Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted March 30, 2016 Root Admin ID:1030233 Share Posted March 30, 2016 This is your Captain speaking... We're looking for volunteers to hang on the lower pontoon while we cruise on in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yardbird Posted March 30, 2016 ID:1030237 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Nice shot Cap....... but it would be to cold for me to hang on the lower pontoon .... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted March 30, 2016 Author Root Admin ID:1030243 Share Posted March 30, 2016 I guess the US bought Alaska from Russia on this day (March 30, 1867) 149 years ago, for $7.2 million dollars. About 2 cents per acre. Was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted March 31, 2016 ID:1030254 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Seward's folly as it was known in that era. Since hindsight is 20-20, we know it was not a folly! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L. Galt Posted March 31, 2016 ID:1030472 Share Posted March 31, 2016 The only folly lay with the myopic vision of the one's who called it that. Happy Birthday, Alaska! @AdvancedSetup - I'll definitely hang on the pontoon! Sounds like a lot of fun Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daledoc1 Posted March 31, 2016 ID:1030537 Share Posted March 31, 2016 On 3/30/2016 at 6:14 PM, AdvancedSetup said: I guess the US bought Alaska from Russia on this day (March 30, 1867) 149 years ago, for $7.2 million dollars. About 2 cents per acre. Was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959 I don't know what that works out to in 2016 dollars, but it seems as if it was a good deal. Give me a harness and parachute and I'll do the pontoon ride! {{Ron, that's one of your photos from your Alaska trip, is it not??? AMAZING}} Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted March 31, 2016 Author Root Admin ID:1030538 Share Posted March 31, 2016 19 minutes ago, daledoc1 said: I don't know what that works out to in 2016 dollars, but it seems as if it was a good deal. Google that up.. Some say it was not a good deal as the State has never earned its way and has cost the US in support dollars, so they say. Some say in today's dollars it's worth about $115 million dollars. Still not bad considering a single home here in the rich area of California can go for $20 million. Give me a harness and parachute and I'll do the pontoon ride! If you have the parachute - no harness needed: {{Ron, that's one of your photos from your Alaska trip, is it not??? AMAZING}} Yes, from my trip to Alaska - loved it. Very beautiful country up there. We actually landed on the big lake in the picture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted March 31, 2016 ID:1030539 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Due to natural resources, Alaska has more than payed its way in Fuel, Minerals and Food. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daledoc1 Posted March 31, 2016 ID:1030545 Share Posted March 31, 2016 5 minutes ago, David H. Lipman said: Due to natural resources, Alaska has more than payed its way in Fuel, Minerals and Food. Moose meat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted April 1, 2016 Author Root Admin ID:1030555 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Eskimo pie ice cream? LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L. Galt Posted April 1, 2016 ID:1030755 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Polar Bars and Igloos FTW! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondus Posted April 2, 2016 ID:1030916 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Looks just like northern norway, here is a wiew from a F-16 cocpit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted April 2, 2016 Author Root Admin ID:1030964 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Mountains don't look as tall but beautiful country Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondus Posted April 3, 2016 ID:1031173 Share Posted April 3, 2016 17 hours ago, AdvancedSetup said: Mountains don't look as tall but beautiful country Yepp probably, highest in that area of Norway (Lofoten) is 1262m but we have lots of them You may come visit https://www.google.no/search?q=Lofotens&rlz=1C1GGGE_noNO672NO672&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=955&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjng4DCzPLLAhXGFiwKHXimCG4Q_AUIBigB#imgrc=fio2j-EJ4-lLRM%3A Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted April 3, 2016 ID:1031187 Share Posted April 3, 2016 I think it is because the Alaskan Mountains are a younger chain being on the boundary of the Pacific ( Juan de Fuco Plate ) and North American tectonic plates in the Northern Latitudes of the Ring of Fire. They are still actively being lifted by plate subduction. Norway is however on a much older Mountain range on the Eurasian Plate but also in the Northern Latitudes. Thus Norway has experienced a greater level of glaciation and erosion, rounding and lowering their mountain peeks. At the same time providing the stunning Norwegian Fjords that make that country so picturesque and beautiful. Mount McKinley no more... We now give praise and salute the Aleut people and Mount Denali, Alaska. