wow! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
Once I had a friendWho had the knack of tossingHis mind around geographyBoy, you think, you have problems
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 February 2020 12:49 (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
mandelbrot: LOOK CLOSER LOL
― mark s, Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
Eheh, I4ve just "measured" VERY roughly with a tape measure on a map and Spain's Atlantic coastline IS longer than Portugal's !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
(my method may make a geographer want to die, though)
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
Joke for science nerds:
In the name Benoit B. Mandelbrot, what does the 'B' stand for?
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
XpIs some of it technically in the Bay of Biscay or something like that?
― calzino, Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
Oh it's the old mercantor projecter thingy again.
― calzino, Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
mercantor projecter
Let's call the whole thing off.
― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
Wait, the Bay of Biscay IS part of the Atlantic !So after checking some figures : the total coastline of Spain is 4872km with 2058km on the Mediterranean which leaves 2814km on the Atlantic.Portugal's coastline is 1793km.So Spain's Atlantic coastline is more than 1000km longer than Portugal's !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
XpI'm on my phone rn!
― calzino, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
Well glad this Portuguese guy's musings on the differentiation between national characteristics of 2 neighbouring countries thanks to the heat of the water in their relevant seas has kept you going for so long.
Was only one of a number of revelations that I heard last night . Went to a geeky science competition thing so there were another number of things related to that. He was just an audience member at the reception afterwards.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
portugal is fractally wigglier than spain, the clue is in the name
― mark s, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
vessels abandoned at sea can be left that way, cf the vessel washed up off cork last week
the can theoretically be claimed (scrap value would conservatively be a million on the one in question) but the local registering authority must be informed and (irish jurisdiction at least) will then seek owners and allow a year and a day, which youd presume would almost certainly turn something up.
once abandoned they go 'dark', no signal, no traceability. there's not, to the expert with whom i conversed's knowledge (dmac sr) any real record of what is floating around the atlantic waiting for you to crash into, hence even today two men on overnight eyeball watch is the standard practice on any of his boats (not sure whether there's an official protocol tbh)
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
two pleasing if scary mid-ocean thing that have gone from "old salt's tall tale" to "very scientifically real threat" since my boyhood have been i: the rogue waveii: the giant squid
by contrast sadly diminished: the Sargasso Sea!!
― mark s, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
lol @ me on that same thread, unchanged since records began:
luckily there are still FREAK WAVES and GIANT SQUIDS!!!!― mark s, Saturday, 3 September 2011 17:45 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Saturday, 3 September 2011 17:45 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
Another thing I don't remember hearing directly before is that Guiness won't supply bars with barrels unless they also take the glasses for the pints. the bar the reception was in apparently has a manger that doesn't like having labels and logos very visible.I had wondered why a tap simply said Rotating Craft Beer (possibly Ale) instead of having some tage related to which one it was.Initially thought it was a brand title but doh, no it is a different type each barrel. Had a nice bitter stout yesterday.
& now wondering if that is a way that a certain clientele drinks its craft beer, no loyalty to brand but pot luck on which type it's going to get. & the novelty is the novelty?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
Had previously thought that different glasses which seem to have been proliferating recently were a promotional thing that had its own impetus where people actually wanted to get their pint in whichever glass, possibly for the novelty.& every brand seems to have its own glasses these days.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
Eheh, yeah I don't know why this question which I had NEVER thought about (although going to Spain and Portugal regularly) was suddenly so exciting...Well, at least, I know the answer now which is basically the idea of this thread !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 February 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
And to be fair it didn't take me that long... around 10 min (with a lunch break in-between) !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 February 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
massive thread side-eye from mandelbrot's unquiet shade
― mark s, Thursday, 20 February 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
Today's ironic development, just came from a talk on Aquaculture given by somebody from Marine Science dept in GMIT. One of his office mates is the Portuguese guy I was talking about 2 days ago. So this guy who was talking about relative heat of seas works in Marine Science. Thought it was just an observation made by someone in another field.
― Stevolende, Friday, 21 February 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
He's no geographer, that's for sure !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 21 February 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link
So apparently it's Dan Aykroyd, not Dan Ackroyd
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link
https://mirabiledictudotorg1.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/cathy-ack.jpg
― Hot, Now, and Oh-So-Very Wow! (Old Lunch), Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
You oughta know by now.
― pplains, Saturday, 22 February 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
Lolololol
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 22 February 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
Anthony Perkins's wife Berry (who was also Marisa Berenson's sister) died on 9/11 on American Airlines Flight 11.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Saturday, 22 February 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
He led an interesting life.
Perkins reportedly had his first heterosexual experience at age 39 with actress Victoria Principal
― whistling (brownie), Saturday, 22 February 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
aka Victorian Principles
― empire of the shunned (Matt #2), Saturday, 22 February 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
that the accent in "telepathy" is on the 3rd syllable, not the second
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
#wordsyoureadinbooks
i've absolutely heard both out loud tho?
― Campaign to move el0n mu5k thread to ILM (Will M.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
I’ve only ever heard the second, source?
― median punt (gyac), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
and prob 90% of the time, i hear it on the 2nd, and also, everywhere i have now checked online is also 2nd lol i am confused
― Campaign to move el0n mu5k thread to ILM (Will M.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
(xp)
accent on path in telepath, accent on lep in telepathy <-- how I break it down to an extent
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
sorry I meant "telepathic" not "telepathy"
I was just informed of this by a coworker, so grain of salt etc.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
oh yeah it's def telePATHic
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
sleeve had you been saying/thinking te-LEH-puth-ick?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
there is no wrong way to say anything if you can reasonably be understood and anyone who wont take a step towards you in such instances should be beaten and hung imo this is how we start to heal the wounds of the world
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
agreed in all cases except for ppl saying hung instead of hanged
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 27 February 2020 03:10 (four years ago) link