English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Robusto

00:37

Spooky clouds on Sandía tonight.

Almost like a UFO.

Bohemian relativist

00:54

I have very strong inertia - I am reluctant to go to sleep though it's 1:54 am now and I am sleepy.

Cerberus

01:08

Perhaps it is the spirit of Trumpism returning to its weird plane of existence.

Conrado

Robusto

@Cerberus If so, it's going in the wrong direction.

Cerberus

Perhaps it is now homeless.

Robusto

How ironic, considering Trumpism's treatment of asylum seekers.

Bohemian relativist

just solved a math issue concerning the left inverse and right inverse of a function and am going to study physics the coming day.

Cerberus

01:19

Crazy people are seldom consistent.

Bohemian relativist

the dormitory administration is not consistent.

Robusto

Crazy people are dangerous.

Bohemian relativist

from the begging of my moving in.

I dreamt of walking together with some people who look like my junior high school classmates when I slept from over 7: 30 pm to 10: 30 pm.

now I am going to sleep again.

though I feel reluctant but I am sleepy and there is a course at 8:30 am.

Cerberus

01:39

Quite.

CowperKettle

03:41

A Russian guy in TikTok lampoons Putin's "drive-in" cangaroo court held in a police station over Navalny, under Putin's beckoning. The guy walks across the city, enters barber shops and supermarkets in a judge's gown with a mallet, and asks if he can hold a court session right there, because "now it's how it's done". twitter.com/alexsandrova888/status/1352341767471947778

Admirable.

@Bohemianrelativist Yay!

user 85795

*Kangaroo

but yeah, that is admirable

CowperKettle

04:08

There's the Pearson syndrome and there's the Pierson syndrome, but in Russian they both are Синдром Пирсона

tchrist

@Mitch heritagedaily.com/2021/01/the-iron-age-tribes-of-britain/136847

user 85795

how...very tribal

National Geographic Guns Germs And Steel 1 of 3 Official

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CowperKettle

08:31

Faheem Mitha

@Xanne What do nuns actually do? It's one of many things I've wondered about.

I've watched "The Sound of Music", but that suggests nuns spend their time singing Rodgers and Hammerstein in four-part harmony, and foiling Nazis. That seems somewhat lacking as a career path.

CowperKettle

09:03

Policemen are forbidden to live Yekaterinburg on 23 January e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-69716371.html

The f**er is afraid

M.A.R.

09:19

@CowperKettle if it's any solace, there are only so many Pearson's in science. And then you have Hofmann, Hoffmann, Hoffman, . . .

CowperKettle

she stole my broccoli casserole recipe – internet drama part 2

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LOL
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CowperKettle

11:38

-22°С today

I could not feel my toes after the run, for about 10 minutes. Now they are red and hot.

CowperKettle

12:19

Now they are fine.

Whew

> - A million seconds is 12 days.
- A billion seconds is 31 years.
- A trillion seconds is 31,688 years

CowperKettle

13:07

Vande Bharat Express

Vande Bharat Express, also known as Train 18, is an Indian higher-speed rail intercity electric multiple unit. It was designed and built by Integral Coach Factory (ICF) at Perambur, Chennai under the Indian government's Make in India initiative over a span of 18 months. The unit cost of the first rake was given as ₹1 billion (US$14 million), though the unit cost is expected to go down with subsequent production. At the original price, it is estimated to be 40% cheaper than a similar train imported from Europe. The train was launched on 15 February 2019, by which date a second unit will have been...

Cool. Up to 130 km/h and fully domestically-built. And to top that, the Indian gauge is 15 cm wider than the Russian (1520 mm) gauge.

That must allow for wider carriages, spacier and more comfortable.

I wonder what the wall-to-wall width of Indian train carriages compared with Russian is.

Word of the day: rake (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons

Conrado

> So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's arse.

Source https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/the-link-between-a-horses-arse-and-the-space-shuttle.162604/

Robusto

14:35

Republicans, right on cue, pretend to care about deficits again.

Bohemian relativist

no beverage now.

how nice if someone can help me go buy some.

today in English class, I saw a student wear a NASA T-shirt through his camera. He said he does research about observing black holes.

When I was a child, I admired NASA, but now I admire institutes concerned with theoretical physics more, like Perimeter institute.

some principal investigator in France I contacted suggested me to contact his colleagues at Perimeter Institute. I have long known there are very interesting research topics conducted at Perimeter Institute, but keeping not applying there. I think I would have applied there if I was not admitted here.

seeking a position is a long struggle filled with hardship.

it's very absurd that the landlord can sit there charging our money without much effort and even overcharge us for when we didn't occupy their land.

