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Mighty fine

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  1. No, grain elevator fires are due to combustion/ explosion of the organic fine particulate. The pole fires are caused because the mist adheres to the dust (not heavy enough to wash the dust away) that accumulated and creates a grounding path.

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  2. Probably in the vast minority here but my favorite work of his is “All My Friends Are Going to be Steangers.”

    RIP.
    Not sure what got me started on it, but I went on kick sophomore and junior year of school where I read through all of McMutry's books outside of the Lonesome Dove series, and then went through everything Cornac McCarthy had put out up to that point.

    All my Friends and The Crossing have come to mean more to me the older I get. I re read them both evey couple of years.
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  3. Except these are reports from Navy and Air Force pilots. These are people more knowledgeable about aircrafts than your average fat, dumb citizen. They know the current limitations with materials and thrust. To pull off the speed and Gs required by these UFOs would require multi-generational step functions in technological and material advancements. 
    When NASA makes advancements in technology and materials, it's a relatively short cycle to those advancements making their way to commercial, consumer goods. None of these UFO advancements have made it anywhere close to our everyday products. Same would be said if these were Russian or Chinese advancements. Humans are not prone to keeping multi step level advancements sealed in a box for decades.
    I generally agree with the last 2/3 of your post. I've thought about the first part a bit before and think you may be overestimating the referenced pilots access to such knowledge. For example, I doubt few, if any, F-4 pilots would have been aware or have the acknowledge to identify the SR-71 had they crossed paths in the early 60s.



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  4. Took the kayak down to bastrop yesterday to try and do a little fishing. No luck finding fish so I decided to paddle around a bit, then came across the remnants of these two. Have heard lots of stories of bucks getting locked up; pretty neat to come across it in the wild. 20210306_153713.jpg

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  5. Fire department running around everywhere dealing with 500 plus water pipe issues on top of other issues. On the local news tonite they said it takes 24 hours to test for bacterium in the water that would constitute a water boil notice. I would as another poster suggested consider all water to be bad unless told otherwise. Jmo. But I am not a city official. It just seems safer that way. I have no water going on 60 plus hours so what do I know? Lol.
    The news is a little off. You automatically go into boil water notice when certain conditions present, such as low system pressure. The 24 hr bac-t test is used as a confirmation test that it either is or isn't present, so minimum boil notice duration is 24 hours
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  6. It seems like there would need to be a LOT of ice in the pipe to increase pressure enough to burst the pipe somewhere other than where the ice is. 
    Regardless, if I have a pipe burst, I won't give a shit about why at that point.
    Not really. If the water completely fills the pipe (no air) and begins to freeze, it tries to compress the unfrozen water. But since water is not compressible*, and if it's not allowed to vent, you'll see a pretty significant pressure build up. The freezing water is basically running an uncontrolled hydrostatic test on the piping.

    I had always assumed it was a hoop stress in the frozen section. Thanks to TwiceHorn for his post a couple nights ago; after thinking about it, his (and phd's) explanations are on the money.

    *practical truth, not universal
  7. JoJo did her job, and she will continue to protect your child with her life. 
    If she gets aggressive for no good reason, then training would be required.
    Regarding JoJo, this is spot on (especially for dogs with shepherd in them). In my experience, obedience training won't get rid of this instinct; you have to get more into the attack/guard dog training, and this comes with some other trade offs.

    She just said enough of this shit and laid down the law to Henry; you are correct in your assessment that Henry's got to go.

  8. Article said he's stable and lucid. Will likely need a bit of rehab, but it's amazing how far medical advances have come on this. Not the death sentence it once was if you can get to hospital fairly quickly

  9. Hmm, interesting. Not uncommon in surface water supply (stagnant water areas). That the city uses groundwater is a bit of a head scratcher. Could be an 'old water' issue from water in dead end mains, but I'd wager its a contaminated ground storage tank at the bwa/ city connection (top of the head, non informed assumption).

    Good news, easily rectified (pending they can quickly id the source).

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