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I believe that driver's Ed and the tests required to get a driver's license are just too lame in the USA. To get a drivers' license in Germany and other places in Europe; it is a difficult test, equal to a Commercial Class License in the US. A friend's mother, that was German, had to take...

When 55 was the National law, and I had to drive West Coast to the East Coast, through the vast nothingness that is the South West, I would have welcomed an A-10 strafing the side of the road as a reminder to slow down. :) However A-10s don't have .50 Cal guns.... :)

In the bad ol'days of old growth tree extraction, mills would have a Wigwam sawdust burner. Most of these were total loss systems with no sort of heat recovery methods. Then came the Pres-to-log and later pellet stoves. Mills learned they could make money selling the dust and bark...

If you're just mowing flat ground, and don't have a FEL, I don't see much of a risk issue. The 2520 is rather low to the ground. The best solution however, is to prune everything back and high enough for clearance as others have suggested. I did the first BIG, never before done...

"Was it the crabs themselves they didn't like or the way you prepared them?" My take, was that folks in the PNW are not use to eating crabs whole. The Eastern Blue is a different crab than the Dungeness, and apparently the Dungeness doesn't taste good when it is in soft shell state.

I've only had three speeding tickets in the 48 years I've been driving. All of them where in remote areas and due to airplane surveillance. Never fought them, cause, well, I was doing 100 miles an hour. Back then, it was just a fine. If you see large white perpendicular lines, ever 1/4...

My brother, that still lived in the Bay Area of Maryland, would send me out "Care Packgages" when I moved to the PNW. He sent out an entire cooler of dry ice packed, softshell, blue channel crabs at great expense. Just so happened that we were entertaining guests one weekend. So..... I...

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/234010/poutine-pizza/ :)

This thread had me curious as to the Zillow listings in my area. Surprised to learn that a prop up the hill from me was listed at 1.7 Million. I know that property sold for about $700K in 2012, 53 acers, nice view and a rental house, yet the main house is a small traditional farm house...

There is one place in the USA where the unsantioned but dominate conventions of hiway driving are reversed. This is the 33 mile I5 corridor in Washington State between Tacoma and Seattle. I observed this when I first moved there in the mid-seventies, and has continued right up today. By...

The Frescetta Brand supermarket pizzas are pretty good and the closest we have found to pizzas in Italy. We've transitioned to making our own individual pies using store bought pizza dough. And putting on what ever toppings we want. The wife likes subtle flavors, mostly vegetarian...

Jaxs, this is a good post cause, I've heard from more than a few people that I have been associated with and have personally witnessed, driving like crazy people, that told me, don't worry, they have lawyers on retainer. And that the laws don't apply to them for the very reasons you have...

I think people don't understand anchovies at all. They refer to the salted fish that come in cans, and not the unsalted fresh fish which are fantastic on a thin crust, seafood with pesto, based pizza. And yes, I had that Firesign Theatre album. :)

Some places are just impossible to deal with. For instance traveling East out of Seattle on I90, and attempting to take the Issaquah exit to Lake Sammamish. The signage for the exit is about a mile west of the exit. The locals know you have to stack up well before the sign. But there...

I have to wonder what the rule of zipping really is. The other day I was in the right lane and checked and then double checked that there were no cars on an upcoming on ramp. So I relaxed when the merge lane started happening.... I had checked and there were no cars on that ramp. To my...

A picket is a protest. I wanted to say a picnic. But my brain inserted the right word. Our gatherings, of students off site, are "off the record." And they do become pickets.

The first Hawaiian Pizza with Canadian Bacon, was a revelation of just how good food could be. Many may say this is an abomination. It isn't. Its the connection of two different cultures that makes something better. Extraordinary better.

"All you can do is take lessons from it and move forward." Yes, and my cautionary tale here is to buy raw land in areas that you know, and best if they are adjoining. And have liquidity to follow though with the down turns. I could have bought an adjoining 20 acre home site, in 1999...

I wonder about the McMansion. How that plays out in the real estate market. Was this the way to go in the '90s? I could have built a McMansion, but I didn't: I built a modest home for my needs: A Smaller house that was quality. Now, I think I should have built a McMansion. The sales...

