Category: Other cool stuff
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Why does the wind always come from the front and is hard work when cycling?
To distract myself from the annoyance of the headwind, I spend some time thinking about why it is so annoying. The first thing to notice is that there are far more headwind than tailwind trips. This is due to the fact that one si going forward, so wind from the side also feels like a…
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Endurance
My bike will be 15 years old in June, but it has already reached a milestone today: 100,000 km. For this I sat on the bike for 4340 hours (about half a year) and was on the road 3154 days. (By now it should be clear that I like numbers.) Only 522 times was the…
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The life under our feet
I find geology interesting, especially how slowly the earth (has) changed. Hence the many time-lapse videos, even though they can only cover much shorter periods of time. The stone in the photo is debris from a tunnel construction and contains so many fossilised ammonites. These lived 240 million years ago (Triassic – shell limestone) in…
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Moon halo 2022
I didn’t visit the moon (but would be up for it), and instead wanted to share the image of the moon halo I could taken recently in the garden. It’s an effect created by millions of ice particles in the atmosphere. More on my professional page: https://ronnyerrmann.uk/2022/03/15/moon-halo-22-halo/
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