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in support of wikipedia

2012-01-19T08:19:00.001+02:00

n/t

unscientific extrapolation

2011-12-02T11:17:00.001+02:00

somewhat to my surprise 12000 lines wasn't enough to crash the computer

So, what happens on summer solstice a bit over 5,5 years from now? I've got no (EDIT:proofed) idea.

frequencies

2011-11-17T11:43:00.000+02:00

remnant

2011-09-15T09:23:00.009+03:00

Hurricane Irene remnant low pressure that passed here the 13-14th Sept. I've seen worse weather when in the army and couple times afterwards also. the island south of this got it somewhat worse, with some 2000 residencies losing power. Surge of 0,5 meters was the main effect, few felled small branches on the road.

There's no rain here, all of that is sea spray.

The last of the clouds.

no title

2011-09-03T11:36:00.000+03:00

likely going offline for a while.

A task

2011-08-30T08:49:00.001+03:00

Presume the climate system of the earth is a heat engine and draw a simple image of how the heat engine distributes the energy between the components of the engine including internal variation, some effects of it and human influence on it using at maximum 1200*854 pixels:

Task not complete since the map doesn't include the real topography of the earth, the directions on many lines and there is a serious lack of explanations on many processes. I guess this takes a bit more pixels.

storylink

2011-08-09T14:23:00.000+03:00

Daniel Bailey is a moderator at SkepticalScience and he has written a story which would have to be adapted in the cold Nordic conditions if I had written something similar to it. The story ends when the italics end, so if you're after stories end your reading there :-).

http://www.skepticalscience.com/SLR_Affects_US_Population.html

A number

2011-07-15T13:48:00.002+03:00

3642928 (steady slowdown until equinox sept)

Solving a problem

2011-07-03T11:29:00.002+03:00

A japanese gardener of noble descent (that is, a samurai gardener, a rarity back in the late 19th century) sweated in the summer heat as the little ice age has ended in his garden. Even the recent war had gone badly for his clan (a possible reason for him to start gardening), so he felt extra heated for the climate change. The only war memento he had obtained was a historical book of european origin, complete with images of the knightly life during the medieaval warm period (the ending of which, had been explained to him, was a main reason for the continued european search for nice, not too warm, not too cold, pastures around the world). One image showed a knight sitting in the shade of a vine pergola, with a caption saying "After the loss at Agincourt the surviving knights retreated to their own lands". The samurai in question was abnormally interested in the foreign ways of life due to his great-great-great auntie having married to a portuguese civilized captain, and thought the image was very soothing. So, because the clan leader had banned all the foreign food (and plant) imports, the samurai decided to begin to solve the problem of not having proper climbing vines by using native plants that could cover the pergola his carpenter had made to his specifications. The first attempts failed miserably, but after reading the "Great paper of the Monk, "Experiments on Plant Hybridization","left by a spanish priest at the library of the province capital for 'he had other interests', he started to slice various peas in half and recombining these to 'new sorts of peas' and seeing if he could grow a proper vine. Needless to say, he succeeded and thus a new species of Pueraria-complex was born, later to be known as samurai-weed (Salishan language:Kudzu) in the American Northwest.

already done

2011-06-07T09:25:00.003+03:00

Actually PETM was caused by the remnants of a motorized dinosaur civilization who were so bigoted they didn't even look to the skies to find out if there was trouble ahead... the rest of them died on diseases transmitted by bat bites to their ears which caused their noses to whiten and their bones to rot.

years are not brothers

2011-05-06T13:54:00.004+03:00

guidelines

2011-04-03T13:37:00.001+03:00

some optimization required.

Finnish words for solid H2O (an introduction)

2011-03-28T10:34:00.010+03:00

Finland is a cold country. Well, not quite as cold as continental Canada or Siberia but quite cold anyway. This winter, the temperatures have been below normal and snow entered the country early, in November, like it just wanted to remind people of the winters in 1940s or the latest cold winter of 1986-7.

Hence there are adult finnish people who have not seen winters like this one.

Finnish is a somewhat synthetic language and it allows the use of compound nouns, so it is not surprising that finnish and its dialects have quite a lot of words describing the solid forms of H20. In fact these are way more than for the liquid and gaseous H2O. Some of these are commonly used also in weather forecasts so some clarification may be needed.

Big hat tip for http://lumensanakirja.blogspot.com/2011/, for reminding of the various words I've not used since 1980s.

Actually using these is pretty intuitive since many of these relate to weather attributes or skiing conditions. I've tried to formalize some of these in the following easy 14 categories (still very much unfinished and possibly somewhat inaccurate and in need of a revision), as I'm from the southwest, this dialect is overtly represented...:

general word for snow: lumi
1. progression of snow on ground during winter: ensilumi (first snow) -> siite (little snow = under 2-4 cm) -> lunta maassa (snow on ground, but not quite enough for good skiing = under 10 cm) -> kunnon talvi (winter proper, enough snow/ice for wintry activities) -> hanki (when the general snow depth is highest (feb-early march) -> temperature above 0 -> suoja -> below 0 -> suhju or hölsä (or a free swear word)(depending on the lenght the suoja weather...) -> above zero -> sohjo -> loska (generally at least 5 cm))

hop over any of the middle ones if the winter isn't long or good enough...

other words for snow on the ground:
kinos: snow drift; a loose pile of snow, also of the piles made by people and their machines
nietos: thicker snow amidst hanki (windblown and hard)
polanne: a hard layer of compacted snow (almost turned to ice)
viti: freshly fallen powdery snow
nuoska: "snowballable" snow, usually formed when powdery snow melts a bit
pulveri: powder; very cold, fine, powdery snow
uppu: local spot with much more snow than apparent
valli: wall, blockage; a wall of snow (natural or manmade)
ajolumi: loose snow (wind may pick up)

2. The 10 intensities of snowfall from mildest to severest (SW-Finland) sataa hippeitä - haituvia - hahtuvia - lunta - tiheästi lunta -pyry - tuisku,myräkkä - lumimyrsky - Canadian blizzard

3. (SW): ice(increasing thickness of solid ice): riite(0-0,2cm) - riitta(0,2-0,5 cm) - jääpeite 0,5-1,5 cm -jääkansi 1,5-4 cm - teräsjää 4-90 cm

4. jää - ice (increasing brittleness): teräsjää > porejää (ice that maybe walked on with caution), kohvajää (partly formed from snow, hence foolhardy to cross though may succeed, walked on only if forced to) > puikkojää (very brittle, even experienced ice fishers may drown on this one > tikkujää(if one gets on this, going through it into water is certain)

other ice words:
ahto: pack-ice (broken & refrozen ice)
ahtauma: a formation of pack-ice
kide: ice crystal
railo: gap/lead in otherwise smooth ice
tökkö: ice with frost on top
komo: raised ice (f.e. the ice on river stuck on the shore leaving an air pocket under it)

I see this takes quite a long time, so the following categories have only samples.

5. the types of singular graupel/hail/sleet/snowflakes
there are about 11 of these... depending on the temperature in which they fall/the appearance/size

6. snow/ice not on the ground:
f.e. tykky: large chunks of snow, esp. when frozen onto trees, maybe divided to snow tykky and frost tykky
a couple more words for snow/ice on man-made structures

7.ice not on the surface of water:
iljanne: a thin layer of snow atop ice
paanne: multi-layered ice (typically waves crash on top and freeze)
huurre: rime; granular frost (the white stuff in your freezer) also the stuff that comes from breathing at under -5
härmä: frost
kaljama: a thick layer of ice on the ground, lethal in the spring
kuura: hoarfrost; frozen dew
routa: ice in the ground

8. natural biotopes in winter:
f.e. kuhveikko: frozen (thickly enough to cross) bog or swamp
at least 6 more

9. some work related words:
avanto: a hole in ice leading to the water beneath
jotos: reindeer tracks in snow
rannio: a reindeer path in deep snow
judake: reindeer track in snow (Lapland)
kieppi: shallow snowcave for overnighting out

10. skiing related words:
keli: weather conditions on the ground level (not winter specific)
latu: a ski trail in snow
and about 7 more

11. other words
laviini: a small avalanche
lumivyöry: avalanche

12.winter and human health
13.transportation (other than skiing) in winter
14.parts of the seasons (late autumn-early spring)

one peculiarity must yet be mentioned: the ordinary dry snow falling at temperatures between -5 and -13 degrees centigrade has had a different word in almost all significant dialects, I guess this is just to keep people talking...

(Disclaimer: One category of winter related words is lacking in finnish for the geography, that is 'the specific glacier words' as Finland has no glaciers to note.)

Governmental practices 101

2011-02-28T08:46:00.001+02:00

after the finnish civil war there were voting locales which had two teams counting the votes since the mistrust.

Hmmph.

2011-02-23T18:12:00.000+02:00

Had an idea of a text about gene technologists who would have been in the position of wizards in futuristic medieval society, BUT Paul McAuley's 'the Quiet War' has 'em already. Hmmph. Gotta read the book though, I guess.

