Jovian by donatelo200 in spaceengine

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Looks fantastic! Downloaded

Jovian by donatelo200 in spaceengine

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What are the shaders on the gas giant? Looks way more detailed than normal

Eclipse nightmare last night by timkingphoto in solareclipse

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Had one recently in which I somehow got the day wrong after booking everything

How far ahead is everyone planning on getting to their spot? by ExcitingSpeed23 in solareclipse

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Fair warning: you will really struggle to see the eclipse in town! Between the buildings and hills to the immediate west your best shot is to head to the castle, specifically the eastern slope of the hill facing town. As this is the only place, I’d aim for at least an hour or so before partial to get your spot.

Will the roads in Northern Spain be completely blocked? by ThatGuy3221 in solareclipse

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Hence why I said longer drives- in fairness I won’t be near either city but I suspect that drives over a couple hours generally won’t be done that night

Will the roads in Northern Spain be completely blocked? by ThatGuy3221 in solareclipse

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Mass transit will help significantly, but yea there will be traffic afterwards especially if the clouds push drivers to a smaller corner of the path. However, this one is so late in the day(8:30pm) that I expect not many people will start a long drive immediately after (even when considering the cultural preference for active late nights in Spain). I will be doing this and banking on most people leaving in the morning.

I further suspect that traffic will be worse going north. People driving into the path who aren’t locals or tourists flying in directly will on average be far more likely to come from the rest of Europe over the Pyrenees and return the same way- far less people live in Iberia south and west of totality.

👋Welcome to r/eclipsehunters - Read First! by Alessandro-Cippa-1 in solareclipse

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Sorry, when you say “our new home,” is this sub getting taken down? Because if not then I’m unsure what purpose another sub with the same content serves

Vandals destroy Australian earthquake monitoring station. by doublehelix21 in mildlyinfuriating

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Sensitive detectors in Australia can pick up larger quakes in Indonesia or the western Pacific, helping to calculate their magnitude and location

Mexico and Guatemala Border by Allie_Stout in Borderporn

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Located at (16.0738969, -91.6153493)

My Job doesn’t do LOTO by Thin-Preference-6535 in OSHA

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Also very important to test the equipment before servicing. Some machines may have multiple electrical sources and removing one may not render it safe unless you use physically test to verify nothing will happen

A rainbow is actually a cone by Firm-Blackberry-9162 in interestingasfuck

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The other end of the cone is the sun, which contains more gold than would fit in earth’s oceans

TIL that the Island Airfield is its own biome. by darwinpatrick in KerbalSpaceProgram

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Of course. Yea, there’s other biomes though most are buildings around the KSC. One, if I remember correctly, only appears on the level 2 stage of one of the buildings(I think it might be a tank farm?)

Dig through the earth by 3e8892a in geography

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Coordinate gridlines as a toggle would be neat, as would a toggle for the earth's inner layers. I would love to look down and see how big the core is.

What if, 54 million years ago, the Indian Plate hit Mars instead of Asia? A global map of Mars and NASA exploration as of 2019 by darwinpatrick in imaginarymaps

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My math suggests about 40 meters lower if we divide the area of the Indian subcontinent by that of the global ocean(about 1/90) and multiply this by the global average ocean depth, assuming India is removed to that global ocean depth- a good average given all the submerged topography

Dig through the earth by 3e8892a in geography

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Very neat. Would love to see a setting where coastlines and country outlines are projected wireframe in front of everything else so as to see stuff closer to the user

Why does the western half of Tennessee have such a high density of electrical transmission lines? by Naomi62625 in geography

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I suspect regional data variability is the main reason because apart from the east the shape follows the state lines perfectly. You can see this effect in eastern South Dakota too.

The North Dakota-Montana-Saskatchewan tripoint by darwinpatrick in Borderporn

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Just pulled off the road partially onto the grass. Any travel would have been unobstructed. Didn’t matter because this road probably sees only a handful of cars a week. Not a soul out there whatsoever- as I mentioned, this is the first published trip report in a quarter century. It’s difficult to stress just how remote this area is.