Interesting Links for 26-04-2024

[andrewducker]

1. history of the entire world, i guess

(tags:video history funny )

2. Soaring in thermals is clearly much more fun when you employ a vulture to help you out

(tags:birds flying awesome video )

3. More than a quarter of people with Covid infection develop Long Covid (and a quieter of those develop brain fog. Vaccination helps though)

(tags:pandemic doom )

4. Why nuclear power stalled in the 1980s (hint: not environmentalists)

(tags:nuclearpower economics )

5. The magic of theatre - digging into the staging of a famous production of The Tempest

(tags:shakespeare theatre history )

6. Nearly 70% of British people want a Youth Mobility Scheme with Europe. So, of course, Labour is against it.

(tags:labour europe uk youth OhForFucksSake )

7. My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack

(tags:Technology communication funny horror )

Comments

[mountainkiss]

"Soaring in thermals is clearly much more fun when you employ a vulture to help you out"

This might be the best sentence in the history of sentences.

[andrewducker]

Thank you :-)

I'd love to try it, if I wouldn't be absolutely terrified.

[danieldwilliam]

I once had a colleague who was a keen paracender. He once told me about using a thermal in the Cotswolds where he could smell the cigarette smoke from the farmer driving his tractor in the field below.

It was quite a magical description.

[mountainkiss]

You see, it stops working as soon as one understands that thermal is a piece of kit rather than an outfit.

[danieldwilliam]

The thought of sharing my thermals (rather than a thermal) with a vulture is uncomfortable bordering on terrifying.

[mountainkiss]

It’s the surrealism I liked.

[danieldwilliam]

It's alright for you, you're not the one with a vulture in your thermals. It's Andrew and me who are suffering and he was already pretty uncomfortable with the whole business before the vulture got involved.

[andrewducker]

A thermal is the rising warm air, which birds use to gain height, and so paragliders can follow about to also gain height.

So not really a piece of kit, more part of nature.

[mountainkiss]

Every day a school day.

[reverancepavane]

I was in a thermal (in a pre-WW2-era glider) with a wedge-tailed eagle once. Simply magical (although not as magical as the clip). It quickly rose to my level, scoffed at me, and then showed me how it was really done as it zoomed off to altitude.

I was also in a thermal with a pelican once. I left. Pelicans definitely don't like to share in my experience.

[andrewducker]

That's amazing, and I don't blame you. Pelicans have never seemed terribly congenial to me.

[danieldwilliam]

Pelicans have the look of an animal that would eat you if they could and which are prepared to give it a go to find out if they can or not.

[melchar]

'The sun is a deadly lazer...'

'The history of the Entire World, I guess' was awesome!

[andrewducker]

So many facts, delivered so quickly and so ridiculously!

2. Soaring in thermals is clearly much more fun when you employ a vulture to help you out

[anef]

Oh wow - it sat on his harness! I thought: He shouldn't be stroking that wild bird. Then I thought: That bird shouldn't be nibbling his shoes.

Re: 2. Soaring in thermals is clearly much more fun when you employ a vulture to help you out

[andrewducker]

I think they are grooming each other. I'm pretty sure they are very well acquainted.