Waste

2011-02-03T12:16:00.001+02:00

*Hey, what have you done with this?
-Let's see, what is it?
*It just came from up there, then I processed it and this is what was left.
-Hmmph, doesn't look like anything.
*Yeah, it's kind of icky.
-You know, those up there could possibly do something about that, they've got this process called 'using free radicals'.
*Hey, I'm not going in there, there's poison in there.
-Don't you have contacts with any transporters?
*No, they don't usually come this down.
-I can't take that with me, too yucky.
*Then what do I do with it?
-Bin it.
*Ok, but our bin is a bit full and there's not been enough time for the waste managent processes to take place again.

Then a quake happened and the methanogen was happy.

Train collision in Germany

2011-01-30T12:17:00.000+02:00

"Oh fuck, did I miss that signal, was it clear or stop?? What do I do? If I break it'll take at least 10 minutes to stop... Can I save myself by leaving the locomotive? What of the opposing train? Do I want to live through that? ... ... At least I'll lose my job ... and live as a hated person for the rest of my life ... I think I'll stay here. ... ... ... ... ..." End

Of course what really happened is yet to be determined.

subspecies theme continued

2011-01-19T07:44:00.003+02:00

Fiction:
"Now, as Homo s. fossilicus has scored a great Pyrrhic victory over us, and condemned our both subspecies to deteriorating conditions, it's time to examine how this happened and why many of us were also seduced by their propaganda. Also it is time to find out what were the good parts of their culture, and the things possibly applicable to the future culture that will, by the force of nature, incorporate the remaining individuals in our collective Homo subspecies after we have figured out how to live in the projected severely damaged world."

fsdhisaer

2010-12-30T19:02:00.000+02:00

There should be a completely harmless text in here by now but due to the inherent power of words, this is not possible. Proceed with caution.

slipped

2010-11-20T14:41:00.002+02:00

offline.

collaborative writing 2.

2010-09-19T06:52:00.003+03:00

12. marraskuuta 2363 11.31 xxx.xxx@18.4.290.118.spc kirjoitti:

Hello again,

Didn’t take me long to answer… I could lie wasn’t my own fault, but it was. We had a slightly alarming situation going on just before you send your previous message (t.i. almost a month ago). I allowed to tell as much the tangle required us to empty all sorts of “possibly dangerous” stuff listed on the bioserver-space, and my posts were somewhere on the line. But, I could’ve reloaded them from the linking server’s proofs, but me, didn’t do that. No excuses, I forgot.

So, the alumnus meeting is up in three months, things are starting to roll with increasing pace down there? Who else is coming, anybody I know? How’s Ela Månevannsdottir? We weren’t exactly friends during the studies, or rather, Ela hated me pretty good for that practical joke that got us both expelled for 2 months from the Elevation Group. But, we got in contact (mainly through mail) last year, when we happened to be within 10 secs; we had an exoresearcher who knew Ela and knew we pass close to her ship. Yes, Ela actually owns the ship, goes by the name “Tsar Bomba” (fusion humor). Rich bastard, but we made a peace. I can send copies of our discussion if you’re interested, we talked of you too. Nothing bad, well, nothing much bad.

Don’t tell Ela I suggested this, but she’s got assets to buy legal help to download me to Earth in couple of months. And the construct and the mind-copy: I can pull some strings in Peary at Moon, and get the permission to download the copy there, legal problems solved. I’ve got an old contruct ready in there, empty now, but the light bio-structures should be quite correct. It can then be at virtual with you lot from the Moon. If it pisses teachers off it works correctly… I’ll return to that. Or maybe it’ll burn.
Good luck with organizing, there must be a lot to do, all the invites likely will have their say on the venues, menus and such. GS.

[name disclosed]

- Tharsaid Securities -

"Space for Security"

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7.12.2363 17.01 Iiwold P. Cherwall ipcher120@alelevation.edu:

Hello!
To me Ela said only she took some time off to check the slopes over at Anticontinents Peninsula… Then was a hack via Elas’ comp, or whatever something such… for you it might have even been a merit though I guess you were also disillusioned with the lack of the connections at the institute… Ela had such a crowd of hangarounds of course, I’m rather surprised the woman has left the Ground. On the other hand, I guess there aren’t many places she hasn’t visited here on the blue-green ball. Whether Ela is present at the meet depends on who else is coming, said Kei-Liu, she still has direct contacts with her. I guess you remember her. She herself promised to be there, but otherwise there aren’t too many who are certain to be there, sorry to tell. It is of course partly the question of supporting similar training programs in the future, who and how much is another matter. The buffet has been organized by the firm of parents of Killarney (that annoying freshman who drooled after Elas’ redhead friend (couple of flats right from ours) whose name escapes me now…) , they’ve got a contract with a major spice manufacturer, so the quality should be good enough even for Ela. You self have no need for this info, of course.

Yes, there is quite a bit of doing in these. Many of the Elevation Group crew (the two hundred, how many of us were there) are tied to their work (most yet on Earth) and some might not want to reminisce those days. Like the time when we decided re-examiners needed live music to encourage the studying, might have been a fun night… for us. Nothing else comes to mind right now, I’ll send the list of participants (of those I know you know) as soon as it contains more than 6 names…

Iiwold.

collaborative writing...

2010-09-17T16:06:00.001+03:00

2363/10/12 Iiwold P. Cherwall IPCher120@alelevation.edu:

Hello from Earth, I’m searching for people who graduated year 2354 on the Elevation Group. There is an alumnus meeting due in 4 months, and the connections to off-Earth persons are organized by Anna Olivia Zill, who currently works in the Resource Ministry. They’ll be with standard speed. It is Anna who gave me your possible location of work (and contact info).

The connections have been organized this way as I presume the industrial combinates present out there want to keep their channels to themselves and quite possibly there are people who cannot organize their communications to earth themselves.

A long time has passed since I last heard of you, surely I heard you were leaving for further than Moon, but your company isn’t the most open about giving out their personnel records. Hopefully this message reaches the right person though I doubt there are many people in space by the same name as you. I don’t know when the antenna of this send-out station next will be rotated towards your location, as the officials informed me some places get so few private messages they aren’t on the regular schedule. This is why I’ve started the search so early.

Could you notify me of your possible interest in a virtual meeting, can you get a permission for a such occasion – whomever you ask that, and how long delays are to be expected in the communication?

your roommate/schoolmate

Iiwold P. Cherwall

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15. october 2363 16.59 xxx.xxx@18.4.288.116.spc:

Hi Ii!

Yes, I can get a permit, but sending a proper mind-copy cost quite a bit from where I am (I’m over 2 hours away now, unfortunately I cannot yet be more precise). Targeting a com-channel directly is probably out of the question, so a mind-copy is the only chance. But let’s see maybe it’ll work out. I’ll be back on better time, gotta finish, the boss is breathing on my neck…

GS.

[name disclosed]

- Tharsaid Securities -

"Space for Security"

--
2363/10/16 Iiwold P. Cherwall IPCher120@alelevation.edu wrote:

Hello, the correct address for the server it is!

I guess this comes through a couple of links, as it takes two hours. I wondered of the length of the address. I could track the latter part of it to Ceres and thought you’ve wandered to outermost portion of the asteroid belt on the service of some local energy corp. By measuring as a rocket flies that would take you real distant somewhere round and about Saturn! Don’t tell me your lust for adventure has grown stronger? Anyway, I think the Ganymede research base is the outermost direct link so far.

As it takes that long the mind-copy is probably the only chance. I’ve forgot about those, as here on earth they’re permitted only for temporary duplication and only for critical personnel. The rule is though diverted quite much, but them businesses and combinates (and private families) rather will have their former leaders more pacified and well behaved… something you’ve likely heard too. Keep the experience, progress the methods. Another rule is the copies must not (and really how they could be?) be updated with newer info, so the progress will be the achievement of the new generation and to prevent the eventual birth of trusts… Well, I guess I must find out where I can find a construct capable of receiving a mind-copy to this kind of purpose, ask for permissions and all that.

Friendly Regards,

Iiwold.

why have you saved those trees?

2010-08-20T08:07:00.000+03:00

"You see, we have winds mostly from the west, but the time we need most electricity is during winter when it blows from north.", the farmer said. "This is why those trees have been planted on a cross between the four fields."
"The trees, don't they get knocked down by the wind on a singular row like that? What do they have to do with electricity?"
"Yes they would, but I've managed to build a hydraulic support system for those in the array. The hydraulics provide the pressure needed to power the engines located in each array.", the farmer replied. "Additionally, they reduce amount of windblown crops, though the quality of the crops isn't as good near the array than previously."

(couple of many notes why this isn't very feasible: how to attach something solidly on a growing tree without damaging it? Also, any hydraulic fluid leaks would be an issue.)

