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I'm reading Jason Lutes' Berlin. I love these drawings. And ... I love Love and Rockets. And ... Genshiken. I think I'm beginning to see the pattern. It's the place where draughtsmanship meets cartooning that I love. Look at the car in the panel in the lower right. Draughtsmanship. Look at the little spiral behind the back fender. Cartooning. Love.
Douglas
Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg have been constructing versions of their reliable Black Brant rocket since 1959 and are presently up to the Black Brant XII. NASA fires off about a dozen of the suborbital sounding rockets per year from Wallops Island, White Sands, Poker Flats in Alaska, or Andoya in northern Norway, oftentimes with the Black Brant as part of a three or four stage launch vehicle. In September 1959 the Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment began to test the Black Brant at Fort Churchill, Manitoba, on Hudson Bay, and quickly exceeded an altitude of 100 km, the unofficial edge of space. Hence the shock in 1989 when the headquarters of the new Canadian Space Agency was placed in Montreal.
Sedimentary rock in the Victoria Crater, Mars, photographed by the rover Opportunity.
During a glacial maximum the increased amount of water locked up in ice shields results in lower sea levels, which in some places like Atlantic Canada makes for some pretty interesting geography. This map of the area c 11,000 BC shows most of the Maritimes and Newfoundland still under ice, but with large ice-free islands exposed on the Scotian Shelf and Grand Banks and a major iceberg calving channel running through the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
This Geological Survey of Canada site has a series of maps covering the changes from 20,000 to 12,000 years ago, plus a sea-levels animation that pits rising water against rebounding land in a multi-millennial turf war. [Stephen Harper took it down.]
[This site for the Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre has two sets of maps showing regional deglaciation and Minas Basin deglaciation.]
with the right-wing union-busting mayor when the gay shopkeepers want you to go fuck yourself. (Source.)