TIL: Today I Learned

[Dachs]

Billy Rautenbach, the notorious Rhodesian/Zimbabwean businessman, has a Wikipedia entry! It is almost hilariously biased to the point of probably being written by someone in his organization.

 

[Hrothbern]

Have you tried building a seawall and getting Mexico to pay for it?

No but we do sell land during eb and buy it back during flood

 

[hobbsyoyo]

If sanctioning Mexico and bombing Iran isn't on the table then I am afraid your country isn't really serious about fighting climate change.

Good day sir.

 

[Takhisis]

This is the nitty gritty part of water management of our Low Lands
The sea dikes and the river mouthes and ports will cost more.

Sounds almost as complicated as doing waterworks on OpenTTD. I need a reread.

If sanctioning Mexico and bombing Iran isn't on the table then I am afraid your country isn't really serious about fighting climate change.

Good day sir.

Do you mean about fighting against climate change, or is it about climate change fighting us?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Isn't there some similar issue with the tundra and taiga in places like Canada and Russia? I'm too lazy to Google it right now, but I remember something about methane..?

Yes, our permafrost is melting and some homes, businesses, and even communities and roads are sinking, falling, eroding, etc. Some small Arctic communities are well on their way to falling into the Arctic Ocean. The permafrost they're built on is no longer stable.

There are some areas where climate scientists have gone back to retrieve their equipment left to measure erosion levels and rates and discovered that their instruments have sunk.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Sounds almost as complicated as doing waterworks on OpenTTD. I need a reread.

Do you mean about fighting against climate change, or is it about climate change fighting us?

I said good day!

 

[Broken_Erika]

This is war! How dare the Climate change on us! The Climate must be destroyed! No surrender!

 

[Arakhor]

Apparently, the famous '90s Ferrero Rocher advert was an Italian one, dubbed into English. Until I went to university, the advert succeeded in my thinking that they were actually quite posh, but then I rather went off them and haven't had them since.

 

[Hrothbern]

The After Eight Mints advert was English

 

[Lexicus]

Isn't there some similar issue with the tundra and taiga in places like Canada and Russia? I'm too lazy to Google it right now, but I remember something about methane..?

Another fun part of this is ancient microbes like anthrax coming out of the ground as the permafrost melts! There have already been a number of anthrax outbreaks in Siberia, IIRC mostly affecting wildlife but there's nothing stopping it from hurting people too.

http://discovermagazine.com/2018/jun/something-stirs

 

[EgonSpengler]

Another fun part of this is ancient microbes like anthrax coming out of the ground as the permafrost melts! There have already been a number of anthrax outbreaks in Siberia, IIRC mostly affecting wildlife but there's nothing stopping it from hurting people too.

http://discovermagazine.com/2018/jun/something-stirs

It sounds like the beginning of a scifi-horror movie, doesn't it? I've seen at least a few environmental-disaster movies where the nature of the catastrophe was never really spelled out for the viewer. They took a "who knows? it could have been anything" attitude towards the origin of the disaster.

 

[Lexicus]

I've seen at least a few environmental-disaster movies where the nature of the catastrophe was never really spelled out for the viewer. They took a "who knows? it could have been anything" attitude towards the origin of the disaster.

Examples?

 

[Synobun]

Examples?

How It Ends on Netflix.

Horrible ending.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Examples?

The Happening - the movie wasn't just about a disaster, it was itself a disaster
IO
Los Ultimos Dias / The Last Days - my favorite on this list
Dans La Brume / Just A Breath Away
The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead - I haven't watched the original since the 2nd season, or the spinoff since the 1st season, so maybe they've discovered the source of the infection since then
The Girl With All the Gifts

 

[Kyriakos]

TIL Shaq thought it takes less (or exactly twice, not sure why) time to travel to the moon, than to California (from New York or whatever). And his reason for thinking this was that: "You cannot see California from here, but you can see the moon".

A good case of only noticing one parameter and being oblivious of the rest.

 

[Takhisis]

TIL Shaq thought it takes less (or exactly twice, not sure why) time to travel to the moon, than to California

Well, if you get a baggage handlers' strike then it's an even bet.

 

[Bugfatty300]

It sounds like the beginning of a scifi-horror movie, doesn't it? I've seen at least a few environmental-disaster movies where the nature of the catastrophe was never really spelled out for the viewer. They took a "who knows? it could have been anything" attitude towards the origin of the disaster.

 

[Gori the Grey]

The word "cool" can be a noun and can mean either 1) a breeze or 2) a measure of butter, approximately 40 lbs.

 

[Hrothbern]

TIL Baldurs Gate III is happening
2021 ?
2024 ?

Yes, Baldur's Gate 3 is happening, and it's being developed not by BioWare (maker of the earlier entries in the series), but by Larian Studios, the studio behind the incredible Divinity: Original Sin 2. Coming off of such a critically acclaimed RPG, it seems like the perfect match--and the partnership between Larian and Wizards of the Coast (license holders of Dungeons & Dragons) has quite the story.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2019-baldurs-gate-3-aims-to-do-what-no-other-rp/1100-6467440/

 

[Takhisis]

Wow. I assume that everybody else is too busy drooling at the screen to post, so phirst.