[Solidsnape]

Tiste Simeon, on 11 September 2016 - 10:57 AM, said:

I watch F1 when I can, will I ever be seeing you in the pits or are you not on the traveling team?

No I'm not with the race team.
I'm where the magic happens....

[Tiste Simeon]

Solidsnape, on 12 September 2016 - 08:21 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 11 September 2016 - 10:57 AM, said:

I watch F1 when I can, will I ever be seeing you in the pits or are you not on the traveling team?

No I'm not with the race team.
I'm where the magic happens....

So... You're one of the hot girls that hands the winners an oversized champagne at the end?

[Solidsnape]

Tiste Simeon, on 12 September 2016 - 01:21 PM, said:

Solidsnape, on 12 September 2016 - 08:21 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 11 September 2016 - 10:57 AM, said:

I watch F1 when I can, will I ever be seeing you in the pits or are you not on the traveling team?

No I'm not with the race team.
I'm where the magic happens....

So... You're one of the hot girls that hands the winners an oversized champagne at the end?

I'm the one that makes the hot girls.

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[QuickTidal]

Two years ago they found the HMS Erebus in Canada in the heart of the Northwest Passage...and they have just found the HMS terror now as well! Amazing!

https://www.thestar....tion-found.html

[Andorion]

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 12:58 PM, said:

Two years ago they found the HMS Erebus in Canada in the heart of the Northwest Passage...and they have just found the HMS terror now as well! Amazing!

https://www.thestar....tion-found.html

That is very very cool.

Taking this opportunity to mention that Dan Simmons has an immensely enjoyable book on Franklin's voyage called The Terror

[EmperorMagus]

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 03:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 12:58 PM, said:

Two years ago they found the HMS Erebus in Canada in the heart of the Northwest Passage...and they have just found the HMS terror now as well! Amazing!

https://www.thestar....tion-found.html

That is very very cool.

Taking this opportunity to mention that Dan Simmons has an immensely enjoyable book on Franklin's voyage called The Terror

If by "immensely enjoyable" you mean creepy and nightmare inducing, I agree.

[Andorion]

EmperorMagus, on 13 September 2016 - 03:47 PM, said:

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 03:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 12:58 PM, said:

Two years ago they found the HMS Erebus in Canada in the heart of the Northwest Passage...and they have just found the HMS terror now as well! Amazing!

https://www.thestar....tion-found.html

That is very very cool.

Taking this opportunity to mention that Dan Simmons has an immensely enjoyable book on Franklin's voyage called The Terror

If by "immensely enjoyable" you mean creepy and nightmare inducing, I agree.

Oh yeah it's one of the few books to genuinely scare me. I rate it very highly because of that.

[QuickTidal]

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 04:03 PM, said:

EmperorMagus, on 13 September 2016 - 03:47 PM, said:

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 03:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 12:58 PM, said:

Two years ago they found the HMS Erebus in Canada in the heart of the Northwest Passage...and they have just found the HMS terror now as well! Amazing!

https://www.thestar....tion-found.html

That is very very cool.

Taking this opportunity to mention that Dan Simmons has an immensely enjoyable book on Franklin's voyage called The Terror

If by "immensely enjoyable" you mean creepy and nightmare inducing, I agree.

Oh yeah it's one of the few books to genuinely scare me. I rate it very highly because of that.

To be honest, even the textbook story of the expedition is nightmare inducing....even without crazy beasts hunting everyone down in the darkened arctic weather.

[Andorion]

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 04:13 PM, said:

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 04:03 PM, said:

EmperorMagus, on 13 September 2016 - 03:47 PM, said:

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 03:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 12:58 PM, said:

Two years ago they found the HMS Erebus in Canada in the heart of the Northwest Passage...and they have just found the HMS terror now as well! Amazing!

https://www.thestar....tion-found.html

That is very very cool.

Taking this opportunity to mention that Dan Simmons has an immensely enjoyable book on Franklin's voyage called The Terror

If by "immensely enjoyable" you mean creepy and nightmare inducing, I agree.

Oh yeah it's one of the few books to genuinely scare me. I rate it very highly because of that.

To be honest, even the textbook story of the expedition is nightmare inducing....even without crazy beasts hunting everyone down in the darkened arctic weather.

I find the history of the hunt for the North west passage to be one of the most frustrating and yet intriguing reading topics. At least the hunt for the North East passage yielded the overseas trade route to Russia. The NW passage was just a string of failures. They never correctly estimated the northern extent of Canada. There were weird speculation bubbles about gold deposits in Baffin Bay (fake) Lots of parties thought the northern Canadian bays and inlets to be the Passage and ended up getting stuck. Also the weird beliefs people had - I seem to recall reading that at one point it was widely believed that if you could get through the ice, the North Pole itself was a balmy tropical paradise of open water and islands.

[QuickTidal]

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 05:26 PM, said:

I find the history of the hunt for the North west passage to be one of the most frustrating and yet intriguing reading topics. At least the hunt for the North East passage yielded the overseas trade route to Russia. The NW passage was just a string of failures. They never correctly estimated the northern extent of Canada. There were weird speculation bubbles about gold deposits in Baffin Bay (fake) Lots of parties thought the northern Canadian bays and inlets to be the Passage and ended up getting stuck. Also the weird beliefs people had - I seem to recall reading that at one point it was widely believed that if you could get through the ice, the North Pole itself was a balmy tropical paradise of open water and islands.

