About That Antarctic Station...

 Last Saturday was the BBC's mid-winter transmission to the British antarctic research station (yeah, missed it again, sigh).  Whether or not you caught it live, you can catch up with various peoples' recordings of the proceedings at The SWLing Post mid-winter tag here.

Anyway, back to the main point of this post.  The Halley VI antarctic station is a tad... unearthly looking.  Here's an interesting video covering its workings, along with mentions of several other nations' stations, and some speculation on future lunar outposts.  A lot of these ideas would work for college dormitories as well.  Interesting, forward-looking stuff that's well worth your 11 minutes.  Also, here's the Wikipedia page on Halley VI as well.

All for today.  Unless something else remarkable happens.

I probably ought to adapt this design for hurricane season around here.  Wind resistant and already up on pilings, there's a lot to build on from this base design.  I wonder how much one unfinished fiberglass module would cost?

A Pretty Good Idea

Fishing shirts for hiking, over at Section Hiker.  Kind of obvious, but I needed this pointed out.  Well, day before yesterday was the summer solstice, so I guess that I have a good three months to spray mine down with permethrin.  Really is a good idea though.

Spaceballs 2?!?!

A definite maybe for 2027.  Mel Brooks has been known to tell jokes and pull pranks before, but this is looking pretty solid.  Teaser trailer here (with a cameo by Brooks himself), and a mention on Wikipedia here.

I give it an 80-20 chance of happening.  But wouldn't it be great to have a reason to go to a movie theater again?

Water Woes

You can read all about the sorry state of Apalachicola's municipal water system here at The Times.  (Here's the main page.  You may find newer updates as this blog post ages.)

Ugh, smells like rotten garlic.  The sooner this gets resolved the better.

Dance the Night Away

From over at today's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal,

Yeah, just makes you want boogie all night long.  Especially when finals week was coming up and you're behind two weeks on homework assignments.

News Retro-Flash (i.e., Old News): NOAA Weather Radio Issues

NOAA's weather radio service was out of order about a month ago.  Details here.

TLDR: Minor problems during multiple server upgrades.

An utterly mundane cause, but I heard some of the darnedest speculation on why things were down during this gap in service.  Glad to have both this glitch and all the nonsense that it kicked up resolved.

Onward with your Saturday evening.

A New-ish D-Day Documentary

I say new-ish, because it's 11 years old.  Explains Bayou Renaissance Man at his blog (where he directs to a newly posted youtube video of the documentary in its entirety):

Back in 2014, the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France, Jean-Christophe Rosé produced this 90-minute documentary for France Télévisions.  It uses archival footage that was remastered and colorized, and is probably one of the best sources to understand what the run-up to D-Day involved (with training and other preparations) and the reality of combat on that day.

You can see my Dad very near the start at 1:50 in, and the footage is used again at the 15 minute mark.  He was a combat engineer who landed on Omaha Beach, Easy Red, somewhere in the third wave.  Anyway, here's the link to the documentary.  Total run length is an hour forty.

I didn't have a tag to fit this post, but it calls for a new one: history.  I'll be using this going forward, and will be adding it to a few older posts as I come across them.