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Re:The Coolest Library on Earth by andrewl on Monday June 19, 2023 @10:28AM (#36391439)
I didn’t know what to expect, but I love libraries, so I clicked the link. Those who are not interested in reading about a traditional library might also like this article, as it’s not about a traditional library. The subhead is “At the University of Copenhagen, researchers store ice cores that hold the keys to Earth’s climate past and future.”

It starts with:

In a narrow aisle of shelves packed with cardboard boxes, Jørgen Peder Steffensen grins like a mischievous child unwrapping a holiday present as he pulls out a plastic-wrapped hunk of ice from a box marked Keep Frozen.

The bag of ice contains the transition from 1 BCE to 1 CE, he says. “That means we have the real Christmas snow.”

Re:The Coolest Library on Earth by dmccarty on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:13AM (#36391991)
> “That means we have the real Christmas snow.”

Well, maybe, but not likely. They have the snow from a well-intended but arbitrary chronological switchover.

Now if they have snow from 6 - 4 BCE[1], then it's likely they have first Christmas snow/ice. (Not that anyone in Bethlehem saw it!)

[1] Or "BC," since we're talking bout the reason for the designation after all.

Re:The Coolest Library on Earth by kuhewa on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:14AM (#36400001)
They probably have that too.