Funny looking at used trucks, EVERY SALES PERSONS, said you have to buy now, or it will be gone the next day. This even after I said to the sales person that i was looking for a specific set of trucks. And that said, they never seemed to have one on hand anything that I requested. I even had...

Can't at least one company, breakout from the bean counters, and give us what we want. Are we so small a population that it doesn't matter? A modular 125 HP truck that we can fix easily and inexpensively with NO creature comfort, no bells and whistles at all? Is there no money in this?

We had measure 50 in Oregon 1997, or so, that limited Prop tax increases to five percent per year. Ya, gotta love a State that can make its own rules by petitioner, and set up to be voted on, that then becomes a law. For most other states, this isn't how it works. :)

Trends of areas just outside the Eugene/Springfield, Or, area are still super hot. Two years ago, if I saw a 1M+ priced property, I would next look at what sort of acreage was included, expecting at least 50 acres, a view and a stream running through it. :) I'm seeing more and more...

Uhmm.. I have to disagree with your neighbor not taking the 40K. That's just silly not to. :)

I've done the pressure washer thingy. By the time I've moved the ladder, and cleared the blow off on the roof, its the same as if i just lifted stuff out by hand.

I've tryed three different systems. Foam insets, and two other gutter cover systems. They don't work for me. Not even for one season. The Foam inserts were a big mess, as seedlings started growing in them. The two cover types, kept leaves out, but the needles and algea, and smaller...

"Your county assessors office should have a plat map recorded of your survey and maybe witness tree information." Having done some deed searches at the county level, the recording clerks, all had rolled eyes when i asked about the specific area. And would present a foot wide set of...

Its at least 75 feet from the road. Which is the other reference . This doesn't match anything as it should be 20 feet from the center of the road. I think the road, defining property and easement moved over time, down hill over 90 years. I know my marker is moving. Is it making more...

"Does this look like your terrain?" Yup. :)

And interesting that was, that Robert Mitchum was side lined for pot. .... taking legal LSD at the same time for treatment of depression, was okay. If you watch a movie with Cary Grant, he is most likely on a very mild trip.

"It might not be easy though." As I'm finding out. I'm not a young man any more, and falling down on rocks yesterday was a bit of a toll as were the black berries that cut me up pretty bad. I have a renewed respect for surveyors. That is a difficult job especially in the summer with the...

"Google “surveyors blaze marks in trees” might help." Thank you for the suggestion but no help there, as there isn't a standardization of marks. Most every entry from Google is from Maine where they use their own regional markings. And even in Google Earth Pro, the GPS is of no help as they...

Three movies that should be on list are, A Touch of Evil, Network, and the President's Annalist. For some reason I gravitate to Mid 60's and early 80's movies. They have a harshness to them, like the Deer Hunter, or Deliverance, or Point Blank which is late sixties. Movies now are...

Yes, I am attempting to use the "Blazed" trees to follow a line. The marks are all and only on the due west side of the trees. They seem to be all the same mark, which was a scar made with a hatchet in the form of a circle with a deep cut line going up from the top of the circle. These were...

Everything I had read, over 20 years, about Europe going to zero emission, all their great expense and Hi-tech to get there is pretty much been a BS show, now that they are trying their best to back peddle their dependence on Russian Oil. Putin did more in 100 days than Greta Thunberg could...

The truth doesn't set you free: It makes you strange.

I signed off of FB when they said they would not let me post a pic with a mannequin in the back ground. They said they would not allow nudity. And, yes, I was dressed. :)

I'm attempting to relocate a ground pipe bounty marker for the south western part of my property. I knew sort of where it was and had it clearly marked till we had some rather nasty ice storms that down trees all over that area. I can't find any evidence of the location of the pipe any more...

Plenty of iCE cars get in to wrecks and are totaled out. If hit from behind, the motor is most likely Okay and can be had for $1200 or less from a salvage yard. Now that EVs are incorporating the Battery Pack in to the frame structure I doubt any one will be able to do just an easy swap.

I watched all the "Long Way.." motorcycle adventures that have been put out starring Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. On this last one, "Long Way Up," they rode electric, off road modified Harley Livewire motorcycles from South America to Alaska. The support crew, using diesel powered...

