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Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Re: Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Post by pjc50 »

danielscrubs wrote: post #18
ck2 wrote: post #3

fun-fact: CIA is currently mucking around in Greenland trying to get rid of people against annexation this is not going to end well https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

Exactly my thoughts. I think US ownership (not necessarily of land) is inevitable, but it is going to take a couple of decades of these kind of polarising pieces.

It's going to get forgotten instantly when Trump leaves office, either democratically or feet first.

Re: Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Post by dbetteridge »

sandworm101 wrote: post #140
iagooar wrote: post #83

I have been to northern Norway and Iceland a few times. It all started when I was running my previous SaaS at the peak of its growth. I needed a break, and wanted to go far away, while still being close enough if sh*t hit the fan. My co-founder had recently talked to some friends who had been to Tromsø, Norway. The place looked perfect, so I booked a 5-day solo trip there. Places that are so distant, with such harsh…

And when you want to experiance true issolation in the face of nature, Alaska and Westerm Canada are waiting. Try a drive north through BC in winter. Fish on an Alaskan river only accessible by floatplane. Wake up to watch the northern lights only to realize you are looking south. Or pan for gold only to look up and see a grizzly cub walking cassually past. Norway: 15 people per sq km. Alberta: 6.7 British columbia:…

Another option is

Western Australia: 0.2 if you get outside the capital city.

You'll see stars you didn't know existed and the distances are something else.

Northwest territories is beautiful though.

Re: Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Post by worik »

What a wasted trip!

How rude, especially about Indiana.

They never found out where the people were going in their BMWs

The only descriptions of the locals were entirely without sympathy.

If this is how Icelanders [edit: Greenlanders, duh!]are treated by Danes, I suggest selling out to Trump!

Re: Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Post by adzm »

jccalhoun wrote: post #125
kubectl_h wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is good to know, I have passed through Indiana a number of times on I-70 and I've found it to be particularly flat and boring. I know there are pretty places everywhere but that stretch has felt like exactly what he was saying, a place you have to get through to go somewhere else.

Whenever I see people say Indiana is flat and boring I know they haven't been south of I-70.

The glaciers bunched everything up like a rug and melted just south of 70

Re: Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Post by Terr_ »

pcrh wrote: post #97
internet_points wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That first google map has "Myggedalen" (Mosquito Valley) listed as a Panoramic View. At least they're honest :-)

Myggedalen looks like "midge dale".

> "I am being eaten alive!" cried Pippin. "Midgewater! There are more midges than water!"

> "What do they live on when they can't get hobbit?" asked Sam, scratching his neck.

Re: Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Post by noelwelsh »

curl-up wrote: post #173
joecool1029 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In what way/ways?

> The first thing you notice when you land in Greenland is there are no trees or grass. There is snow and then there is exposed rock. This is only true of the area around the airport. Even his pictures further into the article show how misleading this description is. I was actually very surprised how little snow/ice there was. Now when I think of Greenland, I think of something similar to [1]. Of course, in the winte…

>> The first thing you notice when you land in Greenland is there are no trees or grass. There is snow and then there is exposed rock.

> This is only true of the area around the airport. Even his pictures further into the article show how misleading this description is.

At least as far as trees go, Greenland is reasonably famously lacking in trees (if you are the kind of person who cares about such things). All chopped down by the Vikings and only now are a few sections of forest being regrown. Iceland is basically the same.

A few links:

- https://www.globalforestwatch.org/dashboards/country/GRL/. "In 2020, Greenland had 0.00 ha of natural forest"

- https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/14notoe/the_prog...

- https://greenlandtrees.org/

Re: Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Post by cipheredStones »

Waterluvian wrote: post #48
Arainach wrote: post #26

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Then again, that stretch also has Gary. Having grown up in that area of the Midwest, I largely agree with the author's categorization, except that "people on their way to somewhere better who got tired and decided this was good enough" describes a LOT of the midwest, not just Indiana. Significant chunks of Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri, most of Iowa/Kansas/Nebraska, etc. If you read the history of westward expansion,…

I took a moment to realize there’s a place called Gary, Indiana. And that there isn’t just some guy who is so infamous that he’s just known as Gary.

Every guy named Gary is named after Gary, Indiana. Gary Cooper named himself after the town, and then got very, very popular.

Re: Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Post by krapp »

gruez wrote: post #129
ck2 wrote: post #3

fun-fact: CIA is currently mucking around in Greenland trying to get rid of people against annexation this is not going to end well https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

>fun-fact: CIA is currently mucking around in Greenland trying to get rid of people against annexation That's a very misleading phrasing for what's essentially an influence operation. Your wording of "get rid of people ..." implies there's some assassinations/violence going on, but there's nothing to suggest that's happening. If Republicans/Democrats or even Russia was running an influence operation in the US, nobody…

Every "influence operation" of this type by the CIA inevitably involves assassinations and violence. That's what the CIA does.

Re: Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Post by curl-up »

noelwelsh wrote: post #187
curl-up wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The first thing you notice when you land in Greenland is there are no trees or grass. There is snow and then there is exposed rock. This is only true of the area around the airport. Even his pictures further into the article show how misleading this description is. I was actually very surprised how little snow/ice there was. Now when I think of Greenland, I think of something similar to [1]. Of course, in the winte…

>> The first thing you notice when you land in Greenland is there are no trees or grass. There is snow and then there is exposed rock. > This is only true of the area around the airport. Even his pictures further into the article show how misleading this description is. At least as far as trees go, Greenland is reasonably famously lacking in trees (if you are the kind of person who cares about such things). All chopp…

Agreed, I failed to mention this detail, thank you for adding. But hopefully you agree that his description paints a completely ridiculous picture.
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