A low pass over the shoreline of Dunnet Beach.
North to Sandsend
North to Sandsend via drone. The particular September day this was shot on was rather grey and flat.
Drifting towards Pen-y-ghent
A spot more drone footage, this time taken in the Yorkshire Dales.
Astronomical Engineering: A Strategy for Modifying Planetary Orbits
The Sun’s gradual brightening will seriously compromise the Earth’s biosphere within ~ 1E9 years. If Earth’s orbit migrates outward, however, the biosphere could remain intact over the entire main-sequence lifetime of the Sun.
D. G. Korycansky, Gregory Laughlin, Fred C. Adams
Apparently the solution to everything getting warmer is to just move the planet.
Mini Motorway
And, as the apocalypse continues to rumble ever onwards, I find myself with more than a little time to kill. Enter Mini Motorways – a deceptively difficult minimalist strategy game about moving things from A to B.
Continue readingTransient 2
Matthew’s Linn From The Air at Kielder Water
And it’s another spot of video! This time taken from the air at Matthew’s Linn in the Kielder Forest Park!
Continue readingThe Guardian on… Cults.
Apparently, in those more freeform pre-Blair-government days of February 1997, The Guardian (or at least those parts of the Guardian who worked Saturdays to put out the Observer) decided to put out a guide to cults.
Douglas Adams
An old (and, alas, they’re all old now) interview with Douglas Adams from the May 1985 issue of Macworld.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park Expansion – May 2021
14 months and one minor apocalypse since my last outing, it’s time to return to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park and to see how work on the the new expansion has progressed. And progressed it has!
Maps