Alabama 2050

2010-07-29T12:23:00.000+03:00

"...As the mother nature is her infinite evilness has once again denied us the fruits of the earth, that by God, God rightfully has granted us for our perusal, we must pray for the lost souls of Hank, Jim, Robert, Irene, Johanna, Seamus, Sue, and Gavin who died in hunger because of the acts of mother nature. Let us continue to pray for rain and support God in his fight against this evil by building water pipes for the needy members of this congregation from the good late-father Jenkins' well, since it is a deep one. Cursed shall be those who in the last riot killed this giving man. Having no progeny, he would've gladly accepted this.
On other issues of our diminished congregation, some people have been trying to grow vegetables in the graveyard. This will not be tolerated, and the offenders will be shot on sight. The only place in the churchyard for earthly matters is the garden of Judith, our beloved precentor, situated downstream from the graves."

pictures

2010-07-06T17:10:00.007+03:00

Pictures from NW Lapland

Matarengi

Giebmegáisi

rávdnji vuotnašši

waterfall bokte campsite

the gorge of the johka (5 kms away)

about a thousand m up from camp and lække

Ivvárasággi (mountaineers only)

that's me (photo by J.Riihimäki)

Photos don't do justice.

I don't know if the translations hit the mark.

PS. now it's been announced that the Arctid I was too tired to seek for long has been found in Finland last summer. Congrats to the finder. The location hasn't been published.

PPS. now that I've heard more of the Arctid I'm pretty certain I was within half a mile from a suitable location and that we passed by the finnish location by some 10 miles. I can see it here though: http://www2.nrm.se/en/svenska_fjarilar/h/holoarctia_puengeleri.html

wishlist (sort of)

2010-06-26T11:33:00.008+03:00

Back.

We got some car troubles (power steering oil leaking, in Norway this is not what you want, got it fixed in Finland on the way back...), I took some minor damage to tendons in my right knee for descending 1000 meters too fast (took about 3 hours). Then the weather changed from 22 degrees, sunny to 7 degrees, foggy and rainy, in a day. The locality we visited was in the early summer so many of the species mentioned were impossible to find. After this we decided to cut the trip short. Luckily we didn't initiate any rock slides over each other nor did the fog surprise us in the fell.

Results:
Butterflies and moths: ~~Oeneis norna, Colias tyche (VU)~~, Of the Geometrids, high arctic Entephrias (specially nobiliaria (VU) and flavicinctata (VU) (didn't get to the place for the knee) , they fly at night in the shade (in the midnught sun, huh?)), Some of the rarer Noctuids (one protected) ~~(strike two over),~~ and with great luck Holoarctia fridolini (tried to find, but only for about 10 minutes) from Norway. Of the taxonomically more primitive species, I'd like to encounter Hepialus fuscoargentus (flies in august, can't remember everything), Catastia kistrandella (RE)(didn't get to the place due weather), Sesia bembeciformis (NT) (tried to find, but didn't) and Stenoptilia islandica (CR) (nope, but a Platyptilia gonodactyla from a new province).
Of other insects, some Carabidae and a couple of Cerambycids are of interest (went too early for these...) ... Some of the other flying ones would be less favoured (read: Culicidae, Simuliidae, Ceratopogonidae (mosquitos, blackflies, sandflies)) (Only mosquitos present this early in the season, quite pleasant)

~~Arctic fox (CR) in nature~~ (They could have a traffic warning sign for this one near the border of Sweden and Norway)
~~Pine Marten (carrying some prey) (LC)~~
(The big one I saw and missed due exhaustion was probably Xestia lyngei (Noctuidae, NT))

Other ones on the non-wishlist are Epirrita (LC, which is somewhat funny) and Operophtera (LC, which also has the potential to cause a little concern), but I strongly suspect these are present somewhere along the way (yes, there they were).

Overall, a fine, succesful and enjoyable trip, though a bit short and the roughness of the terrain was a bit too much. Trying to top the fell from the south did it I guess. More planning should be involved (we didn't know what the name of the fell was until we were back... we didn't have an accurate map... and I need a new compass). Thinking of going again, but the next trip should be later in the summer (mid-July) to avoid the snow still present this time of year (at altitudes of over 900 meters on all slopes but the southern one). Posting some photos in a few days.

Note #8

2010-06-24T07:19:00.003+03:00

And so it came to be that the Month of Admixture begun and the minions were busily preparing the Plane and the Way of Admixture that were needed to cross the vast expanses of NoSwetlands. The Chosen Clean Ones were preparing themselfes to join the Duchess in this yearly ritual. As they were settled in their seats the Duchess pressed the button in her holy sceptre and the plane started it's journey. Even the Duchess didn't know where they would end up, as this was a matter of the Admixer. The reproductive Cycle began.

axial tilt of 30

2010-05-19T12:38:00.000+03:00

Once upon a time, there was a planet which was on the verge of ice age. Inhabitants there were naturally worried of this as their crops needed some warmth to produce food for their growing population. Then there was added terror of an asteroid hitting the planet. Luckily, the asteroid crumbled before it hit and burned brightly to millions of pieces. This event raised the temperature of the planet, but it was still a curse for people, for the insects couldn't anymore fly to pollinate their crops.

Some April events and a followup

2010-03-19T13:12:00.001+02:00

This bulletin continues our updates on the weather relating to the Breakup event of Ross Ice Shelf.

As noted in the previous bulletin the cooling effect of ACC in the southern Indian Ocean was largely cancelled this SH summer. The 3rd last Tropical Cyclone of the season in Southern Indian Ocean, that hit areas near Perth (Australia) as Category 4 two and a half weeks ago, and got extratropical before hitting New Zealand with winds of 200km/h, continued straight towards the Icebergs in Drake channel. The blockade of ACC was finally broken, with the icebergs spreading with the re-established ACC. A notable amount of ice was swept by the Falkalnd Current between Falkland isles and Argentina, it remains to be seen if this is enough to create an ocean ice bridge between the Isles and the continent later this winter. What we expect is that the ocean ice amount is large in southern Atlantic portion of the Antarctica. This likely will direct the polar cyclones powering ACC towards South African Republic and some notable snow events are expected there before the winter is over.

{{From the Agricultural Department:

As the cyclone season has brought copious amounts of water to Western Australia, it is likely advisable to plant during winter (may-jul), since the forecasts show a significant possibilty of light showers during the next spring (aug-sep) and the drier conditions are likely to return in the summer.}}

The failed one

2010-02-25T05:55:00.000+02:00

We took a 1 meter piece of 1-inch thick iron water pipe with an inner diameter of 4 inches, and welded it shut on one end. Then we put it in a freezer and applied layers of clear and colored water in it through an insulated rubber tube, to simulate the yearly layers in a glacier. Then we set the pipe to an industrial grade hydraulic press that had a 1-meter 4 inch spike attached to measure the thermal conductivity, layer compression, and other physical parameters in the ice under heavy load. Unfortunately we cannot publish the results in glaciological magazine, since "glacial ice doesn't contain iron" and "the parameters measured this way cannot be applied to estimate glacial flow", and the response from solid state physics magazine was that "this is a student-level study of ice jams in hydraulic pressers" and "since you didn't measure the behavior of iron under stress, this cannot be applied to engineering." There were no further tries to publish this study, and frankly, why bother, the results in the study have some application in the current field of our research. Any relation to real persons or studies is purely coincidental.

October Weather Report

2010-01-18T09:44:00.003+02:00

"This bulletin continues our followups of the breakup event of WAIS that left a 200000km2 iceberg from Ross ice shelf floating on the path of Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

The iceberg rotates slowly clockwise on the northwest side of the Antarctic Peninsula and the high ridge between Antarctic mainland and Patagonia continues to be strong. This has lead to the diversion of the ACC, it now goes along the path of Humbolt current. Chilean coast continues to freeze and dry up to the 20S parallel. On the Atlantic side of the Andies the Brasilian current reaches Falkland Islands raising the temperatures there up to 25 degrees celsius. Ships moving between the iceberg and Falkland are warned of sudden hurricane-force weather systems. Central Argentina continues to receive downpours as subtropical lows hit the cold high ridge. As a result of this diversion of Tropical Rain Belt the Peruvian forest areas are drying up, and the flow of Amazon has weakened by 80%. On the African side of South Atlantic, the Benguela current has warmed up by 6 degrees and the rains continue to batter Angola and Namibia. The diversion of ACC has cooled the southern equatorial current so colder than usual (~34C) temperatures are expected in the Indonesian-Australian areas shortly. This ends our current bulletin of the weather related to the breakup event."

a sketch

2010-01-05T18:31:00.005+02:00

3D-Restructuring of North Pacific Gyre and Undercurrents during Onsets of El Nino and its implications to Local Climate Effects in various parts of the world, discussion on Differences between summer and winter onsets. (for buplication in Oceanographical Futurology sept-2010)
As has been previously noted by, among others, R.C. Franccccis and others. (Last updated 6 March 1998) and B. deYoung & alii (2004) oceanic regime shifts of marine biota have been observed on north Pacific affecting fisheries and other animals. Here we try to link these economically fortituous events to the not-yet-fully-explained phenomenon called El Nino (see the description of observational parameters of this from f.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensō). The warm water escapes its more common place in the former Sunda and Sahul areas and lets the tropic cool by enhanced cool water resurfacing there, it'll also bring wet times to the drought stricen Andies. This cool water has to come somewhere. In furthere papers we'll discuss the modal effects of the phase of the oscillation and the season it's occurrring to very far places in teh wolrd since its also been noted that some weather effecta in the nearby areas are a direct consequence of this 15000 km spanning phenomenon.

