My most memorable travel experience took place in Lapland, Finland almost 4 years ago, when I watched a man drilling
a big ice hole, took a dip in it and put on his clothes again as if nothing extraordinary had just happened.
Not exact matches
They just tell stories about friends of theirs who heard about a guy who caught dozens of fish on a stretch of a river in Africa, or another guy who pulled a fish so
big out of a frozen pond in Minnesota that the fisherman had to make the
hole in the
ice bigger just to pull it out.
Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water
ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black
hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the
big bang.
A
big «
hole» appeared in August in the
ice pack in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, north of Alaska, when thinner seasonal
ice surrounded by thicker, older
ice melted.
Having lived myself in Nome, Alaska for two years, 1981 - 83, with the Bering Sea frozen for a few months every winter just outside my window, and walking on the sea
ice on Sunday afternoons and
ice - fishing through small
holes near the shore, also made a
big impact on me sense of the Arctic wilderness.
The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar
ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone
holes haven't got
bigger, the world hasn't entered a new
ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?
A
big «
hole» appeared in the
ice pack in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in August.
A
big «
hole» appeared in August in the
ice pack in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, north of Alaska, when thinner seasonal
ice surrounded by thicker, older
ice melted.
that has led a bunch of investors down these rabbit
holes... Appreciation is the
icing it is the cake and those who make the
bigger money in RE will do so because of it.