With the 770 loader the price of 4500 is right in the ball park.

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"That's usually the way things work... United States pioneers and takes the risk and Europe and others see the way the wind blows and refine often to the next level..." I have to say that this is totally different than my understanding. I think the Europeans developed on their own, all we...

It is funny that the Greens are being played so well by the powers that be, that we go back to the Atomic Solution of cheap and almost free energy, as was promised in the 50's. Well that didn't work out on the first try, maybe it will now? Its the slow itch that maybe we got it right...

The only reason anyone has cows, is because of old rules from the 19th century that favor economy of scale, near free grazing on public land, and water rights. :)

Having been to Europe a few times, I think these are very different worlds than the USA. In other words they are entirely different environments. Folks that are dead set on pure EV conversion, are using Europe as a model. When I look at a map of England or France for instance, I have...

You guys surprise me because there are only 6 mentions of HeeHaw. :)

There have to be standards. Plug-ins ALL THE SAME. Battery types have to be set up in the same way we set up AA, C and D. Batteries need to be easily replaceable. And the batteries can not be proprietary.

On the drives back home after work in the summer when the light was still out, there was a fence line that had "infowars. com," Hand painted on it. It must have been a bit of work to do that. I looked in the site, and there was nothing there that could be substantiated, it was all...

I'm not hearing MTZ in this conversation. Guess right now, it would not be in anyone's interest to buy a Russian Tractor or other product. But, just before the fall of the USSR, Belarus was the go to "Value" tractor. My Dad bought a new one in 1987. It was super inexpensive and...

"When the wind blows, nothing stands in front of a wildfire. All you can do is run" -LC I was outdoors working as the Holiday Fire started in the McKenzie Valley. I'm only seven miles away but on the other side of a hill range. The wind was like nothing I had experienced before at that...

When Stone Washed Jeans came out, i had to shake my head. Here were companies that intentionally distressed the fabric of the jeans to make them more fashionable. New jeans are uncomfortable. You have to wear them, and use them to make them comfortable. In that sense, you earn your...

I buy the work pants and shirts and coats at Goodwil for 3 dollars. These are sacrificial if I'm doing concrete or in the woods torn up by blackberries or other stuff. When they get ruined, I don't care. They get tossed and I get $3 more clothing from a second hand store. They may or may...

I heard an idea of covering the water in reservoirs with floating solar panels. It makes sense, but you lose the recreation, which was the big selling point in the first place to dam up the river and kill off all the salmon. I'd too old now, to let everyone redefine what the future is going...

Best I can do on translating the Morse code at the end of High Flight. I slowed the audio down to 1/10 speed in Movie Maker, and looked for obvious pauses to separate the sets. This is the best I could determine. B - Dash, Dot, Dot, Dot (pause) C - Dash, Dot, Dash, Dot...

Wife bought me a waffle iron from Target and few years ago. At the birthday party, I unwrapped it and it had obviously been used. There was burn batter all over the iron. Target was very nice about replacing it with a new one, no questions asked, which I had them open the box of the...

Driving in to Chicago I saw an oddly painted Airliner coming to land at O'Hara, and just before I lost sight of it, I could make out the lettering that said Led Zeppelin.

At a Thanksgiving Potluck, in the PNW, I decided I would bring originally prepared, Native American foods. I did extensive research and found lots of recipes that were said to be authentic. So I made a wide sampler of both in-land and coastal native foods. I thought everything in the...

Kenmore front loader washing machine bought new in 2002, started to rattle badly on the spin cycles in 2016. Looked on line and found a good repair guide that suggested this was due to failed bearings. Ordered the bearings and took the washer apart. Discovered it wasn't the bearings...

I bought a new Cub Cadet XT2 LX 42 summer before last. $2000. Same tractor is now $2400. I mow about 3.5 acres. Overall, I'm happy with it, aside from one little problem; it doesn't have a limited slip differential , or a locking differential. I don't know if any lawn tractors in this...

I've had the Decoy Hawk up for 1 month and two weeks and the birds have already learned to ignore the decoy. :(

Werner Klemperer in an inerview in the 80's said he would only play the part of Col. Klink if the character was portrayed as a complete idiot. I enjoyed "Billions" on netflix: Very complicated characters.