building a simple climate model (Hypothetical)

2009-12-03T10:58:00.003+02:00

We took two buckyballs and sat on them, on a pentagonal side. One was slightly smaller than the other. Then we inserted it inside the other one and turned it by 36 degrees as it is clear that the corners of the smaller pentagon must be as near as possible of the larger one to minimize the effect of cartographic distortion present in the projection. The difficulties in transforming directions described in the normal N-S notation of the cardinal directions to the model were averted also by this method, since the opposite distortions cancel each other out by by a fixed amount derivable by simple mathematics. The fact that one of the buckyballs gets overtly represented by the distortion is also fixable by the relative sizes of their flat surfaces. To apply atmospheric and fluid dynamics equations on a flat surface is much easier than doing it in a true (curved) environment, in fact many of them have been derived for this kind of case, but this lack of accuracy in the model can be side-stepped by applying the true values of volume (from the elliptical equations) on the grids in the polyhedra. Additionally, the application of flat surface in the model creates a problem in the radiation calculations as a sphere is a sphere and f.e. a He atom in the atmosphere is a sphere, so assuming the direction of the radiation from this atom is random (as it is by entropic principles) the radiation from such atom will be balanced outwards of the center of the gravity. Then we tested the two polyhedra by giving them the observed physical information from one early year (adjusted for their location in the buckyball projection). Then there was a lot of adjusting the parameters, inserting the error limits of various data points, type of thing done and after we got reproducible results (from the average of the two oppositely tilted models) that fitted the later observed data reasonably well, it was time to do the first prediction to the future. Further refinements to the model were done afterwards, as more data points from deep ocean and upper troposphere had been inroduced. Any possible similarities in this story to real persons or events are purely coincidental.

The Title

2009-11-26T09:22:00.000+02:00

The thermodynamical elements in the coupled sun-earth (well, solar system, but as it will be shown, the occasional storms on Jupiter have quite an unmeasurable effect on terrestrial issues) system with a particular emphasis on land surface temperature variations, a.k.a. why we may attempt to predict future climates on land in a complex system by the help of computer climate modelling and limitedly accurate measurements of physical properties of the known matter (excluding dark matter) on various locations on earth and in space, presuming the heliopause would be impenetrable (which it isn't since we see outside the solar system, to the universe, and take account the frequencies of radiation currently presumed to be present (by the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics) and observed (by advanced instruments, the inner workings of which are hopefully undersood by at least by the manufacturers of the said instruments) that were not included in the 14th century model of the universe commonly applied then (that is, the so-called geocentric, (flat (or not) earth) model of the man's place in the system called existence)).

Part 1.

Wait a minute... I have to read the title again, is there a glitch on the number of parentheses?

Short History of Fire

2009-10-20T05:58:00.000+03:00

Fire - part 1. (protozoa)
Kinda hot in here, I'd say exceedingly hot, gotta move away from it, no I'm not fast enough, it gets hotter... END

Fire - part 2. (insecta)
Kinda hot in here, like the sun on wrong place, DANGER, run for it, JUMP, hellishly hot in the air, it stays hot in the ground... END

Fire - part 3.(amphibian)
Something glows thatway, the sun? - no, the moon? - no, possible FIRE, getting hotter, DANGER, run for it, JUMP, on the ground, the waterspot (maybe end of FIRE?), hole, getting hotter, DANGER, dig in, still getting hotter, dive, water getting hotter, try to adapt, no it boils... END

Fire - part 4.(archaic reptilian)
I see a wrong glow, smell a smoke, THE FIRE, waterHOLE (maybe the end of THE FIRE?), getting hotter, dig in, getting hotter, dig deeper, still getting hotter, breath in, open channel to WATER, water getting hotter, try to adapt, not any hotter, ENOUGH COVER, wait, wait, wait, DRINK, get outside, there's NOTHING to EAT... END

Fire - part 5.(reptilian-mammalian)
EAT in reserve for EMERGERCY (PANIC), wrong glow = FIRE, RUN for it - upwind and around, no does not succeed - GOT CAUGHT!, to waterhole, dive, keep skin wet, try to adapt - no can do, shut down systems, GET BURNED, try to fix (subsection SCAR), still alive?, DRINK, find food (subsect:if food burned?-it is still food), EAT (PANIC offline), get away, get better. if death - END else NORMAL behaviour.

Fire - part 6 (predator opportunism).
(clause: burned food = food), if alive after FIRE, try everything recognisable, if healthy and not particularly hungry - still try to eat anything recognisable.

Fire - part 7 (Hominidae)
fire, not particularly important (note, tasty insects, but has to know which)

Fire - part 9 (Hominini)
fire, important, select PERMANENT location so effects minimal, and BENEFITs possible, maybe be possible to RUN to the burned side THROUGH fire.

Fire - part 10 (Homo)
Fire, necessary, the vegetables and animals GROW BETTER in the NEXT YEAR (likely is fact), possible to apply with CAUTION, if GROUP allowes, important subsection, FIRE NOT WITH CAUTION, possible DANGER, may END by BEATING WITH BRANCHES!

Fire - part 11 (Homo erectus)
Fire, locally VERY important, IMPORTANT, see: PREPARING food. see also: SHELTER, warmth. see also: GUARDING (subsections predators, fire), see also: how FIRE can be carried (technical), curious initation customs (hunting with fire), (note, this data is too scattered)

Fire - part 12 (Homo neandertalensis)
FIRE, VITAL (Appended also to CATEGORY:CULTURE, previously only in NATURE), source of warmth, de-icing stored food, useful against predators, as well as catching prey, roasted meat and vegetables do not rot as fast as unroasted (very likely = fact).

Fire - part 13 (religion)
FIRE is GOOD, NO EVIL spirits in food by FIRE, FIRE is BAD, NO SHELTER in bad weather. (separation of man and nature, concept of CONTROLLED FIRE)

Fire - part 14 (Homo sapiens)
FIRE, essential CULTURAL concept, if a controllable element, if not, see WILDFIRE. Used in many processes, baking, cooking, hunting, land management, heating, even building, pottery, in colder climates, ESSENTIAL to know the nearest FIRE. see: how to start a fire (technical)

Fire - part 15 (war)
CONTROLLED FIRE can be turned in UNCONTROLLED (subcategory in NATURAL) FIRE by PURPOSEFUL action of GROUP against GROUP(ENEMY), to deprive them (HARD to obtain) belongings.

Fire - part 16 (slash and burn)
Non-food Vegetation + Fire -> space for food-Vegetation, see AGRICULTURE (how to start)

Fire - part 17 (slash and char)
Use of Fire in AGRICULTURE - disadvantages (CROPS need SOMETHING (see:religion) destroyed by Fire = likely fact) - put fire out as soon as possible. (Ash bad for breath = likely fact) See:Plowing, Irrigation, Religion (what Earth needs)

Fire - part 18 (metal working)
(fire hotter when blown into = old fact), see:MINERALs (technical), furnace = really hot fire, some minerals become liquid when put in furnace (contemporary fact), alter properties, liquid mineral = metal, metal maybe cast or hit into shapes, see: advantages of hot metals over stone or wood (technical), see also: making clay-items (subsection mold (experimental)), when metals cooled, some very durable, see: PROFESSION (Smith) and subsection equipment

Fire - part 19 (glass)
see-through clumbs of one type of liquefied and cooled mineral (see jewellery (fragile) for details) may be collected and cast into shapes as in Smithery, very fragile (as might be expected since can be seen through), benefit - see-through window in cold or bad weather. Profession: Glass-maker, see also blow-casting (technical),

Fire - part 20 (alchemy)
some minerals do not make metal = fact, what do they do? see:Earth-mysticism (religious fringe), tolerable since the effects of some may have some future use (see medicine (experimental), acid (technical), base (technical), poison (experimental). mystic profession:alchemist, maybe dangerous), for further info consult the professers, (see also:Philosopher's stone (legend))

Fire - part 21 (steam engine)
Fire needs air (both WILDfire and Fire) = fact, air moves = wind, see:WINDMILL, Fire creates wind - windmill creates POWER - power can be turned into work, see:ENGINEERING, benefit - if a MACHINE can be thought of, that can do something repeatedly (as is the unpleasant fact in many PROFESSIONS), there is no need for a human to do it.

Fire - part 22 (petrol engine)
Some minerals EXPLODE (create fast wind) when heated in air = fact, if a machine can be construed that has a constant supply of aforementioned mineral and air, this produces constant wind that can be applied to do work.

