Thankfully, we're not big enough for paperwork...And the paperwork. When suddenly 10 people need to sign your changes, because they are important.
Thankfully, we're not big enough for paperwork...And the paperwork. When suddenly 10 people need to sign your changes, because they are important.
Thankfully, we're not big enough for paperwork...
Its a bit early for April Fool?
UK's 'longest-lasting' snow patch melts away
Dubbed the Sphinx, the snow on a remote Scottish mountain has in the past survived for decades at a time.www.bbc.co.uk
Do other countries keep an eye on a piece of snow?
I think as long as you don't start talking to it, you're fineBut do I count as insane because I was actually looking at a small patch of snow during the summer?
Noo, luckily not.I think as long as you don't start talking to it, you're fine
No thats fine, just looking. Not sure why you have it locked up and behind bars though?
large-scale scientific work of Russian-Norwegian expeditions to study microplastic pollution is currently underway in the Arctic
"Microplastic" word of the month in the arctic
in 2022, the monster will ply the arctic "Северный полюс"
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in fact, it is not even a ship, but a high-tech drifting ice floe, its purpose is to drift without the use of engines (analogue of the ISS only in orbit around the arctic). yes the style is similar to Norwegian ships Ulstein (I like)Is that a Russian style copy of the Ulstein X-Bow? It has some weak similarities, but it is way more bulgy that the original and seems to be more a classic icebreaker bow with a rounded, backwards sloping freeboard. Not sure how functional this version is.
in fact, it is not even a ship, but a high-tech drifting ice floe, its purpose is to drift without the use of engines (analogue of the ISS only in orbit around the arctic). yes the style is similar to Norwegian ships Ulstein (I like)
yes, the drift principle is the same as the Polarstern II which was frozen into an ice floe but it functions as a polar station starting from the North Pole-1 in 1937 then the station was located right on the ice floe (there was no global warming)So, its more like a barge? In that case the bow shape makes more sense. For the last big drifting expedition MOSAiC, they used the new German Polarstern II ship, which is a more classic icebreaker spoon bow, specialized for arctic research and resupply.
My impression is that cities (and tourist destinations for city people) are generally getting supplied (though often with reduced selection stealthily hidden from the consumer), but rural areas are getting screwed over. Things have mostly been business as usual in Dallas, but we went on a road trip for a family reunion in September, and when we stopped in major cities things were fine, but when we stopped at rural travel stops, some of them were run down to a degree I've never seen before: heavily reduced menus , severe understaffing, and a level of neglect of the physical facilities that made me very nervous about food safety. Really brought the concept of "flyover country" home. A lot of these areas have been dieing on the vine for a while, but it hasn't been visible up-front. COVID has changed that.Went to a local DIY store today. All shelves are full of goods. I can buy everything I need. And there was barely customers. So I'm a little bit confused regarding the news media reporting massive delivery problems, shortage of goods and interminable queues over the counters like the world is going to end soon. Well, out of five, only one counter was open with just three customers in front of me... ?
I can't speak outside the electronics industry, but there it's pretty bad. We're currently having 6 months delivery time for bloody SD-cards (industrial grade, though), which basically gets extended by a month every month... Let's not talk about more specialised stuff like microchips. We were supposed to roll out new electronics for our remote cameras, but the chips we need for them are currently announced to have a delivery time of 72 weeks... We'll have to make do with our 100 prototypes until then.So I'm a little bit confused regarding the news media reporting massive delivery problems, shortage of goods and interminable queues
That's usually due to heavily reduced customer numbers, though, not due to delivery issues.heavily reduced menus