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted April 3, 2016 Author Root Admin ID:1031215 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Time to get that sensor cleaned David Beautiful sites all around the World. Some amazing things to see Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted April 3, 2016 ID:1031221 Share Posted April 3, 2016 One amazing fact about Northern Norway is the mild weather, considering the high latitude. Sea temperature/currents take care of it. Would love to visit one day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted April 3, 2016 ID:1031236 Share Posted April 3, 2016 I believe that is due to the Gulf Stream. An Ocean Current that is born at the equator and the Caribbean and travels up along the Eastern US, Labrador Canada and Greenland branching North into the Norwegian Current. Is part of a greater system known as the Ocean Conveyor that brings equatorial energy into Northern Latitudes. Water has great strength and is shown in Hydrostatic, Hydraulic and Crystalline forces. Sea salinity interplays with the Hydrostatic force by changing water density. Cold Saline sinks while Warm Fresh rises which creates these conveyors and thus the transfer of energy from the equator to the poles. Scientists are worried about climatic changes because the ice stored in the poles is shrinking. This is fresh water and thus is changing the salinity of the oceans as well as effecting these ocean currents. There are some circles in climatology that believe that if too much fresh water is released into the oceans these currents will change and the North Atlantic conveyor bringing equatorial energy to Northern Europe can be dramatically altered making Western Europe much colder. References:http://science1.nasa.gov/earth-science/oceanography/physical-ocean/salinity/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Streamhttps://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es2403/es2403page04.cfmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Currenthttp://phys.org/news/2011-04-fresh-arctic-shift-gulf-stream.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Gyre Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondus Posted April 3, 2016 ID:1031262 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Yepp and because of this we sometimes get visitors that usually like hot water http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/fiskehistorier/fant-sverdfisk-i-laerdalselva/a/23285270/ http://www.nrk.no/sognogfjordane/fanga-sverdfisk-pa-film-1.11907783 http://www.nrk.no/ostlandssendingen/manefisk-i-oslofjorden-1.11873743 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondus Posted April 3, 2016 ID:1031265 Share Posted April 3, 2016 2 hours ago, Mark said: One amazing fact about Northern Norway is the mild weather, considering the high latitude. Sea temperature/currents take care of it. Would love to visit one day. At the coast yes but inland it is very different. Karasjok has the Norwegian record -51.4C below -30C is normal winter temp there brrrrrr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondus Posted April 3, 2016 ID:1031266 Share Posted April 3, 2016 And we just had visitors from US, learning to drive a Tank on ice https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/02/18/what-happens-when-marines-go-to-norway-the-fast-and-the-furious-on-ice-in-tanks/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted April 3, 2016 ID:1031269 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Tanks for posting that pondus. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted April 4, 2016 ID:1031434 Share Posted April 4, 2016 16 hours ago, pondus said: At the coast yes but inland it is very different. Karasjok has the Norwegian record -51.4C below -30C is normal winter temp there brrrrrr Actually that isn't so bad I'm at about 48° latitude, far away from big open water and our absolute low stands at -49,5C and we get quite a few -30Cs and below in the mornings (mid December to late Feb). The warm waters effect air masses for quite a distance, but there's nothing like warm water close by (coast) to keep you warm. The record low for Canada seems to have taken place in a little place called Snag, in the Yukon, sitting at *only* 62° latitude. haha, with a -63C (that's -81F folks). >>BRRRrrrrrr... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted April 4, 2016 ID:1031436 Share Posted April 4, 2016 16 hours ago, David H. Lipman said: Tanks for posting that pondus. Almost spilled coffee after reading that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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