I also study black holes but only do it theoretically.

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CowperKettle

15:15

Russia's time zones

The word "zone" used to mean "belt"

> Her tapered fingers too with rings are graced,
And an embroidered zone surrounds her slender waist.

Robusto

@CowperKettle And a woman's belt at that.

> Originally one of the five great divisions of the earth's surface (torrid, temperate, frigid; separated by tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and Arctic and Antarctic circles); meaning "any discrete region" is first recorded 1822.

And now we even have the "friend zone."

Bohemian relativist

15:31

today the English test result is announced, I only get 15.5 out 26 points, just the score to pass.

Mitch

15:56

@Xanne Nice. MGH area.

Lenticular cloud

Lenticular clouds (Latin: Lenticularis lentil-shaped, from lenticula lentil) are stationary clouds that form mostly in the troposphere, typically in perpendicular alignment to the wind direction. They are often comparable in appearance to a lens or saucer. Nacreous clouds that form in the lower stratosphere sometimes have lenticular shapes. There are three main types of lenticular clouds: altocumulus standing lenticular (ACSL), stratocumulus standing lenticular (SCSL), and cirrocumulus standing lenticular (CCSL), varying in altitude above the ground. Because of their unique appearance, they have...

@tchrist All those names remind me of the maps that come with 'The Gallic Wars'. It's weird that they all must have had boat culture to get to the island and then eventually moved inland and forgot all that.

tchrist

@Mitch Not much need for boats in Britain: have you ever tried to count up their lakes?

Mitch

@Robusto The coldest one of all

CowperKettle

Several years ago a Russia policeman killed a man right during interrogation, in his office in the police station, at point-blank range by a shot in the head. He explained that he was "cleaning the pistol" at that moment, and received an easy sentence.

Mitch

@tchrist Boat people of Britain

CowperKettle

16:17

I've been keeping tabs on covid deaths in Israel, but they are higher and higher.

I thought that roughly after Jan 20 deaths should start going down.

tchrist

@Mitch Crafty constructs of ferryland don't count.

Mitch

@CowperKettle 1) It takes a month after the vaccine to develop the most protection 2) variants of covid not protected from by the vaccine?

@tchrist also very modern.

CowperKettle

Russian State Duma deputy managed to vote for 8 legislative bills on the day of his death from covid, and during a coma at that.

tchrist

@Mitch Ever wonder why there are so few lakes in Tolkien’s Legendarium?

Mitch

@tchrist lack of imagination?

tchrist

16:23

Or why hobbits mistrust boating so very much?

Mitch

eventually they had a great navy

but so did all the other European colonists to be.

tchrist

That is the call of the sea.

> “Lakes are local drainage problems,” is a geomorphologist joke that is absolutely hilarious if you spend most of your time modeling sediment transport.

Mitch

but my point is, and a very dul one at that, is that whoever is visiting the Island across the channel had a deep boat knowledge (or were -really- annoyed by their continental neighbors, but then they get there and then they move inland and forget about boats.

CowperKettle

@Mitch Yes, must be that, sadly.

The Urals has quite a lot of lakes, but nowthere near as many as Siberia

Mitch

Or the coastal tribe gets a bit largish and some subgroup's leader gets annoyed with the main leader and so moves off.

CowperKettle

16:28

The Kola Peninsula is a real land of lakes

Conrado

CowperKettle

Conrado

But there are not real mountains in England, which is why there had to be so many in Middle Earth.

CowperKettle

There are somewhy many lakes in Chelyabinsk Oblast

tchrist

@Mitch Upon their arrival to the emerald isle, the Tuatha Dé Danann put their ships to the torch.

Conrado

16:31

The English tend to over-compensate in their fantasy literature, sometimes.

CowperKettle

A close-up of Chelyabinsk Oblast

Conrado

@CowperKettle Wow, it looks like it must be a beautiful region.

CowperKettle

This is the town of Ozyorsk (Озерск), with ozero meaning lake in Russian. Hence, "a town of lakes"

Conrado

So many nooks and crannies to explore.

tchrist

@CowperKettle The puddled bones of dead glaciers.

Or, if you prefer, the ancient ice shield.

Many kettles and moraines.

Conrado

16:34

This is my temporary abode, since c. 2000.

Puerto Octay

CowperKettle

Cool!

Conrado

@CowperKettle Ozyorsk, must be a bit like "Entrelagos" in the upper right quadrant of this map

literally, "between lakes".

