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Posted on: September 19, 2006 3:21 PM, by William M. Connolley
And you can read about it at http://citizendium.org/. Predicatably enough, wikipedia already has an article on it. Will it fly? Who knows...
[Update: Nature has an article on this, featuring a brief appearence by yours truely... I don't get to say anything exciting though. Or perhaps more precisely, I *didn't* say anything very exciting]
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Off topic,
thought you might be interested in these images
if you haven't alreadyseen them
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM7ZF8LURE_index_0.html
[Interesting... -W]
Posted by: Q | September 19, 2006 4:08 PM
It is more than interesting. It is devasting :-(
I am not surprised. I have been monitoring the Arctic ice using the US Navy's ice maps which you can see here: http://www.abmcdonald.freeserve.co.uk/USNavy.htm At the end of August this and last year there were a straight lines of low concentration ice leading from west of Novaya Zemlya to the North Pole. I checked and this is the route taken by the Russian cruise liner which travels to the pole from Murmansk. The ice must be pretty thin if a cruise liner can produce a trail obvious to satellites.
Unfortunately I do not have access to archives of the USN maps but would be interested in hearing from anyone who has more evidence on those features.
Posted by: Alastair McDonald | September 20, 2006 6:56 AM
Alastair, here's the cruise liner that's making those tracks through the ice:
http://www.cruisingholidays.co.uk/arctic/icebreaker-yamal-1.htm
On Citizendum:
Boing Boing here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/20/clay_shirky_an_exper.html
referencing Shirky: http://many.corante.com/archives/2006/09/18/larry_sanger_citizendium_and_the_problem_of_expertise.php
Posted by: Hank Roberts | September 20, 2006 11:30 AM