Resolution Guyot, formerly known as Huevo, is a guyot (tablemount) in
the underwater Mid-Pacific Mountains. It is a circular flat mountain,
rising 500 metres (1,600 ft) above the seafloor to a depth of about
1,320 metres (4,330 ft), with a summit platform 35 kilometres (22 mi)
wide. The Mid-Pacific Mountains lie west of Hawaii and northeast of the
Marshall Islands, but at the time of its formation the guyot was located
in the Southern Hemisphere, by a hotspot in today's French Polynesia.
Plate tectonics shifted it to its present-day location, and the Easter,
Marquesas, Pitcairn and Society hotspots may have been involved in the
formation of Resolution Guyot. Volcanic activity has been dated to have
occurred 107 to 129 million years ago and formed a volcanic island that
was subsequently flattened by erosion. The platform emerged above sea
level at one point before eventually drowning for reasons still unknown,
with thermal subsidence lowering it further to its present depth.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_Guyot>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1659:
Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town, produced the first
bottle of South African wine (vineyard pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_wine>
1913:
New York City's Grand Central Terminal, the world's largest
train station by number of platforms, opened immediately after midnight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal>
1942:
The first act of the Norwegian resistance movement took place
with the bombing of Oslo East Station by the Osvald Group to protest the
inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osvald_Group>
2009:
Omid, Iran's first domestically made satellite, was
successfully launched from Semnan Space Center.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
retrofit:
1. (transitive)
2. To supply (a device, structure, etc.) with new components or parts
that were not previously available or installed; to modernize.
3. To add or substitute (new components or parts) that were not
previously available for or installed in a device, structure, etc.
4. (computing) Synonym of backport (“to retroactively supply to (a
previous version of a software product) a fix, or a new feature, at the
same time or after supplying it to the current version; to retroactively
supply (a fix or a new feature) to a previous version of a software
product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version”)
5. (figuratively) To give new characteristics or make alterations (to
someone or something) to suit them to changed circumstances.
6. (intransitive) To supply a device, structure, etc., with new
components or parts that were not previously available or installed.
7. An act of supplying a device, structure, etc., with new components or
parts that were not previously available or installed; a retrofitting.
8. A change made to a device, structure, etc., by introducing components
or parts that were not previously available or installed.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/retrofit>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I like to see a man of advancing years throwing caution to the
wind. It's inspiring in a way.
--Groundhog Day
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_%28film%29>
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