Hello, Hank, it's Tuesday. So consistently at VidCon, I attempt to settle on truly great decisions. . . until Saturday evening,when I customarily praise the end of VidCon by taking an interest in a YouTube show called 'Lager and Board Games'. This year, there was a critical accentuation on the, uh, "lager" a portion of 'Brew and Board Games',so full exposure: I'm a tiny bit dim on the subtle elements of how this all went down. Semi-related story: I lost my camcorder so I have no VidCon footage, which is likewise why we're screwed over thanks to the old camera this week. Be that as it may, right, so after 'Brew and Board Games', I kept running into 'Moment Physics' Henry and 'More quick witted Every Day' Destin and 'CGP Gray'. . . Grey,and by one means or another, we got to discussing Iceland.
Hank, I am an immense enthusiast of Iceland!It just contains such a large number of things I adore: hot showers, an unrealistically great football group, Björk, and so forth. There's truly simply the one issue with Iceland, which, y'know, is that it's found. . . in Iceland. Like, Sarah and I went to Iceland in August of 2008 and we went on this transport visit, and our visit guide, perusing from his script, said with no irony:"Iceland may have "ice" in its name, however as should be obvious, the climate is entirely gentle here year-round. Maybe we ought to switch names with Greenland.
Ha. ". And after that we got that off the transport and that August evening it was maybe a large portion of a degree above solidifying. What's more, in light of the wailing winds, the downpour (it was, obviously, raining) seemed, by all accounts, to be coming up from the ground,which, for the record, was not green, it was cocoa, by virtue of it being as of late dried magma. So alright, the four of us talked about issue one - the "Iceland being in Iceland" issue - for a tiny bit, and after that we turned to an apparently inconsequential problem,which is that at present, there is no helpful halfway point on the Atlantic side between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia. Like, on the Pacific side, you have Hawaii or in case you're feeling brave, the Cook Islands, yet on the Atlantic side, basically nothing.
Until, that is, we migrate Iceland!Our proposition, Hank, is to move Iceland from *here*, where it is always raining and retching magma to, say, *here*,where it would be a flawless ceasing point between mainlands. Brisk side note, Hank: I sincerely think in the event that we'd had a superior found Iceland in the principal place,humans likely would have had before and more powerful exchange between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia,which thus, may have alleviated a portion of the revulsions of the Colombian Exchange, both on a human and a biodiversity level. Along these lines, y'know, not to condemn plate tectonics or anything, but rather I think this could have been taken care of better from the beginning!That said, the world is the thing that it is, or possibly it was until we figured out how to assemble islands. Right, so we framed a coalition to make 'New Iceland', a country with: 1.
Extraordinary climate; 2. Björk; and 3. Obviously a superior soccer group than England has. Besides, 4: it's exclusive a two-hour flight from New York, Madrid or Marrakesh. Destin doled out Henry with the employment of really moving Iceland, which, y'know, I'm not a researcher but rather it can't be that difficult. I figure we simply get a major tugboat or something and pull it south!CGP Gray was given the occupation of planning a banner for New Iceland, Destin relegated himself something doing with rockets,and I was tasked with the political issue of getting the general population of Iceland to consent to move their nation, y'know,about 3,000 miles South-southwest of its present area. So here we go: individuals of Iceland! Hi. You may have seen that your country is extremely frosty and blustery in the winter, and after that. . .
exceptionally frosty and stormy in the mid year. Additionally, recall in January when the sun ascended at twelve, or rather would have risen on the off chance that it weren't unendingly overcast?I'd like to take care of those issues and give you shorelines, warmth, daylight and happiness, all while permitting you to keep your Björk. So whaddaya say, Iceland? I envision you're going to say "no"; that you like your nation where it is in spite of its geological inadequacies. Perhaps that says something in regards to Icelanders or possibly it says something in regards to change; that hazardous and lovely constrain that drives and characterizes the universe. Still, I'm trusting you'll say "yes", since I could truly utilize a get-away in sunny New Iceland. Hank, congrats on an awesome VidCon. I'll see you on Friday.
