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Yes, by now.But it wouldn’t have happened until quite late in the 20th century, as you’d need space-rated technologies to pull it off.Here’s some maps and discussion, as in order to discuss the ascent, we need to know what Olympus Mons would look like if it were on the Earth.Let’s start with a view of Olympus Mons on Mars, with rather more verticality than it would have in real life, but still helpful for showing its general shape…Image: ’The Martian’ FandomAs you can see, Olympus Mons is a monstrous “dome” with a skirt of cliffs around its base. There are a few areas without cliffs, but where there are cliffs, they are up to 7000 meters or 23000 feet high when measured from the plain.And here’s a basic but useful topomap with lines every 2000 meters in elevation. Note that the 0 elevation in the topomap is the base plain, not “sea level” or the Martian datum, so the elevation indicated is the total elevation of the mountain.Image: Live from Mars - Teacher's GuideMokupuni o Nā Akua, or Isle of the GodsLet’s say that our Olympus Mons is somewhere in the Pacific, so it’s starting at the Abyssal plain about 6000 meters or 20,000 feet below sea level, and rises to about 16,000 meters or 52,000 feet above sea level.Although it’s profoundly unlikely that a mountain the size of Olympus Mons could exist on Earth due to its sheer weight, if it did, a mid-ocean location would be the most likely place for it to be, as this would minimize the chance that plate tectonics and other factors on Earth would disturb it during the several tens of millions of years it would need in order to grow to its full size.Depending on the latitude that our island is at, it’s just below or well above the Stratosphere at the top of its dome.Let’s assume our island is somewhere near the latitude of the primary Hawaiian islands…The odd dome shape of our island would result in it having an area of rather lush forest-land or jungle on its windward side, with desert on its leeward side. There would be a significant population at the lower elevations, and it would certainly be a major center of Polynesian civilization.Vegetation would start to disappear at about 3000 meters or 10,000 feet above sea level, with permanent snow and glaciation above 5000 meters or 16,500 feet.8000 meters above sea level is the death zone for humans without pressure suits.The dome is so high that there will be sort of concentric rings or belts of different Biomes all the way up. It would start with tropical (we’re near Hawaii, after all), transition through alpine, then arctic, then arctic/alpine desert, then whole new biomes would need to be invented for places that are devoid of life or nearly so. My guess is somewhere around the 9000 meter or 31000 foot level, snow and ice will rapidly diminish, and be completely gone by about 11000 meters or 36,000 feet.Now, we’re truly in the realm of power, where only gods - and possibly super-tough Lichen and maybe a few Tardigrades and extremophile bacteria - can survive.This area is still physically very large, as the slope of the mountain is so shallow. I couldn’t make an exact calculation, but my guess is the area at 11000 meters (17000 meters in the above topomap) or above is about 150,000 square km, or about the size of the state of Georgia. It’s approximately round, and you’d still have something like 220 km to go - as the SR-71 flies - once you got to 11000 meters before you reached the top.The caldera itself is 80 km or 49 miles across at its widest point.Image: New Atlas - SR-71’s may well train by flying mapping missions over the top of Olympus Mons.Air pressure at the 11000 meter level, assuming -40C temperature, would be 14781 pascals: Air Pressure at Altitude Calculator. Air pressure at the 16000 meter level would be 5138 pascals. Air pressure at sea level and with a 30C temperature appropriate to somewhere near Hawaii would be 101325 pascals, and it’s 32000 pascals at the top of Everest.Or - to phrase things differently - you’d be above 95% of the Earth’s atmosphere by weight at the top.So, to actually summit Olympus Mons on The Isle of the Gods, you’ll need not only a pressure suit - possibly a full space-suit if you wanted to spend any time outside - but most likely a near-vacuum-rated rover with a fully independent supply of air, water, power, and supplies capable of traveling several hundred kilometers at altitude.Image: 3D illustration of a space roverSuch an expedition would take several weeks. You’re so high and will spend so much time there that you’d also need decent radiation shielding. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the early rovers at least were powered by on-board nuclear reactors similar to those used in submarines…So, my guess is humans would have summited by now, but it would have happened no earlier than the early Space Age, probably around 1960. In fact, it would make an excellent testing ground for technologies needed in the “Space Race”.Ascending Olympus Mons - even on Earth - isn’t mountaineering. It’s a trip into space.One other aspect of Isle of the Gods is it couldn’t even be fully mapped until the age of satellites. High-altitude balloons capable of overflight would have discovered the caldera and the impact craters at the top in the mid 1930s: Flight altitude record. Until then, maps would show a Here be dragons void at the top…An interesting question is would someone actually attempt to build an airport at altitude above the glacier level, and create a sort of “base-camp” for testing the various technologies that could be tested and exercised there? It would be a sort of McMurdo Station in the sky.I’d guess that landing on a runway at 12000 meters or a bit above 39000 feet above sea level or so could be interesting, but that taking off could be even more interesting…If such a base of operations was built and could be reasonably supplied, there would certainly be telescopes built there as well; a vast, open view of the sky above almost all of Earth’s atmosphere and with basically no weather would be too hard for astronomers to pass up.Here’s another post I did on climbing Olympus Mons (on Mars): Greg Kemnitz's answer to What would it be like to climb Olympus Mons?Update: lots of good discussion in the comments, so some comments of my own:Yes, an Olympus Mons on Earth would make an awesome spaceport, and “anchor point” for a space elevator, especially if it was in a tropical location.One point I kinda skirted above but should be mentioned with more force is Olympus Mons on Earth would have huge ice-sheets at its “middle elevation”, even in the tropics. My guess is these would ring the entire mountain, but be thinnest and probably most easily dealt with on the “desert side” of the island. Other than the challenges of supply at the “vacuum level”, getting on top of and past these ice-sheets may be the toughest part of the initial ascent, and would be an ongoing challenge to supplying and maintaining large-scale facilities at the top of the mountain.

Ooooooh, great question! 😀 “The Lakes" is, by far, one of my favorite tracks on “Folklore". The song itself is full of double meanings and clever wordplay that can make it difficult to follow if you're not paying close attention. Let's have a look at the lyrics, shall we? There's aloooot to unpack, so we can break things down verse by verse.Isn't it romantic how all my elegiesEulogize me?This first verse is a very somber start to an equally somber song. An “elegy" is defined as a “poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead". Pretty much every track on “Folklore" (including this one) is based around the idea of serious reflections and storytelling. So, you could call the album itself an “elegy".She goes on to say that her elegies “eulogize her". To “eulogize someone" means “to praise highly in speech or writing", typically after someone has died. Obviously, Taylor is not literally dying but the concept of death itself speaks of a kind of finality that all of us fear in one way or another. The purpose of a eulogy is to tell the story of someone's life after they have passed away so that they might be remembered a certain way by the people who were left behind.So, put as plainly as possible, Taylor is talking about how all the stories she's told about herself through her music and the stories (true and false) that have been told about her over the years, have guaranteed that she will be remembered by the world in some very specific ways, even after she's gone.I'm not cut out for all these cynical clonesThese hunters with cellphonesThis line is pretty cut and dry, in my opinion. Taylor is essentially calling out all the people in the press and on social media who have hounded her for years, especially where her love life is involved. “Cynical" means “distrusting or disparaging the motives of others”. She calls them “cynical clones" because her detractors are quick to dismiss her, her relationships and her love life as something “less than". Taylor once joked before a performance that the media has had a bizarre fascination with painting her as a “psycho serial dater girl". In fact, her song “Blank Space" was a very sarcastic response to that stereotype, but that's a story for a different answer.These people are “cynical clones” because they doubt and judge her for all the same (stupid) reasons. Millions of netizens were eager to jump on the “Taylor Swift Is Over” bandwagon in 2016 after Kim and Kanye West released a heavily edited video that made her look like a liar after Kanye humiliated her with his song “Famous" and she called him out for it. Of course, the truth came out eventually, like it always does. But the damage was done. “Clones", by definition, are unoriginal. They are carbon copies of a carbon copy of an original. They are followers who rely on trends and the creativity of others to decide what they like or believe, instead of thinking for themselves. Simply put, tons of netz are simple-minded followers who bash her just because that's the “cool” thing to do and Taylor is fed up with it.Take me to The Lakes, where all the poets went to dieThis is where the song really picks up with the hidden