Fire - part 23 (the sun)
The Sun-God (The Fire in The Sky) is not made of coal (1800s). COMPARE: atomic fire (cultural concept) with nuclear power (physics), how is this 'fire' different from Fire(chemistry)?

Fire - part 24 (Biochemistry)
All air-breathing animals need oxidable food to live, every oxygen-using cell has a tiniest fire within = fact.

developements?

2009-10-02T05:29:00.003+03:00

I'm thinking of adding references (mostly to wikipedia, since I'm no expert in all areas concerning these stories, who would be?) to the stories so the occasional reader could evaluate the stories from a more tedious point of wiew. Is there any point to that? Moreover, since these are stories, I've deliberately inserted some of them some clues as to why they are likely not true in some sense. After some checking the presumptions that are included into the stories, I've actually found out that most of them are not true on some aspects. As many of them rely on some speculative, outside the mainstream, science, prehistory and such to begin with, this is hardly surprising. However this might spoil some fun, and is a laborious job for me, linking, reading and writing parts of about 5-15 wikipedia articles per story, so the explanations would be way longer than the stories themselves. On the other hand, I could leave them as they are and start another blog "debunking erimaassa". On the third hand ;-), I could leave them as they are. Comments?

the solution

2009-09-20T08:04:00.005+03:00

Ocean coasts had been abundant with food, and many clans had moved further away seeking new areas and new food sources that had no names. But now the ocean was behaving oddly, the strong tides took away some of the food sources and people moved about. "Zseen ny crobbots?", one passing family had asked, but noone here knew what these were and barely understood that it was a question. The movements of clans had even lead to conflicts that were previously unheard of . The late chief said to the wizard,"if this goes on, we'll have to move". The wizard who was familiar with some of the food sources in the uphill forest replied,"God's may be crazed of something, but the forest god has revealed to me how to live in there. We can move there. It's hard, but I see no option if this continues." When the next high tide came, it came with severity, as if Gods had decided to punish the clan for such abnormal thoughts. The beach vanished, and a low strait was formed between the upland forest and the forest on the other end of the beach. After some time living on the sparse resources in the forest, the wizard came to the chief and said:"Remember when we dreamed of those islands on the horizon, how magnificent beaches there would be and wondered how to get there? Well, now we know, how the hell do we get out of here?"

Retelling a story

2009-09-19T12:00:00.004+03:00

Then there was this orchard planet which got heavily infested by a species as there were no natural predators for the species. The warden of the planet was keenly interested in diversity, but this was just too much. After consultation with other wardens, he decided not to totally eradicate the species, but to transplant some specimens to another planet. When questioned:"Are you certain the species won't destroy the ecosphere of this place?", his reply was:"Yes, see those Smilodons and other predators? They will keep their numbers down."

accuracy

2009-09-11T10:35:00.003+03:00

...and the results of this study point to the existence of quantum entanglement in macroscopic systems. The greatest difficulties in conducting the experiment were the vibrational effects on the insulated vacuum walls in zero-gravity that held the observed ice cubes. Even the lab-assistant performing the measurements had to be clad in breathing apparatus as his uneven breathing would have ruined the results. Additionally, he couldn't move for 30 minutes before the measurements as the system stabilized from the effects of opening the lab door...

deep

2009-09-11T09:16:00.003+03:00

...the ancient dwellers in the ocean were increasingly annoyed by the heat coming from the surface. Their chief scientist had proposed concerted effort to keep the heat out of the water saying, "let it go back the way it came." Eventually a consensus was reached. On the surface the temperatures started to rise as the dwellers started to release their pools of deep ice.

The alfa Corvi delta incident

2009-08-10T18:06:00.004+03:00

Then there was this planet with a subcrust from of carbonaceus asteroids that the people of the only continent, surrounded by the world ocean, on the planet, had been using to their advantage for as long as anyone could remember. Then a small meteorite hit the continent, this lead to loss of buoyancy, and later the planet was used only by sport fishers, marine archeologist and scavengers.

coincidence or not?

2009-08-10T17:27:00.001+03:00

Ah, weird, just occurred to me that 255K is pretty close to 0F. Did Fahrenheit calculate the blackbody temperature of the earth?

Gaseous Tetris

2009-06-18T08:35:00.001+03:00

Just a mechanistic phrase for stagnant air.

dull sky

2009-06-06T11:27:00.012+03:00

Bunch of stratocumuli gathered up, but is this now the new (asperatus) cloud? Contrast has been enhanced. sorry about the flare.

went outside and took another photo which somehow is the first one in the note. Produced only light drizzle.

Soup of mysteries, part II

2009-04-13T08:37:00.003+03:00

(some info missing) And so it happened that those HeBeLis who were least willing to play
with the negative Baryons evicted them. But they were forced to admit
that they couldn't send any info outside, since even light between them
was slow and that they couldn't see the outside world properly. They
suggested this to be the last chance to make peace with the Negatives in
the end of time, but first they should try to find out how to get rid of
the Negatives if they presented troubles.

And the most hot-headed HeBeLis struck each other with terrible force,
but this only caused confusion in the Nuclears. And in any case, the
negative Baryons, who were now called Electrons (short for eel-eek-
donuts), returned to hassle around. (introd. Magic numbers, up to Fe)
For a long time this was not tried again, since a part of the neutral nucleons were forced to be relocated... , and that produced inertia, that disallowed perfect vacuums...
And God said:"Look all the wonders, wonder, could you have imagined that the Electrons should so avoid each other and behave as they were coupled, but only opposite? And God took two Electrons and forced them to go through two small gates over and over again. Here you have a dot charged, that procreates a circle, oval and a ball, new forms on this 3D plane that is your home. Search these planes, don't they have strange charm? The gate of time and the other gates are not yet open for you." This eased H's and Hebelis as they began to marvel the God's creation. And God continued:"

God teaches Hebelis (missing info)
(wave-particle dualism)
God builds an example (missing info)
(quantum computer)

"Now that you know this, you may build a similarly working counter. I'll have to go to check the gates are locked."

At this, the remaining truly irrationally spinning Bosons (called "Hicks") thought they would be forced to do other peoples work, and disappeared through a trap door left by Planck, and all they could manage was a partially deriving nucleon, the first computer of the world, but it wasn't fast enough in its calculations. For this, Planck was also blamed.

The regular families started to gather round Hebelis since they had at least one model that could produce something else than everlasting worries of the Electrons.

All the beings compressed to star-like patterns... and it happened that inside the Electrons felt too much heat and spread to the surroundings... and came back after half of the Hs were to their surprise been transformed to neutrals... (suspicions of Hicks'es involvement rose. Only the Electrons could have guarded the yards against this...) and been paired to other ones...

The star compressed again and again until it couldn't produce anymore heat... It exploded to everyones great lament... after a demographic survey it was noted that some Electrons were destroyed by the sudden reappearance of their pairs from the 5th dimension... but at the same time the God-given families had been diminished...

It was clear a great lot of diversity had been formed. Everyone started to exchange Electrons, as their mutual love-hate relationships were quite amusing to watch...

Here it happened, that a great divide occurred between atoms (it was now accepted that Electrons were a part of this mess, though a difficult one, as did the Electrons), and a part of them decided to stay forever with the Electrons. They called the other ones solipsists... these gathered up to form a solid called a planet, that was never before seen and an amazement to all. God was praised as it was clear now that the God had a plan for all, even for the Electrons.

The other ones were willing to duplicate the experiment that had begun the co-operation of the nucleons, only to do it slightly transformed and carefully, trying to avoid the explosion...and so, by God's will the sun was created, that transforms the clear idea of the God to the pressure and to the light of radiation, that grows the plants and feeds the soil also to gladden and feed us humans... but now were going too much forward, there's still a lot to tell of the Hebelis and other atoms, of the birth of the rock, the earth, the gas and the liquid, etc.

maybe I'll continue this after checking up some phase surface and RNA-chemistry...

Luolamiehet

2009-01-24T15:52:00.007+02:00

Neandertaalit hytisivät kylmässä säässä, Neanderin laakson kaivosalueen lähellä. Heidän lämmönlähteensä oli ehtynyt. He käyttivät jäljellä olevia kitukasvuisia koivuja lämmittääkseen vinsentin lihaa. Onneksi valtaisa lumentulo eräänä talvena aiheutti suuren maanvyöryn ja paljasti seuraavan hiilikerroksen rinteestä. Ainoa kuolemantapaus ei ollut mitenkään merkittävä.

Men of the caves

The Neanderthals shivered in the cold, close to the mines of Neander's dale. Their source of warmth had finished. They used the remaining dwarwed birches to warm up the wicent meat. Luckily one winter, the enormous snowfalls caused a large landslinde and unearthed the next layer of coal. The only death was no-one special.

Mysteerisoppa

2008-11-17T11:03:00.004+02:00

No jaa, jospa sitä koettaisi aloittaa tätä hupipelleilytekstiä...