Indeed, and when you realize that they were on the right path initially to get through...if only they had not turned into the Victoria Strait and kept going more or less straight west, they might have feasibly have made it...or at the very least mapped the passage through.

[Andorion]

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 05:46 PM, said:

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 05:26 PM, said:

I find the history of the hunt for the North west passage to be one of the most frustrating and yet intriguing reading topics. At least the hunt for the North East passage yielded the overseas trade route to Russia. The NW passage was just a string of failures. They never correctly estimated the northern extent of Canada. There were weird speculation bubbles about gold deposits in Baffin Bay (fake) Lots of parties thought the northern Canadian bays and inlets to be the Passage and ended up getting stuck. Also the weird beliefs people had - I seem to recall reading that at one point it was widely believed that if you could get through the ice, the North Pole itself was a balmy tropical paradise of open water and islands.

Indeed, and when you realize that they were on the right path initially to get through...if only they had not turned into the Victoria Strait and kept going more or less straight west, they might have feasibly have made it...or at the very least mapped the passage through.

If a few of the first ones had persisted on the right track then sheer cumulative effort would have seen them through. Of course with the fall of Spain (the supremacy of Spain in the South Atlantic had been one of the main incentives to hunt for the passage) and the increasing power of the Royal Navy the passage as a viable trade route concept became increasingly obsolete

[QuickTidal]

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 05:59 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 05:46 PM, said:

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 05:26 PM, said:

I find the history of the hunt for the North west passage to be one of the most frustrating and yet intriguing reading topics. At least the hunt for the North East passage yielded the overseas trade route to Russia. The NW passage was just a string of failures. They never correctly estimated the northern extent of Canada. There were weird speculation bubbles about gold deposits in Baffin Bay (fake) Lots of parties thought the northern Canadian bays and inlets to be the Passage and ended up getting stuck. Also the weird beliefs people had - I seem to recall reading that at one point it was widely believed that if you could get through the ice, the North Pole itself was a balmy tropical paradise of open water and islands.

Indeed, and when you realize that they were on the right path initially to get through...if only they had not turned into the Victoria Strait and kept going more or less straight west, they might have feasibly have made it...or at the very least mapped the passage through.

If a few of the first ones had persisted on the right track then sheer cumulative effort would have seen them through. Of course with the fall of Spain (the supremacy of Spain in the South Atlantic had been one of the main incentives to hunt for the passage) and the increasing power of the Royal Navy the passage as a viable trade route concept became increasingly obsolete

Very true. All fascinating for us studying it after the fact nonetheless!

[worry]

Uhh I have a hard time respecting any of these people. I found the NW Passage on my first try even as a kid. Hey 'geniuses', you ever try looking at a satellite map of the continent?!

[Andorion]

High Geek of Crawfish, on 14 September 2016 - 03:24 AM, said:

Oh man I love visiting 17th Shard these past few mths just to see how butt hurt these kids get. It's so funny to get neg reped sometimes.

Now what happened? I usually don't venture out of the reading thread

[Andorion]

High Geek of Crawfish, on 14 September 2016 - 03:50 AM, said:

Freak outs in the relationship thread by high school students. Fucking kids bugging out like kids do.

Huh, saw that just now. A bit hyper.

I spend some time lurking in Westeros. They are the masters of taking one topic and dragging it out forever

[Andorion]

High Geek of Crawfish, on 14 September 2016 - 04:17 AM, said:

Andorion, on 14 September 2016 - 04:03 AM, said:

High Geek of Crawfish, on 14 September 2016 - 03:50 AM, said:

Freak outs in the relationship thread by high school students. Fucking kids bugging out like kids do.

Huh, saw that just now. A bit hyper.

I spend some time lurking in Westeros. They are the masters of taking one topic and dragging it out forever

It got so dumb they started negging every post this one guy makes just to do a gang up so I said something about how silly it was knowing I'd get some to and it worked. Then I taunted afterward with a reply that I knew would get another but someone up voted me not to long afterward. It's amusing really. Kids.

Neg repping in a forum is just dumb

[Dutch]

Cooking for the missus

[Mezla PigDog]

Mr PigDog and Baby PigDog have gone away for the weekend. Sweet mother of god I'm alone!!!!!! There was a period of decompression that lasted about 3 hours. The first 15minutes was weeping, then there was about 45minutes of aimlessly wandering around the house, then I sat like a zombie and watched shit tv for 2 hours and then.... Oh then! I'm alive! I'm still a real person!! I'm cooking real food, I'm listening to loud music. There will be wine, oh yes there will be wine. Then I don't know! I can do anything I want.... I might put up some shelves tomorrow.

[QuickTidal]

Mezla PigDog, on 16 September 2016 - 05:27 PM, said:

Mr PigDog and Baby PigDog have gone away for the weekend. Sweet mother of god I'm alone!!!!!! There was a period of decompression that lasted about 3 hours. The first 15minutes was weeping, then there was about 45minutes of aimlessly wandering around the house, then I sat like a zombie and watched shit tv for 2 hours and then.... Oh then! I'm alive! I'm still a real person!! I'm cooking real food, I'm listening to loud music. There will be wine, oh yes there will be wine. Then I don't know! I can do anything I want.... I might put up some shelves tomorrow.

Party at Mez's house!

[Mezla PigDog]

Yeah! Party for one! Anyone wants or needs me, I am NOT available