Its been my experience that X-mas tree farms are a way to avoid property taxes. Its a relatively inexpensive way to keep land zoned as agricultural. Some property owners take it seriously, but the vast majority put no effort in the year around grooming, one has to do, to make a marketable...

I've often wondered why we haven't created more twin reservoirs using alt energy to pump water back up to the higher res, after running hydro-eclectic to the lower res. Seems this would be the perfect battery, and answer the question of, "if the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow,"...

I could, but it would mess up your brower history. :)

" As I mentioned before, I'm a widow and now I'm here in *******, ** staying with my parents. [That is not the location listed on Craig's list]. The tractor is already at the shipping company in Roanoke sealed and ready for shipping. My presence won't be necessary because I prearranged the...

[That is not the location listed on Craig's list]. Thats all I would have needed to know to call "scam." :)

"So JF, your wife hates grapefruit also?" Yes she does. She hates it with the same passion I do... And her first husband, LOVED grapefruit. You just can't have a match in marriage if one person likes grapefruit and the other does not.. :)

Grapefruit to me, always tastes like it is a poison my body wants to reject. So much so, than when I was dating, I would ask if she liked grapefruit. If she did like grapefruit.... well... there wasn't a second date. Something HAS to be incompatible there on a genetic level. I have never...

When a repair would come in, dealing with a virus, the joke was if it was with Norton or Macfee, "When did your Relatives' Children last visit you?" :) And if they can't remember, I just lookup download activity, and the logs. Always the same thing in the logs. AV got turned off, download was...

Remember when you could CALL Up a radio station and request that they play something. :) And they would.

My Dad loved to shoot and eat doves, pretending to be an English Aristocrat. And then bring them home for my mother, and only my mother, or me, to some how make a meal out of them and pick out all the pellets. Even 30 doves, doesn't make a meal for five people, and you had to be careful about...

I love pickled eggs and try something new every few months or so. Wife doesn't like them, so I can get pretty extreme with the spices and experiment at will. A well spiced, pickled egg is a joy to eat. It is interesting that you can still buy Vlasic Cucumber Pickles in the 80 FL OZ, 2 QT...

Paw Paw Pudding Postum Scrapple Deep Fried, Beer Battered, Softshell Crab Mulberry Wine Jello Mold Salad Pan Fried Flounder Creamed Chip Beef on Toast Ox Tail Strew Cornish Game Hen Liver German Style Potatoes Head Cheese

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. On the 16 acres, out of the 20 that I bought, the county decided to split the tax lot into two, that 4 acres would be taxed at residential, and the rest F2 deferred. After many years of heavy manual labor attempting to clean up and improve the 16 acre wood...

If you look up ANY independent lab results on ultra-sonic pest control, they all say that these devices don't work long term. They do seem to have some effectiveness for the first few days, but then the mice/rats acclimate to the sound...

The tree to have planted, 25 years ago, here in Jasper Oregon, seems to have been the Ponderosa Pine. My neighbor planted those, which made no sense to me, as they are a Central Oregon Tree. I, thinking I knew better, planted Red Cedar. His trees did great and are 30 feet tall now and...

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Out of the box thinking here, but I've had a very difficult time digging any sort of post hole in summer with the soil we have. An auger simply doesn't work. My solution now, is to get all digging done in the spring while the soil is still wet. If I have to dig a hole in the summer...

I asked the neighbors today about the roof. Cause all I could see was a fortune being spent using 2 x 6. They had worked out a deal with a mill that was only 4 miles away, and it worked out to be less expensive than plywood, but much, much stronger. Also a bit heavier, and thus the...

A neighbor has been building a small secondary house on their property for the past few months. Its been slow going due to the on and off rain situation this spring. The interior is typical 2 X 4, 16 on center, construction. But the rest of the house has me baffled. The exterior walls...

You got ripped off, when the truck you bought got 18 miles to the gallon. :)

With spinning hard drives it was easy to know you had wiped the drive. The best way I found was to lay down new headers and sectors. This depends on the random event that the head starts to write on the platter. Now do a three pass zero out in those re-established sectors. There is...

