0030am 01 December 2023 Ireland – EirSat 0002 – Design requests please? Imitation is the sincerest form of flatter and all that, and the new sensors should fit in another cubeSat? A micrometeorite impact microphone? Cool idea? Zig/Zag – Zing.
| 31 Jan 1958 | Launch of the first American satellite, Explorer 1 on a Jupiter C launch vehicle. The satellite’s total weight was 30.66 pounds, of which 18.35 pounds were instrumentation. Its Instrumentation consisted of a cosmic-ray detection package, a number of temperature sensors, a micrometeorite impact microphone, and a ring of micrometeorite erosion gauges. |
0040am 01 December 2023 USA NASA https://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/vanallen.html “Also click here for a NASA tribute to Van Allen.” Error 404 – Site not working?
0110am-0240am 01 December 2023 Spain – That what you’re looking for? No, something big enough to effect the Spanish naval fleet, 1200s-1600s, maybe 1700s, sailing ships, harboured, possibly Cadis or … WorldHistory.org Treasure Ports of the Spanish Main “The Spanish galleons, bristling with cannons, travelled in convoys from 1555 (an idea instigated by Captain-General Pedro Menendez de Avilés) and were additionally protected by a specific task force, the Armada de la Guarda de la Carrera de las Indias. This fleet of 6 to 16 warships was created in 1521 to patrol the waters between the final stretch of the route, the Azores to Spain. From the 1540s, the task force accompanied galleons all the way from the Caribbean to Europe.” Here it is “When Drake attacked Cadiz in 1587 and ‘singed the king’s beard’ by destroying valuable ships and supplies destined for Spain, Philip’s long-planned invasion, what he called the ‘Enterprise of England’, was delayed, but the Spanish king was determined. Philip even gained the blessing and financial aid of Pope Sixtus V (r. 1585-90) as the king presented himself as the Sword of the Catholic Church.”
https://www.worldhistory.org/Spanish_Armada/ “The Armada, packed already with 17,000 soldiers and 7,000 mariners, sailed from Lisbon (then under Philip’s rule) on 30 May 1588.” Antique Maps, Admiral, can go ashore I buy a map? I might need to use a company check. https://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/newmapspain-wells-1700 Sure, can you see about some nice local cigars too? No, I’m not looking for a copy, the original, please? It’s a nice map. What does that lot mean? No idea, however I mean to find out. Oh, and can you give him the receipt for the map after I’ve left tomorrow. And the cigars too. You’re not taking that map with you, that should be in a museum. Oh, that’s actually where I’m going, I’ve a nice librarian to see. She has a very pretty voice. Are they light houses? Why are there light houses on the rivers? Good question, do you want to come along and find out? Rudi, can you do some computer stuff with this? Ok. Wooh, this says the map cost more than my computers. Boss is going to be surprised.
I know boss, this is the type of map I thought he was getting too. http://www.gettingaround.net/pages/poc-spain.php Dining – “They include salty anchovy fillets in a garlicky oil, spicy sausages, olives and meatballs in tomato sauce.” Mmm, lunch first? “TIME 6 hours later than the East Coast U.S.” Should I call the boss now, or wait another few hours? Well, you see, if you flip the map over, some of the detail is visible though the paper. Particularly when you hold it up the the light. Rudi, how is all that stuff arriving that’s of such relevance when you’ve barely started? Oh, Google, it thinks I’m someone like Dirk, except a computer person and it’s giving me all the stuff they found relevant. https://militarymaps.rct.uk/other-18th-19th-century-conflicts/siege-of-st-sebastian-1719-plan-de-la-ville-et
Where’s that? No idea, Google just threw it at me, hold on and I have a look. “These findings led to a new model for Cispatá bay evolution with respect to that proposed by previous scholars using some of these maps. In particular, some river mouths and coastal morphologies were backdated, and bay infilling proved to be far faster than described before. Written documents demonstrate that this process was triggered by inland slope deforestation.” “Litter abundance and typology were investigated at different beaches and mangrove forests at nine sites on the Colombian Caribbean and Pacific coasts. ” https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/11/2/250 Where’s the original article the one the maps were from? Cispatá Bay and Mestizos Evolution as Reconstructed from Old Documents and Maps (16th–20th Century) Compared to what? Cartagena – City in Colombia What happened? They cut down all the trees and all the silt just washed into the river. Is there more to it than that? Rudi? It’ll take a little time. I’ll have to write a new program.
0640am 01 December 2023 Ireland – Crispy clear morning, Venus is absolutely amazing this morning. China releases 1st images of complete Tiangong space station (photos) By Robert Lea published 1 day ago Are we building a module? Ireland, oh, the pub? I know a fruitloop says he’ll tend bar there for ten years, if the hours are ok and he gets to walk outside every week, “Oh, and an occasional weekend on the Moon, say once a year?”, “And book rights.”.
0715am 01 December 2023 Mexico UK The Guardian – A tale of two cities: a month after Hurricane Otis, Acapulco exposes gaps in disaster response “In the first few days after, there was no authority. All basic services were offline,” says Naxhelli Ruiz, an expert in disaster response at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. “What we saw was catastrophic – like Japan in 2011 or Indonesia in 2004.” – “Electricity was restored after nine days but power was still sporadic, they said.” New York Times Cockroaches and Mountains of Trash Plague Acapulco After Hurricane “Residents complain of rashes and stomach ailments as 666,000 tons of garbage overwhelm the city.” Why was it described as that? Oh, the mayor was calling the USA reporters devils, all their ills being due to the Americans, blah, blah, blah, instead of, well, we privatised the bin collections and no one paid for their bins to be collected, we had to because there was no taxes, no one paid taxes, the government, the army and the police being devils too and everyone was calling the tourists devils, so the tourists never came back. And why was that? Oh, the drug dealers started calling them that, selling drugs to the poor people was more money than working in the hotels, it’s why Australia has such a high minimum wage. WageIndicator.com “The minimum wages have been revised in Australia, effective 01 July 2023. The national minimum wage is increased from $21.38 to $23.23 per hour and $812.44 to $882.80 per week.” So they can afford to go to the footie and get a few pints after of course. Schooners, we don’t sell pints here. 425 millilitres In Australia, a schooner is a type of beer glass typically holding 425 millilitres (or 15 fluid ounces) of beer. Why do they sell it like that? Oh, decimal book keeping. What? 100 drinks out of a barrel, though you’d have to have tended bar to know that. https://www.harrisscarfe.com.au/hub/food/beer-glass-sizes-explained It doesn’t say that there. Yes, it doesn’t. “The Imperial Pint is the traditional British pint glass and holds 20 ounces (568ml) of liquid. On the other hand, the American Pint holds only 16 ounces (473ml) and has a slightly different shape, with a more pronounced taper towards the top.” And how do they decide which glasses to serve the beer in? Oh, it depends on which type of tulip turns up the the bar. TeeHeeHee. Nice. Needed a laugh.
