i'm thinking about cashing in everything i have and own, which ain't much, moving out, and just going on tour and going anywhere the wind takes me. I know it'll be the biggest regret of a life full of regret no matter what i do, but one version of this has bob weir attatched to it.
The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began
Keep in touch please.
I would never do something so irresponsible.
>>4
Don't you know about extreme tourism?
Stop bad habits
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31285969
Stop the bad habit of going to webshit aggregators.
TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com
My web aggregator of choice
>>1
what are your thoughts on dying? you could go on the tour and when you're out of money kill yourself
there's no point living a life full of regret, might as well enjoy and quit early
Zombie patriots on tour 95
>>6
That post got 1000 votes wow, maybe I've found a niche for myself, I'm very good at self-flagellation, I could just write a short mess about how much of a fucking loser I am and people would like it?
>>5
I didn't know, but now I know and I must say it sounds like a very bad idea.
Are you in the USA? Do they have laws that empower local authorities to round up vagabond hobos and homeless people to make them work in chain gangs?
I went on a bike tour in America once. The Midwest treated me like a human being; gave me food and shelter. The pacific states treated me like human waste and generally acted sociopathically. Fogures.
A bird might be considered a common pest in its native range but if it wanders far enough people will flock to see such a rare and exotic specimen.
Looking at hitting a few nights at Wrigley field... No idea where I'm going to sleep. From there, I might be able to get a ride to the Noblesville show. Guess I'll need a sign to get from there to the next few shows. If I can't find a ride, I can get a greyhound....but if I can make it, who cares?
Mother American Night!
South Pole is nice...
Vast underground water system helps drive Antarctica’s glaciers
Vast underground water system helps drive Antarctica’s glaciers
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Lake Whillans is a strange body of water, starting with the fact that there is liquid to fill it at all. Though buried under more than 2,000 feet of Antarctic ice, its temperatures climb to just shy of 0° Celsius, thanks to a combination of geothermal warmth, intense friction from ice scraping rock, and that thick glacial blanket protecting it from the polar air. Given the immense pressure down there, that’s just balmy enough to keep the lake’s water watery. Stranger still, Lake Whillans is also teeming with life. One survey a decade ago found thousands of varieties of microscopic critters, thought to be feeding on nutrients left by seawater that sloshed into the basin several millennia ago, when the glaciers last pulled back.
More recently, Chloe Gustafson, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, arrived on the remote stretch of ice above Lake Whillans with a different mystery in mind: What’s happening underneath that lake? Antarctic researchers had long suspected the plumbing below the glacier went much deeper than they could see. Any groundwater beneath the lake would have implications for how the ice up above moves oceanward, and thus for how quickly it might contribute to rising seas. But they couldn’t definitively prove what groundwater was there. It was too deep, too ice-covered to map with the traditional tools of glaciology, like bouncing radar signals off the ice or setting off explosives and listening to the shockwaves.
In a study published in the journal Science, Gustafson’s team offers a long-awaited schematic of the watery world underneath the ice. A vast reservoir of groundwater reaches more than a kilometer below subglacial water features like Lake Whillans, containing 10 times as much water. To see it, the researchers turned to a technique called magnetotellurics, or MT, which harnesses natural variations in Earth’s electromagnetic field to sketch out a broad picture of the sediment below. They expect that similar groundwater systems underpin other areas where the ice is flowing fast—so-called ice streams that account for about 90 percent of the ice making its way from the continent’s interior to the ocean. “This is one piece of the puzzle asking why this ice flows the way it does,” says Gustafson. “So it’s really important for understanding what’s going to happen to Antarctica.”
Scientists have long understood that subglacial water plays a role in how the ice above it moves. One factor is how it alters the sediment below, creating ruts and planes on the terrain. Another is by lubricating the ground, which allows the ice to slide more quickly. “If you have water on a Slip ’n Slide, you’re going to slide pretty quickly,” Gustafson says. “If you don’t have water, you’re not going to get very far.” Making sense of that subglacial hydrology is especially important for researchers racing to model particularly precarious regions of ice, like the Thwaites Glacier, a few hundred miles away from Whillans. In January, a group of researchers reported that Thwaites—the so-called Doomsday Glacier, which holds back enough ice to raise global sea levels by two feet—could collapse within five years.