Some myths about computers. You can't RAID an SSD..... Yes, you can. Multi cores and hyper-threading make a computer faster. No they don't. They help by off loading back ground tasks, so the computer doesn't slow down. Your computer is only as fast as its clock speed, and the speed of...

on a new to me farm, stacked hay bails higher than the electrical over head lines. :)

A small criticism of the Generals, is that only one side has the swivel wheels, the other side has fixed wheels with the lock down levers. In a smaller garage such as mine, 35 by 30 feet, going around parked stuff can be a challenge. I often don't want to pull the cabinet out of its...

20 years of maintaining our assement road. Only to have all the original residents die or move out, and then be asked to sign up with, and contribute to, a road maintenenace HOA agreement.

Having a US General for the past five years, I don't like how shallow the draws are. If they where just 1/4 inch deeper, it would be perfect.

The S/W model 39 gen II and first gen 59, are IMHO, underrated. I have no idea why these are not sought after guns. A friend and I invested in a progressive reloader press with dies for 9 Mil. So we would go out and run one to two hundred rounds per session. He had a Glock 17 Gen 2...

The Thunder Five. ... It can sit for as long as you want it, being a revolver, with one shot stopping power at close range. And its dual action, and so easy to use. Its a Hand Cannon. But it is so heavy, you don't feel it. You get to pick what you want it for in your world. You...

Maybe I'm crazy, but two weeks from now, some one on national TV will be talking about old dolls heads. To a degree that they are not talking about it now. Just watch it happen. They are not reading my mind. They are reading my posts. Which are across the entire internet. They pick...

There is someone that shadows what I post on the web that works for NPR. I wish they would call me some time, and acknowledge that I found this thing as the originator of the subject. I don't want money. I could careless. Just say somewhere in the credits you got the idea from me. I know...

It is interesting to see a moderator, side line a thread. To me, this is fun to see. You don't see it often.

My memory may be foggy, but I remember that I could steer the Gravely, using one or the other wheel power levers, of which there were two, left and right that had three positions; Forward, Neutral and Reverse. I hated walking behind it all day. So I rigged up a two wheeled cart I could ride...

Got a Midwest can, with all the safety features, a few years ago. I profoundly regret ever buying this thing. I now look in on Yard Sales for older style cans.

The blue ice thingy, I don't think is real. Its an urban myth.

stevem, you might be sitting on an asset with that Gravely. If you don't use it, it could bring you some serious coin selling it. They have become collectable. :)

The rare thing I wish I could find. 23 years ago, I was out mowing and the sun had set, and there was just enough light for me to see. I saw a flash from behind me, and just for a split second, turned and saw what appeared to be space trash falling in to my tree line on the other side of the...

A Stud is an inspected board with a stamp good for structural construction. Lumber is just a dimentional board made out of wood. . They are not the same. :)

I would love to start a whole new thread, but I figure to start here. What are the hardest parts to find? I'm thinking that if no one else will make them, maybe I could, if it was worth it.

Yes, it was the teeth that was interesting. All the teeth were well defined. :) I Found a proof in the skull, that traced it to some french manufacturer. But I don't remember much about it otherwise. This was twenty years ago. :)

Found a porcelain, french made, doll's head, in the middle my woods. Completely intact. It had moving eyes. I cleaned it up and put new springs in the eyes and then regrettably, thinking about it now, I sold it for only 400 dollars on eBay. I guess it was rare? There were no houses in this...

As McFarmall mentioned it really depends on the rental business and how they operate. We had two rental places in town. One was very professional. Check off when it went out and check off when it came back. All relatively new equipment. And there was always a guy on the lot pressure washing...

27 Bales. :)

20 acres.

And naively, I thought it would remain rural, during my life time. Of coarse I can see that I'm the first problem, to have built here in the first place, 25 years ago. When it was truly in the woods up an almost impassable road with no utilities. This is what I wanted, and the rules for...

Kleptomania was the theory we later all agreed upon. The clothing appeared to be at least 10 to 5 years old, placing them at the time, around 1970-1975 or so, and the tags were from stores all over the Balimore City Maryland area. They were all women's apperal, and realitively light, and...

