#vruba

This all reminded me of https://t.co/Yo3WjO20B0 and prospect–refuge theory.

Lots of people are like “Trees will save us!” but the ecological effects and overall effort needed to plant (and maintain) anything like as many trees as we need, as fast as we’d need, is on a scale pretty similar to any of our other options. https://t.co/p9bdsQOzDx

In red places the hot season is the dry season; in blue places, vice versa. Been meaning to make this for a while. (Pearson’s r of prec v. tavg in WorldClim 2.) pic.twitter.com/zkGhisZqbq

The more attention you pay to NASA, the more it becomes an extremely clever project to turn aeronautics funding into radical ecology research and transcendentalist-ish spiritual tracts. https://t.co/OezAYONZ1z

I don’t know a lot about Bourdain but I know this: He got television about human geography to rate well. He got more Americans thinking about the rest of the world as people, instead of as foreigners, than any other artist or entertainer I can think of. Shit.

The tiles were extremely industrial objects, but usually, in the late 20C industrial framework, if you have several thousand similar industrial things, they’re interchangeable – that’s kind of the point. Not the tiles. They were made for particular spots on the orbiters, and each one has a binder – so the legends say – recording how it was made, anything that might have influenced its quality, who attached it to the orbiter body, its inspections before and after every mission, sketches of damage, and so forth. … So the obvious thing is a big viz. Take every tile that flew, draw its lifetime as a line, align it to all the others on its orbiter, mark everything that happened to it, and print it all up big. We can imagine the horizontal lines formed by especially rough launches and reëntries, the cut-offs of the disasters, call-outs showing which tiles lasted the longest, and so forth. This seems like a difficult project but in a fun way.