0820am 01 December 2023 USA NASA – CubeSat sizes. JPL – What’s your NASA Costume? – “And now we have a Space Program.” I used to smoke John Players in the nice blue box, though now I smoke Golden Virginia, I roll them myself. Captain John Carter, Virginia – Oh, it’s the German dubbed version. “October 31st isn’t just Halloween… it’s also JPL’s birthday!”
0835am 01 December 2023 USA Hawaii – HULA PRACTICE | Basic Hula steps for beginners Why such an elaborate and difficult starting step? Strangely, in the DF there was a small problem when weightlifting arrived in. With all the push ups and stuff and stomach exercises, back raises were introduced to balance the muscles. Now, since paddling a canoe was a very common practice in Hawaii, was the dance introduced to prevent injury by balancing the muscles? The abdomen is crunched and the arms exercised pulling the paddle. While the hip movements are cool, the unusual muscles exercised are the side abdominals and lower back muscles as the leg is pulled to the rear. What is the difference to Irish dancing, where the knees are lifted exercising the front abdominal muscles? Digging and picking potatoes? Back is exercised more and the Irish muscle balancing, Irish dancing is needed to exercise the front abdominal muscles?
0030am 02 November 2023 USA Alaska – That the one you were waiting for? Depth 100km. Hopefully. And is there a danger from this in Summertime when the rocks expand? Well, it’s a bit different to Iceland, there’s liquid magma there, and rocks squished together they crush rocks stuck in pockets of air or water. Haven’t looked at it in Summertime yet. I’ll have a look over the year. You might check here for unusual lights? Piesoelectric effects, depends on the underlying minerals, quartz inclusions and layers, we have them in Ireland, though I’m not sure of the geology there?
0050am 02 Dec 2023 Iceland – What’s happening there? Well, the ice is crystal already and a little lighter as it’s melted a bit, it’s normally clung hard to the top of the rock and as the rock contracts the glacier scrapes accross the rock. In Ireland the glaciers with rocks embedded left scrape marks, you might take note of the position and in fifty years, someone can look for the scrape mark after the glacier has melted.
0120am 02 December 2023 Greece – That’s the last 20 days, nothing near Delphi, the Oracle. And? Well, I’m waiting for one. And? Then I want see what happens afterwards. You don’t know what’s going to happen afterwards? Well, if they knew they didn’t leave a clue, that I’ve read, though there are documents somewhere?
0240am 02 December 2023 Morocco That what you’re looking for? Rudi, what’s with the kids colours? Oh, I used some code from a program I was writing for my kids, I’ll up date it as I get time. The arrow works. Brown for earthquakes? Why a blue outline? Oh, it’s over land, some of the maps are green with vegetation, over water it’ll be a green outline, unless its a dangerous one then it’ll be coloured yellow, orange etc. Why would the quake be important there? Well, if you think like a pirate, in the 1200s, the best time to carry out a raid is when the area is reeling from an earthquake? Similarly if you know the quake is going to make a wave, then you have the boats nicely tied and ready to move out after the wave? And a Catholic kingdom? Well, it’s nice to look all knowing, if you arrive with aid immediately after the cataclysm? And? Well, it’s nice to be able to say to the nearby ruler there may something unusual coming? Having early warning systems like that are nice. What might have stopped the system working? “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition?” What? Well, it may have looked a little like magic and interfering with God’s plan and stuff, depending on what the local Pontiff’s attitude was at the time, there was only one Pope at a time, yes, however he did have local representatives, they all wore rings etc. Rudi, can you translate the database information under it? Oh, es2023xofks Spain these crowd are expletive, Local time, a bunch of slave driving egyptians, No Northings or Eastings, they’ve no idea where they are, Mag. type expletive, Max. int complete expletives, Region, they don’t even have a list of towns and regions and I expressly asked for Apple Macs. That’s a rough translation, though I may have some of the idiom incorrect. That might actually be a region name at the end, though the rest is pretty accurate. There’s not that many of us our age still coding, do you want me to find out who wrote it? It’s a few hours on the threads to find out though, and I’m a bit busy on this?
0340am 02 December 2023 USA USGS National Park Service Shield Volcano diagram Rudi, why’d you put a black banner around it? Well, it’s like this: People have died to get you this information. We remember: The Mount St Helen’s dead and other brave men and women of the USGS and National Park Service. Rudi, sometimes I think we should be working for you. Admiral? That’s the idea. Rudi, how many years have you been in college? Counting the Phd I’m doing for you? Rudi, no need to answer that. Rudi, you done your Management course yet? Oh, the Admiral said keep an eye on you for a few years, he said your people skills were off the charts. Rudi, you’ll give the man a big head. Well, no, that’s actually what the Admiral said to me too. I’ve said it to the three of you, actually, at various times. And who’s in charge? Oh – he is? Ah, my coffee date. Cigar? And the map, that’s got a museum’s name on it already, so keep the thing nice and safe and dry? There’s some old WW2 Aluminium map tubes in the store room. What does he do with his old cigar tubes? Oh, I keep my backup USB sticks in them. https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/view.htm?id=BFB9EEF1-89D8-4711-B9F6-4B140C00EFDE&utm_source=photo&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=experience_more&utm_content=small This says Last updated: June 12, 2018 ?
Why has that one got no labels? Oh, public service, the upstairs was impressed, you’re getting a promotion. I’m not finished? Oh, upload what you’ve done so far, you’re replacement will finish that. And? There probably wasn’t a to do list? That’s a long to do list? Well, we’re busy people and on my six months at home the other person knows where to start. Do you have a to do list? Does a tattoo count? You know they have an app? You have phone coverage here? No. Correct. https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/view.htm?id=4E627465-B8EF-40E6-874C-6A1F3E4174F1&utm_source=photo&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=experience_more&utm_content=large Here’s the one with the labels, it’s got the wrong name on it? Well, that’s not very confidence inspiring.
0520am 02 December 2023 USA New Orleans – What’s this? Oh, that’s when you put all the information together and no one want’s to prioritise and the data is location based. The Marine warning is actually for the coastal areas, however it’s posted as for New Orleans so the city area is highlighted in orange. Why all the pastel colours? Oh, it’s probably from the same colour ranges I use for the kids diagrams, so as not to get the folks excited and stuff. And the Marine warning in Orange? Well, there was a quite important weather event there a few years ago, so they might have insisted on a more alarming colour? Why’s the flash flood in brown? Oh, sewage upflow, comes up the drains in some places.
This normal? Yes, I’ve met a few promoted Public Service Americans. I think they meant a temperature reading of the surface? Like one of those little cameras you can put in your ear? Well, the Covid cameras, they could tell your temperature from just walking in front of them, there was one in the studio where I did the extra work for Foundation the tv series. You were looking at this in daylight, why’d you wait until it was dark? Oh, the lava doesn’t show particularly well under the steam clouds, and the steam bubbles rising normally break the top surface revealing the hot stuff to the camera.
You sure that’s Fahrenheit? Why?
It looks rather warm there in that photo? 21 December 2021.
0600am 02 November 2023 Argentina Uruguay You might ask how everyone’s doing?
0615am 02 December 2023 USA Hawaii – Actually that’s what I was looking for.
