Tuppence earns the two

 

If you aren't aware, there's about to be a Downton Abbey movie sequel, which is a sequel to a sequel, because the first movie was a sequel to the television series.  So look for that in theaters, as we are going back to theaters again. For awhile, anyway.

So, considering that Downton Abbey is in England, and so is the Daily Mail, then it's natural that the tabloid would have covered the premiere parties.

And it did.  And highly visible in the party line-up was the blossoming baby belly of one Tuppence Middleton, who is a young and talented actress that I have commented on before.   That linked article preceded another one, the latter discussing the recent (at the time) break-up of Miss Middleton with a paramour.

Well, amour being what it is, apparently Tuppence found someone else to be both amorous and fertile with.  According to the article, she has not named the noble gent who lent his masculine aspect to the progenitic cause.  I sincerely hope he distinguished himself in the ecstatic effort.

But, back to the baby-to-be, shown in elegant black evening wear.

Tuppence Middleton is pregnant! Actress unveils her blossoming bump in a gorgeous black gown as she attends the Downton Abbey: A New Era premiere with Måns Mårlind

(The article indicates there may be a connection with a "Tobias Gremmler", who is a creative musician.  More on that if it becomes available.)

It's tough to think about, though I won't be here to see it

 

A very sobering, troubling, and disturbing report about the oceans and their future fate came out a few days ago.

Ocean animals face a mass extinction from climate change, study finds

"If humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, according to a study released Thursday, roughly a third of all marine animals could vanish within 300 years.

The findings, published in the journal Science, reveal a potential mass extinction looming beneath the waves. The oceans have absorbed a third of the carbon and 90 percent of the excess heat created by humans, but their vast expanse and forbidding depths mean scientists are just beginning to understand what creatures face there."

As some have noted, there's an escape route, as it were.  Because it says "If humanity's greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase ..."

Which means that if somehow that trajectory can be diverted (and I think it can be, and the main solution is spelled N-U-C-L-E-A-R    E-N-E-R-G-Y), then this dire consequence might be at least diminished. 

Here's another part of the article:

"Though the danger to animals — and the humans who depend on them — is undeniably dire, Pinsky, the Rutgers biologist, urged against giving in to despair.

In an analysis for Science that accompanied Penn and Deutsch’s report, he and Rutgers ecologist Alexa Fredston compared marine animals to canaries in a coal mine, alerting humanity to invisible forces — such as dangerous carbon dioxide accumulation and ocean oxygen loss — that also threaten our ability to survive. If people can take action to preserve ocean wildlife, we will wind up saving ourselves."

So what can we do?

What we need to do is everything we can, starting now.  

Which means putting solar panels over parking lots -- everywhere. And then building the nuclear power generating plant equivalent of the Model-T Ford, as many as possible, as quickly as possible.  And while we're doing that, get nuclear fusion working.

Then we -- and the oceans -- might have a chance.

Highway 41 end-to-end Streetview trek: This Is The End

 

It's over.

The final views are below.  Which means that the Highway 41 end-to-end Streetview trek, which commenced in Miami years ago, has gone the distance, all the way to Copper Harbor, Michigan.

But still -- I am going to put together some longer state-by-state posts with all the end-to-end Streetview posts for that state, to make it easier to navigate and find views along the trek.

So let's finish strong.

Sort of the entrance to Fort Wilkins State Historic Park. The bridge is over a very short water connection between Lake Fanny Hooe and Lake Superior named Garden Brook.



If there was a break in the trees here, you could probably see the Copper Harbor Lighthouse.

But... this is it. This is THE END of the highway, and the end of the StreetView trek. Unlike in Miami at the other end, there's a sign here.

Here's a better picture of the sign.



And here's a really good image of the sign.

So that's it.  Now somebody should do it on a bicycle.

Watch your step (all the way across)

 

The world's longest suspension footbridge just opened, in the Czech Republic (which now can officially be called Czechia, too).  It's 721 meters long.

You go first.

Queasy does it! The longest suspension footbridge in the world opens next month, spanning 2,365ft across a valley in the Czech Republic

No, Biden is not going to send their sustenance away

 

Took me a few seconds to figure out what the Daily Mail was trying to say in this headline.

Lighthouse of the Week, April 24-30, 2022: Tungenes Lighthouse, Norway

 

Weirdly enough, for some reason I conjured up the name "Stavanger".  I knew I had heard it before, and did a quick map locator, and found it in Norway, near the coast.  Not surprising at all.  So I searched to see if there were lighthouses nearby, and there were.  And this one was one of the more interesting ones.

It's no longer a working lighthouse, but it still has a 4th-order Fresnel lens.  Figure that out.

Web site: Tungenes Lighthouse

Information from the Web site:

"The lighthouse was established in 1828 and closed in 1984. The lighthouse master's house is from 1938, his assistant's house from 1957-58. There is an annex, machinery shed and boathouse. Tungenes Lighthouse is protected and restored to its 1930s appearance.

The lighthouse now serves as a fine arts and cultural centre. Concerts with both Norwegian and international artists are regularly arranged here. The café serves good coffee food with a view on the purchase, and on the second floor above the café is the Oskar Sørreime collection. There is also a lighthouse museum and maritime museum on site."

And now from the Lighthouse Directory:

"1828. Inactive since 1984. Approx. 12 m (39 ft) square cylindrical tower rising from the seaward side of a 1-1/2 story keeper's house. 4th order Fresnel lens mounted in the lantern. Lighthouse painted white; lantern roof is red. Other station buildings include a 2-story principal keeper's house (1938) and a 1-1/2 story assistant keeper's house (1958).

The lighthouse was deactivated in favor of the Bragen light (next entry) offshore. The station has been fully restored to its 1930s appearance; it serves as a fine arts center and lighthouse and maritime museum. One of the buildings houses a café.

The lighthouse marked the cape at the south side of the entrance to Stavanger harbor. Located at the end of the Tungenesveien on the west side of Randaberg."  (If you click on that link, you'll see a broader scale view to put its location in Scandinavian context.)

Below are the pictures; it's fairly well-photographed.

It may not handle all of the climate denier clowns

 

Good news, to a point.  The less misnformation that's out in the wild, the better. 

Twitter bans climate change propaganda ads as deniers target platforms

"A 2021 report by the liberal-leaning advocacy group Avaaz found that between April 6, 2021, and Nov. 15, 2021, the top five climate change misinformers managed to rack up more than 60 million views on posts containing climate falsehoods — most of which were not labeled by Facebook as false."

From my own personal experience, the worst offenders are the ones who purport that their denialism is scientific, when it stands in opposition to so much strongly-supported scientific knowledge.