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Burning Man...not so burning this year.
Thousands still stuck in the muck at Burning Man festival; 1 death reported
QuoteBLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada − Authorities on Sunday were investigating a death at the sprawling, mud-caked Burning Man festival while more than 70,000 attendees were told to shelter in place and conserve food, fuel and water amid heavy rains that made driving out of the swampy desert venue almost impossible.
The Pershing County Sheriff's Office said the death occurred "during this rain event" but offered no details, including the person's identity.
"As this death is still under investigation, there is no further information available at this time," the sheriff's office said.
The vast majority of attendees appeared to be well-sheltered, with adequate food and water, and none of the more than 20 people interviewed by USA TODAY expressed concern about their well-being.
Some camps were handing out coffee, blueberry pancakes and mimosas, as is tradition, while others quietly dismantled their tents and other structures, normal activity for the Sunday before Labor Day at Burning Man.
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Y'all just missed the departure of the 2 year cruise recreating Darwin's trip on the HMS Beagle.
https://darwin200.com/globalvoyage/
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I am guessing someone on this board knows this contestant on The Golden Bachelor.
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Necro bump. Seems relevant to this thread.
A group of radioactive boars are trotting through Europe
QuoteA group of radioactive boars are trotting through Europe
They may not be three-eyed, but not even Mr. Burns would want to eat these pigs.
Encountering a radioactive wild boar in the dark forests of Germany isn’t top of everyone’s bucket list. But, while their populations have been soaring in Europe, it’s not meeting, but rather eating them, that you need to worry about. That’s because they contain unsafe radioactive cesium (a liquid metal).
Their mysteriously high radioactivity levels have been puzzling scientists. Now we know why their radioactivity won’t go away.
The shaggy, tusked pigs roaming around the forests of Germany and Austria were thought to have been made radioactive by the 1986 Chernobyl accident. In fact, scientists from the Vienna University of Technology, in Austria, now show that Oppenheimer-style nuclear weapons testing is responsible for their long-lasting radioactivity.
“We were stunned to see that the nuclear weapons fallout still impacts the ecosystem to such great extent”, the paper’s corresponding authors Dr Georg Steinhauser and Dr. Bin Feng told BBC Science Focus.
When nuclear weapons explode or nuclear energy is produced, radioactive cesium is created. When it enters the environment, it can threaten human health – and did just this when the Chernobyl power plant exploded in Ukraine almost four decades ago.
But the study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, shows that the radioactive contamination affecting the boars was also caused by atmospheric nuclear weapons testing by nations across the world in the 1950s and 1960s.
Both events contaminated the radioactive boars’ food sources, including underground truffles.
Cesium-137 used to be present in other game animals, but these levels have dropped. However, the boars are plagued by cesium-135, a longer-lived form of the radioactive metal.
The scientists measured cesium levels in boar meat from southern Germany using a gamma-ray detector. They compared levels of cesium-135 and -137 using a mass spectrometer (a tool used to measure the charge of ions) to find out where the radioactivity came from.
The researchers knew that detecting a higher ratio of -135 than -137 would indicate more fallout from nuclear weapons explosions rather than nuclear reactors – and that’s what they found. Across the samples, between 10 to 68 per cent of the contamination came from nuclear weapons testing.
Eighty-eight per cent of the meat samples exceeded safe levels of radioactivity in food.
“It is a cautionary tale that the long-forgotten atmospheric nuclear weapons tests and their fallout still cast a shadow on the environment,” Steinhauser and Feng told BBC Science Focus. “Just because they took place 60 years ago doesn’t mean that they no longer impact the ecosystem.”
May or may not be relevant.
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On 8/25/2023 at 3:06 PM, Jerry Callo said:
I have my road bike set up on a fluid trainer in the study. Got back on it July 1 and road every day with the Tour. Still riding 4-5 days a week. No real riding goals right now, which makes it a little hard to train harder - it was much different when I was regularly doing triathlons. I'd like to ride Conquer the Coast next year, but that is about the only thing I have tentatively planned.
Looking for recommendation for indoor training app. Needs to work with android and Garmin.
Your post reminded me to look up registration for this year's Conquer the Coast. The ride is on September 16 this year. The ride must be more popular than I realized because registration for the 66 mile ride around the bay as of today is $110. I mean, a chance to ride the ferry and see such scenic locales as Portland, Ingleside, and Aransas Pass, not to mention lovely south Corpus? Who wouldn't drop a c-note for that opportunity? Hell, they are asking $50 just for the 10 mile kiddie ride.
https://eventdog.com/a/eventpage.php?eID=58214&refData=2023CTC
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12 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:
This banger came on the other day in the car, forgot to post when I got home.
