14/11/19

[Maik]

Greece’s Astra Airlines cancels flights

Greek regional Astra Airlines has not operated any flights since Nov. 9, as a result of financial problems.

Astra Airlines operates mainly domestic services within Greece and has planned flights for the coming winter schedule from Athens and Thessaloniki to Chios, Samos, Mytilene, Kozani- Kastoria, Limnos-Ikaria, Heraklion and Kos. It also operated several regional flights within Europe.

https://atwonline.com/airlines/greece-s-astra-airlines-cancels-flights

[Maik]

Broadband in Greece is slow and expensive

Internet users’ landline connections in Greece are among the slowest and most expensive in the European Union, a study has shown.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/246447/article/ekathimerini/business/broadband-in-greece-is-slow-and-expensive

[Maik]

For autonomous cars, ancient Greece is the word

The problem is that the civilian satellite navigation system as implemented in most cars has wiggle room; it’s only accurate to about 10 metres.

Fortunately, a state-of-the-art technology upgrade is on its way. Surprisingly, delivery of more accurate mapping will also depend on the ancient science of geodesy, born in ancient Greece from the struggle to decide between Homer’s view that the world was flat and Pythagoras’s view that it was spherical.

Today we know that Pythagoras was right, but our planet is far from being a perfect sphere. And it has another quirk that bodes poorly for the twenty-first century’s needs for precision satellite navigation. The continents don’t stay put.

https://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/2019/08/opinion-for-autonomous-cars-ancient-greece-is-the-word

[Maik]

‘Dark Tourism’ on Central Macedonia Stakeholders Agenda

Central Macedonia and Thessaloniki tourism stakeholders explored ways to tap into “dark tourism”...

Also known as black tourism or grief tourism, the evolving form creates travel products out of sites historically associated with death and tragedy.

Thessaloniki Mayor Konstantinos Zervas said that the northern port city has throughout history been a location of agony and due to this can become an international symbol.

The idea behind dark tourism, Zervas said, is to offer “a deeper knowledge of the human geography of a location, with the errors, failures, and even atrocities committed, while at the same time revealing all the negative factors that marked the lives of the city’s inhabitants so that these are never again repeated”.

https://news.gtp.gr/2019/11/11/dark-tourism-central-macedonia-stakeholders-agenda


 

[Maik]

Argostoli police Tuesday evening arrested a local juvenile for theft of 2,000€ from a periptero. Child's father considered for prosecution for failure to exercise adequate supervision.