At one garage sale, i found a real human skull with a black candle on top of it. The proprietor of the garage sale was a bit embarrassed, and said this was not for sale.. :)

My Grandfather, being a Country Doctor, had a habit of buying out widow's estates as "House and Contents." House and contents, means you buy the entire estate if no one else wants to challenge it with the single check, to be bought out. i always thought this was difficult for me, cause I'd...

An old friend of mine was looking over an outdoor remote "patch," of wacky weed, when he came across what looked like a woman, small person, wrapped up in a blanket.... dead. He was freaked out and didn't know what to do. I suggested he call it in and say he was looking for his lost...

"They didn't know. As you said, nobody else walked the property." I told the realtor we were working with, to not suggest any thing like this again. She then re-walked it, up the hill, and then instantly de-listed it on her offerings. She wanted no part of it either. :)

I bought my used 1980 SR 500, with 1,200 miles, in 1981, for 1,250 dollars. You can take a Topo map of Oregon and place your finger randomly any where on the map,... I have been there. Forty some odd years, driving in the middle of no where and the bike never let me down. :)

A horror story on a piece of property we passed on, was an elongated narrow hillside property. They did the open house, but we left the tour and walked around on our own up the hill. No one else on the tour did this. It was used as a gardening plant nursery. I mean you have to look at ALL...

If you follow, " Rev up your engines," Scotty Kilmer , he has nothing good to say about Seafoam. I disagree with him. Which is okay, ..I still watch his channel. :)

I don't have a dog in this fight. Not part of either the Trains or the Trucks and the fight involved. I'm not in the transportation business. Yet I have done a great deal of loading and unloading of trucks. And I find them to be mostly marginal, just enough to get by, and the drivers...

My Uncle bought a Gravely, single cylinder two wheeled tractor, I believe in 1970, with what I thought had a huge front mower deck. He used it right up till 2018, before selling his house and moving into a retirement village. It was a frightening device for me to use, as a young...

Coolest thing found on my property was a Stone Arrow Head. God knows how old it is. :)

"There are so many trucks on the road that rest areas and truck stops are filled to capacity and trucks are lined up on the sides of the off ramps taking mandatory down time." There is another way to look at this. Especially for company trucking. They COULD set up relief drivers, and get a...

I have come to understand that I hate cooking in my later age. I use to like cooking when I was younger. And i think I was good at it. I really don't like any aspect of it now, at all, there is no time. When younger of course, I designed a tirade kitchen with the best appliances and...

The Sats were well built. Easy to fix and I still use my L35 as a source computer to an older large format printer. Newer ones don't have the right interfaces. I was amused to the point that I would go out to greet these people with a tin hat. And they didn't think that was strange. I...

I'm lost on any motorcycle made after , say, the late 1980's. I can't fix them. They are phenomenal in performance, but I can't fix them. Well, I can't because the systems are beyond my understanding.

I'm a compete disbeliever in snake oil additives. BUT. I did the thing about pouring Seafoam in to the engine oil, cause I have a sticky valve. It sort of worked. Its less sticky then it was before. Didn't cure it. But now less times I have to restart to get that valve working.

There was a model line of laptops that were made by Toshiba. They were called "Satellites".. These would routinely be returned to us, because the buyer could not get on the internet. We always configured these for both Ethernet and WiFi, and knew they worked. Yet, we kept getting these...

The soil around the house is just now getting to the point that i can work with it. Is a small window. Too much rain and the soil to too sloppy to work: Too late, and the stuff turns to concrete. The project is a 14 foot by 20 foot patio, on top of which there will be a centered 10 by 14...

The lowly Limpet, also known locally as a China Cap, has a tongue or 'radula' covered in tiny teeth that scrape away at a rock's surface, and is now considered the strongest biologically created structure. You can collect, after getting a shell fish license, and eat limpets, but having...

I was supposed to buy a mid-sized PU Truck this year. But given the gas prices, decided to just hang on and put money into the aging Festiva. I'm starting to get unsolicited cash offers for it, once a week now, some verbally and some notes on the windscreen. For my usual wood projects...

