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pantone159

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  1. I suspect that NASA is really desperate for some alternative to Elon Musk and they really really wanted another option, and so Starliner got as much rope as possible. But Boeing.
  2. How does this relate to EBITDA?
  3. Hold the Olympics in El Paso, and the gators will be part of the history. https://kisselpaso.com/san-jacinto-plaza-alligators/
  4. KA-ma-la which I might write 'Comma-la' like above. Emphasis on the first syllable. My first guess was ka-MA-la but that is not correct.
  5. Happy World Snake Day, degenerates!!
  6. There is an alternate back way to Bumpass Hell that is open even when the main trail is closed. Park at Kings Creek Picnic Area, and first hike 1 mile (easy) to Cold Boiling Lake. Then on the other side of the lake, head left and uphill for 2 miles (not as easy) to the back side of Bumpass Hell and the boardwalk. I was just at Lassen NP a week and a half ago, and the main trail to Bumpass was indeed closed, but this back way was open, okay by the rangers, and fine. There were a couple of snow patches but the trail was fine. This way is presumably harder than the normal trail, but is nothing crazy.
  7. That PDF link didn't work.
  8. As far as Mammoth Cave NP goes: I liked the River Styx tour the best of the ones that I did. It had an interesting variety of terrain and things, including some slightly squeezy passages. After doing that tour, I hiked down the River Styx Spring trail (this is above ground), which goes down to where the underground River Styx comes out, then hiked up another trail, the Green River Bluffs trail. I thought these made a cool combination of stuff. The day before I had done the Grand Avenue Tour. This was one of the longest tours through the cave system, but most of this was not all that interesting. (There are not many formations inside the dry cave.) The best part of it was the Frozen Niagara room, at the very end of this tour, which had by far the best cave formations. I think that you can see this one room from a much shorter tour than the Grand Avenue.
  9. I never actually heard that there is a recording that you or I can actually hear, only that one 'exists'. If it doesn't actually get played to the world, that is not going to amount to anything.
  10. You are an asshole, so I have you on ignore, but I made a special effort to read this post so I could quote it so you can enjoy the thread title in your notifications.
  11. Straight out of central casting. It is a seriously strong list though. As much as I love Ricky he is no better than #5 on that list, Earl, Nolan, Hakeem, and Walter all have to be ahead. Herschel is in last place on that list for being a dipshit but that still isn't a bad last place.
  12. I love pickles, and love hot things, but those are just too much for me.
  13. It sounded like sentencing will be 11 July, with that late date as requested by Trump, so I figure this will be in legal stasis until that date, and really nothing will happen until then. If there are any lawyers on this site (probably not though) they might know better.
  14. Interrogation tactics are relevant when you are trying to figure out what really happened, with someone who may be uncooperative. There was no attempt here to figure out what really happened.
  15. Good idea. Somebody is even planning to make a new submersible, mainly made of acrylic. Seems like a good project for both of them.
  16. This is the main investment value of precious metals, especially silver. Metal financial returns just don't match a stock index fund, so on that comparison they are poor investments. But they do very handily beat investment returns on beer. So having a fun hobby that leaves you with something of material value ain't so bad. On the gold-vs-silver question, I figure that silver is just too bulky to bother with, so I hoard just things that I like, and that feed my inner dragon. For real money storage gold is what you want.
  17. Way less of a drive. I thought Muir Woods was nice, it was not uncrowded. I have not been to Redwood (hopefully I will about a month after your trip) so I don't know how Muir Woods compares, but it is so much closer I'd do that. Another place my guidebook recommends (I have not been) is Bothe-Napa Valley State Park near Calistoga, there are supposedly some redwoods there.
  18. Dayum. A question about whistles though: The orange whistle in that video was flat, what I have seen other 'safety' whistles shaped like. My opinion though, is the only kind of whistle to bother with is a Fox 40. That's the referee whistle and it doesn't have any ball inside it. (Not sure about that flat whistle). Sports refs use it because it does not fail. My personal safety whistle, in my case mostly for things like hiking solo, not the water, is a mini Fox 40, with the same shape as the normal one, just smaller. I did test it when I did my scuba checkout dive though. One part of that test is trying the whistle, and I used both the whistle that came with the dive gear, and then my mini Fox 40. I had a hard time getting the standard whistle to blow, but the Fox 40 went off with a super loud blast no problems. People probably tend to want to save money on an emergency whistle, since it is hardly used, but obviously if you actually need to use it, it is critical.
  19. Reptile World Serpentarium, in St Cloud (near Orlando)? That's the only Serpentarium that I know about. Is that an indigo snek? Hard to tell from the B&W photo.
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