0630am 02 December 2023 Steve – Accuweather.com These magnificent purple and green lights aren’t auroras. This is Steve The phenomenon looks like an aurora but is in fact something entirely different. By Jackie Wattles, CNN 28 Nov, 2023 2:17 PM CLST | Updated 28 Nov, 2023 2:17 PM CLST – Maximums occur at equinoxes? Maximum changes in temperature, maximum horizontal movements. Piezoelectric? Steve. American Physical Society March 2014 (Volume 23, Number 3) This Month In Physics History March 1880: The Curie Brothers Discover Piezoelectricity Advancing Physics. “[In science] we can aspire to accomplish something…. every discovery, however small, is a permanent gain.”
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When did you learn that? Oh, on an engineering course. You were dating that hottie from Hawaii at the time. I remember her. You brought her friend to the luau. Nice girl, could bench press more than I could. The fire walking was fun though. The smell of your leg hairs burning, that made me laugh for days after. Do we cross the bridge here? Oh, the waters running South to North, can we back up the hill a little? Why? Well, there mightn’t be a bridge in a little while. You said nothing about there going to be an earthquake or a flash flood and, is the map ok? Is the map ok? Seriously some people’s priorities. How was I to know there was going to be an earthquake? There isn’t a Swimsuit illustrated calendar which says Mountains, December, be careful of the beautiful flowing torrents. She was May. Not my point, now can you find us another way to where we’re going? By the way, where is the map? You had the map.
1255pm 02 December 2023 Caribbean – You seen anything like that before? It is called the Bermuda Triangle for a reason.
“Bobadilla died on 11 July [O.S. 1 July] 1502 during a hurricane that wrecked 20 vessels of the 31-ship convoy, including the flagship. Among the surviving ships was the Aguja, the weakest ship of the convoy and which carried the gold Columbus was owed—spurring accusations that Columbus magically invoked the storm out of vengeance.” You’re on about his twenty ships sinking on the way home to Spain in the Hurricane, first listed Hurricane naval disaster. Yea, why did the weakest ship survive? Oh, easy questions, I like easy questions. That’s an easy one? How? They classed weaker as slower, the thing probably handled terribly, huge wide, deep draft, awful short masts, complete clunker. That became a ship type later. Yes, it did. And? Well, they didn’t blow over. Bad ships, the sails rip off, we call it a safety feature these days. Have a look at the Baltimore, one and two, fast as snot, built with new stuff and the mast rips off. No sense at all. New ropes on an old design. They build the sails like it’s a man on a parachute instead of thinking the boats sitting in the water like a concrete pillar, stick a parachute on a concrete pillar and somethings going to give. If the ropes don’t then the mast rips off. All the stuffs military grade. How do you put in your safety features? me? on the little boats? You buy a few “not for climbing carabiners”. And? Well, the sail has three pin points, two of them, you put the shite carabiners on. You can’t get top speeds on a ship like that? Yes, and it lasts longer. Getting there every time is a lot better than “it goes really fast” and “woops, can you please call the coastguard?” You have to keep tying the sails back on. Yes, and on the boat I keep a pocket full of the “not for climbing carabiners”, they’re a dollar each. The sails rip. The sails survive, they’re military spec. And I prefer it when people refer to the area as the (wiki) Saragossa Sea. “The first known written account of the Sargasso Sea dates to (wiki) Christopher Columbus in 1492, who wrote about seaweed that he feared would trap his ship and potentially hide shallow waters that could run them aground, as well as a lack of wind that he feared would trap them.” Ok, smart pants, another easy one? Crowhurst? Why? “25 November 1872 – The SV Mary Celeste, after passing Santa Maria Island in the Azores on 25 November 1872 (the last entry on the ship’s slate). The merchant brigantine became derelict in unknown circumstances. No boats were found on board.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_ship Go back to the Saragossa one again? “Though commonly called seaweed, Sargassum is a type of macroalgae. Like all algae, it produces oxygen.” Now, you ever heard the nurse say, we bring all the flowers out of the room for the night, they make CO2 in the darkness? What? Seen an algae making O2 bubbles in a jar? It’s a High school experiment. Seen it make CO2? Well, have a look at the weather on some of the missing vessels, Saragossa, dark of night, no wind, beautiful bubbles rising from the deep, low fog, warm water, thick seaweed, CO2 or Carbon monoxide, made by huge quantities of the seaweed in low Oxygen waters, I’d say poisoning, oxygen deprivation, brain damage, poor decision making or presumption of something wrong with the vessel, or an attempt to get away by skiff or life raft or life boat? In some cases, some of the older engine boats, the carbon monoxide from the engines was pretty bad too. Same for stokers on the big steam ships and early iron workers, the charcoal and coal, if you didn’t have a good breeze going through the place, it wasn’t always the heat and dehydration did for them. “Therefore you ought to thank God that yours is a dangerous business, because it teaches you to trust in God alone for safety. And what are you to give Him in return? What does God require of you? You cannot pay Him back again for all His mercies, for they are past counting, but you must pay Him back all you can. And what must you pay Him back? First, you must trust in God; for he who comes to God and wishes to walk with God through life, as a good man should, must believe that there is a God, and that He will reward those who look to Him.” Charles Kingsley The Sailor’s God And you take that to heart. Oh, yes, G (pocket full of shite “not for climbing Carabiners) o (oh) d (dear), the sail ripped off, isn’t that terrible, can’t fix it tonight, I’ll put down a wind anchor and I’ll fix it in the morning. Hot chocolate? Sprinkles? And? Saragossa??? are you completely off your game???
1520pm 02 December 2023 China – Might have a look at the dam? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longjiang_Dam
1530pm 02 December 2023 Philippines
Question? You’re a tourist in the Philippines who’s just heard a Tsunami siren, You google search, which do you pick? http://itic.ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=1164&Itemid=1164 That’s current warnings – International Tsunami Information Centre. Try to find out about your Tsunami? You have maybe five minutes??? Oh, and we should have told you about this five minutes ago? UNITED NATIONS ??? A small word??? Normally followed by a small sidekick called Hitgirl.
0330am 03 December 2023 New York Times Powerful Earthquake Strikes Eastern Philippines but Tsunami Fears Abate Reuters Strong quake in Philippines triggers tsunami warnings and evacuations United Nations ReliefWeb M6.9 Earthquake in Surigao del Sur Philippines – Flash Update #1 (Saturday, 2 Dec 2023, 2330 HRS UTC +7)
0330am 03 December 2023 Philippines When’s the latest one? An hour ago. The stories went out eleven hours ago? No, the first stories went out eleven hours ago.
0445am 03 December 2023 Philippines Mindanao Volcanoes, first attempt. That map look ok to you? Well, it looks like there’s a volcano or two missing? up top right hand side of the map? Where did he get his data? Wiki? Actually he did.
It was a nice map, an awesome map, however I think we should have brought a modern one too? I wanted to see the place like they saw it, without the modern distractions. Oh, and I can see the map now. Where? in your minds eye? No, it’s in the Admiral’s aluminium map tube? What? It’s poking over your shoulder, you have it on your back.
