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OT: The News Thread

MindzEye said:
A million of them.

Also, despite wehaves say so, it's still popular with international vacationers and expats, just not as popular as places like vallarta, cancun/Mayan riviera.
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I'm told that Acapulco is still popular among German and Central/Eastern European tourists. But it's hard to find many packages on Canadian travel websites that feature it. PV, Mazatlan, Cabo, and Cancun are where it's at now.
 
Acapulco is an easy connection from DFMX, so makes sense for euros. For us there are piles of direct flights to vallarta or cancun so it's a harder location to get to compared to those.
 
I lived on the coast for a long time and we routinely got the remains of expiring cat 1/tropical depressions. Based on that, I wouldn’t want any part of a cat 5.
 
manny said:
My contrary take is that even if the community is overrun by drugs and not such a popular tourist destination, it’s still an incredible tragedy.

And we can mock building codes and all that, but a storm that strong would destroy anything. What happens if/when a cat 5 hits Halifax?
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yeah we’d be just as fucked I imagine.
 
lecoqsportif said:
I lived on the coast for a long time and we routinely got the remains of expiring cat 1/tropical depressions. Based on that, I wouldn’t want any part of a cat 5.
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Yeah Fiona was a cat 1 or 2 when it made landfall and we’re still recovering a year later. Cat 5 would be catastrophic.
 
MindzEye said:
Acapulco is an easy connection from DFMX, so makes sense for euros. For us there are piles of direct flights to vallarta or cancun so it's a harder location to get to compared to those.
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Back in 1973 when my parents went, they flew from Toronto to Mexico City then had to take an old Viscount propeller plane from there to Acapulco.
 
Orcas being tired of our shit and deciding we're assholes (which we are) would make a whole lot of the Ocean a whole lot more dangerous than it already is.
 
Unfortunately team orca would eventually lose as the asshole humans would just make them endangered or extinct. Bet on it.
 
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The Strange Effect 9/11 Had on the Whale Population

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For years, as the New York Times reported, we’ve known that whales “communicate with acoustic signals at low frequency, the range of many noises from ships” and that “whales move off, reduce their own calls and otherwise respond to ship noise.” Some researchers believed that whales were moving away because ship noise caused them stress, but there was no good way to test this theory. Incredibly, the 9/11 data provided a rare insight into the question.

When whales get stressed, they release a hormone that, ultimately, they excrete in their feces. Because researchers were collecting the poop on 9/11 and the days previous and subsequent, the science community had data on the relative stress levels of the Bay of Fundy whales during that time. What it shows is that the whales were pretty relaxed on the days after the attack—or, at least, more relaxed than they were in the days prior.
 
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