The day of the abandoned swimming pools

[hirez]

I can't work out if a blanket ban on air travel over the UK is a Wyndham or Ballard trope.

A bit of both, I think.

It would be a strange old world if it lasted a while.

Comments

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

The technical term would be "Wyndard". :o)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Surely that was the chap who played Jason King.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

It was a bit surreal travelling home from work and hearing tannoy announcements about transport disruptions due to volcanic ash!

Also, a sky without contrails.

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

The last eruption of [this volcano] in the 19th century lasted two years. (http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/04/15/iceland-volcano-stops-european-flights/)

Mr. Hawkes-Reed, about this idea you had for suspending aeroplanes from rails...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Isn't it.

Well, y'know. Stopped clocks and all that.

[steer.livejournal.com]

It had better not last a while as I am already sick of being in Spain and am booked on a jet boat tour of canary wharf on Saturday.

[jendama.livejournal.com]

I am hoping it all blows over, so to speak. I guess I should have considered that trans-Atlantic boat ride after all . . .

Though, if we can at least get over there, I'm all for it continuing so that we cannot leave! The world should have thanks for volcanoes. Where would we be if Indonesia's Tambora volcano did not erupt and force Mary Shelley's Geneva vacation to be indoors where she then became inspired to write "Frankenstein"?

[badnewswade.livejournal.com]

Apparently the contrails are REALLY bad for the environment - to the point where they seriously affect the weather - so as far as I'm concerned, the fuckers should all be grounded indefinitely.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2002/05/52512

(NB - this is not the same as the bollox "chemtrails" conspiracy theory)

This helps put it into perspective a bit

[jendama.livejournal.com]

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/planes-or-volcano/