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| midtskogen | Date: Sunday, 23.03.2014, 08:33 | Message # 2296 |
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| Quote Antza2 (  ) Guess i'm 2 decades old now. I feel old.
Congratulations and welcome to your third decade.
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| werdnaforever | Date: Sunday, 23.03.2014, 23:09 | Message # 2297 |
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| Quote Antza2 ( ) Guess i'm 2 decades old now. I feel old. :/
Welcome to the club
Step 1
Lie down on a bed in a horizontal position. The feeling should pass
Step 2
There is no second step, because you are lying down
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| midtskogen | Date: Monday, 24.03.2014, 01:42 | Message # 2298 |
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| I've just arranged flight tickets for the 20 March 2015 solar eclipse on Svalbard! Unfortunately all hotels have been fully booked for years, so we might have to spend the night at the airport, but in astronomy one routinely sacrifice some hours of sleep for an important event, right? The cost from/to Oslo is currently about $700 return for fully refundable tickets, $500 for non-refundable, and there are two flights on Thursday the 19th arriving 13:55 and 23:40. The return is 13:50 the day after, just after the eclipse (totality starts 11:10, partiality ends 12:12). So it's possible to do the eclipse in a 19 hour round trip from Oslo.
The chances for sunshine is probably around 50%. Which is a lot more than from the Faroe Islands, the other inhabited location over which the eclipse passes.
For people willing to shell out $6000+ plus travel costs to Oslo it's possible to book through Travel Quest and get a hotel room (they reserved almost everything several years ago).
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 24.03.2014, 06:10 | Message # 2299 |
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| Quote midtskogen ( ) For people willing to shell out $6000+ plus travel costs to Oslo it's possible to book through Travel Quest and get a hotel room
I think I'll wait for the one in 2017 
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| midtskogen | Date: Monday, 24.03.2014, 07:23 | Message # 2300 |
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| Quote HarbingerDawn ( ) I think I'll wait for the one in 2017
My thoughts exactly. Companies like Travel Quest are just making it difficult for people in northern Europe to see this (the only total eclipse visible from a Norwegian town in 150 years). To defend the clearly overpriced price tag they're selling this as an experience package, but frankly if one wants to experience the Arctic, go on snowmobiles, go dog sledding, etc, I would recommend this anytime except around the crowdiness around the eclipse. Even for Norwegians, the US eclipse will be far, far cheaper if they want the comfort of a hotel. Longyearbyen has around 1400 inhabitants and around half as many guest beds. Foreign operators book everything several years ago. The Russian town of Barentsburg will also get the eclipse. It's a couple of hours away from the Longyearbyen and its airport by snowmobile. There is a hotel in Barentsburg, but I haven't checked the availability. It would then get much more troublesome since counting on such an option would be a gamble without extra days in case of bad weather making the Longyearbyen - Barentsburg stretch impassable. So this eclipse will have to be some kind of day trip from Oslo.
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| Fireinthehole- | Date: Saturday, 29.03.2014, 21:47 | Message # 2301 |
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| Did everyone turn off the lights in this year's Earth hour? 
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 29.03.2014, 23:48 | Message # 2302 |
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| Quote Fireinthehole ( ) Did everyone turn off the lights in this year's Earth hour?
It hasn't happened here yet. I usually have my lights off anyway, except for this one light recently because the switch is broken.
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Sunday, 30.03.2014, 00:14 | Message # 2303 |
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| None of my lights are on but it doesn't even matter considering my PC uses more energy than all my lights combined. I am just helping the universe on it's journey towards entropy.
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| anonymousgamer | Date: Sunday, 30.03.2014, 00:48 | Message # 2304 |
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| Quote DoctorOfSpace ( ) None of my lights are on but it doesn't even matter considering my PC uses more energy than all my lights combined
My computer is both my computer and lights.
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| SolarLiner | Date: Sunday, 30.03.2014, 01:00 | Message # 2305 |
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| My computer is my life ...
*Matrix jokes imbound*
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| midtskogen | Date: Sunday, 30.03.2014, 09:23 | Message # 2306 |
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| Quote Fireinthehole ( ) Did everyone turn off the lights in this year's Earth hour?
I didn't think of it until some time after 21:30, but I'm not a big light polluter anyway. This year it happened before daylight saving, so it was actually pretty dark at 20:30. On the other hand, Earth Hour would actually make more sense before it gets dark when outdoor lighting serves hardly any purpose at all.
EDIT: Oh, I just realised that it's always the night before the [European] daylight saving switch.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 30.03.2014, 09:37 | Message # 2307 |
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| Quote midtskogen ( ) Earth Hour would actually make more sense before it gets dark when outdoor lighting serves hardly any purpose at all.
I think they do it at night intentionally to make it more visible. The whole point is awareness, it's a symbolic turning off of the lights.
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| midtskogen | Date: Sunday, 30.03.2014, 09:44 | Message # 2308 |
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| Quote HarbingerDawn ( ) The whole point is awareness, it's a symbolic turning off of the lights.
Yeah, I know. It would make more sense to leave the lights off the rest of the year and turn them on during Earth Hour for the symbolism...
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 30.03.2014, 09:51 | Message # 2309 |
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| Quote midtskogen ( ) It would make more sense to leave the lights off the rest of the year and turn them on during Earth Hour for the symbolism...
No, because the lights are already on. Look at pictures of participating cities, when they turn lights off on large buildings and famous landmarks, the difference is immediately noticeable and striking.
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| midtskogen | Date: Sunday, 30.03.2014, 11:33 | Message # 2310 |
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| Quote HarbingerDawn ( ) Look at pictures of participating cities, when they turn lights off on large buildings and famous landmarks, the difference is immediately noticeable and striking.
I was criticising the symbolism. It's as if some chemical plant was demonstrating their awareness for the environment by reducing their production and close their central park waste pipe (to make the effect most noticeable and striking) for one hour a year.
And my point was it wouldn't be less striking to the switch on lights on a landmark for one hour than to switch them off, if the symbolism really is important.
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