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As in, scenic artist on Enterprise last year, author of the new map book, and all-round �berfan. Interesting.
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heh kewl... Timo gets a name drop
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Timo is everywhere. I was a little surprised to see him show up here, after reading his posts in rec.arts.startrek.* for awhile. It is a smaller world than I had thought at first, I guess.
And yet, when I Google for my name, what do I get? Well, me. AND ONLY ME! But not in a very wide assortment of places. Alas, fame. Thy fickle attentions seldom grace my humble plane.
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It's a land. It has ice. Close enough. For all we know, there may actually be a greater mass of ice than of Finns.
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We don't have glaciers since we don't have proper mountains. But we do have a sea that freezes, which is more than the Icelanders can claim! (It's the low salinity, not the low temperature...)
And despite the best attempts by McDonald's, I still think the sea ice outmasses the human bulk here. Greenhouse effects notwithstanding.
quote:Originally posted by Timo: We don't have glaciers since we don't have proper mountains. But we do have a sea that freezes, which is more than the Icelanders can claim! (It's the low salinity, not the low temperature...)
And despite the best attempts by McDonald's, I still think the sea ice outmasses the human bulk here. Greenhouse effects notwithstanding.
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Hey - if it wasn't for that pesky greenhouse effect we'd still have a sea that freezes, or at least icebergs drifting in to "smokey bay" (aka Reykjavik).
Hands down though I think you are subjected to colder weather since we've got the Gulf Stream, so you'd have more ice. Of course everybody knows "Greenland is ice and Iceland is green" - it is green moss, but it is green.
When the anti-world-domination forces show up I'll be sure to tell them that you just left for New Zealand.
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Well, that particular world domination scheme is easily thwarted. You all know what to do to kill 'em kittens, right?
Finland gets the benefits of the Gulf stream, too - and without the disadvantages. The stream hits Norway first, the warm air races up the mountains, dumps its moisture on the Norwegians, and comes down the other side, gaining in temperature thanks to the F�hn/Chinook/whatever phenomenon, and warms up Sweden and Finland... In essence, Finland is like a miniature Canada, only warmer.
I'm at loss of ideas to get back to the subject, really. Currents in space? Viking-like migrations between stars? Commonalities between Mandel and the Nordic countries?
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:::sighs::: I could do a wonderful post on early Norse tendencies, Icelandic legal culture, & the parallels to early Earth & Federation colonization efforts...if only I had my computer back so I could sit at home with all my books.
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