A patent lodged in 2016 by Boeing for an fire control system comprising an artillery shell full of fire retardant that gets fired at a fire. Designed to be fired by existing 203mm guns, i.e. howitzers.
Oskar Johanson
@ojohanson.bsky.social
Designer and writer | Doctoral fellow at the Climate Rights project, NTNU with a focus on bushfire smoke, visual culture, and the law
Deeply misguided to talk this way. Casting wildfires as an enemy has been the M.O. for governments and insurers for a very long time - fire has always been a force to be 'fought'. Many surplus WWII aircraft went directly into service for forestry agencies.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoWe need a wartime mindset to fight the threat of wildfires | Seth Klein
Remote sensing in Georgian England. From Airopaidia, a narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester by Thomas Baldwin, 1786.
In hindsight it is very obvious that as models improve and the simulation of (and even attribution of agency to) wildfires becomes possible that this data would be immediately become the basis for gambling. www.wired.com/story/predic...
Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town
Wildfire survivors call fire-prediction markets “morally reprehensible” and worry they could increase the risk of arson.
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#Breaking It appears that several cruise ships are attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz at this time.
Heatherwick here suggesting that if you run out of 19th century industrial buildings to turn into shopping centres, just start synthesising them.
Architects' Journal@news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 11mo agoHeatherwick Studio and Manica Architecture have revealed their designs for Birmingham City FC’s new stadium, featuring 12 chimney-like roof supports
The phone theory of urbanism
Alison Killing@alisonkilling.bsky.social · 11mo agoNEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?
Ships are so often prostheses; see the Bibby Stockholm as an extension of the British immigration-carceral system; Carnival cruises ships at APEC 2018 as as extension of the fortified hotel compound; the aircraft carrier as four acres of 'sovereign' US or British territory moved to a theatre of war.
The Architectural Review@social.architectural-review.com · 2y agoThese power ships are floating plug-in energy plants that Karadeniz to leases to various countries, including Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Indonesia and Ghana. Günel’s essay explores the geopolitical implications of this ephemeral infrastructure, which extends power far beyond the nation’s borders.
Wild that large vessels like this are still deliberately scuttled and then called "reefs", as if by being sent beneath the sea they suddenly start to accord to a natural order
CNN@cnn.com · 2y agoAfter months of multiple delays, the SS United States finally left its longtime home of Philadelphia. The storied ocean liner’s next stop is Mobile, Alabama, where it will be prepared for its final mission — to become an artificial reef off the coast of the Florida Panhandle.
Gesturing wildly: "—are you supportive of these onesies?"
Between @tavlin.bsky.social's n+1 article on the Typical Netflix Movie (TNM) and @lizpelly.bsky.social's Harper's article on Spotify's Perfect Fit Content (PFC), it's looking bleak folks
Thinking about the fact that as mapmaking developed maps started to show less information, not more.