Who is that guy? Well, I tried to employ him once. And? He said “You’re going to need a bigger boat.” And? You’re standing on it, appeared from nowhere, anonymous donor.
0600am 03 December 2023 Philippines Taal Volcano – Get the boss, he’s going to want to have a look at this?
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0735am 03 December 2023 Philippines – Latest one? 0620am UTC. Can you consider it as Soil liquification for a model? It’s a bit larger than a normal civil engineering model? Actually the size of the island is close to Iceland’s size? What’s keeping the island above water? Besides sheer bloody determination? Seriously, physically? The fresh water in the soil, it’s floating the area over the salt water. The trees, the shite in the soil, humus etc. it keeps the soil together, stops it all washing down to the sea, they get a lot of rain there. That event as big as the Turkey one? Energy wise? Hold on and I see what Volcano Discovery has to say?
0815am 03 December 2023 Philippines Theoretically, there were two huge ones in Turkey, each about the same size and the ongoing event, there aren’t enough yet to determine if it’s going to be a M 9.0 event, though it’s well on the way to being a M 8.0 event, it’s about one tenths the size in Energy terms of the Turkey Feb 2023 event, however it’s much more concentrated in it’s geographic area. What would you be saying? Find some tarpaulins, put up some tents, we’re twenty km back from the coast here. That’s an “If you see me running, try to keep up, event.”
0910am 03 December 2023 Philippines How bad is this? Oh, I’d be asking if all the little islands are still there? Why? Well, comparing the 1955 USA Engineer map to the Google Earth photo, and there’s been some topographic adjustments in the last 70 odd years.
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1615pm 03 December 2023 Philippines Silly question? Why would an Hindu festival celebrating the victory of Good over Evil be celebrated in the mountains in Mindanao? Oh another easy one? Shite, he thinks that’s an easy one? Pirates. What? Pirates. Volcano, Earthquake, Tsunami, no more pirates. They’re normally at the coast, they normally steal villagers, boy and girl slaves, for either sailing the ships or sales to other slavers, one big wave, no more Pirate town, no more ships, no escape, and you go down the hill and slaughter the ones who’re left stranded on the beach. Diwali, let’s have a festival of lights to celebrate the five days of loud noises which happened and all the Pirates died. “Without the guidance and blessings of Lakshmi, the world then turned into a dark place, and the gods were desperate to bring her back. After churning the milky ocean for 1,000 years, Lakshmi was finally reborn, rising to the surface on a beautiful lotus flower, and once again bringing to the world her blessings of good fortune.” Any new islands pop out of the ocean lately? New volcano etc? Diwali. https://www.asiahighlights.com/india/diwali-legends-and-stories#lakshmi Pirates aren’t normally from your part of the world and sometimes they don’t have long memories of the local dangers and boom, no more pirates. That’s just one of the legends. And? If it was a nice story for the locals, they being happy, they might have added it to the canon, it’s like a fan adding a new story to an old hero character. Sherlock Holmes didn’t have so many stories when he was invented and we keep on adding to the tales. That IRIS list of big earthquakes in the region, the ones near Mindanao are filling the page rather rapidly.
I didn’t know you could do that. Engineering course remember. It was a nice engineering course. That’s not entirely a landslide. See the blue one towards the bottom, that’s close to the surface of the sea wall, the rest are well within the island structure. Why did the big one happen up top close to the surface? Oh, tear a piece of paper, it doesn’t tear in the middle it tears from the edge, where the strength is least, the rocks down deeper are under pressure, it tears at the surface first. There’s going to be some sort of a valley down that cliff side in a hundred years or so. Tomorrow? Well, it depends, a second tear and the bit in the middle of the paper tends to sag rather quickly. Though that’s not normally how nature does it. Why’d it happen? Lat 008N, near solstice? Cooling? and I’m just spitballing here, island contracted and the centre went in and the edges stayed out, the bits in the seawater stay warmer? it’s a question of the changes causing the stresses rather than a map of the temperatures from here to here,
1720pm 03 December 2023 Philippines It seems to have slowed? Nothing since 1542pm, what’s that an hour and forty minutes? And the frequency of the quakes from 1258 pm, they were getting further apart? Now what happens? Well, if you do something like that on the surface of the cliff face, the water rushes in. It’s under ground, you have to wait and see what comes up? And where? Is there liquid magma under there? Hot water? SO2? Not having a map of underground and seeing as the active ones are back from the front edge of the cliff face, where the water cools the rock, I’d be guessing and I’d say, see if water goes down, rivers disappearing, lakes emptying and look for old legends of water dragons and bad air. Sea Serpent Mythology, History & Facts “Kristy Bowen has an M.A in English from DePaul University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. A writer and book artist, she currently works as a content writer with an arts and culture focus. She runs an indie press, dancing girl press & studio, and has taught writing and art workshops in college and community settings.” I’d ask her. How many talons does a water dragon have? What? It’s how you tell them apart in black and white drawings. This ones cool. “The Merciful One has an ally in the Sea Dragon.” https://www.amazonianarts13.com/blog/water-dragon-mythology “Dragons are governed by the elements. Water dragons live in the watery depths of seas, oceans, wells, crevices, water holes and rivers.”
1750pm 03 December 2023 Philippines Oh, you might also have a look offshore and on the beaches over the next few days for some Giant squid, the seismic noise is going to have had an effect on the local marine wildlife, and it’s quite deep off there. You might tell them the things are valuable to museums though, there, they’re just good eating.
https://forum.teachingbooks.net/2023/05/forrester-and-musser-on-search-for-a-giant-squid/
https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/06/south-africa-elusive-giant-squid-washes-up-on-shoreline-16597848/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-giant-squid-washes-shores-south-african-beach-180975138/
1810pm 03 December 2023 Ireland – Ireland’s first satellite EirSat-1 is launched. https://www.instagram.com/p/C0Xjh-NMaqi/ Are ESA taking the piss? No, they’re pointing out that maybe we are?
1825pm 03 December 2023 Philippines It’s still going, there’s another one. That time is after you did your last one at 1720pm, well it had to be confirmed, it just wasn’t on the list then.
1835pm 03 December 2023 Philippines, now let’s see what the long list is like? This is the Philippine list, from 01 December 2023. It’s a very long list, they have them down to M1.5s are the smallest I can see on the list? Earthquake information – it goes straight to the list? There’s no little Sign which says PANIC, and move away from the sharp objects? You’re referencing Twister the movie at a time like this? Yes, I am. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_(1996_film) 1856pm there’s four more since their 0218am – It’s dark and it’s going to be a long night for them, I’d be playing some nice music on the radio, with a friendly voice going, I hope your walking quite quickly away from the coast? Those are M5.0s at 10km depth, the ground is shaking there. This one’s a bit worrying? Depth 1km? M2.7. Why? Because that looks like an underwater landslide. The other one is bigger, that’s a M4.8 depth 1km.
| 04 December 2023 – 02:24 AM | 08.34 | 127.27 | 001 | 2.7 | 103 km S 88° E of Hinatuan (Surigao Del Sur) |
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1930pm 03 December 2023 USA Hawaii – Let’s go to Hawaii, it is actually quite cold up there, it’s a very high mountain. It’s a volcano. Ok, it’s a very high volcano.
