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Comment "1 and 2 meters higher" ?? (Score 1) 111

I often visit the everglades. 2 meters would be a mountain in the everglades. When walking through the tree islands (called "hammocks" or "heads") I don't recall seeing anything this high in the everglades at all. There are differences in elevation, yes, and they do affect or reflect differences in plant species. But you're mostly talking about a difference of a few inches. Certainly not meters. The park guides always point out how the hardwood hammocks occur in areas maybe a few inches higher than the sawgrass prairie.... maybe a meter if you're comparing their elevation to the floor of a slough...

Comment Projected dates of last two volumes (Score 1) 279

As several have noted, Dances with Dragons is only the 5th of the projected 7 volumes. The last two are still out there.

I plugged in the values of the publication dates of the series so far into an excel spreadsheet and used the forecast function to predict the final two release dates:

publication history, tossed it into excel, and then used the forecast function to predict the next two release dates.

note - this looked a lot better before my tags were stripped out

# Title Published Days Months Years
1 A Game of Thrones Aug-96 0 0.00 0.00
2 A Clash of Kings Nov-98 822 27.40 2.25
3 A Storm of Swords Aug-00 639 21.30 1.75
4 A Feast for Crows Oct-05 1887 62.90 5.17
5 A Dance with Dragons Jul-11 2099 69.97 5.75
6 The Winds of Winter ? 2668 88.94 7.31 (projected)
7 A Dream of Spring ? 3169 105.63 8.68 (projected)


So plugging that in... We can expect Winds of Winter on the 20th of October in 2018.... And a Dream of Spring on the 24th of July 2027.

Comment Amber Alerts: Corwin (Score 3, Interesting) 205

Corwin was last seen after the patternfall war heading for a social function in the Courts of Chaos. He was wearing his typical black and silver garb with a rose boorch, and his blade Grayswandir. If you have any information on his whereabouts please contact Random.

Caine - Caine was last seen walking down a street in Kashfa, heading to a coffee shop. He was wearing black and green, with a rakish hat and feather, and had his jeweled daggers. Note - he has been known to fake dissappearances before.

Fiona - Fiona was last seen in Amber the night Merlin returned, at the main dinner. There are unconfirmed reports that she was later seen at a nightclub in rural upstate New York, and stole a small sedan from a parking lot there. She was wearing a green and lavender dress.

Bleys - Bleys has also been missing since the night Fiona vanished in Amber, they may have left together. Since there a man matching his description was seen on security camera footage selling several expensive rings in a pawn shop in Las Vegas. He was wearing a snazzy red and orange blazer.

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