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SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Nusa on April 21, 2020, 08:38:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on April 21, 2020, 08:21:53 pm ---I'm just looking up every day at our freakish clear blue sky. From the garden. This is not normal for England.

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Pollution levels are way down nearly everywhere with traffic and industry shut down. That may have something to do with it. Nice as that is, it won't last once things start up again.

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Indeed.... but yes this is nice. It's particularly noticeable in areas that are extremely polluted of course (like in India). In some regions, people can actually see things in the landscape they had never been able to see before. Kind of sad in a way, because yes, this positive part of the crisis is likely one that is going not to last for very long, whereas other parts, like travel restriction, are likely to last a lot longer.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: james_s on April 22, 2020, 01:47:16 am ---This thing spreads so quietly and so easily and has such a long incubation time that by the time you realize anything is wrong the shit really hits the fan and loads of people end up sick. It doesn't work to just keep doing things as usual until you start having a worrying number of sick people, by then it's too late and huge numbers have already been exposed.

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Yes. The long incubation time (up to 2 weeks, but it's suspected to be up to 3 weeks, although currently specialists think the 3-week cases are re-infection cases, but we still don't know for sure) is a major problem. It makes this virus very "sneaky" and hard to deal with, because of the long latency. And between the first symptoms and the detection, that can still be a while.

paulca:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 22, 2020, 11:13:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: Nusa on April 21, 2020, 08:38:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on April 21, 2020, 08:21:53 pm ---I'm just looking up every day at our freakish clear blue sky. From the garden. This is not normal for England.

--- End quote ---

Pollution levels are way down nearly everywhere with traffic and industry shut down. That may have something to do with it. Nice as that is, it won't last once things start up again.

--- End quote ---

Indeed.... but yes this is nice. It's particularly noticeable in areas that are extremely polluted of course (like in India). In some regions, people can actually see things in the landscape they had never been able to see before. Kind of sad in a way, because yes, this positive part of the crisis is likely one that is going not to last for very long, whereas other parts, like travel restriction, are likely to last a lot longer.

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Living on the East coast of Northern Ireland (Belfast Lough shore), I can usually see Scotland on a clear day.  It's about 40-50 miles away.   Usually it's only a soft blurry silhouette on the horizon line.

On Tuesday i looked out the window and could see much more of the coast of Scotland and beyond to the mountains behind it.

I got my old Lumix camera with a 10x optical zoom and had a quick look and could see individual buildings and ships along the coast!  Though I think the ships where closer.

With the naked eye I could make out the wind turbines on some of the hills.

bd139:
It's like that in London. If you get to a high vantage point you can see much further than usual. Getting some decent photos as well as there is less ambient pollution at sunset.

paulca:

--- Quote from: bd139 on April 23, 2020, 08:23:10 am ---It's like that in London. If you get to a high vantage point you can see much further than usual. Getting some decent photos as well as there is less ambient pollution at sunset.

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Flat Earthers will have a field day posting rubbish curve calculation videos.

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