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Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Post by nsnxnn »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #217

I never understood why Denmark still bothers with Greenland. It seems to cost them a lot of money while at the same time they demand more and more autonomy. Danish isn't even an official language anymore. What does Denmark gain out of the block grant they give to Greenland?

Prime access to the most significant sea in the 21st century as well as lots of resources

By most estimates, in the mid 2050s the north artic will be mostly ice free, enabling direct and short travel between the states, Europe and the east

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Post by dbetteridge »

VagabundoP wrote: post #197
dbetteridge wrote: post #182

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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.

I stayed out past Margaret River in Western Oz and "OMG its full of stars" when I went to the outside toilet during the middle of the night and looked up. I felt like I could get sucked up and lost in galaxies. You could see so many.

I live down in the south West and you really don't have to go far for some fantastic star photography.

Blackwood River forest is just one example.

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Post by Sammi »

bookofjoe wrote: post #234
Sammi wrote: post #218

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If you want to enjoy a day in an airport hotel and be late for what you are travelling for then sure. Sas plane is full of tourists who don't know. Locals all use atlantic airways cause they know they actually land.

Again I say, I'd choose SAS. There is a reason they choose to do what they do.

I'd really love to hear what you think it is.

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Post by hermitcrab »

grilledchickenw wrote: post #195
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…

You just described wonderfully why I'm drawn to remote places. It started with a trip to the interior of Iceland, then Tromsø, and more recently Svalbard and the Faroes. I tried to capture the beautiful sense of isolation in Svalbard here, maybe it inspires others to make a trip to somewhere remote. https://photoblog.nk412.com/Svalbard2024/n-ssC8fP/Svalminiph...

Great photos. Crazy to just see a picture of a rifle leaning up against a window, unattended.

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Post by throwaway290 »

petre wrote: post #280
piva00 wrote: post #228

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SAS planes are equipped with ILS though.

They still have to know how to use it an be confortable using it. The pilots also need a license for instrumental flight. https://atpflightschool.com/become-a-pilot/flight-training/i...

Pretty much every commercial pilot is ILS rated... but it depends on the airline if they are okay with landing in fog or with extra expense flying all the way back and providing a hotel;)

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Post by sandworm101 »

tlavoie wrote: post #291
sandworm101 wrote: post #140

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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:…

It's not the cub I'd be worried about, but where's it's mom? I have yet to go north much, though our son and his girlfriend worked in Eagle Plains for a bit. One fun snippet from their trip back, having a raven as an escort for the highway drive: https://youtu.be/9KdMJhSaeJc

That is the scary bit. Maybe mom is right behind you.

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Post by sandworm101 »

dbetteridge wrote: post #182
sandworm101 wrote: post #140

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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.

Autralia is empty too, but lacks the vertical dimension. Seeing big mountains far away gives one the sense of being in a bigger "room".

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Post by strken »

pixelpoet wrote: post #205
mkl wrote: post #200

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You may want to reconsider your choice of word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog

It's a common word in (UK, apparently) English, cf. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doggy_woggy I've literally never once heard someone use the ethnic slur "wog", and I grew up in 90s South Africa :)

I'm Australian and I might be missing some nuance about other dialects, but doggy-woggy is a completely different word from doggywog. The first is standard rhyming reduplication, while the second is ambiguous but can be read as relating to a couple of different slurs (in my dialect).

I have heard people use that word, although a good chunk were using it about themselves and with pride.

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Post by Broken_Hippo »

linehedonist wrote: post #262
Arainach wrote: post #143

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I lived in the area for more than 20 years, have annually visited family living there for my entire life even after I left, and consider myself quite qualified to comment on the area, the people who live there, and their culture, thanks. I've traveled a lot through the area. I was throughout Ohio earlier this year, spent two weeks in Illinois last year, etc.

I would assume most of those 20 years were your childhood? How many years have you lived in the Midwest as an adult?

Not the person you responded to, but: I lived in north-central Indiana until around age 35. Family still lives there. And the description: Pretty accurate.
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