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Geotripper
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Geotripper is a personal blog at geotripper.blogspot.com about science. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Why Did the Road Cross the San Andreas Fault? 21 Years of Geologic Change”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on the dangers of low-head dams, including the Dennett Dam, and on geography and field trips. One commenter cites a post as a source for a dam's history.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
News and views from the geologic realm
Most-linked posts?
- Why Did the Road Cross the San Andreas Fault? 21 Years of Geologic Change2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-08
What Hacker News says?
Indeed! According to that, The Dennett Dam drowned three people (between 2006 and 2009, so perhaps many more since it was built in 1933 and ruined in 1940). It's now been removed, and you can see when it's dry that it's about six feet tall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeCaEHsIa_U https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2018/08/damned-if-you-do-dam...
Comment linking /2018/08/damned-if-you-do-dam-damned-if-youwell.html
on “The Dangers of Low Head Dams (2019)”Submitted A Haunted Place: The Land Where a People Lost Their Culture as a story · 45 points
HN discussionThis is super interesting! For data quality nerdery: "there's no such thing as a string (without an encoding)", "there's no such thing as a timestamp (without a timezone)", and apparently for geo-data: There's no such thing as a location (without a relative, timestamped, chain of reference points). eg: 38°53′52″N 77°02′11″W (the white house), but needs a timestamp (eg: continental drift, san andreas fault: https://g…
Comment linking /2023/10/why-did-road-cross-san-andreas-fault-21.html
on “Mapping the Ionosphere with Phones”Submitted The San Andreas Fault is tearing this winery apart as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Did the Road Cross the San Andreas Fault? 21 Years of Geologic Change as a story · 2 points
HN discussion