CowperKettle

> The warmest month is January with an average maximum temperature of 20°C (68°F). The coldest month is August with an average maximum temperature of 11°C (51°F).

Looks like heaven.

tchrist

@Conrado Oh that's right, your austral mountain lakes lie to the left of their ranges not to the east.

Britain has next to zero lakes that are called "lake".

CowperKettle

The only thing I know about Chile is that it's where Salvador Alliende was.

I had a book with his photo when I was a kid.

tchrist

16:38

For neither water nor mere, nor loch nor llyn, will be written using the word lake.

Conrado

@tchrist Yes, at least when I'm looking North. :)

On the other side is Patagonia proper.

Great windswept stretches of brown grass, most of the year.

tchrist

@Conrado All the better to "nortearte", as the Portuguese say. (Yes, they have norteate to go with orientate, or however that works out in English.)

Old maps were oriented. They had the east side pointing up.

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Our new maps are norteated, or whatever.

We have no word for this in English.

CowperKettle

> So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole,
As vibrates my fond heart to my fix'd soul.

Conrado

The damp air coming from the Pacific drops most of it's moisture as it is forced over the mountain range, I think.

tchrist

> Significado de Nortear
v.t.
1. Guiar, conduzir ou dirigir para norte;
2. (Figurado) Orientar ou direcionar;
3. Regular ou controlar;

v.pron.
4. Orientar-se ou dirigir-se.
(Etm. norte + ear)

Conrado

16:48

@tchrist It is newer than "orientar-se", I take it?

Mitch

to 'norteate' isn't as awful sounding as 'orientate'

Conrado

@tchrist I didn't know about east-facing maps. immediately begins speculating about sunrise and stuff.

From my provincial view, the North pole isn't quite as obvious as the sun's apparent path from east to west.

tchrist

@Conrado Newer than septentrionalizar. :)

Cerberus

@Conrado Found it on Google Maps without Googling!

Just zooming and scrolling.

Conrado

@Cerberus Cool, that was fast!

Cerberus

16:52

I just looked at Spanish-speaking westcoasts.

Took just a minute or two.

Fun game.

Conrado

Ah of course!

Cerberus

I immediately thought Chile even before looking, but I started in Iberia anyway.

Conrado

Everything is magic until you give away the data :)

Cerberus

@Mitch Blaaah.

@Conrado When science is advanced enough, it will seem like magic.

tchrist

@Conrado I honestly don't know. I don't have any good reference works for tracing the history of when words entered Portuguese. dicionario.priberam.org/nortear

But norte is from Germanic.

Which was my point about septentrional.

The Iberian cardinal directions are Germanic imports today.

Cerberus

16:58

Such a tragedy.

tchrist

> Attested since the 14th century. Borrowed from Middle French nord, from Old English norþ, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

Cerberus

One wonders why they didn't have shorter words.

French borrowed nord from English??

What a day.

tchrist

> From Middle French, from Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą (“north”), from Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“lower, bottom; to sink, shrivel”).

> From Middle French sud, from Old French su, sud (“south”), from Old English sūþ (“south”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą. More at south.

> Borrowed from French ouest, from Middle French ouest, from Old French ouest or west, from Old English west, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.

> From French l'est, from Old English ēast.

> Borrowed from French est, from Old English ēast, from Proto-Germanic *austrą (“east”), from Proto-Indo-European *aus- (“eastern”).

So not just in Iberia alone, but also in Gaul.

And in Italy itself.

> Nord: it derives from the Spanish word “norte” and from the English word “north”.
Sud: it derives from the English word “sun”, it is related to the highest position of the sun on the horizont.
Ovest: in English is “west” and in French is “ouest”. In Italian is “ovest” because a wrong reading had transformed the “u” in “v”.
Est: it is the point in which the sun rises. It derives from the Indo-european word “ausos” and from the Greek word “eos” which means “dawn”.

@Cerberus I, too, wish I knew how all this came to happen to Romance.

Perhaps it was an occident. :)

> The names of the cardinal points derive from the Dutch language and its mythology: on the cardinal points there were four dwarfs: Norõri (north), Suõri (south), Austri (east) and Vestri (west).

Ahah! South is the sister to North! :)

But West is merely East's jacket.

has not studied "Dutch mythology"

Cerberus

@tchrist Est is from Greek? Really?

tchrist

@Cerberus I doubt that. I think it is via a cognate.

Cerberus

17:12

That is what it says, though.

