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Considering recent events.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=nc75157662&extent=-70.72898,-187.03125&extent=84.64078,240.46875

 

[Copa]

On 31/03/2025 at 08:01, Padge said:

Considering recent events.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=nc75157662&extent=-70.72898,-187.03125&extent=84.64078,240.46875

 

That link reminds me of the large live-streamed map of Indonesia at Yogyakarta airport in Java. It shows in real time where all the earthquakes are happening, or recently happened, and their strength.

It’s feels startling to see how many earthquakes occur while standing in an airport terminal designed to handle a massive tsunami.

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10 hours ago, Copa said:

That link reminds me of the large live-streamed map of Indonesia at Yogyakarta airport in Java. It shows in real time where all the earthquakes are happening, or recently happened, and their strength.

It’s feels startling to see how many earthquakes occur while standing in an airport terminal designed to handle a massive tsunami.

Shouldn't they have a map of airquakes 

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Credit due to Alasdair Beckett-King.

[Nearenough]

On 19/12/2024 at 09:42, Tommygilf said:

In terms of Hastings, the argument could be made that some things would be different, but also that inevitably England (or some version of it) would change as it did anyway. The Norman's didn't start or stop adventuring and conquering dependent of William the Conqueror. Perhaps another would have come along, or a weak English King might have invited Norman strongmen over in return for land. A Norman aristocracy also emerged in Scotland and Ireland for example, indeed in Monsieur Robert de Brus and his brother's case, claimed kingship over both respectively at one point. So there's possibly an issue of seeing the medieval world as we see ours now, with nation states and clearly defined identities where in reality these were much more fluid. This embryonic era of the nation is very interesting time, often dismissed as a "Dark Age" incorrectly only because it is so complex to the modern understanding rather than a lack of sophistication.

 

how about ...without the 'harrying of the north' by willie the C  (which created the north/south split in english society) there would have been no rugby league...just a thought

[Tommygilf]

1 hour ago, Nearenough said:

how about ...without the 'harrying of the north' by willie the C  (which created the north/south split in english society) there would have been no rugby league...just a thought

I think that may be a step too far in back projection imo.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 hour ago, Nearenough said:

how about ...without the 'harrying of the north' by willie the C  (which created the north/south split in english society) there would have been no rugby league...just a thought

So just so I understand, you're saying that William the Conquerer basically put in place the foundations of rugby league?

Edited April 30 by The Hallucinating Goose
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[Nearenough]

39 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

So just so I understand, you're saying that William the Conquerer basically put in place the foundations of rugby league?

oh yea. im saying that, no W t'C; no League

(theres a few geographical differences between north n south  such as you get more wool from downland sheep to make agricultural wages higher in the south which reduces cheap labour availability for your industrial revolution factories, and its flatter to make waterwheels less efficient but we'll forget those)

it wasnt the broken time payments that were t'problem it were how the northerners spoke and who they 'were not' that was the reason for the split. leicester paid their players but they did so with the right accent.

the normans are still over represented at oxbridge for example

and in keeping with the thread heres maps

Edited April 30 by Nearenough