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pantone159

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  1. And as we can see here, the destroyer DD Cole, is a boat, not a ship.
  2. Isn't there some 'pickling' process where steel gets dumped into phosphoric acid or something to remove the rust?
  3. Then we will get the blessed relief of August. Ahhhh....
  4. I'm still pissed that Shiner Bock isn't $3.55 per six-pack like it was back in the 80's/early 90's.
  5. I can read the Threads no problem without an Instagram or FB account. I was a little worried about that part, I can't usually see links to either.
  6. A couple of weeks I added this commemorative banknote from Ukraine, which I bought from a seller there. It took a couple of weeks to get here (no surprise) but arrived fine.
  7. Yep. Sensors show something that imploded, triangulate its position, then send an ROV deep down and find it. And you didn't plan any of this so it tests how well you can do all that quick with no warning.
  8. What if what that guys says is a superposition of 50% saying "quantum" and 50% times square root of -1 saying "muledick"???
  9. Rep entirely as this post fucking deserved.
  10. Cleopatra's children with Marc Antony were not massacred. They were taken to Rome and paraded through the streets in chains, but then they were raised by Octavian's sister, who had an orphanage of sort for royal connected children. Her daughter with Antony, Cleopatra Selene, ended up marrying Juba and becoming queen of Mauritania, a Rome client state in North Africa. I don't count becoming a Queen as being massacred.
  11. I like this version, as it is also pro-snek.
  12. Unfortunately metal foil will not block magnetic fields. Electrical fields, radio signals, light, yes, but magnetic fields no. Magnetic field shielding is expensive.
  13. Well it is called the 'work function' not the 'working function', and it is not the fundamental basis of quantum mechanics, though it did feature prominently in Einstein's famous paper back in 1905, so I call this debunking as debunked. But it is true that 60 hz radiation cannot destroy biological molecules the same way as e.g. xrays or gamma rays. In the case of xrays ('ionizing radiation') the electromagnetic chunks (photons/quanta) have a large amount of energy, enough so if they interact with a biological molecule, they can blast it apart, which causes a variety of bad things. But the quanta from 60 hz radiation will have an extremely low amount of energy, and one photon by itself is not going to do anything to a specific biomolecule.
  14. Sounds like a great trip, I have wanted to do something like that. In a previous, and now hardly imaginable world, I would have added Saint Petersburg to that itinerary. I have heard that the ferry rides across the Baltic involve large amount of drunkenness, but I have never been there to check.
  15. I no longer have any worries that Elon is capable of getting something like that done. So there is that.
  16. Could the front end be less fully developed, since it is a juvenile? My vague sense in walking past this guy was that the head made it look like a young-un. But I am not a snake naturalist so I don't really know anything.
  17. Found this guy enjoying Joshua Tree National Park. Is it a juvenile? It was about 2 feet long.
  18. The couple who used to own Hawkeye Point (the Sterlers?) had a reputation for being very friendly to state highpoint collectors, so I give it good vibes. When I visited almost 20 years ago the husband had passed but the wife still owned the property, but everyone was welcome to visit. My parents had both been to Ocheydan Mound (which was for a time thought to be the Iowa highpoint) so I went there too, and collected several ticks. Most all of the western state highpoints do have really great views, as you would expect. But once you set yourself to visiting all the state highpoints, you will go faaaar out of your way for even sillier places. (Ebright Azimuth DE, aka road intersection, holla!)
  19. Don't miss Iowa! Guadalupe Peak is one of my favorite of the US state highpoints. The views are very cool and pretty varied as you hike up. It can definitely be windy, so be prepared for that, but otherwise it is an easy hike, besides the moderate elevation gain.
  20. The Chinese have this figured out. They have lots of banknotes for the afterlife, known as 'Hell Money'. You can even get them on eBay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_money
  21. Day 3 actually sounds harder than Day 2, just be prepared to be pretty worn out, but that may be ok for you. I have climbed Guadalupe Peak and driven back to Austin the same day, so it is possible, but I do not recommend that schedule. There is snow up there sometimes, but that probably won't be much of a problem on the GP trail. Fwiw, Carlsbad NM is as close (or closer) to Guadalupe Peak NP as Van Horn is. Carlsbad is not much of a town but Van Horn is not either. (Though Van Horn does have the Chuy's with the shrine to John Madden, who was still going the last time I was there, I suspect his table is still waiting for him though.)
  22. Well, that is literally what that means. Come and take it!!!
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