h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Perhaps some left of centre politicians cultivate a casual image, to show they are not part of the upper middle class who usually run things?

I seem to remember an incident when left-wing Labour leader Michael Foot attended a solemn ceremony at the Cenotaph in a duffle coat. He was widely condemned for disrespect.

When asked, Mr Sanders was quite surprised at all the attention. 'I was just trying to keep warm and watch the ceremony,' he said. He wasn't participating, so he wasn't required to dress up.

Yesterday, I saw some Native American young people on their Youtube channel. They had Native American 'Bernie memes'. It turns out they identified with him as an Elder. Many of the kids put decorative blankets on his picture 'so he wouldn't be cold', and made jokes about how their own grandparents behaved the same way at pow-wows. A Jewish thread on Twitter made jokes about 'grandpa at shul'. I think he struck a chord there.

Bernie is okay in my book.

I buy cheap jersey gloves in bulk. When it's really cold, I double up.

Turnout at the inauguration was low due to the choice of location.

Only those who naturally come prepared thought of bringing oxygen.

Good one!

Having watched the inauguration on youtube, I could not tell about turnout, but there seemed to be a lot of people there.

I gather that inaugurations are usually held outside, so the public can attend. 2021 was different, because an inside inauguration would have run into problems because f Covid-19. Members of Congress could attend and bring one guest each, but the public was not there.

I don' know about the six-foot distance rule. The people there seemed to be closer than six feet to each other.

Of course! No disrespect to a great person!

David Attenborough - Here we have the only surviving part of a shell of the intergalactic extinct species of Dodo, from one of Jupiter's moons -
Amalthea.
Only just discovered by Mariner 5.

OK! It was supposed to go to Venus first! BUT! A hot-dog stall on Amalthea made a great

Maybe if Biden sees the picture, he'll nominate Sanders for Secretary of Space.

Bernie in charge of the Space Force is a pleasant scenario.

I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles!

Oh come on! Exaggeration taken a tad too far methinks ?

The opposite of exaggeration would be inaggeration.
The first is overstatement, the second understatement.

Coronavirus 6ft distancing, I'm STILL having an holiday!

Of all the things I've lost because of Covd-19, I miss swimming the most. Can you imagine swimming while wearing a face mask?

Here's guidance from the powers that be at one such pool:

" Swimmers should wear a face mask until they are entering the pool, and should wear the mask after exiting the pool. Aquatic centers should make masks available for visitors, however"
http://govsite-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/DJhQzTK4Qe26HJ2J4c7A_2020-5-14%20-%20Healthy%20at%20Work%20Reqs%20-%20Aquatic%20Centers-%20Version%201.0.pdf

But wearing a mask while actually swimming would be extremely awkward.

Swimming with a face mask would probably be as comfortable as waterboarding.

That sounds about right. besides, the chlorine in pool water should kill most viruses.

http://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/HealthU/2020/06/08/does-chlorine-kill-coronavirus/#:~:text=The%20US%20Centers%20for%20Disease,the%20virus%20from%20spreading.

I can't swim (body set up is wrongballast tank in wrong place)
but! I ain't bothered I walk on water anyway(modest me)

What a nasty, cold February it is around here.

More snow coming on Sunday.

Weather is down to "mother nature" and was status quo until "human" intervention
WE! Are now suffering the consequence of "our" actions.
Given time "mother nature" will balance things out again
but at a cost to "us"

Global arming started as much as 5,000 years ago, with the beginnings of agriculture:

"Normally greenhouse gas concentrations fall steadily between periods of glaciation. These inter-glacial periods have historically lasted about 10,000 years. However, greenhouse gas concentrations started rising about 5,000 years ago, halfway through the current interglacial period. That’s about the time that agriculture became widespread."

http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/news/story.php?story=1862#:~:text=The%20industrial%20revolution%20is%20often,of%20human%2Dcaused%20climate%20change.&text=Before%20the%20first%20ounce%20of,degrees%20Fahrenheit%20above%20expected%20levels.

But in spite of human-driven warming, there was still a mini-ice age underway about the time of the American Revolution. It lasted through much of the 19th Century.

The angle at which the earth tilts can affect climate. The positioning of continents is also important.

https://eos.org/features/three-times-tectonics-changed-the-climate

sorry

http://eos.org/features/three-times-tectonics-changed-the-climate