Listen, it barely moved the surface of my coffee. You did see the surface of your coffee move? Why were you looking at your coffee?
There something wrong with that webpage?
1955pm 03 December 2023 Ireland – This newspaper pamphlet was in my Intermediate Certificate history book, there was a very strange line drawing in it. You might check it out again? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portadown_massacre
2005pm 03 December 2023 Philippines
2023pm 03 December 2023 Indonesia Two things? Gunung Ibu and Gunung Dukono a little look, and what’s that a factory fire? It’s rather large? 000°28’37″N, 128° 0’01″E
2040pm 03 December 2023 Asia – And the world is burning. 7 day picture.
2050pm 03 December 2023 USA Hawaii
2105pm 03 December 2023 Philippines Volcanoes I’m working on it, there’s quite a few of them. You’re status warnings are different to the official ones. Yes.
Philippines earthquake: Pregnant woman killed by Mindanao quake Published 12 hours ago By Fiona Nimoni BBC News “A pregnant woman has died, four people injured, and nine are missing after a powerful earthquake hit the Philippines’ second-largest island of Mindanao. Defence secretary Gilbert Teodoro said 529 families have been affected. The US Geological Survey measured the first tremor late on Saturday at 7.6 magnitude, followed by four major aftershocks exceeding 6.0.”
2145pm 03 December 2023 Philippines – I was looking for a Notice to Mariners, Tsunami Warning etc. None in 2023? I’m sure the magazine is lovely, however the public might be slightly annoyed that you’re not telling them about the dangers of the oceans? It is a very nice hat.
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2210pm 03 December 2023 USA Hawaii
2240pm 03 December 2023 Lanzarote
0425am 04 December 2023 Philippines – Oh, I’d call this an ongoing situation. The Lat Long information is too short? For degrees, minutes, seconds in Decimal, you need 001.0001N, 000.0001E and you need them on the one line so you can copy and paste them into NASA Firms2 or Google Earth or other map sites? For Local areas, they need one earthquake, so you put the M2.0 D005 in each line. Location EAST – WEST – NORTH – SOUTH the direction idea is good, however it’s unclear, printing requirements onto paper means paper getting wet and N S E W smudges. the Direction arrows work. W3Schools – UTF-8 Arrows ↖↗↘↙ Though the longer arrows were supposed to differentiate the ones pointed in the opposite directions ↗↙ ↞↟↠↡ are nice from the Gae bolga in Irish mythology. Used in pairs they’re also effective ↡↠ South East. And the location comes first in this case? Cagwait SE ↡↠ M3.0 ↓007km ↨ 02 (shake, intensity etc.) 001.0001N, 000.0001E 12:06PM 04 December 2023 (ERT_Z_0406_04DEC02023) (Who you telling? SAR, coastguard, council, UN?) Who, What, Where, When, Why? For emphasis and for telling each other to get working, you put the Really important bits in Capitals, or bold, to draw attention to the big ones. Highlights work nicely too, though make bad printing. Boxes work really well It’s why spread sheets use them, though for display, you’re supposed to only surround the important boxes. Highlight Highlight Military time zone
0510am 04 December 2023 USA USGS – And chance you can generate a PDF document? So you can print the thing and run to the boss saying, you’re going to want to keep this printout handy.
https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2023/12/03/s53wgj/1/WEAK53/PAAQCAP.xml I like XML, I did a module in it once. It’s what was there before the internet. USA NOAA the signature block is supposed to say NOAA and not W3 schools.org ???? Good effort though, C-. That’s a C for Charlie, minus. In some places that’s a fail grade.
0540am 04 December 2023 Tonga improves Tsunami Early Warning System on World Tsunami Awareness Day 2023 Nukualofa, Tonga on 20th October 2023. Nice ye have video conferencing to one another though, Telecom Eireann used to have that for their technicians, while we had a pull plug phone system in one of our barracks. 1992. You pulled out the wire and pushed it into the extension to which you wanted to be connected. Literally. Who are Telecom Eireann? Exactly.
0550am 04 December 2023 Philippines
0555am 04 December 2023 Philippines, the undersea noise from these must be phenomenal? How far away can you hear the crashes and bangs in the water? If you were a squid in a hole in the side of the cliff wouldn’t you run? They only have food if they meet opportunity prey and away from the cliff face, it’s brown bread (dead) from lack of food. If you see one on the shore alive, feed it and it might crawl back into the water. What do you feed it? Dead fish, it mostly eats what falls down the cliff face, similar to conger eel. Most large predators are primarily scavengers, it’s easier. Oh, and it needs a long stick or something to crawl along back to the ocean, the sand is awful for traction, it requires more energy to make squirting motions. It’s how it moves in emergencies. Why are there more of them now? They are throwing the dead shark overboard, they sink, they don’t rot, they float in the deep currents, they pass deep crevices, food. Pressure, lack of oxygen, no decay. Loads of new stuff seen on the bottom, the deep stuff, they were feeding the big angler fish. However the edibles aren’t the only things down there. it’s actually an accidental logic? Feed the bottom stuff and the hunters like the Sperm whale have more food, more whales, more meat for the bottom feeders, more fertiliser and more whale shit and the ocean comes back to producing oxygen? One small problem? The squid breed fast, the whales breed slow.
0630am 04 December 2023 Italy France
– Seriously? Latitude, Longitude? Oh we read Eastings first? Really? This is in reverse of the needed information? Oh, we’re only doing it because we were told to and … Some serious words needed here, like you seen your payslip? It’s Red.
Slovenia is working, however the Slovenia map, it isn’t indicating it’s availability on the Europe map? We learned how to make maps like this in the internet web building module UCC in first year. It’s quite fun.
0705am 04 December 2023 Spain Could this be it? Malaga was quite and important shipping port?
Malaga, can someone have a look at that dam? Why? Because the one which was keeping back the spoil on the massive mine collapse in Brazil had a similar design? How old is the dam, has it been inspected recently and what’s the current water level?
0735am 04 December 2023 Greece Now, if I was a person who had a well of souls, a temple where the earthquakes predicted bigger ones elsewhere, would I try to find other locations? Now, not all of them would be successful, however, you’d need long term planning and a nice building? Now, Delphi, the damaged statues were buried under the roadway. Now, the question I asked myself, while I was there, was? If it was an earthquake area, why were the statues so tall and light and fluffy? Have a look at the charioteer in the museum there? Now, if everyone was abed, the bloody statues fell over? So you might look for the foundations of an old building here?
1120am 04 December 2023 Philippines Ongoing
1130am 04 December 2023 USA NASA You mightn’t have noticed?
1200pm 04 December 2023 Papua New Guinea Unknown Mineral Deposit ?
1215pm 04 December 2023 Africa https://www.homesciencetools.com/article/how-to-build-a-solar-oven-project/ https://www.treehugger.com/what-are-solar-ovens-5088602 https://climatekids.nasa.gov/smores/
0504am 05 December 2023 Ireland – I was just out the back having a cigarette and there was a bright flash colour lightening white in the sky falling 20 degrees to 10 degrees above the horizon, 2.5 mils wide bright either side gap in the middle lasted half a second, almost due South. Slightly East. Geminids meteor shower is this month isn’t it? This was on my Instagram feed earlier.
