Saying we can go to other stars because we went to the moon,is like saying we can swim the pacific,because I took a bath.

The Maori name for the North Island of NZ is Te Ika-a-Māui (the fish of Maui). Apparently the "fishing up island" bit was quite a hit in the pacific, 'cos he did it several times

Ha. That's Pacific Coast Highway at Newport Blvd in Newport Beach, CA. Just drove past there earlier today.

Not surprising.

It was 90 degrees here in the Pacific NW -- when usually a hot hot day is 80.

I needed to imagine some snow!

Thanks for the promote.

Yes. I think all the successful landings have used Of course I still love you. According to Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia, Just Read the Instructions is based in the Pacific for launches from Vendenberg and most of the recent launches have been from Cape Canaveral.

I would watch a Pacific Rim anime, even if it would basically just be watching Evangelion again. I want to watch Evangelion again.

*promote *quality artistic craftsmanship from the Pacific NorthWET!

Ah, Pacifica. I used to work in the area and would head there on my lunch break. Grab a sandwich from the deli at Safeway and sit on the beach watching the waves roll in while I ate. Water is cold as fuck though. I made the mistake of paddling out without a wetsuit one summer during a heatwave and got hypothermia even though the air temp was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

They've always had problems with erosion there, so this is kinda unsurprising to me. There's really nothing they can do. In the video you can see PCH (Highway 1, the Pacific Coast Highway) and I wonder how many years it'll be before the erosion is creeping up to that point. I know that just south of Pacifica they've had to close PCH a couple of times to shore up the road because it was in danger of collapsing, and during rain storms it sometimes gets closed due to landslides from the hills next to it.

September 1982, Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver. One of my favourite concerts, awesome showman. Freddie threw his mic stick into the audience at the end and beaned some poor girl.

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New, just released ocean temperature data has shown a dramatic increase in temperatures in the Northern Pacific, and a dramatic decrease in surface temperatures in the Northern Atlantic. As I understand it, those readings are not consistent with normal 'El Nino' patterns. Could this be the beginning of the end of thermohaline circulation? If that happens we'll be facing unavoidable, unpredictable, worldwide, disastrous climate change in short order.
Without the current created by the thermohaline circulations, the oceans die. Equatorial waters become much hotter...fast...and arctic and Antarctic waters become much colder...fast. Ocean organisms can't live through that kind of change, not in any sizeable way anyway. Without the oceans, the entire food web dissolves and we die.
On top of that, without the currents bringing oxygen to the lower oceans, they become anoxic. The bacteria that live in those deep waters will feed on the dead sea life and create toxic gases (hydrogen sulfide) which have, in the past, completed the extinction events by wiping out nearly all life. Once that starts, it's unstoppable and is the end. Let's hope these readings are just an over active El Nino.

What we do today has little to no effect for 50-100 years. That makes us at least 50 years too late to solve this problem, and we are still exacerbating it rather than solving it to this day.
We're hosed.
If you plan on having children in this climate, you are a child abuser IMO, and are adding to the problem with that one action more than almost any other action normal people perform. Your children will most likely not survive to old age, and absolutely won't experience the same quality of life you have.

The Navy Frogmen surveying the islands in the Pacific to prepare for the Marines amphib landings left it on signs ashore. My father saw them on Tarawa, Tinian, Saipan, and Okinawa.

the division of the oceans is pretty arbitrary and not very useful day to day - people know the pacific vs atlantic side of their island

Fixed that for you