Where I want to be buried

[dennilfloss]

I decided a few years ago that I would like to be buried on Bell Island, Newfoundland, the place where I did my M. Sc. research and a little more. I feel such a strong connection to that beautiful little island. Maybe I lived there in a former life, who knows?

Hopefully it won't have changed too much in about 60 years when I'll get killed by a jealous husband.

Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot)

 

[Zoltar]

If I have 60 years I want my body to be blasted into space.

 

[ltk007]

hahahaha, conception bay

 

[dennilfloss]

ltk007,

The ratio of women/men on this island was about 6/1 in 1980 because the guys would leave the island when they reached about 18 years old to go work on the mainland. The girls tended to remain. So when I went to do fieldwork there in 1981, I was seen as a ticket out of the island and swarmed by beautiful Irish-blooded godesses.

I Kissed A Girl (Jill Sobule)

 

[Zoltar]

Why'd you leave?

 

[Bakwetu]

Denis, do you ever go to Banks Island or Melville Island?

 

[ltk007]

Yeah, why leave only to go back after even viagra is useless?

 

[dennilfloss]

My fieldwork there was done after 2 summers. The father of one of the girls said he'd shoot me if I stepped on the island again. (I'll let you figure out why ). He did not appreciate the fact that I 'emancipated' his 19yo daughter (geologists are well known as the horniest scientists) and also filled her head with modern liberal ideas.

I went to do some research in southern Oregon and norther California.

Bakwetu,

No.

Hey Hey Hey Lolita (Joel Denis)

 

[Bakwetu]

Pity, I have heard that the western parts of these islands were ice free during the last glaciation and in these areas there is a rare lichen called Teloschistes arcticus (an endemic species that only grows there and on Banks peninsula). If so the geology would also be interesting, wouldn't it?

 

[warcleric]

My father has always said he wants to be cremated and a portion of his ashes are to be run through the carb of his 57 Chevy. I told him no way was I going to ruin a Chevy small block, I would find some ford to run them through if he really wanted that.

 

[dennilfloss]

The whole of Newfoundland is a geologist's paradise, containing parts of both Europe and North America. Some of it did remain ice free during the last glaciation and lots of the flora is still subarctic, particularly on the plateaux (e.g. Gros Morne Natioanl Park). There are no snakes in Newfoundland, The Rock.

Rockit (Herbie Hancock)

 

[toph99]

lol, Warcleric, your dad sounds like a true car nut

i want to be cremated then have my ashes dumped somewhere, don't really care where. either that or copy your dad in a way, and have mine run through the intake on my computer

 

[Bakwetu]

No snakes in the grass except you on a beaver trek, right? BTW Newfoundland is a younger name for Vínland, where the vikings encountered the "skrälingar" (indians) a thousand years ago.

 

[dennilfloss]

I've been to L'Anse-Aux-Meadows. Seen the Viking settlement (sorta...I was quite drunk when I went there during a field trip). The park was just starting back then.

When I Come Around (Green Day)

 

[Bakwetu]

Czar's relatives lived there once you know, I hope you didn't throw up in his forfathers living room or something Interesting thing you mentioned about more parts of Canada being ice free, do you know how much of it that was ice free (teloschistes is really a southern hemispheeric genus, so the occurence of T. arcticus is really interesting- it's also the only endemic species there, as far as I know)?

 

[dennilfloss]

Part of northern BC and Yukon was also ice free because it was a desert. No precipitations-->no snow-->no glaciers.

Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice)

 

[Bakwetu]

Sorry to be plaguing you with this, but do you know if these desert like conditions were unique for Canada. I'm asking because T. arcticus has not been found in Russia, where there have been ice free areas as well?

 

[Bakwetu]

Dang, I'm stupid-ignore my last reply. As I said before Teloschistes probably came from the south of Gondwanaland spreading northwards before the glaciations. It is much easier to spread via the landbridge between south America and North america than spreading from Australia over the sea to the mainland of Asia (this is probably the reason they only got one Teloschistes species, whereas North america got four), Still T. arcticus seems to be a relict species, not beiong able to spread more than to Banks peninsula on mainland Canada since the glaciation.