There is a small shrimp called the Pistol Shrimp, that can flick its jaw so fast that it creates a shock wave in the water, to stun its prey. :) The Energy Physics of the Pistol Shrimp

I longest ***** of any animal now alive, is that of the blue whale. Which has been measured at an average of 8 ft, 2 inches. The tallest person on earth was recorded at 8 Feet, 11 inches. :)

If the earth was flat, then all drainages would tend towards the center of mass. There would be one circular ocean that everything poured in to. This is not the case.

Before we put people in rockets, we put them in high altitude balloons. Some of those "classified" projects failed. And people were killed. At high altitude and the body boils off all the water in the system. It makes the bodies look very emaciated. A bit like what the extraterrestrial...

On the June 21'st we traveled to Europe from the PNW. The sun never set on the plane flight doing its great arch in the North. It was weird to have a day that didn't set. Its been so fun to see sci-fi "re-discover" the Tardigrades. For modern sci-fi writers there is a two year lag time...

Computer graphics have gotten so good, and the younger than I generations indulge in animation so much, that maybe the market will favor CGI over real actors. In the sense that what we now know are real movie stars, will license their likenesses in total CGI created movies. They can...

Some people may find it comforting. I believe in that. The fantastic is, in this age, still so very important for everyone. You can know, or/and, and be happy: To know both is the problem. :)

You guys should follow the Nooasphere threads on the internet. A friend of mine is making these, and I don't agree with many of it, but it might make many people happy. Beginning happy is better than the alternatives. :)

For some reason gambling is in the American consensus as presented as something good. Well, maybe it use to be in the 20th century. We only hear about the winners. And not the thousands of other losers. There is no market, in books sold, to tell you about the losers that gambled it all...

I think I have become too old for this world.... looking through the local C-list, came across this add for a motocross bike. https://eugene.craigslist.org/mcy/d/elmira-2021-husqvarna-tx-300i/7454762661.html I was amused to say the least. Then i looked up what the MSRP was.... $11 K. :)

I noticed that near everyone has changed over to length pricing. Not like it use to be where you had a price per unit of the thing you were buying. This can be quite surprising at the check out if you didn't calculate the new way of pricing. Not that I want to take my house apart, cause...

I have had an up tick lately in people that see my '93 Festiva, and say that it gets at least 30 MPG. "No, actually it gets 36 MPG." :) Maybe some of this will bring the Used PU Truck prices back down?

I had no idea that the Global Hawks had wingspans like this. :)

I've been through this so many times now that its always to check the battery terminals and cables. The amperages involved with starting are very high. Even with a thick cable, its only as thick as the connections. Compression fittings fail. And they fail in a strange way with stranded...

This thread got me to looking at what Google Earth had to say about Edwards Air Force Base. Found some fun stuff. These appear to be the two flight test demos of the X-34 project. :)

When we were doing nuclear bomb testing in the fifties, vast areas controlled by the government were given designations, that referenced a huge grid pattern. So you had Area 1 ..... 40.... 51... ect. The Groom Lake site, of the Edwards Air Force base, is located in one of these areas...

Bob Lazar... there is no D, is a fraud. And I've been listening to him since the mid-ninites when he was an on going guest on the Art Bell Coast to Coast Radio Show. And absolutely nothing he has ever said, has been demonstrated to be real.

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/tracking_map.cfm

Sorry, i get very stupid when I'm sober. :) Lets just ask the question, of what benefit we would get from encountering aliens?

I love watching this person's take on things. Most of it is over my head, but i can't find fault in her augments.

How did you test voltage? Across Batery Terminals + and -, or Across Termial + and a frame ground point? The clicks that you heard, was it the starter solenoid? This would rule out any of the safety switches.

With all respects to what Carl Sagan tried to get across, I do like what this guy had to say about the subject. :) Good criticism is a touchstone of science.

Gravity is something that we have not yet figured out. We know how it works, but we don't know why it works. We can calculate to near perfect precision how to use it. This is science. Its useful. The why, still eludes us as to what gravity is. It may take 20 years to figure it out...

There are very few youtube vids that make me think WTF. This still has me a bit wondering. It comes out of left field, but the logic is sound. At least I can't figure a counter argument. It applies to aliens in a tangential way. It also speaks that what we know, isn't so certain. :)

One of the assumptions we make about ETs, might also be a logical misdirection. In the sense that intelligent life HAS to be yoked to a planet. A sufficiently advanced race might have abandoned the idea of needing any sort of planet. They could be entirely space based and self sufficient...