meanings and metaphors! This line refers to specific area in Northwest England called The Lake District where a bunch of the world's most renowned English poets lived. Some of the famous poets who lived in the Lake District are William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey among others. These three in particular were known as the “​Lake Poets”.These particular poets were also known as “The Romantics" for their influence in the Romantic Age of English literature. As if that wasn't clever enough, this line is also a callback to one of Taylor's songs from her “1989” album, called “The New Romantics". The centerpiece of the song (and one of my personal favorites) is a verse that goes,“Baby, we're the New RomanticsCome on, come along with me!Heartbreak is the national anthem, we sing it proudly!”The significance of this line relates back to The Lake Poets’ outspoken support of The French Revolution, which had a significant impact on the social and political discourse in England back in the 1790's. The French Revolution, which ultimately resulted in the executions of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, was caused by the widespread discontent and starvation of the French people. Heartbreak was their national anthem and they sang it proudly.“The Lakes" isn’t just referring to literal lakes. It's not talking about just one specific spot, it's the entire “Lake District" area in England (which is known to be a very “romantic” place, ironically) that Taylor wants to escape to, hoping to be free of all the “cynical clones" and all the drama in her life she never asked for.I don't belong, and my beloved, neither do youIn this verse, she's specifically talking to Joe Alwyn, her boyfriend of 4 years and speculated husband-to-be. Taylor doesn't feel that she “belongs" in the mainstream narrative anymore and neither does Joe.Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cryWindermere Lake is a popular tourist spot in England that is largely surrounded by the foothills of the Lake District, where the Poets lived and “went to die". William Wordsworth and William Blake, another famous poet from the English Romantic Age, were both born in the Lake District. Their love for nature showed through their works and served as a prominent theme throughout their careers. William Blake openly expressed his disdain for the chaos and corruption of the Industrial Revolution, even once referring to the Industrial Revolution as “dark Satanic mills". The Lake District was their escape from the filth and the noise of the city and now Taylor wants this place to be her escape too. To her, those peaks look like the perfect place to get away from all the noise and corruption in her life and cry in peace, if she needs to.I'm settin' off, but not without my museThis line is pretty self-explanatory, I think. Taylor expresses her determination to run away from it all, but she's not gonna run without Joe.What should be over burrowed under my skinIn heart-stopping waves of hurtIn this verse, Taylor says very plainly that “what should have been over" is still hurting her. It burrowed under her skin and still causes her so much pain, she describes it as “heart-stopping waves of hurt". The things that “should have been over" could refer to the emotional damage that she has suffered from all of the unhappy endings of past relationships, it could refer to the humilation of her very public “fall from grace" during the “Famous" scandal that Kimye caused, it could refer to personal issues going on in her life that we aren't aware of or all of these or a mix of all of these. Or none of these. Her point is that her past should be in the past, but it stays with her and that's extremely painful for her.I've come too far to watch some name-dropping sleazeThis is a direct dig at Scott Borschetta and Scooter Braun, who own Big Machine Records and all of Taylor's albums with the exception of “Lover", “Folklore" and “Evermore". Taylor joined Big Machine Records when she was 15 years old. At the time, she didn't understand that every piece of music she wrote would belong to her record label, not her. She begged for years to be allowed to buy all of her masters back, but Scott refused. Instead, he attempted to make her a “deal". She could have one old album back for every new one she released. He was essentially holding Taylor and her music hostage by forcing her to stay with Big Machine and make them more money instead of leaving for Universal Records, where she would be allowed to own the rights to every single word she wrote. Scott and Scooter have both name-dropped Taylor on multiple occasions for social media attention and she's clearly disgusted by both of them. And rightfully so.Tell me what are my words worthNow, this line is one of the first that really stood out in my mind. At first, I was stuck on the fact that Taylor said “what are my words worth" instead of “what my words are worth", which is how this would normally be phrased. But then I quickly realized that this was more wordplay. She meant “what are my words worth" as in “Wordsworth". As in, “William Wordsworth". Again, a double meaning! She's both outraged that the aforementioned “name-dropping sleaze" who stole her music tried to force her to pay an unreasonable price for her music (meaning, “he tried to tell her what her words are worth") and she's also referring William Wordsworth, one of “The Lakes".Take me to The Lakes, where all the poets went to dieI don't belong, and my beloved, neither do youThose Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cryI'm settin' off, but not without my museThese verses have already been explained, please see above. It's just a repeat of everything that she has expressed so far.I want auroras and sad proseTaylor says, “I want auroras" here in reference to the Aurora Borealis. The Aurora Borealis (or “The Northern Lights") are very prominent in the night sky above the Lake District. “Sad prose” is a secondary element to Romanticism. The Lake Poets were especially known for their talent for weaving a certain undertone of tragedy into their otherwise wistful writing. Taylor is clearly following in their footsteps in this way. The concept of running away with her Lover to a quiet, beautiful place in the English countryside is a very ‘romantic’ idea, but knowing that she's only running to get away from the painful parts of her life that continually torment her, is tragic.I want to watch wisteria growRight over my bare feet'Cause I haven't moved in yearsAnd I want you right hereHoly TRIPLE meanings, Batman! Wisteria is a type of flower commonly found in English gardens, keeping with the nature theme that the Lake Poets loved so much.Taylor is saying she wants to stay in this place where she feels at peace for so long, flowers start to grow over her feet because she hasn't moved in years and she wants Joe to stay by her side through every second. A very, very ‘romantic’ notion, don't you think?The third meaning to this line refers to the Wisteria itself, or more specifically what it represents. Wisteria is a “climbing plant". It grows up the sides of houses and, most commonly, garden gates and walls. Taylor's true songwriting genius shines when you realize that this is a reference to a song from her “Lover", called “Cruel Summer" where she talks about the emotional turmoil she felt in that first summer of her relationship with Joe. She says,“I snuck through the garden gateEvery night that summer, just to seal my fate"How much you wanna bet that there was Wisteria growing on the garden gate that summer? Of all the millions of species of flowers in the world, Taylor specifically picked Wisteria as part of her imagery and I think there's a reason for that. I think, for her, blooming Wisteria was a symbol of her blooming love for Joe and now she's essentially saying she wants his love to cover her. How sweet is that?A red rose grew up out of ice frozen groundWith no one around to tweet itTaylor's continual use of naturalistic imagery in this song really is breath-taking. This is another triple meaning and possibly the most beautiful out of all the verses in the song.Anyone who knows anything about roses, knows that extreme cold kills them very quickly. Roses can't survive, nevermind grow, out frozen ground. But here, she's using this rose as a metaphor for an extremely unlikely but beautiful love that grew from impossible circumstances.In her mind, her relationship with Joe is as much as a miracle as a rose growing out of frozen ground. This is her way of saying that, by all rights, this love she shares with Joe “shouldn't be possible" the same way a rose blossoming from ice shouldn't be possible. She is quite clearly deliriously in love with this man, to the point that she still questions how it even happened. It also gives credence to how special her relationship is to her because it's so extremely rare. As rare as a rose blooming in ice.The third meaning to this metaphor relates back to a song she wrote for her “Reputation” album called, “Dancing With Our Hands Tied". In this song, she says,“My love had been frozenDeep blue, but you painted me goldenCatch that? Her heart was the “frozen ground” she speaks of in “The Lakes". But something beautiful and absolutely unbelievable happened. True love found her despite all odds and she treasures it with everything she has. She adds the line, “with no one around to tweet about it" to highlight the fact that this love was able to grow healthy and strong because it was grown in private, away from all the prying eyes and judgments from the “cynical clones" who think they know her. They were wrong about absolutely everything they said about her love life and Joe is irrefutable proof of that.While I bathe in cliffside pools with my calamitous love“Cliffside pools" is probably a reference to the actual Windermere lakes that have already been referenced and she says she is bathing with her “calamitous love". Again, a reference to Joe. I believe she refers to him as her “calamitous love" because the events that lead up to her meeting and falling for him, were disastrous. They were earth-shattering for her. The world tried to “cancel" her over a lie she didn't tell, music that is a piece of her soul was stolen from her hands and she was also suffering from an eating disorder because excessive scrutiny from people who do nothing but point out her faults ultimately lead to her obsessively searching for “faults" in herself. She was starving herself and fainting after shows because she was so weak from lack of nutrition. But then Joe came along and changed absolutely everything while her entire world was falling down around her. Joe was “calamitous" because his love “shook" her to her very core as hard as any catastrophic earthquake could have.And insurmountable griefThe “insurmountable grief” that Taylor mentions here could be due to any number of life circumstances, including her mother (Andrea Swift) being diagnosed with a brain tumor. She talks about it in another song from “Lover" called, “Soon You'll Get Better", but we'll save the details about that for a different answer. There's also a bit of a twist to this because she says she's “bathing with her calamitous love and insurmountable grief" at the same time. When someone is especially bereaved or heartbroken, it's often said that they are “drowning in their sorrow". Taylor is not drowning in it, she's bathing in it. It's not killing her, but it's still always there and Joe is her saving grace through all of it. He’s probably one of the few parts of her life that helps her keep her head above water. Thank goodness for that.Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to dieI don't belong, and my beloved, neither do youThose Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cryI'm settin' off, but not without my museNo, not without youAnd here, the song ends with a refrain of the chorus and the soft sound of violins and squeaky guitar strings. If you've made all the way to the end of my little dissertation, congrats! You're a trooper. Gold star. 🌟 To sum up briefly everything that's been discussed here, “The Lakes” is simultaneously a song about Taylor's earnest desire to find a sense of peace and safety in an otherwise chaotic time while also celebrating the legacy of the legendary Lake Poets who have, no doubt, had a palpable impact on her life (as well as her music) at this point in time. It's about all the things the great poets wrote about: Love, grief, fear, pain and life with all of its' uncertainties. It's about her sincere wish to share her life and her love with someone who truly means more to her than anything. It's about her journey to find her way back to “self" after years and years of neverending nonsense. It's a bittersweet love letter to the man who has been there to hold Taylor's hand through some of the worst moments of her life and has loved her unconditionally. Together, they picked up all of eachother’s broken pieces and built a new little world of their own design that belongs to them and only them. 💗Hope this answer helped! Enjoy your day. 💜(Not For Reproduction — Please Don't Share Without Permission)

The computer is handy but sometime it's just not 'quick' enough to record music.I am a big fan of DAW but starting up can be slow, then you need to start up software, setup your session. Yes, you could have everything ready set to go. Which is great if you running a recording session but not for recording a song, especially when you just found a new great chord progression or melody.The best thing I found, for recording song (ideas) is the trusty old 4/8-multitrack recorder.They are the 'sketch pads' for "modern day" writers/artists, and some of these recording made it to actual album releases.I currently have a Tascam DP008EX and recommend it to any writer/musician.Things that I love:- It's portable! No need for a computer to record :)- Works both on power and AA-Batteries- 2x build in mic's, 2 xlr input (with Phantom) and 2x Line input- Auto saves/loads recent song when powering on/off- Stores files on SD card (Tascam does provide you with a small one but not big enough)You can only record 2 tracks at a time. which I think is good thing and makes you focus on the music/song.There is also a smaller version, the DP006, which is more portable and bit less features.You can find spec here:DP-008EX | TASCAMGet a nice condenser.There is a massive debate what type and brand you need and how much to spend.Do your home work on this and look what suits your need.Look into and 'some' of my fav brands/models: SE4400, Sontronics, Audio Technica, the KM84'sI recommend to get 1x Large and 1 or 2 Small condenser.Dynamic Mic'sA must have is the trusty ol' SM57 and SM58, it's always handy to have these in your mic locker.If you have money to spend get the classic Electrovox RE20 or Shure SM8.PreampYou can get by with the above, but an essential ingredient in the mix is a decent preamp.Brands to look into are: Golden AudioLocation Location LocationYes, I love recording in an intthe space is the will addSome you would need to add:Mic / Line Cables: Make sure the cables have the Neutrik use brand, these are the most solid connectorsHeadphones: Beyerdynamics/AKGMic stands: Solid and affordable ones are from K&M