Peter RichardsonAug 26, 2024

Love this from @brookejarvis:
Our Very Strange Search for "Sea Level"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/our-very-strange-search-for-sea-level

IA link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240825190520/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/our-very-strange-search-for-sea-level

Our Very Strange Search for “Sea Level”

Brooke Jarvis considers the history behind the search for sea level, as described in a new book by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, and probes what it tells us about science, global warming, and life on our changeable planet.

The New Yorker
Show threadPeter RichardsonAug 26, 2024

The article ends with a reference to the Okjökull glacier memorial plaque, one of the most pre-haunted things I have ever seen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okj%C3%B6kull

Okjökull - Wikipedia

Show threadEdelruth In The Wrong TimelineAug 27, 2024

@meetar

Deeply poignant.

Will there be anyone to read it in 200 years, I wonder.

Show threadMx Verda

@Edelruth @meetar
What you’re suggesting would be that ALL 8 billion people (plus) and ALL of their descendants in every single biome, every remote hermit, and every doomsday prepper died within two centuries.

I’m not suggesting they’ll all be cheerful, but I don’t think literally every single human being currently alive and every single one of their kids or kids’ kids etc will all die.

Nov 22, 2024 at 2:16amWeb
Show threadEdelruth In The Wrong TimelineNov 22, 2024

@MxVerda @meetar

I wrote an answer, then decided you are good people who deserve not to be depressed by it.

Show threadMx VerdaNov 22, 2024

@Edelruth @meetar

… I am so sorry.

May I offer you a queer ADHD video in this trying time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjdrUksw8b0

Folgers Coffee Christmas Incest Commercial 2009

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