0555am 05 December 2023 Philippines – Where’s the old festival ground? What? There would have been a festival ground? Where we go every time the earth shakes, and mammy and daddy don’t work and we all go camping up in the mountains and there’s campfires and singing and dancing and stories. If I was the village elder, the local priest, holy man, I’d want the kids safe and nicely entertained. Look for an old festival ground, there should be some sort of a permanent structure, a temple of sorts where the cooking would have been done, a water supply and firewood or charcoal? The priests there would have made charcoal all year for use during the festival? Braziers, candles, wax, they might have had bee hives etc. a flat area nearby, possibly with a walled enclosure for pitching the tarpaulins up against the walls? Wooden posts? Deep post holes, so they didn’t fall down during the shaking? The lanterns would have swung between the wooden poles making the lights swing and pretty patterns, with nice coloured waxed papers or oiled coloured vellum in the lanterns. How do you know this? The Greeks, the amphitheatres were tops of the hillsides, there’s some nice big temples with no roofs, they used to bring the sails up and make tents around the temples, roofs fall, sails make good tents.
0635am 05 December 2023 USA Now, some people they celebrated the small earthquake events, so I had a little look and guess what? Also, it kept the kids out of the river beds during flash flood season? Culberson County, TX, USA https://www.google.com/maps/place/31%C2%B045’11.5%22N+104%C2%B005’08.7%22W/ The Armadillo Hotel, Orla, please?
0730am 05 December 2023 Ethiopia – How good is the map data here? The real map data? Why? Well, the top of the volcano, there’s normally fire there and not in the lake?
0805am 05 December 2023 Ethiopia Volcanoes first attempt
1215pm 05 December 2023 Yemen – Why? Oh, the Turkey earthquake last February, everything moved a few cm North, the thermal contraction stresses here, as the area cools slightly due to it being Winter are now being released and the fault line is trying to decide how to fill the space.
1255pm 05 December 2023 Yemen – Oh, look there’s another one.
1305pm 05 December 2023 Philippines Yes, Colman said five days.
1320pm 05 December 2023 Indonesia Sorry you were saying something about Colman picking this bull because he had some sort a hunch or a premonition? “Archaeological artefacts discovered in 2007 appeared to indicate that the region around Kediri may have been the location of the Kediri Kingdom, a Hindu kingdom in the 11th century.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kediri_(city) Like, maybe we should live somewhere else, a bit further from the Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Tsunamis? Where did they end up? Well, the first lot, they’re still in Australia, that was about 50-30,000 years ago. Why were they so primitive, when the Europeans arrived? Well, every time they tried to make metal, they died, there’s so much Uranium and other nasty metals there.
1450pm 05 December 2023 Philippines – Possible site of Temple, bathing place and festival grounds? “When you meet the waters, they speak in riddles.” The best parts are below the water, the meat locker was under the layers of the flowing waters. And give Croft my love, it’s a bit busy here at present and it doesn’t look too dangerous, just some snakes and spiders and stuff. Colman
1555pm 05 December 2023 Philippines, now this was the “normal” not so bad, orange evacuation site, however, I think worst case scenario and RED so where was that? The little mark on the map on the right, that’s the nice temple from the “normal” evacuation site. This hill side stuff, that’s “shite, what do we do now” and the place keeps getting belted every month, year, month, year, month, year. We’ve eaten all the local wildlife and can we plant stuff up here? That’s why the locals are called the hillsiders. “Bukidnon became a part of Misamis in the latter part of 1850. The whole area was then called “Malaybalay” and the people were known as Bukidnons (highlanders or mountain dwellers).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukidnon Why charcoal? Asians learned early that wood fires caused sparks and lung complaints. Wood houses, they are nice, ecofriendly, easy to cool, and insulated from the seismic noises and: charcoal.
1625pm 05 December 2023 Philippines Five days wasn’t it? You sleeping tonight? Well, tomorrow, maybe? during the day?
1640pm 05 December 2023 Philippines The next one’s only a little one to give you questions about how safe it is onshore?
1705pm 05 December 2023 Earthquakes
1720pm 05 December 2023 Ireland Ocean FM News The Sligo Leitrim Mountain Rescue Team stand down operation after missing walker at Tullylacken is found DECEMBER 4, 2023 7:41 AM Donegal Live – Families in Donegal in fear over drug debt threats by Chris McNulty 01 Dec 2023 3:20 PM “Councillor Michael McBride implored the gardai to ‘keep the pressure on people who are supplying drugs to people in Donegal’.” Donegal County Council, with the support of Transport Infrastructure Ireland, is developing proposals for the Burtonport to Letterkenny Greenway project.
1720pm-1850pm 05 December 2023 Ireland – Donegal – Sorry I’m sure you were saying something, however I was a little busy. Not bad for an hour and a half, from scratch. Including designing the logos, Mountain, Valley and Surf Beach. Colman Buy a better bike, a mountain bike, you can get another 1000 euro tax credit and sell the old one secondhand. Cwistfas fis clombing. Colman’ comment REALITY Kids on bicycles need toilets, someplace to piss along the way, a nice wall to hide behind and drop your kaks, gravel behind the wall and no drop down to the river, a limestone stone pit to turn the urea into harmless to the river. Ask the Irish PDF Engineers they made some new designs for Lebanon recently. Colman
1930pm 05 December 2023 USA – Hawaii (HI) Get Ready for the Rumble.
2000pm 05 December 2023 USA Hawaii – What’s happening underneath now? Well, the contraction has just started, the thermal stress was released, the island took a big breath in. And, we’ll it’s a bit more like someone stood on their chest and they can’t decide whether to let the air out? Why? Because it’s lava and it’s heavy and the mountain is heavy and slow to move, and then the inertia is overcome and the outside of the mountain starts to move inwards and the lava hasn’t anywhere to go and it’s like a differential pressure pump. The same pressure moves a wide heavy load at Kiluaea or a thin long weight at the top. The tubes up are the same width, the wide caldera presses down heavy at Kiluaea. And there’s more air pressure. True, and there’s more air pressure. And the question isn’t why isn’t there lava yet, it takes time to start the momentum going, it’s a compressible liquid like a spring is compressible, and … And? Well, the comparison to blowing a fuse, that’s a lightening strike, bursting a high pressure hose on a tractor, that’s an earthquake, this is like pissing off your mother in law, there’s going to be consequences, dire, unpredictable consequences and this is the drive home, and we’re going to be waiting for the phone call, tonight, the morning, maybe day after tomorrow, however it will be quite calm at first and it’ll look a little like it might blow over and then it’s going to be fireworks, and not wham bam, thank you mam fireworks, no, this is going to be we’re taking the car, the house and we might let you visit the town occasionally. Put that in real terms? Billions or Deaths? Well, actually, we’re pretty well covered, if we can get the tourists away quickly. The observatory, destroyed a few years ago, that woke up most people, the distance from the hotels keeps most sensible people away and after that, it’s going to be corralling the photographers, and hopefully they’ll have learned about drones and taking nice photos and video from a nice safe three kilometres back. They’re supposed to have line of sight onto the drones. Well, it’s line of sight, if it’s at 1000m above the mountain, it’ll be visible from quite a way off. And hopefully they’ll have put lights on the things, so they can see them in the dark.