But the language already suggests less than academic rigour.

tchrist

The OED tells a tale longer than a pamphet's easy compass.

> Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian āst , ēst , ōst , also āsta , āste , noun (West Frisian east , oast ), Middle Dutch oost (adverb) in the east, to the east, from the east, (adjective) eastern, in or to the east, (noun) the east (in Old Dutch only in place names, and in northost , suthost ; Dutch oost ), Middle Low German ōst (adverb) to the east, (adjective) eastern, to the east, from the east, in the east, ōst , ōste , noun, Old High German ōst (adverb) in the east, Middle High German ōst , noun, and probably also Old Icelandic aust- as the firs…

Cerberus

> Terme d'orig. germanique, empr., d'abord en Normandie d'où il est passé dans l'usage des autres régions, au vieil angl. norpb att. dep. le IXe s. (FEW t.16, p.601b; NED).

The TLF.

tchrist

Yeah look at that.

Cerberus

So it was borrowed in Normandy.

tchrist

Darned French vikings.

Cerberus

17:14

But why Italy and Iberia, too??

tchrist

no clue

> The English word was borrowed early into French: French est (12th cent. in Anglo-Norman); subsequently also (probably via French) Spanish este (1492 as leste ), Portuguese este , leste (both 15th cent.), Italian est (1561).

Cerberus

And why didn't French already have established words for terms so very important as the cardinal directions, not even by the s.xii??

tchrist

Oh that I knew.

Cerberus

Had it been borrowed from Frankish/Gothic in the 6th century, that would have made more sense. But this?

Philippa simply says "< pgm. *nurþa-" about Dutch noord.

So at least Dutch didn't borrow from English.

Mitch

Are people in India having these etymology discussions about cardinal directions in Sanskrit derivatives? -in- Marathi?

I need to know.

Pretty quickly. TIA.

I have to catch a plane.

free wifi about to go out

and if I don't find out my answer

before the plane takes off

and I lose airport wifi

then there are some

things about my

life that will

become

hard

Conrado

17:26

@Mitch Is it a B-2?

Mitch

Or if you like you can answer the same question about varieties of Chinese on the WeChat channel

except no one in China acknowledges that there is anything other than standard Mandarin.

so I don't expect an answer for them.

@Conrado Boeing 737 Max

or is it 'MAX'

checks safety card in pouch on back of seat in front of me

It's MAX

that's a bit pretentious

Conrado

Yes, but they are Boeing.

Mitch

if they're going to capitalize they might as well go all out and add an exclamation point.

and put it in Comic Sans

Conrado

They can't help being pretentious, perhaps.

Mitch

and rainbow colored foreground

scratch and sniff lavendar?

Conrado

17:30

Word-Art.

Mitch

what is that font... twiddles? zapf chancery? Ding Dongs?

Wing Dings!

Does that still exist?

Conrado

Lol...

Mitch

emojis might as well replace them

Conrado

lingojam.com/WingdingsTranslator

Mitch

In case you were unsure, no I'm not on a plane, or on my way to a plane or even thinking of a plane. I'm right here in my chair like I've always been.

Cerberus

17:32

I'm surprised such small creatures can survive in the open air when it's -20 in the afternoon.

Mitch

Sometimes on a couch multitasking watching TV word for friends on my phone and eating cake

@Cerberus pigeons - the rats of the air

They seem like fairly innocuous birds.

One time sitting in a park surrounded by pigeons seeing them up close they got a lot going on - miscolorings, strange growths on their legs, missing toes, missing feet, misshaped wings. lots of mis-everything. Like a good aged Rocquefort, don't look at them too closely.

Cerberus

@Mitch Indeed.

I was told the reason of their missing toes, but I forgot.

I think it was some kind of growth defect.

Something horrible at any rate.

Also Omsk.

-20.

Mitch

@Cerberus poor circulation? metal grating in train stations?

Cerberus

Maybe it was pollution.

Okay, from what I read, it is probably pollution by humans that is the greatest factor.

Research also found that there are more missing toes near barber shops.

Why do you think that is?

tchrist

@Cerberus birdsandblooms.com/birding/birding-basics/… audubon.org/how-do-birds-cope-cold-winter allaboutbirds.org/news/how-do-birds-survive-the-winter fws.gov/midwest/news/WinterWarmth.html nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/6/… but note that "below 0" there is much more impressive what with being in old money and all.

