Nanoq's IceCave
Hmm, it takes some time between the updates, exactly one year this time. But now its time again.
Work is the key issue, because you can not stay asleep forever. Someone need to chase those asteroids threating Tellus and the on-line response at the interplanetary IP network still is horrendous, when out there in the asteroid field, up to 1 hour ping times. No h2g2 editing from out there.
The h2g2 is a rather anachronistic, while interesting, place, based on a book. How on earth can a book become a web community? Well, Douglas Adams naturally. Unfortunately will we not be able to see any more projects from DNA, like "Starship Titanic", but h2g2 still seems to flourish after a number of years. The transition first to BBC and now to Not Paniking Ltd, seem to have given it a chance after DNA's untimely departure. I'll hope it survives for a very long time.
But to relate to the guide and travels: Home, sweet home (not quite any longer, but really the only one of interest), Marmorilik, site of the Black Angel Mine, in the Uummannaq municipality, my first arctic home in the early 80-ties [though no longer there]. An odd mining village, half an hour by helicopter, to the nearest town, Uummannaq, or 3-4 hours with a good speedboat. Marmorilik is unfortunately closed and abandoned since -91, but the Black Angel Mining company is working to reopen the mine.
Here I read Kilgor Trout's "Venus on the Half-Shell" between the shifts in the mine, a book that must have had an influence on DNA, since it also was about the meaning of life, though not 42. If remembering correct, its 39.
Along the street (yes, the only one), then populated by 350 lost souls, now some 50 to 100 from all over the world (a couple of thousands ones over the years), once or twice the odd ice bear strolled along, hence my tag. Nanoq is Greenlandic for ice bear.
Nanoq also connect to my other Greenlandic home, in the capital Nuuk, where it's nearest traces was the nice floor pelt my neighbor used to air on the balcony after his wild parties. Most likely self-caught in his hometown of Ittoqqortoormiit, that have the highest polar bear population in Greenland.
Greenpeace????
Well, since they displayed a profound lack of understanding for life in the arctics, airing views as : "grow potato" or "move to Denmark", thus received the local epithet "Greenshit". Greenpeace have since then reluctantly adjusted their attitude some, realizing that a polar bear, that absolutely wants you as todays breakfast or a grown up seal, being food for 4 families for a whole week, is legit hunting targets.
As a matter of fact, the union for hunters and small-scale fishermen did already around -79 introduce a prohibition on driving snow scooters on the sea ice, only to use dog-sledges up until April 1st, when the seal pups have left the hive, this to protect the seals in the hunting districts. Something the Canadian Inuits started to follow as late as in the middle of the 90-ties. That is conservation thinking.
But what do this have to do with h2g2?
Well, I did read Kilgor Trout first time in Marmorilik, then heard h2g2 on radio - later reading it, so finding the Titanic site and from there I found the h2g2 community. And h2g2 is the h2g2, isn't it? Anyway, all this and my above interest for odd places to live in, so when I found h2g2, I naturally had to look here for my ultimate living target, the PLACE to live at, space.
Then I realized that h2g2 still lacked good travel guides to any nice spots by the EGG:s in M16 or with a view over the Ring or Dumbbell nebulasas well as advices, how to avoid the coming gamma pulse from Eta Carinae, when traveling in the neighborhood, looking for a nice Lagrange Rama unit apartment, where I hope to retire, my patio being at the lower left
. I am still waiting for these articles, probably someday I have to write them myself, when on leave in the inner solar system.
Oh yes, moving to a Rama unit is just another reason to get read in on Eta C. And if we don't like the neighborhood, maybe we'll could move elsewhere, like to a brown dwarf like "Nemisis", as Isaac Asimov wrote about in one of his last books. The gain? What about a star that lives for 100 billion years, rather than the measly 5 expected for good ol' Sol, not including the expected collision with the Andromeda Galaxy and likely demise of Tellus in 3 billion years, rather than common expected 4 billion due to Sol's expansion out over Tellus path.
Nanoq, the industrial space gypsy.
The Tellus Sub-Arctic district, Feb 17, 2014
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