Australia Is On So Much Fire, You Can See It From Orbit

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Australia Is On So Much Fire, You Can See It From Orbit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday January 9, 2013 @03:15AM from the only-you-can-prevent-burning-australia-to-cinders dept.

Jeremy Lee writes "Temperatures in Australia this week hit the point where the Bureau of Meteorology had to invent a new color. And with heat and winds come Bushfires. So it's probably good that I made a real-time bushfire map with every known source of public data directly relating to fires in Australia, mostly because fire doesn't respect state borders." From space.

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Re:Demise of the English langauge by cheaphomemadeacid · 2013-01-09 03:37 · Score: 3, Interesting

Actually, this summary is pretty good. its concise, its not repeatin half the article its linking to. I'd prefer more summaries like this.
Self-Solving Problem by Greyfox · 2013-01-09 03:41 · Score: 4, Interesting

Eventually all the vegetation will burn off and then there won't be any fuel for fires anymore! Problem solved!
I suspect next summer is going to be another bad year for fires in the USA. Seems like the entire goddamn west burned down last year. The sky was brown all summer. We cleared the layer of smoke in a plane, and the blue of the sky came as quite a shock. I'd actually forgotten the sky was supposed to look like that. I didn't want to descend back into the sludge, either. It was the first time in a couple of months that I'd had a breath of fresh air.

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Affect global temperatures? by sl4shd0rk · 2013-01-09 03:45 · Score: 2, Interesting

I wonder if this will create enough particulate in the atmosphere to reduce global temperatures.

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Re:Demise of the English langauge by ByOhTek · 2013-01-09 04:41 · Score: 3, Interesting

No, it's not formally correct.
It's very much allowed, it just ceases to be formal English at that point. Most people do not communicate using formal English.

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Re:Demise of the English langauge by spaceyhackerlady · 2013-01-09 05:20 · Score: 3, Interesting

We're now using and at the start of sentences?
Yup.
Face it: language changes. The English of Beowulf is a foreign language to modern speakers. Chaucer is heavy going. Hell, many people struggle with Shakespeare and Dickens.
Some changes I've seen in my own life. I'm 51.
Loss of distinction between adjectives and adverbs in spoken English, particularly "good" vs. "well".
Loss of "hw". "Whale" and "wail" are homonyms except in a few regional accents.
Singular "they" as a gender-neutral pronoun. I like this and use it myself.
Very few people use colons or semicolons in written English. Fewer still know how to use them correctly.
My grandparents were born from 1884 (paternal grandfather) to 1905 (maternal grandmother) and used the subjunctive mood. It was largely gone before I was born. It only survives in fossilized expressions like "so be it" and the song title "Let it be".
...laura
Re:Thanks by Jeremy+Lee · 2013-01-09 06:28 · Score: 3, Interesting

Thanks to you and everyone who looked at the map. The extensive slashdotting let me code some improvements :-)

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