Alussa Jumala loi Suuren yhtenäisteorian tyhjästä ja sen seurauksena syntyi kvanttiepäsymmetria, jonka takia puolet aineesta sinkoutui toiseen universumiin, joka on täysi peilikuva meidän universumistamme oikealle kiertyvine proteiinimolekyyleineen, ynnä muine kummallisuuksineen, ja jossa gravitaatiovakio on negatiivinen. Tämän asianlaidan voivat vain 11-dimensionaaliset enkelit ymmärtää.

Tästä Suuresta Teoriasta syntyi Taivas, joka, meidän vajavaisen ymmärryksemme mukaan, on vähintään puolet Jumalan asuinsijasta, antimateriataivas gravitaatiovakion väärällä puolella on meille helvetillinen paikka, joka ei kuulu tähän ilmoitukseen ja jota ei tästä eteenpäin mainita.

Jumalan kahdeksi jakaman gravitaation johdosta, materia ei enää löytänyt pariaan, ja lähti etsimään sitä. Alkuun etsintä oli paniikin omaista, nuoren materian sinkoilua paikasta paikkaan, mutta vähitellen etsintä rauhoittui, sillä materiassa itsessäänkin alkoi tapahtua muutoksia.

Ja Jumala huomasi että materia oli hyvä, mutta aivan liian levoton. Ja Hän päätti erottaa Baryonit - aikaisimmat entiteetit - ja Hän pyöritti yksiä Baryoneja yhteen suuntaan ja toisia toiseen suuntaan ja baryonit eivät enää löytäneet toisiaan, sillä ne harhailivat eri suuntiin. Ja Jumala rakensi muurin niiden välille, että Hän voisi nähdä niiden toimet inflatoorisen kaaoksen sijasta.

Mutta tällöin, yhdeksännen ulottuvuuden portin takaa pahuus, jonka oikeaa nimeä emme mainitse, joten kutsumme tätä nimellä Planck, saapui katsomaan vasta luotua materiaa. Hänet täytti suuri kateus, sillä hänen tyhjyydessään ei mitään vastaavaa ollut. Planck kuiskasi baryonin korvaan, "katso, Jumala näkee teidät ja vahtii teitä, onko se mikään tapa olla entiteetti?" Tähän baryoni mitättömällä ymmärryksellään vastasi:"Näytät niin epämääräiseltä, mutta puhut kuitenkin sanoja, joita ymmärrän. Luulen että olet oikeassa, miksi muuten puhuisit noin, sillä Jumala on hyvä ja kaikki on Jumalasta." Tällöin Planck antoi baryoneille jatkuvan epävarmuuden siitä, mitä yhdeksännessä ulottuvuudessa tapahtui.Tämän huomattuaan Jumala hääti Planckin takaisin ulottuvuuteensa, mutta hän ei kyennyt enää muuttamaan Suurta Teoriaa niin että siitä puuttuisi tämä pahuus. Baryonit alkoivat tuntea maailman painon.

Baryonit etsivät edelleen parejaan ja huomasivat että ne saattoivat
tehdä vaihtokauppaa toisten kanssa ja muodostaa pareja muiden, eri
tavalla rakentuneiden kanssa. Nämä siirtyivät Jumalan huomaan. Jäljelle
jääneet alkoivat etsiä lohtua toisistaan. Jumala näki baryonien hädän ja kertoi heille,"tehkää kolmesta vaihdonosasta perhe, jättäkää hankalat negatiiviset baryonit kiertämään niitä." Muunkinlaisia yhdistelmiä kokeiltiin ja osa näistä toimi. Nämä Hebelit olivat kummajaisia, joiden hyvinvoinnista Jumala oli erityisen kiinnostunut.

jatkoa seurannee jahka tarkastaa pari kysymystä fysiikan ja kemian alalta.

Soup of mysteries

Ah well, maybe I should try to begin this funclownytext...

In the beginning, God created the Grand Unified Theory from scratch and lo, there was a quantum asymmetry, due which half of the matter was cast in another universum, which is an exact opposite to ours, with its right-turning proteins, and otheer oddities, and where the gravitational constant is negative. This is a subject only 11-dimensional angels can understand.
From this Grand Theory, a Heaven was born which, to our limited understanding, is at least half of the dwelling of the God, the antimatter heaven on the wrong side of the gravitational constant is a hellish place to us, that does not belong in this announcement, and that is no longer to be mentioned.

Due the God's division of the gravity, the matter could not find its pairing anymore, and started searching for it. In the beginning, the search was panicky, the hurling of a young matter, but little by little the search was slowed down since the matter experienced changes in itself.
And God saw that matter was good, but all too restless. And He decided to separate the Baryons - the earliest entities - and He spun one Baryons to one direction and another baryons to another direction, and they couldn't find each other for they wandered in different directions. And God built a wall between them so He could see the workings of Baryons instead of the inflatory chaos.

But then, behind the gate of the 9th dimension an evil, whose real name must not be spoken aloud, so we call it Planck, came to see the newly created matter. He was filled with envy for there was nothing like it in his emptyness. Then Planck whispered to a Baryon,"look, God sees you and guards you, is that a way to be an entity?" To this the Baryon, with its puny understanding replied:"You look kind of fuzzy, but you speak words I understand. I think you are right, why would you otherwise speak thus, for God is good and everything is from God." Thus Planck gave the Baryons a constant insecurity of the works in the 9th dimension. Upon noticing this God evicted Planck back to his dimension, but couldn't anymore change the Grand Theory so it would be free from this evil. The Baryons started to feel the weight of the world.

The Baryons searched their partners still and noticed they could trade with others and form pairs with others built differently. These are with God. The rest of the Baryons started seeking comfort from each other. God saw the distress of Baryons and told them, "make a family of three parts, and leave the difficult negative Baryons to circle them." Other kinds of combinations were also tried, some of these functioned. These Hebelis were oddities and God wished them well.

Maybe I'll continue this, after looking up some nuclear physics and some more chemistry.

Jonkun verran pelkotilaa

2008-11-14T15:20:00.004+02:00

Sattuipa kerran, Tyynenmeren pohjoisosissa ja Kalliovuorilla, kehittymään eräänä keväänä poikkeuksellisen laaja ja lämmin korkeapaine. Tästä Amerikan asukkaat olivat tottakai tyytyväisiä, elikot saisivat varhain syödäkseen tuoretta ruohoa ja tulisivat lisääntymään hyvin. Elikot olivatkin vähenneet jo huomattavan paljon ja yleisesti tästä syytettiin ilmastoa. Kesästä tuli huomattavan lämmin ja kukaan ei kuollut nälkään, tai kylmyyteen, mitä silloin tällöin oli aiemmin tapahtunut. Syyskuussa Laurentidin jäätikön loppuosa romahti mereen, ja Lähi-Idässä keräiltiin elukoita veneisiin.

A bit of state of fear

Once upon, on the northern part of the Pacific and Rockies, a time, developed an exeptionally large and warm high. American residents were of course pleased of this, the beasts would have fresh grass early, and would procreate well. The beasts had already diminished quite much and the common consensus was blaming the climate. The summer was notably warm and no one died of hunger, or cold, that had occasionally previously happened. In september the rest of the Laurentide glacier dropped to the ocean and people started gathering beasts on boats in the middle east.

Lyhyt viesti nro 4

2008-11-10T16:19:00.003+02:00

"Miten näitä oikein tehdään??", kysyi päällikkö naimakaupan varmistuttua selvääkin selvemmin merkein, täysin siinä luulossa että esineen kantaja myös osaisi valmistaa uuden samanlaisen jostain syystä hajotessa.
"Katsotaan nyt ensin löydänkö sopivat ainekset täältä, se ei ole ollenkaan varmaa.", vastasi pronssikirveen kantaja.

The short note #4

"How do you do these things??", asked the chieftain after the marriage had been confirmed beyond any doubt, totally believing that the man carrying the thing could manufacture a new one, if the thing somehow would break.
"Let us first see if I can find the proper ingredients around here, that's not at all certain.", answered the man with the bronze axe.

Kun ei mene ihan hyvin

2008-11-08T13:39:00.003+02:00

Edellinen juttu muuten jatkui siten, että mitään kummallista ja katastrofaalista ei sattunut kymmeneen vuoteen. Silloin eräs yksineläjä keksi yhdistää monta kanoottia ja päätti siirtyä kesäksi asumaan lahden keskelle, mikä ymmärrettävästi aiheutti närää yhteisössä.

