John J Filson

POPULATION GROWTH …will it continue, can it. All of the Predictions Agree on One Thing: Humanity Peaks Soon There are many opinions on world population growth, whether it's sustainable, whether we can overcome the limits. The NYT today, in an opinion... nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@USAMaritimeX @CoastieMedium So potentially, the leadership in Galveston should be good. It all comes down to workforce recruiting & training. Given our present government, I'm wondering if enough capable training staff (Canadian/Finn) would be allowed to do training. The rest is equipment: all imported.

@USAMaritimeX @CoastieMedium I did a lot of work with Finns in the 90s, especially the yards in Turku & Pori. They built several SPAR towers (each ~20,000 mt steel) for major Gulf platforms: beautifully done hull work. As for the Canadians, a number of them from the St Lawrence sphere had word for me; 👍👍.

Let's build some ships! Excited to get over to Helsinki this summer to develop this program!

The Crescent Moon by Montague Dawson

@DanDavisWrites Seima Turbino was indeed highly diverse, including multiple sources. – The Rostovka (ROT) individuals had 1xR1b, 1xN1a, 2xC2a, 2xR1a, 2xQ1b. Combining ANE-rich WSHG locals with ANE-rich Altai hunter-gatherers, EHGs, Steppe_MLBA, Yakutia_LNBA and Mongolia_North_N ancestries:

Seima Turbino was not a single or simple ethnic group but a mixed population or multiple populations with varying degrees of West and East Eurasian autosomal DNA and haplogroups. Their Y haplogroups ie male lineages included R1a and R1b, as well as eastern / Siberian ones like Q1b Sintashta culture people mixed with Siberian people even during the Sintashta period, and if I remember this correctly, all Sintashta males were R1a other than one or two who were Q1b. This shows the mixing between these populations on the steppe even in about 2000 BC.

@ChrisStringer65 @Qafzeh @NHM_London @NHM_Anthro I still remember mine. Thanks for greeting us.

#FossilFriday @NHM_London @NHM_Anthro Our Human Evolution exhibition has a million visitors a year, with originals such as the Clacton spear, Cheddar Man, and the Kabwe and Gibraltar Neanderthal fossils..

🚂 The Japanese train that is still turned by hand 🇯🇵 The Botchan Train in Matsuyama may look like a tiny steam locomotive, but today it is a diesel-powered replica of the historic Iyo Railway trains. At the end of the line, the crew still turns it by hand before it heads back through the city. Video: @hi_ace200 #JapanRail #BotchanTrain #RailwayHistory

@LTDManagement There is a historical parallel to drones. Bronze was the tech of the Bronze Age. Only the wealthy nations could afford it. Hardening of iron to weapons grade became easy & cheap like drones. It killed Mediterranean trade,

@JJFilson Battleships are so out-dated. Drones, aircraft carriers, subs, destroyers.

Trump Battleship Plans Unveiled in Shipbuilding Report. Battleships? I thought Pearl Harbor established the military value of battleships. gcaptain.com/details-of-tru…

@844useonly Before digital photography, there was as much yellow of kodachrome boxes on Sherman Hill as there was Armour Yellow on the rails.

Perkins, WY on the Transcontinental Railroad near Sherman Hill.

@Kurt_Steiner Sorry Kurt, you don't go back far enough. The adds went: "WESTERN AIRLINES .....The Owwwwnly Way To Fly!" It went on for years: avgeekery.com/remembering-we… Being in the Midwest, you may have missed this pleasure; they delivered.

Summer break is upon us…

Skiing in Japan? Maybe that will become a thing?

@HiddenHistoryYT Whereas USS Tuscaloosa made it through WWII essentially unscathed, USS Quincy met her fate 3 years later, along with 2 sisters & an Australian cruiser during the 1st night defending our Guadalcanal landings. They still lie in the depths of Iron Bottom Sound. ~1000 sailors died.

USS Quincy (foreground) and USS Tuscaloosa (background) preparing to enter the Strait of Magellan from the Atlantic Ocean, 14 May 1939

From shipyard to sea in just moments: Relive this milestone captured by @IrvingShipbuild in Halifax. 🚢 The CCGS Donjek, our new Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship, will join our fleet later this year—stay tuned!

@CoastieMedium @USAMaritimeX ...been a better choice, perhaps Ingleside, even Brownsville. PI will be competing against the Houston job market, living cost, & everything else. Shipbuilding is no match for that. 4 of my drilling units were built on the ship channel (Channelview) & it was tough competition.

@CoastieMedium @USAMaritimeX I would like to see that (Pelican Is) happen. However, one with a long career in shipbuilding going back to the 50s on the W Coast, I spent 34 years building floating offshore rigs on the Gulf Coast & know well the siting problems. I'm skeptical. Beaumont/PortArthur may have...

A true master photographer, a visual time machine for scenes in the US & Canada, visions long gone now, yet indelible.

@USAMaritimeX @CoastieMedium There is a "yard" there, but it is really a "repair yard", once run by Todd (see image). Aside from whatever was built there in WWII, there's never been a ship built there. Pelican Is is a particularly soft clay/silt/sand mix & would require many deep piles to build a real ship.

@CoastieMedium Dang, I’m jealous. Would love to visit that yard!

Millennial-scale Atlantic overturning circulation led by the Southern Ocean nature.com/articles/s4156…