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Its a bit early for April Fool?
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Do other countries keep an eye on a piece of snow?
UK's 'longest-lasting' snow patch melts away
Dubbed the Sphinx, the snow on a remote Scottish mountain has in the past survived for decades at a time.
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Do other countries keep an eye on a piece of snow?
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Its a bit early for April Fool?
UK's 'longest-lasting' snow patch melts away
Dubbed the Sphinx, the snow on a remote Scottish mountain has in the past survived for decades at a time.
Do other countries keep an eye on a piece of snow?
No. But we are quite busy monitoring the Schneeferner Glacier on the Zugspitze. We are currently waiting for the southern part of it to be officially gone, the remaining patches are no longer considered to be a true glacier, just compressed snow.
But do I count as insane because I was actually looking at a small patch of snow during the summer?
Its the local eternal ice cave underneath the former celtic Oppidum.
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I think as long as you don't start talking to it, you're fine
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Noo, luckily not.I think as long as you don't start talking to it, you're fine
I just like to make a pause there while hiking, its a great place to get some really cool air in the summer. Even a few steps away from the door, you can already feel the cold wind that comes out of the cave.
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Is that a Russian style copy of the Ulstein X-Bow? It has some weak similarities, but it is way more bulgy that the original and seems to be more a classic icebreaker bow with a rounded, backwards sloping freeboard. Not sure how functional this version is.
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in fact, it is not even a ship, but a high-tech drifting ice floe, its purpose is to drift without the use of engines (analogue of the ISS only in orbit around the arctic). yes the style is similar to Norwegian ships Ulstein (I like)
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So, its more like a barge? In that case the bow shape makes more sense. For the last big drifting expedition MOSAiC, they used the new German Polarstern II ship, which is a more classic icebreaker spoon bow, specialized for arctic research and resupply.
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yes, the drift principle is the same as the Polarstern II which was frozen into an ice floe but it functions as a polar station starting from the North Pole-1 in 1937 then the station was located right on the ice floe (there was no global warming)
now stations cannot be located on an ice floe since global warming
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David Buick: the motoring pioneer who lost everything
Scottish-born car maker David Buick made two fortunes during his lifetime - and lost them both.
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Sad, his name is renowned in automobile history.
TheShuttleExperience
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Went to a local DIY store today. All shelves are full of goods. I can buy everything I need. And there was barely customers. So I'm a little bit confused regarding the news media reporting massive delivery problems, shortage of goods and interminable queues over the counters like the world is going to end soon. Well, out of five, only one counter was open with just three customers in front of me... ?
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My impression is that cities (and tourist destinations for city people) are generally getting supplied (though often with reduced selection stealthily hidden from the consumer), but rural areas are getting screwed over. Things have mostly been business as usual in Dallas, but we went on a road trip for a family reunion in September, and when we stopped in major cities things were fine, but when we stopped at rural travel stops, some of them were run down to a degree I've never seen before: heavily reduced menus , severe understaffing, and a level of neglect of the physical facilities that made me very nervous about food safety. Really brought the concept of "flyover country" home. A lot of these areas have been dieing on the vine for a while, but it hasn't been visible up-front. COVID has changed that.
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I can't speak outside the electronics industry, but there it's pretty bad. We're currently having 6 months delivery time for bloody SD-cards (industrial grade, though), which basically gets extended by a month every month... Let's not talk about more specialised stuff like microchips. We were supposed to roll out new electronics for our remote cameras, but the chips we need for them are currently announced to have a delivery time of 72 weeks... We'll have to make do with our 100 prototypes until then.
On the plus side, we're now recycling pretty much anything that we can.
That's usually due to heavily reduced customer numbers, though, not due to delivery issues.