Mutta siis otsikon aiheeseen:
Olipa kerran eräällä saarella erakko, joka haisi aivan hiivatin pahalle. Kysyttäessä syytä pesemättömyyteen, hän sanoi "etteivät saippua ja lämmin vesi puhtaaksi tee, ne ovat luonnottomia asioita, kuten jokainen maailmaa kiertänyt tietää." Samalla hän kirosi koko kaupungin väen pahuuden harjoittajiksi ja heille käyvän vielä huonosti, "saattepa vielä nähdä". Huonojen tapojensa tähden hänet oltiin häädetty saaren etäisimpään kolkkaan asumaan, mutta vähän väliä hän palasi ihmisten ilmoille, saarnaamaan ja häiritsemään tavallisia kansalaisia. Poikkeuksellisen sinnikkään "profetoimisen" takia harmistuneena eräs kaupungin johtohahmoista tarjosi hänelle isoa viinileiliä, temppu jolla mies oltiin aiemminkin saatu lopettamaan, sanoen:"Tämä on sitten viimeinen kerta kun tuolla tavoin tulet tänne, seuraavasta lähetämme sinut laivalla muualle!". Erakko otti leilin ja palasi kylmään kotiinsa ja aloitti ryyppäämään.

Seuraavana yönä saari räjähti, ja erakko totesi kuollessaan,"osuipa ääliö kerrankin oikeaan."

When it's not going quite well

By the way, the last story continued so that nothing of specialty or catastrofic happened during the next ten years. Then a loner invented that he could live on the bay the whole summer by roping many canoes together, this caused much uproar in the community, understandably.

But on to the subject at hand:
Once upon a time, on an island, there lived a hermit, who smelled really bad. When asked why he did not wash the reply was:"soap and warm water does not clean a man, they're unnatural things, as anyone, who's ever travelled, knows!" He continued by cursing the city populace as practisers of evil, and they ending up "burning in hell". Due his bad habits he had been evicted to the remotest corner of the island, but every now and then he returned with his "profecies" to disturb the normal citizens. Once, the abnormally tenacious "profecizing" made the mayor to give the hermit a big vase of wine, a trick that had previously made him stop, but this time he had lost his temper and said, "this was the last time you come here with that attitude, the next time we'll ship you to the mainland!" The hermit took the vase and returned to his home and started drinking.

Next night, the island exploded, and the dying hermit commented,"the idiot finally got it right."

kun menee hyvin

2008-11-04T14:15:00.002+02:00

Kaikki oli sujunut loistavasti koko alkukesän, ja näytti siltä että sato ylittäisi odotukset. Kenelläkään ei ollut puutetta. Pariutumiskausikin oli sujunut hyvin, ja jälkikasvua oli seuraavana keväänä odotettavissa kaikille. Vaan mitä tehdä? Ongelma oli uusi.
Lopulta asiaa pitkään pohdittuaan eräs meistä sai ajatuksen: "Kaivakaamme oja tämän kannaksen poikki, niin voimme uittaa veneemme sitä pitkin!"
Tätä miehissä pohdimme ja totesimme asian olevan mahdollinen ja jopa ehkä hyödyllinen. Ryhdyimme töihin.
Saatuamme ojan valmiiksi paikalle tuli vanha tietäjä, joka sanoi:"Kaiken maailman nuorison tempauksia, tuosta ei seuraa mitään hyvää!"

When it's going well

Everything had gone exellently during the whole beginning of the summer, and it looked like the harvest would surpass the expectations. Not one was starved. The mating season had also gone well, and everyone was expecting offspring next spring. But, what to do? This was a new problem.

After a long think, one of us got an idea: "Let us dig a ditch across this ridge, so we can float our boats across it!"

This, we the men, contemplated, and conluded it could be done and maybe there would be some benefits as well. We got to work.
After finishing the ditch, an old witch came to the place and muttered: "Youngsters' work... never accounts well!"

keskustelu

2008-11-03T13:00:00.004+02:00

-Hei, osaatko säkin tota kieltä?
-Joo, vaikkei sitä oo tullut mainostettua.
-Joo, se on kiva esittää ymmärtämätöntä kauppoja tehdessä.
-Sama täällä.
-Katos nyt esimerkiks tätä miekkaa, halvalla lähti, käytin sepällä ja nyt se on melkein kuin uusi.
-No mutta toihan on näppärä ase!
-Joo, mä tuumin et yhdelle kädelle riittää lyhyempi. Kato ja sit sen saa piiloon viitan alle.
-Meinasitko ryöstöihin ruveta, eihän sul oo tarvetta?
-Ei kun ruostetta, viitan alla pysyy paremmassa iskussa.

A discussion

-Hey, you speak that language too?
-Yeah, just haven't advertised it.
-Yeah, it is nice to pose as you don't understand when dealing.
-The same here.
-You look this sword, a cheapy, showed it to the smith and now it looks like new.
-But, that is a handy weapon!
-Yeah, I thought a short for one hand use. Fits under the cape as well, check that.
-Planning a robbery?? You have no need for that?
-No, it's the rust, under a cape it keeps its edge better.

2 miljoonaa vuotta myöhemmin

2008-11-01T12:29:00.002+02:00

"Heh, Paljaat ovat nyt antaneet meille tieteellisen nimenkin", sanoi Gromarrh Ngurmanille lukiessaan kirjaa, jonka oli ostanut kirjakaupasta viime Halloweenina, "eldurreli... ei kuulosta erityisen hyvältä, mutta kai se välttää... onpahan jotain mistä keskustella Paljasystävien kanssa. Ei mutta, katsopa tuota kuvaa, eikö tuo ole Swaerghinin sukulaisia? Huolimatonta, päätyä nyt kamera-ansaan."

2 Ma later

"Ha, the Naked have assinged a scientific name for us", said Gromarrh to Ngurman while reading a book he bought from the store last Halloween, "eldurreli... doesn't sound too good, but I think it'll do... there's something to discuss with the Nakedfriends. But hey, look at that photo, isn't that one of Swaerghins' relatives? Very sloppy of him to fall for a camera trap.

lyhyt keskustelu

2008-10-31T09:54:00.000+02:00

-"hyvää päivää."
-"ylen äijyä päivyä."
-"Nii et poni maja tur et ski."
-"Il i fin ski."
-"why don't we speak english instead of french?"
-"ell er sweet dish?"
-"Thanks, I'm a bit hungry"

kolmas lyhyt viesti

2008-10-30T12:38:00.002+02:00

Vesimyllyn rakennettuaan hän päätti huilata piikojen kanssa. Lännestä tullut pappi oli sanonut "ettei sillä ajoituksella niin väliä ollut, tärkeää oli osoittaa rakkautta." 11 uuden kuun jälkeen hän totesi:"Pappiin voi luottaa yhdeksän kuun kiertoa." Silloin etelästä tullut pappi oli tyytyväinen seurakuntansa kasvusta.

The short note #3

After he had finished building the water mill, he wanted to rest with the maids. The western priest had told him that "timing wasn't important, just show love to your loved ones". 11 new moons later he decided "A priest can be trusted for 9 months". Then the southern priest was happy, for his congregations' rapid growth.

viides viesti

2008-10-26T10:27:00.002+02:00

Päästyään lopulta vuorten yli Sandhis ja Lilah kiipesivät kielekkeelle nähdäkseen paremmin edessä olevan maaston muodot. He näkivät alavan metsämaan jonka halki virtasi vuolas suuri joki. Joen rannalla näkyi asutusta jonka ympärillä oli metsätön alue, mikä ihmetytti heitä. Kukaan ei ollut koskaan palannut vuorilta, minkä johdosta heidänkin yritystään päästä kesän maahan niiden yli, oli pidetty mahdottomana.

The note #5

Finally Sandhis and Lilah had crossed the mountains, they climbed to a ledge to see the shapes of the lands ahead. They saw a lowly woodland, through it traversed a large fastflowing river. On the beach of the river there was dwellings on a place that had no forest, which was puzzling to them. No one had ever come back from the mountains, which is why their attempt to get to the summerland over them, had been considered impossible.

Homer S.

