The Off Topic Topic

[Legbiter]

You'd think they could save the house by redirecting it 😔

Yeah the scale of this eruption is now enormous, pictures don't do it full justice I think. It started out tiny but it's grown and boy, has it had time to snowball. Engineers have done the analysis and the costs involved in slowing it down are too much to only buy maybe a week. 



The lava field is flowing inexorably down the valley in the lefthand corner of the pic, heading to the farmstead. It'll take weeks to fill in the valley but it will get there. First it cuts off the road, then the entire farmstead will probably go under.

Youtube video of a guy filming the lava field. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwm8YGJ2lAc

[The Brain]

Have the people living at the farmstead been informed about the volcano? Will it be possible to evacuate the site in time?

[Legbiter]

Have the people living at the farmstead been informed about the volcano? Will it be possible to evacuate the site in time?

Anthropologists at the University of Iceland are furiously working on a First Contact protocol.

[Syt]

The farmstead:

[The Brain]

Have the people living at the farmstead been informed about the volcano? Will it be possible to evacuate the site in time?

Anthropologists at the University of Iceland are furiously working on a First Contact protocol.

Good. Hope they find a way that doesn't just scare them into the volcano.

[Syt]

Abandoned development project in Turkey:

[Josquius]

There a story behind that? Very curious.

[Tonitrus]

There a story behind that? Very curious.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/turkey-castle-ghost-town/index.html

[celedhring]

Country (other than the US) making most of the NYT headlines each month since January 1900.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvLjLswWsAAqQwe?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

You know, I'm thinking on what happened in Spain in June 2012 to have warranted NYT's attention and I'm drawing a blank. I mean, we won the Euro but it can't possibly be that 

EDIT: looking at it it the sovereign debt crisis peaked in July-August so there was probably some coverage of it in June.

[Eddie Teach]

Canada hasn't won since 1910. Up your game, fellows.

[The Larch]

1964, the year of jingoism?

[Sheilbh]

Found this map amazing:

Mainly because it really makes you realise the impact of the Gulf Stream - because London will have sunset tomorrow after 10 pm so the light blue bits of Northern Canada and where I grew up in the far north of Scotland in the full blue.

[Josquius]

When I moved to Japan in the middle of summer I was hit by SAD pretty hard at it suddenly being so dark so early.

[Syt]

I mean it's quite noticeable even moving from near Hamburg to Vienna. For one it's a couple degrees further south and it's a bit further East while being in the same timezone. On the plus side, even in midwinter it's light outside at 8 am

[Grey Fox]

That explains why all these california movies have so much summer activities in the dark.