Eh, maybe? It’s part of the fantasy-world-is-real trope. A spiritual successor to Narnia, but with adult characters. Or a predecessor to something like The Magicians. If you like these sorts of books, where the real world is part of the setting, then it may appeal. It’s almost Isekai.

Honestly though, I’ve forgotten most of it. It’s a “read once” book.

Read “Fred the Vampire Accountant” instead ;)

Hey now, I actually loved the back third of that book ;)

Cat doesn’t do ebooks ;)

In my particular case, the purpose was testing the equipment over a target that I can use to confirm it is working as expected.

But GPR in concrete can be used for all the purposes you mention. It can also be used to find voids, verify “as-built” drawings, etc. Some of our clients use it simply to avoid drilling into rebar when installing anchor bolts for shelving or whatever.

My background isn’t concrete, so I don’t do the more advanced things with it :)

Create a TV Tropes page for it and it’ll live forever as Canadian Warehouse Sci-Fi.

Could sort of just go through this list and see what fits haha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_TV_and_radio_shows_produced_in_Canada#Live_action_science_fiction_television_drama_series

Cleopatra 2525 is just something

Funny story.

Two decades years ago, when I first started working in arctic exploration, we were limited to how much weight we could take with us to our exploration camps. Most of us would decided on a couple of books to bring with us. But I didn’t want to bring books I wouldn’t like, because then I’ve wasted my weight allowance. So I brought that gold-coloured LotR copy with me and read it over and over, year over year. Probably read it at least once a summer for seven consecutive years. Sometimes in environments even more desolate than Mordor. Imagine reading it here.

Later, I got a kindle and the weight problem sort of went away.

My gawd, you’ve entirely ruined my enjoyment of this cucumber.

I’ve watched about half of that list. Well, when I run out of Grand Star episodes, I guess I have more warehouses to explore then haha.

To contrast this, see Vancouver sci fi, like the X Files, SG1, Smallville, The 100, Dark Angel, BSG, etc…

Or Halifax with… Lexx ;)

This is barely a joke. There are real sets like this.https://www.electronicbeats.net/sleepover-drone-is-the-ambient-rave-that-wants-to-put-you-to-sleep/

This is one of my favourites: https://phase47.bandcamp.com/album/tf

Indubitably

I can haz book?

Neufeld’s von Braun book is great! It doesn’t pull any ethical punches – it’s almost clinical in the treatment of his early career opportunism within the Nazi regime.

The bottom shelves are dedicated more to rocket science than human spaceflight, generally, which is why I don’t have Hadfield’s book. I met him once though. I did grad school in Planetary Science and got to meet quite a few astronauts and have a few beers.

Wavey line is rebar – the radar reflections take the shape of hyperbola as you pass over them. Bottom of the concrete is just below the rebar (those hyperbola overprint it a bit, so it’s harder to see). Then it’s crushed rock fill (probably limestone) until the two metre mark.

I really loved things like Eros station docks in The Expanse. So yeah it fits this vibe haha. :)

Forward slash doesn’t throw a mental syntax error? ;)

What is the plural of mail? ;)

https://numerical.recipes/

The current version is in C++

But if you check the link above, the older C and Fortran editions are free to read. This is the gold standard for numerical algorithms and scientific computing, without getting into things like GPUs and such.

Outer Worlds. Colourful corporate dystopian. Purpleberry Crunch!

This would never stand up in the US (or Canada or Europe…) as prior art would completely invalidate the patent. But the Japanese patent system is it’s own opaque legal monster.