2008-10-23T16:10:00.001+03:00

1.d4 f5 2.g3 Nf3 3.Kd2? ...-0.38 3...c5 4.e3 Nc6 5.Ke1 e6 6.Nf3 d5 7.c4 Bd6 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Nc3 -0.37 3...d6 4.Ke1 e5 5.Bg2 Be7 6.dxe5 dxe5 7.Qxd8+ Kxd8 8.Be3 Nbd7 9.Nc3 Bc5 10.Bxc5 Nxc5 -0.37 3...Nc6 4.Ke1 e5 5.d5 Nb4 6.c4 c6 7.Nc3 cxd5 8.cxd5 Bd6 9.e3 -0.36 3...e6 4.Ke1 c5 5.c3 Be7 6.Nf3 O-O 7.Bg2 d6 8.Na3 Nc6 9.Be3 -0.32 3...d5 4.Ke1 c5 5.c3 Nc6 6.Nf3 e6 7.Bg2 Bd6 8.Bf4 O-O 9.Nbd2 -0.14 3...a6 4.Ke1 e6 5.Nf3 c5 6.Nc3 cxd4 7.Nxd4 Bb4 8.Nf3 Nc6 9.Bf4 -0.12 3...h6 4.Ke1 c5 5.e3 d5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Nc3 e6 8.Bd2 Be7 9.Bb5 -0.12 3...g6 4.Ke1 Bg7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Bg2 d6 7.c4 Nc6 8.Bf4 Be6 9.Nbd2 -0.11 3...b6 4.Ke1 Bb7 5.Nf3 e6 6.Bg2 Bd6 7.c4 O-O 8.Nc3 c5 9.dxc5 Bxc5 -0.08 3...c6 4.Ke1 e6 5.Nf3 c5 6.e3 Nc6 7.c4 Bd6 8.Nc3 O-O 9.Bg2 -0.13 3...Rg8 4.Ke1 c5 5.e3 d5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.c4 cxd4 8.exd4 e6 -0.13 3...a5 4.Ke1 d6 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bf4 h6 7.h4 Be6 8.Nc3 Nb4 -0.12 3...h5 4.Ke1 c5 5.e3 d5 6.c4 Nc6 7.Nf3 Be6 8.Nbd2 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Bxc4 10.Nxc4 -0.10 3...b5 4.Ke1 Bb7 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bg2 e6 7.Be3 Bd6 8.Nc3 a6 -0.10 3...Na6 4.Ke1 e6 5.Nf3 c5 6.e3 Be7 7.Nc3 O-O 8.dxc5 Nxc5 -0.09 3...g5 4.Ke1 g4 5.Bg2 d5 6.h3 Nc6 7.Nc3 Bg7 8.Be3 Be6 9.hxg4 fxg4 -0.07 3...e5 4.dxe5 Ng4 5.Ke1 Bc5 6.e3 Nxe5 7.Nf3 d6 8.Nxe5 dxe5 9.Nc3 Qxd1+ 10.Kxd1 -0.04 3...Ne4+ 4.Ke1 c5 5.e3 d5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Nbd2 e6 8.Bd3 Bd6 9.c4

neljäs viesti

2008-10-22T11:35:00.003+03:00

Ja niin oli tapahtuva että Jään Herra suuttui ihmisille heidän pohjoisten pyyntimatkojensa tähden, ja talvista tuli ankaria ja aikaisia. Enää ei kukaan matkalla ollessaan saanut uutta tulta syttymään ja kesällä pyydetty liha piti kuljettaa heti asumukselle turvaan. Pedot kävivät röyhkeämmiksi, ja varastivat ihmisten itselleen varaaman ruuan. Tuulet muuttuivat pohjoisen suuntaan ja merellä liikkuneet katosivat ulapalle. Vuorten päällä lumi pysyi läpi vuoden. Elämä supistui, ja vaikka tiedettiin hyvän seudun olevan vuorten takana, ei sinne päästy. Tätä jatkui kuusi kertaa kuudenteen polveen, ja vielä tiedossa olleet reitit taruaikojen parempaan maahan olivat muuttuneet tunnistamattomiksi.

The note #4

And so it happened that the Lord of Ice got angry to people, as they hunted in the north, and the winters became severe and early. Anymore, not one, while travelling, could ingnite a new fire, and the meat hunted during summer had to be carried back to the dwelling straightaway. The predators became more arrogant, and stole the food humans had stored. The winds turned northerly, and those travelling on the sea disappereared to the highs. Snow covered the mountains constantly. Life was diminished, and even though the good land was known to be behind the mountains, no one could pass them. This continued for six times six generations, and the routes to the saged good land were unrecognisable.

kävelyllä

2008-10-21T12:40:00.001+03:00

--- okei, nosta pää, katso eteen, voi jatkaa suunnassa, vilkaise vasempaan, auto kääntyy korttelin päässä, puissa on lehdet, yhdessä näyttäisi oleva tauti, sen alla nuori äiti kärryn kannsa, kaverinsa kanssa, joku kääntyy pyörällä tännepäin pihalta, talon reunus on siivottu, paikalla kolme pyörää, yksi niistä kurjassa kunnossa, edessä aika kaukana kaksi vanhahkoa naista kävelemässä samaan suuntaan, heidän takanaan tulossa nuori mies, arviolta 25 vuotias, tiellä hiljaista, askel, pään kääntö oikeaan, ei tiellä olekaan hiljaista, liikennevalot muuttuivat vihreäksi noin neljä sekuntia sitten ---

On a walk

--- OK, raise the head, look ahead, can continue in this direction, look left, car turning a block away, trees have leaves, one looks like having a disease, under it a young mother with a baby-carriage, with a friend, someone turning with his bike herewards from the yard, the wallside of the building has been cleaned, three bikes parked beside it, one in lousy condition, up ahead two elderly woman walking in the same direction, behind them a young man going this way, say 25 years old, road is silent, step, looking right, no, the road is not silent, the traffic lights changed green about 4 secs ago ---

toinen lyhyt viesti

2008-10-20T14:01:00.000+03:00

Nuori nainen käveli peloissaan pitkin katua. Hän ei uskaltanut kääntyä edes taakseen katsomaan. Katu oli umpikuja.

Onneksi kujan perällä asui ystävällinen nuorimies joka päästi hänet tonttinsa takaportista läpi.

A young woman walked afraid on the alley. She didn't even dare to look back. The alley was a dead-end.

Luckily, on back of the alley there lived a friendly young man, who let her through his yard and out the back gate.

lyhyt viesti

2008-10-19T11:25:00.001+03:00

Olipa kerran heetti nimeltä Ron, hän päätti muuttaa Traakiaan, tai siis sinne missä Traakia tulisi olemaan. Hän yritti opetella kolmea uutta kieltä, ja väistämättömistä kielellisistä väärinkäsityksistä syntyi julmettuja riitoja hänen lukuisten vaimojensa kesken.

Once upon a time there was a Hittite called Ron, he decided to move his whereabouts to Thrace, or there where the Thrace would be. He tried to learn three new languages, and the inevitable misunderstandings lead to terrifying clashes between his multiple wives.

kolmas viesti

2008-10-18T13:02:00.002+03:00

silloin päätimme yksissä tuumin lähteä suurimmilla laivoillamme saaristostamme meren yli katsomaan näitä rakennuksia, joiden kaltaisia ei ollut aiemmin kyetty rakentamaan. Matkalla poikkesimme ystäviemme luona Maltalla, erinomainen pysähdys kaupan kannalta. Heillä ei tätä nykyä mene oikein hyvin. Päästyämme perille kuumaan maahan, totesin:"Fritjolf, tulisiko meidän kunnioittaa tämän maan kansalaisia näyttämällä aseemme avoimesti?" Tähän hän vastasi, "Gaathe, se on sivistyneiden ihmisten tapa ollut aikojen alusta."

...then we, all as one, decided to deport our archipelago with our biggest ships over the seas to look at these buildings, whose kind had anyone never before been able to build. On the way there, we stopped by our friends on Malta, excellent for the trade. They are currently in a bit of a bad spot. Once we arrived to the hotlands, I asked:"Fritjolf, should we respect the citizens of this country by showing our weapons openly?" To this he answered, "Gaathe, it's been the custom of all the civilized people since the beginning of time"

toinen viesti

2008-10-17T14:39:00.001+03:00

Kokiessamme katiskoja eilen Elben rannalla, meloi paikalle etäällä etelässä asuva tuttavamme, joka vaikutti ilmeisen kiihtyneeltä. "Näin eilen täysin uudenlaisen puun!", hän kertoi, "Puolen päivän matkan päässä täältä!". Kutsuimme hänet syömään ja kertomaan tarkemmin asiasta, vaikka se kuulostikin kerta kaikkiaan pajuköydeltä, eihän sitä oudoista puista kertovia juttuja noin läheltä koskaan kuule. Edelliskesänä vaellukselta palannut nuorukainen kertoi nähneensä hämmästyttäviä puita hyvin kaukana etelässä, ja kehotimme tuttavaamme kyselemään häneltä.

While we were checking the fish traps on the Elbe yesterday, there paddled our acquaintance living far in the south, apparently agitated. "I saw a completely new kind a tree yesterday!", he told us, "only a half a days' trip from here!". We invited him to dine with us and tell us more exactly, though it sounded like a rope of ash, stories of strange trees are always far, far away. A youngster living near us had returned from his Wandering two years before. He had told us of remarkable trees far, far, far in the south, so we told to our acquaintance to ask him.

Aloitusviesti

2008-10-16T15:47:00.001+03:00

Kauhukseen hän huomasi laskelmiensa pettäneen, hänellä ei ollut enää kuin 6 päivää aikaa, ennenkuin hänen vartalostaan tulisi löytymään mikroinjektorin jälki josta kulkenut aine tulisi muuttamaan hänen elämänsä pysyvästi. Erityisen kammottavaksi tilanteen teki se, että vaikka hän tiesi aineen ja aineen annostelutavan, hänellä ei ollut pienintäkään käsitystä kuka henkilö tai mikä esine kyseisen vaaran aiheutti.

The note in the beginning

To his terror he found a mistake in his deductions, he had only 6 days, before in his body a microinjector's spot would be found, and the substance that had passed through it would alter his life permanently. Specially terrifying was, though he knew the substance and the deployment method, he hadn't an inkling who or what was the threat.