Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites

Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by joemaller1 on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:27AM (#21247966)

TIL there's a place called the Firth of Clyde

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by philjohn on Monday October 14, 2019 @06:01PM (#21253356)

Also Firth of Forth - home of the famous bridge that needs constant painting (or at least, did, until they developed a special paint).

Flying into Edinburgh on a clear day when circling over the Forth is spectacular.

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by hrnnnnnn on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:38AM (#21248086)

And on the east coast we have the Firth of Forth

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by smcl on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:42AM (#21248129)

And of course up in the north, the Moray Firth :-)

I wonder if there's anything referred to as "Firth" in a non-Scotland place, perhaps up in Canada or in NZ?

update: yes (in England, Germany, NZ and Antarctica)! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firth#English_firths

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by arethuza on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:01AM (#21248352)

And a bit further north there is the Pentland Firth which, of course, is nowhere near the Pentlands!

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by smackay on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:20AM (#21248545)

From wikipedia:

The name is presumed to be a corruption of the Old Norse "Petlandsfjörð",[1] meaning "the fjord of Pictland", and is completely unrelated to the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentland_Firth

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by growlist on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:40AM (#21249477)

And for the ladies, there's Colin Firth.

downvotes?! no sense of humour.

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by smcl on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:14PM (#21252984)

That's a totally legit Firth, IMO

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by gabiruh on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:54AM (#21248259)

Yeah. That’s pure Dog-whistle politics.

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by dooglius on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:08AM (#21248418)

Can anyone explain...?

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by gabiruh on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:18AM (#21249192)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics

By saying that they can scan buried ancient sites it resonates to the "enemy" that they can see everything it is trying to hide.

What, at a first glance, may sound like celebrating science is just warfare.

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by dooglius on Monday October 14, 2019 @12:09PM (#21249796)

I know what the term "dog-whistle" means. The parent comment you responded to is "TIL there's a place called the Firth of Clyde", what is the dog whistle in that name?

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