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by bandibus 2y ago
Hi everyone. I wrote this thing before SNL did its now-famous George Washington sketch about how ludicrous the U.S. system of weights & measures is - so since that sketch just got a sequel, and since in writing that newsletter I found a
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Despite what that SNL sketch says, Imperial isn't *completely* insane(everythingisamazing.substack.com)
1 points by bandibus 2y ago|1 comments
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Why most advertising relies on annoying us(tedium.co)
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by bandibus 2y ago
I'm the author of this piece. Since a few of my geology stories were very kindly received on here a while back, I thought I'd give this a go, with the hope I'm not being spammy in foisting my own stuff upon you all. Cheers fo
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The 3-way fight for a 1,800km long mountain ridge under the Arctic(everythingisamazing.substack.com)
12 points by bandibus 2y ago|1 comments
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Your feet are measured in barleycorns(tedium.co)
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by bandibus 3y ago
Hi everyone. Since you were kind enough to upvote a couple of my pieces a good while back on the Zanclean Megaflood and Atlantropa, I thought I'd give this a whirl here, on the last & maybe the most ludicrous acquisition of the Bri
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Britain claimed Rockall (a tiny shitty islet 200 miles from land) to stop Russia(everythingisamazing.substack.com)
1 points by bandibus 3y ago|1 comments
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by bandibus 3y ago
Haha. Thank you. Nothing but semi-clueless enthusiasm, I promise.
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by bandibus 3y ago
Hi everyone. Since a bit over a year ago many of you were kind enough to upvote and leave comments on my newsletter about the Zanclean megaflood (which seems to have filled up the Mediterranean basin in a matter of months), I figured you mi
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An Ancient Megaflood Tore The English Channel Open(everythingisamazing.substack.com)
2 points by bandibus 3y ago|3 comments
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by bandibus 3y ago
More detailed writeup of this by Kotaku just went up here: https://kotaku.com/this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war-trigun-...
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Random viral tweet turns "This Is How You Lose The Time War" bestseller again
5 points by bandibus 3y ago|3 comments
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by bandibus 3y ago
Thank you! I could definitely have picked a better writeup of this story than the PopMech piece, and this link is much better. Cheers for that.
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Second massive “blue hole” found, 270 metres deep(popularmechanics.com)
55 points by bandibus 3y ago|47 comments
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New research: keep your beer cool by packing it in mushrooms(science.org)
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by bandibus 4y ago
Couldnt agree more. (I grew up in Cyprus.) From what I could tell, it didn't occur to Sörgel what effect the dams and evaporation would have on sea-life, and on the coastal economies depending on it. Probably catastrophic. But one thin
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by bandibus 4y ago
Hah. Not at all! If it sounds like that, I've misrepresented myself - I agree with you here, and the Strait is the perfect place to do it, using something like this: https://www.orkney.com/news/orbital-grid
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by bandibus 4y ago
Agreed. There's a tidal turbine off Orkney, the most powerful in the world, that just went live: https://www.orkney.com/news/orbital-grid It's powering 2,000 homes and an electrolyzer creating green hydroge
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The worst dam idea: evaporating the Mediterranean to power Europe(everythingisamazing.substack.com)
109 points by bandibus 4y ago|58 comments
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by bandibus 4y ago
The final part of a trilogy of stories I ran in my newsletter - and since the first two were well-received on here a few months back, and got me some generous & good advice on tightening them up, I thought I'd push my luck a final
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by bandibus 4y ago
Thanks for that. Yep - I think the widely (wildly) varying numbers are due to there being various models currently being explored. The paper I referred to was recent but not "2020" recent. I'd also trust Gaffney's team&#
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by bandibus 4y ago
I got the 25 metre figure from a paper on the Storegga collapse - and I'll return and cite this when I'm back at where my notes are. It's the upper limit of the cited proposed model of what happened. It looks like Britannica
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by bandibus 4y ago
(I also wrote about all this in another newsletter, here: https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/imperial-vs-metri... This isn't me claiming Britain isn't idiotic on this matter, though...)
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by bandibus 4y ago
Yes, US and UK miles are the same. And yep, I'm English - and I have that blindspot that a lot of us have, where we don't noticed how we use both imperial and metric in a confusing mash-up of systems - so yep, apologies, and guilt
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by bandibus 4y ago
Oops! Thank you. :)
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by bandibus 4y ago
Thank you! :)
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by bandibus 4y ago
That's a fair comment, thank you. I originally wrote it that way because it was for longterm readers, with a bunch of callbacks to previous stuff, as you mention there. But for first-time visitors, it could be seen as clutter. I'v
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by bandibus 4y ago
Fabulous. Not just for the light-pollution & energy side of things, but because softer lighting is the thing sleep experts have been telling us to introduce into our lives in the evenings, all the blue light filters for our phones etc,
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by bandibus 4y ago
This is sort of a sequel to a piece about the ancient Mediterranean megaflood that did really well on here last month - so, with my fingers crossed it's not too obnoxiously self-promotional of me to do it, I thought I'd give this

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