Exact location and LIDAR imagery, for those interested, courtesy of @[email protected] on Mastodon.
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Why is the AP writing as if their audience are children? I understand it from the Mirror.
I'm jealous of people with newer watches, but $1200 is way too much for me to justify, personally. I got my Fenix 5 Plus for about $160 used and that felt like a splurge.
I applaud the sentiment, but it's a park-and-ride car park served by buses. While it would be great if infrastructure was such that it was affordable and practical to exclusively use public transport, this was specifically built to stop people from driving into the city, reducing car traffic in the urban centre and improving air quality and general QOL for pedestrians.
IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT K- oops, just read your username, sorry.
The excerpt from Peter Brannen's 2017 book The Ends of the World, to save a click through to Twitter:
"The meteorite itself was so massive that it didn't notice any atmosphere whatsoever," said Rebolledo, "It was traveling 20 to 40 kilometers per second, 10 kilometers-probably 14 kilometers-wide, pushing the atmosphere and building such incredible pressure that the ocean in front of it just went away."
These numbers are precise without usefully conveying the scale of the calam-ity. What they mean is that a rock larger than Mount Everest hit planet Earth traveling twenty times faster than a bullet. This is so fast that it would have traversed the distance from the cruising altitude of a 747 to the ground in 0.3 seconds. The asteroid itself was so large that, even at the moment of impact, the top of it might have still towered more than a mile above the cruising altitude of a 747. In its nearly instantaneous descent, it compressed the air below it so violently that it briefly became several times hotter than the surface of the sun.
"The pressure of the atmosphere in front of the asteroid started excavating the crater before it even got there," Rebolledo said. "Then, when the meteorite touched ground zero, it was totally intact. It was so massive that the atmosphere didn't even make a scratch on it."
Unlike the typical Hollywood CGI depictions of asteroid impacts, where an extraterrestrial charcoal briquette gently smolders across the sky, in the Yucatán it would have been a pleasant day one second and the world was already over by the next. As the asteroid collided with the earth, in the sky above it where there should have been air, the rock had punched a hole of outer space vacuum in the atmosphere. As the heavens rushed in to close this hole, enormous volumes of earth were expelled into orbit and beyond all within a second or two of impact.
"So there's probably little bits of dinosaur bone up on the moon?" I asked.
"Yeah, probably."
Quis lautus ipsos lavat?
Good point - I'm going by feedback from friends locally who have it, but I'm actually not sure whether it comes down to Openreach. It's the ISP themselves that are installing the home connections, though (presumably to the cabinet, much like the existing copper?).
I have the opposite problem. There's just one ISP offering FTTP under the scheme where I am, and although the prices are good, their uptime and customer support are universally derided as terrible, and they only offer long-term contracts. I'm sticking with FTTC for now.
I'm suspicious this is really Bill Maher
It's from page 106 of "What This Comedian Said Will Shock You", Maher's 2024 book.
Very much looking forward to V2! I've had to switch to Voyager for working spoiler markdown -- it's also excellent, but I generally prefer Mlem.
Cheeky questions while I'm here: