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 reading “Mini Motorway”Transient 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 reading “Matthew’s Linn From The Air at Kielder Water”The 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 in MacWorld (May 1985)
An old (and, alas, they’re all old now) interview with Douglas Adams from the May 1985 issue of Macworld. Transcription is via OSX’s images to text service.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park Expansion – May 2021
See my 2022 update here!
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
Manic Street Preachers – From There To Here (BBC2 1998)
Another nice mid-90s documentary, this time on the Manic Street Preachers.