On another note, I did a cross-country road trip across Canada many years ago. I loved it, and people were so nice everywhere, except in Edmonton, Alberta. The people there walked around with sneers and seemed to be suspicious of all visitors, like me. I won't ever be back in Edmonton for sure. Calgary, on the other hand, was super nice and the people friendly.
The fact that leadership was even seriously considering abandoning one of the worlds best public pension funds is indicative of how short term greed is killing the province.
Almost every other news outlet in Canada has a definite slant and actively endorse one political party.
In that landscape, an outlet that’s truly neutral is an outlier and would _appear_ biased.
(And that’s not even getting in to how it would look next to a lot of the US “news” many people consume.)
For my money, the CBC gets a lot of shit not because of bias or political activism, but because they’re one of few news outlets (certainly big ones) that _isn’t_ actively espousing a particular viewpoint. When you already own the entire media landscape, that makes it a bit of a thorn in the side.
Unless you are counting Postmedia's 130 different brands as independent news outlets, that is quite an exaggeration. Torstar and Postmedia tend to endorse a party, as do a few other small newspapers you've probably never heard of, but that's about the extent of it. There are a lot more news outlets than that. Significantly, broadcasters, which includes the CBC, most certainly do not endorse a political party as doing so would be a clear violation of the Broadcasting Act.
This is far more true of national programming, but even for the local stations the reporter tend to come off as “my sht does stink”
I love how he almost gave up fishing.
Still safe to drink, just not a preseved example of whatever it was originally.
Destroying 3 out of 6 of something is a terrible custodial record. Especially the other 2 after they already had the 1st explode.
It gives all non-professionals a bad name and gives elitist professionals ammo against anyone but themselves daring to dig or explore or even be interested in anything without a license.
no, it doesn't. perhaps the cork seal was tight enough to not let water pass, but helium could get through. The lake water pressure and very trace amounts of helium in the water would slowly increase the pressure in the bottle due to helium infiltration.
of course other "air" molecules might make it in, H2 or N2 (i'm not an expert on the size of N2)
I don't think it it was a custodial relationship- it was basically trash
Exactly. Just like Al Capones vaults. They just needed to wait a few several hundred more years. Then they could do the custodial thing.
Maybe if they start a foundation now they can make sure nobody forgets about it until they can make bank with the historicity.
I would also pay a publicist to create this historical record
I'm sure that would give a few YouTubers some ideas. "Submerged for almost 90 years, will it run?"
This is what an intact one looks like: https://www.flickr.com/photos/carphotosbyrichard/51802374832
More seriously, I did actually live just an hour south of there briefly. Northern Ontario is a big place.
Now that I live in the USA it's... weird. I moved from 1 city to the next city. 7 hours away.
than Calais (France) from Paris (France)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/rw4jd...
Check out a map of California.
Latitude of San Diego ("Southern California"): 32.7°
Latitude of San Jose ("Northern California"): 37.3°
Latitude of Crescent City ("doesn't count"): 41.8°
"Northern California" is pretty close to being dead in the center of the state, as far as north-south goes.
Then when the bottles were rapidly taken back to 1 atm of pressure, the pressure inside pushed out the corks (it had less to push against than its old equalibrium). Going more slowly almost certainly would have helped (allowed it to equalize slowly, potentially without failing), but I'm not sure if that would have meant hours or months. I'm also not sure how well the contents will have survived regardless.
I'm also thinking that the cork probably also degraded some over the years, just becoming weaker and needing less to dislodge/break it.
Beer, wine or champagne you'd assume it kept fermenting. Whisky rye is distilled and the alcohol is too high so not this.
The temperature differences will cause the pressure in the bottle to have changed each season, maybe the air was absorbed into the liquid, like you carbonate beer.
Then with water ingress and a weaken cork it popped, then it bubbled out at the surface.
"went back later with some fellow divers, going down 15 metres"
At 15 metres, the pressure is 2.5 × the surface pressure.Pressure at the surface is 1 bar, and fresh water pressure increases at 1 bar per 10 metres. 15 metres = 2.5 bar
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Restoring really old, rare cars means paying for custom part manufacturing. Or having your own machine shop. There are still parts for 1957 Chevys, but a 1929 REO, no.
I know that judging the past by the morals of the present is a fashionable but pretty much everyone in 1929 found oil on the road far preferable to horse excrement.
Today the law would make the owner remove the car but the laws back then apply which didn't require that expense.
I don't know Canadian law at all, but I would guess things can be abandoned, but it is tricky and not automatic. When a car is abandoned in it is generally a several month process of trying to find the owners before they declare it abandoned (my cousin had a car stolen in Minnesota - it was found abandoned in Mexico and they gave him instructions on how to get it - in his case the cost to recover was more than it was worth but the point is they went through a lot of effort to find him). Particularly in cases like this if any family member wants to they can argue they just couldn't figure out how to get it out of the water but they wanted it all along.
There’s abandonment in the sense of “I don’t want this thing anymore. It’s no longer mine.” and in the sense of “This thing is abandoned, it’s mine now.”
We have the latter but not the former.
Ownership of something allows you exclusive rights to exploit it for gain… but also puts on you exclusive responsibility for it. Nobody minds if you don’t want the benefits anymore, but we want someone responsible for managing that thing’s impact on society and others.
So you can’t just decide to abandon things (*offer not valid in Quebec). You are the owner until someone else chooses to take on the responsibilities of ownership.
But in a case where there are multiple competing claims of ownership, abandonment is a consideration. If someone else wants ownership of something you’ve practically abandoned, they can take it and the court may agree that they have become the owner.
(Though usual disclaimer about lawyers being expensive.)
But the thing _always_ has and had an owner—someone responsible for it. Nothing is ever unowned (*offer valid in Quebec).