Some thought that … and some didn’t. Some noticed the shape of the Earth’s shadow on the Moon was round. Some noticed that as ships sailed into the distance, they ‘sank down’ until only the sails were visible. All ‘people’ weren’t smart about it.
Anyway, putting a big map like that on a 6-foot globe, you could stand in one place, spin it, and see it all.
Related fact: the Greek astronomer Anaxagoras taught that the Earth went around the Sun … 1500 years before this map was made.
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That’s good to hear.
Here in the US, I haven’t seen a sign or heard a word from or about Stein this year. None. Also true in previous years. How’s a GP going to get grown if it doesn’t get a voice in and on the news? If the crazy right wasn’t enough, I also notice that the Dems spent some time and money trying to put her down.
Looking at the GP platform, it seems solid. But, in the US, my position has NO representation in the US. If there is a GP in the US, it’s been very muted. Stein is just a stale placeholder with no voice. That’s not leadership. Every election for DECADES I’ve heard, “oh, not this time. We have to win it back” or “we have to hold on to it”. OK, so when should we vote GP then? Screw that argument. We need another party, and there’s only one way to get there. And that’s quality, visable, vocal, energetic, leadership.
I looked at Canada’s GP yesterday. They at least have -some- kind of org. in most provinces. IIUC, the GP has two seats in their congress. They got a million votes in 2019. That’s better than nothing.
What’s ‘miles short’ converted to Gigatons?
Derange the home stove, the Ford, or the range?
I specially liked the part where he collected $50k by clueing the affected companies.
“The change would force the companies to prioritize the government’s social and economic objectives over corporate profits.”
That starts to sound good. What are those objectives?
I noticed in that video how Al Gore looked as he listened. Sagan died in 1996. Gore released his documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, 18 years ago in 2006. I believe Sagan would not have been surprised at the film’s reception, nor surprised by how little impact it has had on effective response to the threats it outlined. You can lead a horse to water…
I’d like to encourage the author of of this to leave the line- and paragraph- breaks in the source text. This is impossible to read as is.
The wonderful thing about burying CO2 is that nobody can tell you didn’t. If it leaks out, nobody can tell it did. If you can get paid for it, that’s the most wonderful thing.
CO2 is like nuclear plants in that way. When Rocky Flats had a big fire in their weapons plant, and plutonium fell all over the Denver suburbs, they just didn’t tell anyone about it.
A new Linux OS may emit unfamiliar sounds if some network app is still running and set to use them for notifications. Quitting the (sound-making) app(s) and/or the network connection will can avoid that problem. Of course you can just turn the sound volume all the way down.
Suspended OSs may sometimes ‘wake up for no reason’ if some vibration causes the mouse, for example, to jiggle around enough.
Logging out of your user account before suspending/sleeping the machine will stop that stuff without having to dig thru settings. Faster to log back in than to reboot.
This Cat-4 started just down by the Yucatan and worked up 140mph-sustained winds in a couple of days over the Gulf of Mexico. I’m wondering how common that’s been before.
I ran into a very old saying yesterday: A fish rots from the head down.
Quite the contrary! The idea is that today’s curricula and methods of instruction have changed a lot over two centuries. Here in the US, it is not uncommon for secondary arts teachers and programs to be dropped whenever schools are feeling a budget crunch. Now we see similar things going on in major universities.
In the high school I attended, and later in one that I taught in, the separate building for the sports program was as large as the rest of the school. I thought those were fairly clear statements of what the district’s priorities were. ‘Education’ is a very broad word that can mean many things in many places.
A musician friend of mine, when asked “Why are there no Mozarts or Beethovens any more?” replies “We went through your schools.”
As they always teach over at Electoral College.
Me too! (I can only wish I could hear the Carlin version.)
Glad to hear that! I’ve got that problem too! Sometimes it takes hours to find the way out … hours free of social media, boring or horrifying news (real or fake) … today it was the Medici family history …
US parts prices are … WOW … There was a time when there were junkyards, guess there aren’t so many as once.
I ran across the unglobed map before I found the planisphere at the online British Museum’s ‘Silk Road’ exhibition. Go there and look for the text ‘Map of the world from al-Idrisi’. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/british-museum-silk-roads-exhibition-1234722468/
I found the planisphere image on the Wikipedia page for ’ Tabula Rogeriana’, which shows several chunks of the map. (Idrisi maps all have ‘South’ on the top of the map.) In the ‘significance’ section, there’s a big version of the map. None of them are maps of the whole Earth … it’s said that his maps were all based on what people who’d been there told him.