CowperKettle

17:43

Yekaterinburg, today

Cerberus

Researchers found that many pigeons had human hair stuck around their feet.

tchrist

> Most early maps, before the wide-spread use of the compass, placed east at the top. This is generally thought to be due to the fact that the sun rises in the east. It was the most consistent directional maker.

@Cerberus "Hitchcock was here!"

Cerberus

So it is thought that, when their toes get stuck in human hair, it can cut off circulation, causing their toes to amortise.

In fact, that seems to be the conclusion.

tchrist

Well, mortify even.

There's little enough interest involved. :)

Cerberus

I preferred a more exotic reference!

tchrist

17:45

necrotize

CowperKettle

Amazingly, there are bicyclists at minus 22°C. I met several of them today.

Cerberus

So the barber shops are not the only reason; it's also other kinds of pollution (it happens mainly or only to urban pigeons). But hair is one factor. And there is human hair everywhere in city streets.

tchrist

@CowperKettle Well, that's much warmer here. :)

Cerberus

@CowperKettle I remember cycling to school at -17, leaving before dawn. It was about 45 minutes.

CowperKettle

In my experience, when it's lower than minus 20C, the shifting of gears becomes a very long process. You press the lever, and it may take 30 seconds for the bike to shift.

tchrist

17:47

8 below is less awful when the sun is high, which, of course, it is not.

Cerberus

I probably didn't have gears!

Not the ones you can shift.

tchrist

@CowperKettle Salt water freezes when it's that cold.

CowperKettle

And one has to wear a mask or glasses, because the cold air really gets your face during bicycling.

Tomorrow it will hit minus 30°C

Cerberus

@Mitch Those boats are everywhere here, also in the inner cities.

@CowperKettle I think I wore only a hat and a scarf.

But -17 is better than -22.

Although it was still night.

-30 is yet a different kind of cold, so I imagine.

CowperKettle

I'm thinking of wearing special heavy Arctic boots. I bought them to climb mountain Konzhakovsky Kamen three years back.

Cerberus

17:53

Good idea.

Mitch

@Cerberus Venice is the Amsterdam of the south

Cerberus

Indeed.

Mitch

@Cerberus OK you got me. That's gross.

Cerberus

But it's basically everywhere in the entire country.

@Mitch Victory!

Mitch

I am very uncomfortable riding a bike when it's less that 15C.

So all this talk of -22 sounds like you're talking about a different planet

CowperKettle

17:56

They are very heavy, with thick soles

Mitch

@Cerberus haha. but really. i feel bad for them, but they look like they get by OK, and also it's disgusting.

@CowperKettle wait...for bike riding?

CowperKettle

@Mitch No, for walking ))

Mitch

oh

cool

makes more sense

with thick wool socks

Cerberus

google.com/maps/place/Prinsengracht+12,+8607+AD+Sneek/… Like here, a random town, whose name first came to mind.

Mitch

or mutliple socks

Cerberus

17:58

@Mitch Quite.

CowperKettle

@Cerberus I wonder why there is no Google Channel View for the Netherlands, like Street View

It would have been easy to make a boat float on all the channels and make photos

So neat and clean that it reminds me of the Moscow Kremlin, when you go inside, there is a similar level of neatness

Curio

19:00

Is there a good soul who wants to review my university my application? :)

my university application*

user489849

19:47

Hello, I think I've found an error on english.stackexchange.com/conduct that exists across SE sites. In Enforcement > Warning, shouldn't For most first-time misconduct be For most first-time misconducts? Also, could someone explain if it's for the first offense, the first flag received of each kind, the first flag on every post, or something else? The error amplified the ambiguity.

tchrist

@niamulbengali What are misconducts?

I suppose an incompetent conductor misconducts his orchestra.

We do not perceive bad conduct to be countable.

There's is no such thing as a code of conducts.

So there is no error.

As for the rest of your question, the answer is that it's decided by a human not a computer.

user489849

20:05

Makes sense. This was insightful. Especially the last part: I didn't know it's an algorithm at work.

user489849

Well, I seem to have misinterpreted the last part completely. My bad. I have gotten a moderator message before and was processing how that could be. It's all clear now.

Cerberus

20:25

@CowperKettle Oh, that is pretty normal here. We are ruled by the petite-bourgeoisie.

Although I suppose that street pavement is somewhat new.

@CowperKettle You sometimes end up on a boat when you click somewhere in Street View!

@niamulbengali Yeah, that is just a message from a human.

Just try to do what it suggests.,

Robusto

20:51

@Conrado That is called orographic rain. As the air rises it cools, and eventually drops its moisture.