I have always been partial to Sk8er Boi myself.
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3 hours ago, hornian said:
So does the "new" horn not have afternoon shows?
I am using TuneIn in my car, because the signal is crap. In the morning its Erin and Rod Baber's show, which is actually fine, and honestly, and upgrade from B&E.
But at lunch, it's Jim Rome (I think), and in the afternoon 4:00 hour, it's some national show when I use the TuneIn app to listen to the Horn.
Rome 11a-2p
Rich Eisen 2p-5p
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One hit wonder from the 2000s. Sort of a proto-Taylor Swift type of song. At least that is what it sounds like to me.
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1 minute ago, G650 said:
I legitimately love this song, ridiculously catchy
You have a band of siblings, 3 very attractive sisters and 1 brother. Do you think the brother minds that no one pays any attention to him or remembers that he is in the band, or do you think he enjoys being out of the spotlight and undoubtedly pulling some nice tail because of his sisters?
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https://7collection.com/products/good-day-for-a-slurpee®-can-cooler
Unfortunately not sized for your tallboy cans but if you need something like your koozie in your original post 7-11 has got you covered.
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A few weeks after the fact, but RAGBRAI was overall a great ride. I apologize for bringing the heat with me from south Texas up to Iowa during the week of the ride. I probably will not make it a yearly thing but will definitely look into doing it again in a few years.
I managed to do the following on the ride, which I assume are standard Iowa and RAGBRAI practices:
a) take a leak in a corn field
b) shower in a car wash
c) drink a Busch Light out of a corn-themed can while showering in a car wash
d) consume more pork in a week than in the previous 3 months combined (I just don't eat a lot of pork these days for whatever reason)
e) get ticketed by the Iowa State Patrol in either Tama or Toledo for riding my bike at night with no lights (seriously, couldn't get a warning? Also, had some of the blandest Mexican food I have ever had in my life in Tama/Toledo. Y'all need to get some jalapeno plants up there stat.)
f) sleep in the parking lot of a chicken processing plant in Storm Lake
Probably a few other standard Iowa/RAGBRAI things I did that I am forgetting. Got to say that some of the best ice cream I have ever had was from the Beekman's trailer.
The only concert I went to was The Pork Tornados. Only because of the name. No way was I passing up seeing a band called The Pork Tornados. Fun cover band.
Really enjoyed going through all of the small towns and seeing seemingly everyone turn out to show support and/or separate us from our cash.
I was pleasantly surprised by the high number of milfs I saw when rolling through Ankeny.
It sure seemed like the route hit every hill in Iowa. I had it in my mind that Iowa was a little flatter than that.
All in all I am definitely glad I did the ride.
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I don't know if this song fits in this thread exactly but I really like it for some reason. Maybe it is simply the presence of Natasha Bedingfield in the video.
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Atlas Obscura might have some ideas on places to visit that would interest you.
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14 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!
Lollygaggers.
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Headed to the area here in a few weeks. Any updates to the recommendations in this thread? Cannot wait to get up there.
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23 hours ago, TonyTexas said:
Why are Koreans so dominant in women’s golf? It's weird and unexpected.
I think you can credit/blame Se Ri Pak for that. This generation of female Korean golfers is a direct result of her dominance of the LPGA at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s. Plus South Korea, like a lot of other countries in Europe and Asia, has a strong and well-established national program for elite junior golfers.
From Wikipedia, so you know it is true:
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On 7/1/2023 at 10:12 PM, Brisketexan said:
I’d pay him $250 to show up to my funeral and play Baby Got Back on the bagpipes. $300 if he shows up unannounced.How about these bagpipe players? Would having them show up at your funeral be something in which you might be interested?
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4 hours ago, Steel Shank said:
I'm all like "who the fuck is Trevor Knight?".
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I hope everyone has a happy and safe Bobby Bonilla Day today.
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4 hours ago, Covri said:
/Door flies open
Today I learned that [Door Flies Open] is a thing.
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2 hours ago, Native Horn said:
I wanna kiss Suzy Kolber.
I really enjoyed Kissing Suzy Kolber back in the wild west days of the sports blogosphere.
the fuck's going on at Burning Man?
in Daily Texan
Posted · Edited by ScottS
probably Nevada state police not tribal police
Should have known that this year's Burning Man would be messed up. Climate idiots blocked the one road in when everyone was arriving. Nevada Rangers weren't putting up with that bullshit.