Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Yosheel But it was a blood moon, and it was VERY visible. The day before, it already started to become a little darker/more red in color, so last Friday was the full, blood red moon.

And you missed it?

@Yosheel Yeah, go ahead, rub it in, why don't you?

Haha yeah. But anyway if the moon was all red and pretty a telescope would've totally given a better closer look at it. So there's that.

When there's no moon in the sky then other things get more visible. That's what I was getting to.

@Yosheel That's true. Your analogy was slightly off, though: the moon is not a spotlight, but a reflector...

It's more under the spotlight than the spotlight itself.

@Yosheel You DO know it's Sunday, right?
Stop confusing my still slightly inebriated brain with weird sentences...

It will all make sense in due time.

At the peak of the blood moon in the land of the cold summer, a door opens in the sky to reveal the path of enlightenment.

@Yosheel Cannot.... compute.... must.... ignore.... head... feels... like... exploding....

@ThanosReXXX Right, Amsterdam, you probably live in flat on the fifteenth floor. In that case it would've beeen very visible!

@Yosheel I did see some amateur pictures with a cheap telescope of Jupiter and its moons yesterday. I don't think you can normally see those with cheap equipment.

@Octane It's Amsterdam, not New York or Tokyo...
I live on the fourth floor of a six storey canal-side apartment building. Balcony hangs over the water, and I'm in walking distance of the city center. The moon hangs over the canal here almost every night, so from my balcony, it's quite easy to see.

@ThanosReXXX I know, I'm only kidding The ''skyline'' of Amsterdam is pretty disappointing!

@Octane Depends on what you're looking for. Me, I'm not really a fan of skyscrapers, or most other concrete, steel and glass constructions, bar the exception of something aesthetically pleasing or constructively marvelous...

I have grown REALLY fond of the water ways and the old canal-side streets, that wind their way through the city. And so many buildings in the city simply ooze history and tradition. It's an atmosphere that is almost tangible,
like you can feel it, when you walk past them.

@ThanosReXXX Yeah for sure, it's better than having the gherkin in your backyard. I've lived in one of those 70's concrete Soviet flats in the beautiful city of Ede for a while. I'm glad I'm out of that place lol!

Thinking about it, any building of significant size would probably either sink into the ground or require some technological marvel to keep it standing in Amsterdam.

Six stories is pretty tall for me...

The tallest building in my town is like four floors high. And it looks terrible. No windows at all.

@Octane Aha, Ede. I've actually served there. As a citizen, with a Dutch passport, I had to go into the army, because back then, it was still an obligation. Nowadays, the Dutch army and special forces all consist of professionals or volunteers. The country side was okay, lots of foresty areas, but the city was kinda meh..

Amsterdam does have quite a few large buildings, though, but mostly in the industrial and/or business areas. So think banks and other corporations, and it also has a World Trade Center office.

And they simply jam a lot of concrete poles into the ground, or make re-bar platforms/constructs, before building on it. And all waterways have been dammed in/cut off, so only surface and sea water is of any influence, but the Dutch are quite famous for being able to handle those kinds of problems.

@Yosheel That actually sounds kinda sad. Wouldn't want to be living there, although the country itself is something that is still most definitely on my bucket list.

Anyways, guys, dinner time, so see you all later...

Oh well it's worth mentioning this building is not an apartment building, I don't think anybody actually lives there. I think it's the offices and storage of the clothes shop in the ground floor.

I also live in the least inhabited state of Mexico, in a small city in the middle of a desert in the middle of a peninsula. There's regular modern cities with tall apartment buildings in other areas of the country.

Though to be honest it's a really good tourist spot. We have whale watching, beaches surrounding most of the state, easy access to the worlds loveliest gulf, ancient cave paintings, criminals only shot each other, etc. All those nice things.

@ThanosReXXX When I lived there, I saw military helicopters and planes on a daily basis. They're still using that place.

I'm sure there's a cost vs value trade off, where it's exponentially more expensive to put down one tall building instead of a bunch of smaller ones. Especially the apartment buildings, since they're tied to a renting price, and they usually need to make their money back in a certain amount of years.

@Octane: Here you go.

@Yosheel: If I'm thinking of the right state, isn't Cabo San Lucas a big thing there?

I was actually there just earlier.

It's not super hot with local tourists, it's more of a thing for foreign tourists with more money than sense. But it is certainly pretty.

San Jose del Cabo (the other Cabo) and Todos Santos are more cultural and just as pretty.

I personally prefer La Paz. It's a bit less Americanized.

Go up north and you have Santa Rosalia, a French influenced mining town, and Loreto, a nice traditional Mexican town with a focus on tourism.