You were probably taught at some point that people in the time of Christopher Columbus all thought the world was flat. However, this is a myth that pervades history - most people knew the earth was a globe! (Source)
Goddamnit! I’ve heard that so often already.
And then I learned separately that even the Greeks already knew not only that Earth was round, but even its circumference at a pretty good accuracy.
These two ‘facts’ genuinely had me thinking we must have lost a ton of knowledge from the Greeks…
I especially don’t understand why she did this. If finances were actually that dire, then surely OOP would have know about it and mentioned it. With OOP working out of state, you’d also hope that this job is worth the time…
Yesterday, I read an article¹, where it says in the context of this year’s astronomical ocean temperatures:
“The land tends to warm up more than the ocean, but if the ocean is so warm, you essentially start having very high temperatures and dry conditions because the ocean is evaporating and raining on itself,” Dr Bracco said.
As I understand this, normally it would rain near the coast, because that’s where the ocean would heat up the most, under pre-climate-change conditions. And that’s now out of wonk, generally leading to droughts.
Maybe California is for whatever reason in an inversed situation, where their rainfall likeliness is actually improved by the hot oceans…
I enjoy how when you connect to it from an Android phone, it’s like:
What in the fuck do you want here?! We’re not spending computing resources on you, dumbass. Go, send it to your heathen friends!