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'Unprecedented,' 'Gobsmacked', 'Unbelievable': Changes in Antarctica's sea ice could have dramatic impacts, says climate scientist Edward Doddridge In 1898, the crew of the first scientific expedition to Antarctica became trapped inside sea ice around the southernmost continent. Much of that once t...

For me it was quite the opposite.
A Lieutenant-Commander not listed in the 1906 and 1907 Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States, is listed here.

The United States Navy Memorial
Search the log for a service member by name, or by station or ship.
https://navylog.navymemorial.org/search-navy-log

Warning Flat Earth believers: the Earth isn't flat.
But it's time to come clean: it isn't round either.
New ESA Earth Observation data reveals out planet is egg-shaped.

https://twitter.com/esa/status/1774680212753522751

Polar vortex is 'spinning backwards' above Arctic after major reversal event https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/o48xrmBsXgZFkjBwFijFQ9.gif The polar vortex is a key driver of the polar jet stream (seen here). (Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Earlier this month, a sudden atmospheric w...

Journey Plotter 2.6 has been released today. ⚓🌍 This release fixes a problem where a Gazetteer Search could result in an error. Journey Plotter is available from the download page, which also lists all changes in detail. https://www.journeyplotter.nl/jp/download.html https://files.mastodon.social/me...

There seems to a problem using Journey Plotter's Gazetteer Search. You're met with a "Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel" error when trying to execute a search. Apologies for the inconvenience, I'm looking into the problem. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/060...

From the CPDN message board: WaH v8.29 bug leaves files behind in BOINC/data/projects/climateprediction -- please delete by hand A bug has been found in the latest v8.29 Weather@Home app currently running EAS25 batches as app-name wah2_ri. When the task finishes it mistakenly leaves some text files ...

You're welcome.
Have fun.
And be as pesky as you like, I don't live in that part of the country any more.

On another more personal note, Maikel, in May we will spend a few days in Amsterdam and then cruise up the Rhine including Kinderdijk. (Yes, we will be a couple of those pesky American tourists.) Anything we should be sure to see (or eat) beside the usual tourist places? Thanks. I'm probably not th...

The hyped generative AI are at best fun toys. But, like April mentioned, their power and water consumption are enormous. I've read somewhere that asking generative AI to create a single image for you is the equivalent of completely discharging a fully charged smart phone. That adds up, because milli...

Oh dear. :( C.B. Brittain, Lieutenant, U.S. Navy P.N. Olmsted, Lieutenant, U.S. Navy K. Ohnesorg, Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Navy Report of Board of Investigation appointed to inquire into the absence of L. Mansen, Blacksmith. U.S.S. "Yorktown", At sea, latitude 34°48' N, longitude 150°30' E,...

BOINC 7.24.3 released for Mac

This version fixes a problem that causes GPU apps to fail after a Mac OS upgrade to Sonoma.
Download it here.

U.S.S. Jamestown was stationed at Sitka, Alaska, from 1879 to 1881. They left their mark till this day, though. Click a map to see a larger version. Places near Sitka. https://www.journeyplotter.nl/images/Social/Jamestown Sitka.png Places further away from Sitka. https://www.journeyplotter.nl/images...

You may have noticed Google Maps in Journey Plotter are no longer uniform in colour. Sometimes Google changes its map appearance, but Journey Plotter doesn't frequently update its map tile cache. Clearing the map cache will solve the problem: - from the Tools menu, select Map Cache... - in the dialo...

Randi wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 2:27 pm Great card, Maikel!

Thanks, Randi.

OW Forum: Merry Christmas 🎄 everyone, and best wishes for 2024 🎆🎇. As every year I created an animated Christmas card, which you can watch here: https://youtu.be/2BBbh7OPT8E Unlike the card, no snow, it's rain, rain, rain and some more rain, with a moderate to sometime strong breeze. And it isn't ju...

I expect the website's hosting company had problems or was performing maintenance. Yesterday morning (European time) saw all sorts of problems. At times the forum was reachable, but extremely slow. Other times you were met by an error 503: Forbidden. Or by certificate problems, where the hosting com...

BOINC client 7.24.2 released for Mac

This release fixes problems with the BOINC screensaver on MacOS 14.0 Sonoma.
We recommend that you install it if you use that version of MacOS.

The Fram: A Victorian expedition to the North Pole that was as brilliant as it was bonkers https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hqJT5wnJrTyPKZyoGti7Fb.jpg 'The Fram in the Ice', 1895, (1897). (Image credit: Print Collector / Contributor via Getty Images) British physicist and oceanographer Helen Czers...