On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

My home? Probably not ready.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-building-code-climate-change-resilience-1.5092732

On the other hand, if you're looking for steady work for the next few decades? Construction, renovation and demolition just got much more support.

...and then I go back to work tomorrow morning.

Meantime, I'm puzzling over a question of star system placement for Trekkish purposes. Specifically, Hobus.

Noticed in the process of mulling it over, this Memory Beta page. Players of that game are expected to believe that planets orbiting any given star could remain mostly intact (habitability issues notwithstanding) after their host star went supernova?

Courtesy of Jed Whitten's StarMap site, the general neighbourhood of Hobus, reaching 600 lightyears above and below Arbitrary Galactic Equatorial:

http://whitten.org/index.php?x_c=30&y_c=-30&z_c=0&xy_zoom=15&z_zoom=600&m_limit=&select_star=2411&image_type=normal&image_size=2000&max_line=0&trek_names=1

I expect the GAIA DR2 data might make this both easier and harder.

...because sooner or later, another right-winger - possibly worse than Harper - is gonna get past our vigilance. Or do we already have it?


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rising-stakes-stoke-passions-of-community-activists-against-trump-1266608707761

Also, the idea that such a prime minister could exploit "zombie laws" is something we need to pre-empt. Our current federal justice minister has sweeping "zombie laws" out of the statute books in her agenda...

Been re-reading The Massive # 6 today.

One thing in the text pieces got my attention.

"The Great Lakes region expanded its water-surface area by roughly 4,000 square miles. The Upper Michigan Peninsula is no more."

Thunder Bay. Nipigon. Marathon. Wawa. Sault Ste. Marie. Manitoulin Island.

Elliot Lake? Sudbury? North Bay?

Parry Sound. Snug Harbour. Penetanguishene. Wiarton.

Goderich. Sarnia. Windsor. Point Pelee. Port Stanley.

The Niagara Peninsula. Niagara Falls. St. Catharines. Hamilton. Oakville. Mississauga.

Toronto.

Oshawa. Cobourg. Belleville. Kingston. Brockville. Cornwall.

All gone too after the Crash.

Whatever it turns out to have really been.

I'll keep reading The Massive and get back to you...

A few years back, Gwynne Dyer wrote an essay on global geophysical events - "gee-gees" in geo-scientist slang c. 2004 - such as we saw last week at Sendai in Nihon/Japan:

http://www.gwynnedyer.com/articles/Gwynne%20Dyer%20article_%20%20Gee-Gees%20%28revised%29.txt

You'll note that he used as an example of such events the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands. Seems there's some legitimate concern about what this could do to a very large chunk of the human race on four continents. Point-blank: some of you live in some of the places he names as expected to suffer heavily should Cumbre Vieja "wake up" in sufficiently nasty fashion. Some of you live in places he didn't name but are still in the danger zones.

Has anyone been tracking what's being done to keep a closer eye on this particular problem child among volcanoes, just in case?

A perhaps overly scary scenario pointed out to me by warren_ellis.

Fair game for an Ottawa SF Society meeting topic, yes?