But without groundwater, those models are incomplete. Researchers had long observed that more water was spilling out from underneath the Whillans ice stream than expected, says Slawek Tulaczyk, a professor of earth sciences at UC Santa Cruz who studies the region but wasn’t involved in the research. This was strange. As ice sheets approach the ocean, they tend to get thinner and thus less good at insulating the ground from the frigid Antarctic air. At these edges, water should tend to freeze, slowing down the movement of the ice. But that wasn’t what glaciologists were seeing. “This was the conundrum,” he says. Somehow, the patterns they observed were “thwarting thermodynamics.” The researchers hypothesized that nearly half of that water must be rising up from unmapped sources underground.
Gustafson’s team set out to map it. The ice above Lake Whillans is in the west part of the Antarctic, at the foot of the sheer Transantarctic peaks that divide the continent. The area gained favor with scientists conducting research in the pre-GPS era because those mountains helped as navigational aids. But it’s remote. “It was the longest, most grueling camping trip of my life,” Gustafson says of the weeks spent trudging around the snow and ice, digging out holes where the team would leave devices that passively listen for electromagnetic signals. The instruments would sit there for 24 hours before the researchers dug them up and moved them to the next site two kilometers away.
MT involves using electromagnetic waves produced by a variety of sources—from the high-frequency sources like lightning to the low-frequency undulations of solar wind. As these electromagnetic waves penetrate Earth’s crust, they wobble depending on how well they are conducted, allowing scientists to study what kinds of materials lie below. Typically, geologists use MT to look deep into the lithosphere—tens of kilometers below Earth’s surface—to study bedrock and geological faults; oil and gas engineers have used MT to map out energy reserves in the seafloor. But more recently, the technique has proven useful to Antarctic researchers looking to take a peek under ice. Gustafson’s team was especially interested in shallower measurements—about 1 kilometer deep. In the data, she could see the crackling of lightning storms on distant continents.
After the team analyzed the data, a more complete picture of the Antarctic’s continental depths emerged. The results suggested that the deepest groundwater is the saltiest, roughly the same salinity as seawater, and that it becomes less salty nearer the surface. This likely means that groundwater is being exchanged with the fresh meltwater found in the subglacial lakes and channels above it. That may help explain why there’s so much life in places like Lake Whillans. “Groundwater moving within the sediments can move carbon along with it, providing fuel for these microbes,” Gustafson says. That raises tantalizing possibilities for what sort of life might be clinging on in other parts of the continent, she adds.
That exchange also means groundwater is playing a role in the Slip ’n Slide. “We haven’t been looking at it hard enough,” says Winnie Chu, a glaciologist at Georgia Institute of Technology who wasn’t involved in the research. Groundwater adds a potential dose of uncertainty to models predicting the flow of ice, she explains. As the Antarctic warms, those vast reservoirs may be able to soak up the melt occurring at the base of glaciers—potentially slowing the impact of rising temperatures. Or they might start releasing more water as the ice above thins out, easing pressure on the sediment. “Now that we can see it, we can move on to the next stage and ask whether the groundwater aquifer has actually been affecting Whillans ice stream velocity,” Chu says. “That will help us build better models, especially for prediction.”
The data around Whillans is a good start for answering those questions, Gustafson notes, because it’s “rather boring” in terms of ice movement—that is, although fast-moving, the ice is pretty stable, not gaining or losing mass. That makes it a good baseline for future groundwater studies in places like Thwaites, where researchers are racing to build more complete models of ice movement in a decidedly less-boring region. Researchers are planning MT experiments there later this year.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-are-so-many-grateful-dead-fans-being-murdered
Ummm... OP are you still alive?
thanks for writing this legnthy dissertation >>17 it will keep me reading for hours
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I think of better accessibility as being better usability, and thus 'accessibility measures' as 'good ideas' per se for any infrastructure that cares about its users -- of course, the problem is that many organizations do not.
I actually randomly get reminded of this now and then, when I:
- open a door with an elbow instead of greasy or occupied hands
- tab through a UI or use alt key shortcuts to quickly perform repetitive tasks not worth automating
- take carts, bicycles, and other heavy objects up accessible ramps, kerb ramps, or mandatory lifts
- read alt tags of images that fail to load or that the file host has lost
- search in or read the captions/subtitles of media that doesn't get to the point
- read captions when I can't play audio
- machine-translate autogenerated captions from unknown languages
Not to mention all that gets taken for granted that wouldn't exist had it not been required.
Almost sad but thats the only rule
these dubz rule!
>>1
STAHP
>>1
DO EET