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Reflections on Random Selection(watershed.co.uk)
1 points by mewo2 4y ago|0 comments
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Making Art with a Plotter(mewo2.com)
1 points by mewo2 7y ago|0 comments
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Notes on a month of daily generative sketches(mewo2.com)
2 points by mewo2 9y ago|0 comments
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Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg(projectmidas.org)
10 points by mewo2 9y ago|0 comments
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Larsen C Ice Shelf rift continues to grow(projectmidas.org)
1 points by mewo2 10y ago|0 comments
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by mewo2 10y ago
There's a big difference between average temperatures and peak temperatures. On Larsen C, we regularly measure localised temperatures in excess of 10˚C for days at a time. That's enough for some serious melt. Also, surface melt is
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by mewo2 10y ago
For some context on size, the calving event in this video is about 7 cubic kilometers. The Larsen C berg will be about 1000 cubic kilometers. On the other hand, this berg is overturning, so the calving is, to put it mildly, quite energetic
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by mewo2 10y ago
Well, it's a major news story - according to our press office, over a thousand outlets worldwide were carrying the story. So it would be weird if Business Insider didn't cover it. That said, I'm slightly surprised that this i
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by mewo2 10y ago
What that bit is referring to is that the ice shelf has been thinning as a result of climate change. The temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula have increased by about 3˚C (5˚F) over the past half century or so, which is a huge change to t
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by mewo2 10y ago
Unlikely, it's hard for these things to get close to the coast - remember that the base is several hundred meters below sea level, so it will ground if it gets into even remotely shallow water. More likely it'll break up, and bits
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by mewo2 10y ago
I think you might need to recalibrate your idea of the scale of this object. The iceberg weighs about a trillion (10^12) tons. For comparison, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is about a hundred thousand (10^5) tons. So you're talking a
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by mewo2 10y ago
Yeah, once these things are moving, you don't need much resolution to see them - we're talking about objects several kilometers wide, at the very least. Easily visible on even the most primitive satellite imagery. The difficulties
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by mewo2 10y ago
We need to distinguish between sea ice (a ~1m thick layer of frozen seawater), and land ice (up to 3000m thick layer of compacted snow). Sea ice is quick to respond to climate change (because it's so thin), and has a large seasonal com
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by mewo2 10y ago
I think there are some microorganisms in the snowpack, but other than that it's a pretty barren place, at least above the water. Below, a lot of sea life congregates around the ice front - there are nutrients that melt out of the ice -
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by mewo2 10y ago
Yes, the edges are impressive, aren't they? The ice is floating, almost flat, and has had hundreds of years to reach equilibrium, so there's practically zero vertical shear stress in the ice shelf. As well as that, the ice itself
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by mewo2 10y ago
It's unlikely in this case, but it has happened in some other areas. The Brunt Ice Shelf (where the British Halley VI station is located) is largely made of reconstituted icebergs like you describe. Of course, that shelf is also having
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by mewo2 10y ago
No, not particularly. It's already floating, so it will just drift away for the most part. Some smaller bits will probably fall off and produce some spectacular waves. By smaller bits, I mean stuff up to a cubic kilometer, so I wouldn&
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by mewo2 10y ago
Well, there's not a whole lot of factual difference between "Big Thing Could Happen" and "Big Thing Probably Won't Happen", and I know which one I'd lead with if I was an editor. I don't think there&#
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by mewo2 10y ago
Nothing! This is a completely natural process - ice builds up over time in the shelf and it has to be lost somehow. The calving of the iceberg is, in itself, not a result of human activity. If you mean more broadly how can we help prevent t
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by mewo2 10y ago
> * How long will it take for "Deleware" to melt? Potentially a very long time, although it will likely break into smaller pieces first. A lot of icebergs get caught in the Antarctic Coastal Current, and just drift around the e
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by mewo2 10y ago
Probably not. The Larsen B collapse was preceded by widespread surface melting across the shelf, which caused lots of crevasses to fill with water, driving them open, and the whole shelf pretty much shattered under the stress. We don't
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by mewo2 10y ago
Hey folks, I'm one of the scientists on Project MIDAS (the team that made the announcement). Happy to answer questions about this. I've also been keeping a spreadsheet of things roughly the size of the iceberg, for journalistic c
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Show HN: Haversine: Logo on a sphere(mewo2.com)
3 points by mewo2 10y ago|0 comments
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A growing rift on Larsen C(projectmidas.org)
1 points by mewo2 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration(mewo2.com)
1004 points by mewo2 10y ago|64 comments
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by mewo2 10y ago
Yeah, that's sort of deliberate. Because the consonant system is so much more developed than the vowels, it's easier for them to do more of the heavy lifting, even if that is a bit unusual in natural language terms. I could probab
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Generating naming languages(mewo2.com)
47 points by mewo2 10y ago|4 comments
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Statistical model of Eurovision 2016(eurovisionforecast.com)
1 points by mewo2 10y ago|0 comments
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How to Make a Bot That Isn't Racist(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by mewo2 10y ago|0 comments
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Ethical bot-making(mewo2.com)
1 points by mewo2 10y ago|0 comments

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