2110pm 05 December 2023 USA Hawaii
2120pm 05 December 2023 USA Hawaii, the car, the house and visiting the town occasionally? That sounds like what happened in Iceland?
I didn’t use the metaphor by accident.
https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/volcanoes-earthquakes/volcano-kilauea.html
0635am 06 December 2023 Philippines
0645am 06 December 2023 Yemen
0650am 06 December 2023 USA Alaska I know a guy lives up there, went up because he said he wanted to live a little and he missed the odd rumble now and then. I thought you meant bar fights? No, he was quite a peaceful sort. Where does he live? Oh, beside the volcano, says the heating system is quite efficient, though cooling the water for drinking is eating his Solar, his refrigerator eats power, hasn’t got a nice low temperature electricity source. He’s only got 60 degree hot water from the volcano. How does he drink the volcanic water? Oh, he drinks rainwater, big tank. Does he have an escape planned? Oh, he has a skidoo and a motorcycle.
USA Alaska Volcano Observatory Trident Volcano https://avo.alaska.edu/volcanoes/volcinfo.php?volcname=trident
That version is incorrect? The date should be todays and the “today” is hard to read. And this is why no one reads your Alaska Volcano Observatory shite.
Now, as Monty Python would say – “Now. Write it out a thousand times?”
Translations in all languages.
0900am 06 December 2023 USA Hawaii
0910am 06 December 2023 Philippines
0920am 06 December 2023 Iceland – Nice and quiet.
0940am 06 December 2023 USA NASA – Artemis Program – Thank you.
1020am 06 December 2023 Italy I think the intention was that this database list might be updated after it was published? Yes, this is how bad it is in some parts of the world.
1150am 06 December 2023 Portugal? A little look underground?
1155am 06 December 2023 Philippines
1235pm 06 December 2023 Yemen
1305pm 06 December 2023 Atlantic – Do you really want to know?
0200am 07 December 2023 United Kingdom They are disputed. Yes, however it is Antarctica. And? Well, Maggie sort of said they’re theirs when they went after the Argies in Falklands didn’t they.
0210am 07 December 2023 Philippines
0225am 07 December 2023 Croft manor Lara, that phone doesn’t normally ring except if it’s you? Oh. That something to do with why I’m a reservist? I’m sorry about that. Well, it was rather a surprise when the men arrived and searched the van and made me sign the Official secrets act. They were rather miffed I was calling home, they were worried it was something unusual. And, well they had to ask what we were talking about. And? When one said it wasn’t secure, the other said, actually we can’t crack the encryption and how are you doing that? And well, I told them we started with talking on string phones and it sort of grew from there, and our satellite … You told them about our satellite? I had to, they were rather insistent. Yes, and they presented me with all my old parking fines too. I told you you should have paid them when you moved the van to my house. By the way, how could they talk on our encryption system? Well, I can’t divulge that information due to the Official secrets act. And would they know? Lara, they tasked a satellite to watch the house, do you want to see the live video?
0250am 07 December 2023 Morocco
0300am 07 December 2023 Spain – Ok genius, explain your theory? Well, let’s look at Spain, the Canary Islands, the ones closer to the coast, they’re bigger, wider, flatter. The ones further away from the coast, where the water is deeper, they’re pointier, taller from the ocean floor, different shape altogether. There’s also some stuff about the ocean currents and the water currents moving and shaping the upwelling lava and stuff.
0310am 07 December 2023 Morocco If you’re correct about the Sphinx and Mars, well, here, zoom in on that? Is that the lowest water level ever on Earth? Ever is a long time Lara, in the last hundred million years? Why are there no steps, there should be steps up and down as the water levels changed? Oh, you might have to look elsewhere for those? The earthquakes here, they’d shake the soft sand and it’d be smoothed, actually, if you calculated the angle of the sand and the materials, you could calculate the amount of earthquake activity? Would that have an effect on the shape of the volcanoes too? And that, Lara, is why we share. You get two happy people. No, Lara the happiness spreads outwards, from the two, to far, far more. The smile on your face makes me happy too. I didn’t know he would be so happy to see books. And he didn’t know you’d be so happy to be offered a gumdrop. Life is strange that way.
0340am 07 December 2023 Iceland
0415am 07 December 2023 Greece Delphi ? Maybe it needs to be closer to Delphi? Would a statue have fallen over there? Maybe not? Why are you so hung up on the broken statues? Metal was valuable. And? A statue that saved a city, I’d protect that, I might even bury it under the road to keep it safe. The earthquake, it wouldn’t be stopped. No, a city, it’s people, not buildings. A warning fast enough and the people would be saved. Who are the fastest runners, the fastest charioteers? We might hold a competition and find out? Where were the Olympic games held? You might light a warning fire? Mount Parnassus? Depends too much on weather? By foot to Parnassus and chariot to the cities? The charioteer, originally he might have actually been one of the warning parties? He might have saved them twice? Well, if we find a linkage, he’ll be saving them more than twice. Go on son, it’ll bring honour to the village. If I win, I’ll have to stay there for four years. It’s got books, you’ll get an education, it’s more than anyone here has ever had.
0455am 07 December 2023 Turkey Give him a name? Don’t need to, his name is on the statue.
0520am 07 December 2023 Ireland – Native bees and wasps – Availability of hive sites close to water, rivers, streams, lakes to absorb the SO2 and NO2 from the air, keeping the hives safe. Old trees, etc. Can we place artificial bee nesting boxes? Are they effected by conifers? The bloody things don’t rot the same as soft deciduous trees, the mushrooms eat the tree and make soft chewy stuff for paper making for the wasps and all of our conifers are harvested? Do wasps eat paper? Newspaper? Chlorine bleached? possibly not? Let’s have a little study of the subject? The bees also need waxy stuff to make those little hexagons in the hives don’t they? Where does that come from? Normally dead animals, fats and stuff? How did you know that? Varo 1CenturyBC says the hives were spontaneously generated from cow carcasses? Sulphur, it’s sulphur??? What would you trade to an agricultural population plagued with insects for it’s weight in Gold? From South America? Sulphur. You know it’s good for making stuff grow too, the Asians used to spread it in tiny amounts over the fields by using fireworks. Some of those islands used to be covered in guano? Would you have a port on an island covered in guano? Which islands wouldn’t have had birds nesting there? Well, some of that guano might have been from back to dinosaur times? Seriously? Possible, though I know it’s a bit of a stretch, there’s some stuff about there being pterosaurs, ancient flying reptiles nests on Somalia and stuff. Ancient flying reptiles cared for their young, fossil trove suggests That’s from China. New smallest specimen of the pterosaur Pteranodon and ontogenetic niches in pterosaurs Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2017 That’s not got a mention of Somalia either. Lara, seriously, you can’t expect me to remember everything I read? Try that one? Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Eggs and Eggshells of Peninsular India Oospecies Diversity and Taphonomical, Palaeoenvironmental, Biostratigraphical and Palaeobiogeographical Inferences October 2020 That one’s India. Fossil struthionid eggshells from Laetoli, Tanzania: Taxonomic and biostratigraphic significance There: “The remains of fossil struthionids are recorded from a number of Miocene and Plio–Pleistocene localities in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa (Stromer, 1902,” Stromer, I think it was in your dad’s library. Struthionids are ostriches.