Conrado

21:10

@Robusto Oro "of the mountains"; graphic "drawing": It is rain from the shape (drawing) of the mountains!

Robusto

Indeed. It mostly happens in countries like yours and places like the West Coast of the US, where moisture-laden winds off the ocean are pushed inland and up steep mountains.

Conrado

I think that the lenticular clouds form the same way: the saturation point temperature changes, and violá! the cloud becomes visible as it's moisture condenses.

Sometimes such a cloud stays in one place, like a hat, for a long time, and it seems like tail end of it is stretched out by the wind.

Robusto

Could be.

Conrado

I wonder if the droplets are vaporizing on the downwind side again, becoming invisible again?

Other times, after the cloud forms, the wind carries it off whole!

Robusto

I don't know. Maybe they are warming up.

Conrado

21:17

opensnow.com/news/post/…

Robusto

@Conrado Is that real? It looks like a painting.

@Conrado So it does warm and that's why the cloud disappears on the other side of the mountain.

Conrado

Well, I can't vouch for that particular picture, but I've often seen similar at Volcán Osorno, which is peculiarly suited to this formation.

Robusto

Beautiful mountain.

Conrado

It seems that they form when the wind is steady, creating a smooth flow over whatever formation is beneath. The clouds look like fog used in wind tunnels to show the airflow paths.

@Robusto Yes, it is sometimes called the Mt. Fuji of S. America.

Robusto

You get some whopper earthquakes down your way, don't you?

Conrado

21:21

Because of its nice cone.

Cerberus

@Conrado Are we under attack?

Conrado

@Robusto Personally, I've only experienced what they said was about 6 on the Richter scale.

Robusto

I've seen that you get some that are 10 and over.

That is catastrophic.

Conrado

Yes, my friends from a little further north laugh at us with our tremors.

In 2010, about 600 km north of us, there was a catastrophic one.

Robusto

Considering that in 1810 three level 8.1 earthquakes in Missouri caused the Mississippi river to run backwards. People thought it was Judgment Day.

So I can't imagine a 10.

Conrado

21:25

Yes, it becomes apocalyptic after 7 or 8 even in supposedly prepared places.

In Talcahuano, these fishing boats were washed up on a principal street running along the waterfront.

biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/chile/2013/02/27/…

This was one of the iconic images of that year, shown in all the newspapers.

Cerberus

That's not good.

At least they didn't collapse?

Conrado

The building was almost new, I think.

Eight people died.

I took part in a temporary housing project, and saw these images in person.

They are definitely impressive.

Cerberus

Most tragic, to be sure.

But there could have been hundreds dead if the building had collapsed.

Conrado

21:42

Yes.

Robusto

@Conrado It's the Ring of Fire.

I think they had a 10 in Alaska in 1964.

Ah, it was only a 9.2.

"Only."

1964 Alaska earthquake

The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 131 deaths.Lasting four minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake remains the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history, and the second most powerful earthquake recorded in world history. Six hundred miles (970 km) of fault ruptured at once and moved up to 60 ft (18 m), releasing...

Conrado

> Two hundred miles (320 km) southwest, some areas near Kodiak were permanently raised by 30 feet (9 m). Southeast of Anchorage, areas around the head of Turnagain Arm near Girdwood and Portage dropped as much as 8 feet (2.4 m), requiring reconstruction and fill to raise the Seward Highway above the new high tide mark.

Wow.

Robusto

Hope I never witness anything like that.

Mejor dicho, no quiero estar cerca de eso.

tchrist

> Lenticular, or lee wave, clouds form downwind of an obstacle in the path of a strong air current. In the Boulder, Colorado area, the obstacle is the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, seen at the bottom of the picture. Wind blows most types of clouds across the sky, but lenticular clouds seem to stay in one place. Air moves up and over a mountain, with the lenticular cloud forming just past the mountaintop.

The cloud evaporates on the downwind side, so it appears stationary even though air is moving through the cloud. Lenticular clouds are lens-shaped and often look like flying saucers.

We seem to get them constantly here.

Robusto

22:02

It´s usually not moist enough for them to form here.

Lo que pasa es que no hay suficiente humedad en el aire.

tchrist

"bastante" is more run of the mill

Robusto

tomo notas

Last night was an exception, though.

22 hours ago, by Robusto

Conrado

22:20

It's cloud art. I hope you never lose your sense of wonder...

Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance (Official Music Video)

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Robusto

@Conrado If I've made it this far, I think it will keep on to the rest of my days.

SmokeDetector

23:36

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