0610am 07 December 2023 Iceland You know you could visit more of these places? There is more to life than the van? Been there remember, cold water down my back and all that, brrr. And I like watering my plant.
0635am 07 December 2023 Philippines Volcano Mayon
0740am 07 December 2023 Bulusan Volcano – Wikipedia – Mount Bulusan, also known as Bulusan Volcano, is a stratovolcano on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Located in the province of Sorsogon in the Bicol Region, it is 70 kilometres (43 mi) southeast of Mayon Volcano and approximately 390 kilometres (240 mi) southeast of Manila. Bulusan is one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines. Physical features. Bulusan is classified by volcanologists as a stratovolcano (or a composite cone) and covers the northeast rim of Irosin caldera that was formed about 40,000 years ago. It has a peak elevation of 1,565 m (5,135 ft) above sea level with a base diameter of 15 km (9.3 mi). Colman’s comment Why is it called a composite volcano there? Oh well, the volcanoes are very big and once upon a time, long ago, someone had a photograph of one and a person who was writing a learned book, they asked what’s it called? And the photographer said, the names on the photo and it said Composite photograph, because it was made up of many photographs stitched together and no one since has had the heart to tell that entire Volcanologist fraternity that they’re a bunch of bullshit artists. And that’s why they’re called composite volcanoes, the other name was ones which stuck up into the stratus clouds. Stratified rocks, now that’s a different story. British Geological Survey Discovering Geology — Volcanoes Types of volcano they don’t use the term, because they know better than that.
0800am 07 December 2023 Philippines – I did a small update on the Philippines page, it’s got the five major volcanoes in now Colman’s Web Library – Philippines
0805am 07 December 2023 Croft manor – How would they have sailed like that? Well, I’ve been thinking about that? It’s a really unusual one? You know those round rocks in Central America. Costa Rica. Well, one of the properties of round rocks is that they sit really well together at the bottom of a boat as ballast, they only roll together. Now, that’s a really far fetched tale? We do deal in far fetched tales. And what else would they trade? Well, there was copper in Africa, malachite? And? Well, there were shiny rocks too, from South America, you have to remember Peru and the silver and copper mines there, they’re quite late developments, after the Inca and stuff. What shiny rocks? Well, you know that Queen of Sheba stuff, emeralds, rubies, they’re normally from Columbia or Burma and this mining lark, that’s all lately too, a lot of the old stuff, it was just picked up off the ground. This digging business, that’s a load of hard work, who’d be at that, if they could avoid it? So you’re saying those could be much older than suggested? Well, to be honest they might be the rejects, not good enough, there’s a flaw in that one? Something like that, I have to think like the person collecting them is as finicky as you? I’m not finicky. Lara, why don’t you drink coffee from my cups? You don’t wash them properly. Finicky.
1215pm 07 December 2023 Morocco
1305pm 07 December 2023 Cyprus
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Right about there, oh, look there’s a little foundation there. Why not at the top? Oh, that’s where I would have had my lantern, pyre, look out tower, with a fire on top, light it and spread oil on the platform and down the ladder. Why no trees on the near side? Oh, from the town, you cut down the trees nearest to replace the platform top of the hill. That’s a lot of trees? It’s a lot of years and they didn’t know how to grow more. What happened to the soil? No trees, earthquakes, rain, it washed down the hill. How do you fix it, it looks so bare? Well, normal colonisation is lichen etc. it takes quite a long time. There’s very little water, the trees there, they catch theirs from the dews. A twenty year plan? Tourists, Lara, ecotourists, everyone fills a bucket with soil and drops it on the top. That sounds rather silly? Lara, thirty years ago, the thought of picking up three pieces of plastic on the beach to save the planet was a figment of some bright spark too. That’s unfair, just because some boy saw me picking up your plastic sweet bag going littering isn’t nice. Lara, when you do anything, it’s quite memorable to some people. By the way, what type of soil are you talking about? Well, I wasn’t going to be as unpolite, however there was a fellow I knew, went up a hill near Zurmatt in Switzerland a few years ago and the toilets in the hostel on the hillside was a version of an old wooden platform composting toilet. He said it was quite a very attractive field system around the hostel, beautiful meadows and all that, straight out of… You’re not going to sing? “The hills are alive and filled with music.” That’s not the words. Maybe not the exact words? he said there was a similar one halfway up the mountain at Tongariro in New Zealand. Just a thought?
1450pm 07 December 2023 Greece – Crete https://www.explorecrete.com/crete-west/EN-Askifou.html Lara, I think I found us? Hidden valley, excellent pastures, tourism, up to see the astronomy tour and lessons, warning tower on the hillside. It’s right beside the earthquake today. I told you this was the right time to be looking for this stuff. Do you still remember the night sky? Were there any planets visible? A full Moon near a planet? Any type of moon near a planet? A conjunction of any sort? “In Askifou you will also find rooms to stay and tavernas where you can try traditional local cooking, especially “Sfakianes pites”: thin pastry with soft cheese and honey.” Mmm, cooking. You know how to cook that? I’m not sure, that wasn’t what we called it, it was a long time ago. Cheese, cows, I think there was a planet in Taurus? Now, we’re talking, a series of dates. A time of year? Was Taurus directly to the South at dusk, was it cold, warm? Snow, dust, were there fires at night? Was there a midnight event? How would… Astronomy, we would know almost exact times, if the night was clear.
1845pm 07 December 2023 Philippines
1920pm 07 December 2023 USA Hawaii – You’re here so soon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_(island)#Volcanism “Diversified agriculture is a growing sector of the economy. Major crops include macadamia nuts, papaya, flowers, tropical and temperate vegetables, and coffee beans. Only coffee grown in the Kona District of this island may be branded Kona coffee. The island’s orchid agriculture is the largest in the state, and resulted in the unofficial nickname “The Orchid Isle”. The island is home to one of the United States’ largest cattle ranches: Parker Ranch, on 175,000 acres (708 km2) in Waimea. The island is also known for astronomy, with numerous telescopes operated on the summit of Mauna Kea at the Mauna Kea Observatories, where atmospheric clarity is excellent and there is little light pollution.” Wikipedia – Puʻu ʻŌʻō Volcanic Vent 1983-2018AD
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2120pm 07 December 2023 Mexico Possible prediction method for eruption on Popocatépetl, oh, no, not the puffy clouds it’s giving off now, a large eruption, you don’t make stories to last fifty generations without good reason.
Colman O'Keeffe 