We've been using a Havahart wireless radial fence for 8 years. They recently stopped making all of their fencing systems. So we are looking at Pet Safe wireless systems when we need to replace. These use a proprietary battery system, which are $$$. Our dog has been very hard on the...

Imagination can also be beneficial if it says, you should not do this. "Anything one can imagine can be achieved." That depends on what one wishes to achieve. Though we have forgotten about it, the annihilation of all human life on this planet has been in place for 60 years. And every few...

Oh, the same rabbit hole of improbability being expressed here, as to be plausible to have a theory of intelligent and intentional evolution. What a wonderful fight it is to explain the unlikelihood, using science, of life, and then to have theists jump on the very same band wagon. Its a...

I was VERY surprised to find out that 503cs could be franchised, just like a local McDonald's.

With all the talk of craters, I guess we are talking about meteors in a panspermia way: That life got here from somewhere else. This deflates the abiogenesis idea, in probability, as it spreads out the number of test tubes to more than one. Yet we still have to deal with abiogenesis...

They never found a meteorite at Barringer Crater either. It vaporized on impact.

And then another one of those pesky asteroids slammed into the Earth. I love finding meteor craters using Goggle Earth. There is usually a follow through and explanation of the crater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_Reservoir No one, in the scientific community wants to talk...

Untested. ---- translation.. It doesn't work. Collectable. ------- Brick-a-brack that didn't sell at the estate sale. Rare. ---------- I'm charging 15% more than retail. OBO. ----------- If you match the price I really expected to get out of the item. Antique ........ Item...

Does it matter if the Cigar is Cuban? In a blind test I doubt if any one could tell the difference between a Cuban, a Dominican Republican, Nicaraguan, or Honduran made cigar. All of which are readily available in the United States.

Well, there are theoretical constructs that say one could warp space in front and in back of a space craft of some sort and not violate the speed limit of C. What is always left out of that though is that if a space craft using this tech, ever came even close to our solar system, it would...

I know what I WANT them to look like. :)

The very question gets to religion very quickly. Its in a sense, a religious frame work, that there is other intelligent life out there: that has to conform to other established religions. Its the base of religions belief here in, all our many religions traditions show to follow...

How the chemistry of life came about, is a question that is easily answered by a divine being that has intention. Science doesn't work that way. Science has given every one a better life than non-science. Its given every one a better life then superstition. And it was a hard...

At 10% percent of C, it would take 45 years to send something to Alpha Centuria, and Proxima b, and what it found, using laser accelerated micro devices would take 45 years to get there and just over 4.5 years to get a signal back to us. If we could read it, which would take years to...

"They are very close as to spectral reflection," How would you have phrased it? :)

For a good long time, the first life on earth used C02. Its the original atmosphere of this planet, just like Mars. It changed to O2 by bacteria and killed nearly all other live forms on the planet. The biggest extinction event we know of. So, we know that happened. So other life...

If we ever got a message from space that said we should do something VERY ODD with one of our particle colliders... would we do it? :)

I think we are stuck with the concept that Aliens would be one species.. Kinda like how we appear on the outside as one unit. Yet we really aren't one species. We are a collection, in our bodies, of many different species, mostly working in symbiotic relationships. So its...

My 30 by 35 garage has its gutters at 12 feet. Its a royal pain to clean these and we have pine and maple trees around and the wind carries everything to the roof. They fill up fast and I have to clean them twice a year, moving the ladder all the way around, takes about 90 minutes. Its become...

Given the odds, the nearest advanced civilization is many light years away. Its not they could just pop in to visit, here and there, if it took 4 million years, or so, years to do it. Extra terrestrials are a fantasy. All FTL travel is a fantasy. Good for entertainment, but not real...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-tuberculosis-shaped-victorian-fashion-180959029/

You can't depend on digital photographs of an item at auction. You have to see it with your own eyes.

There are very specialized uses for metals that were smelted prior to atomc testing.

Last auction i was involved with was a lot auction. I was selling several lots. The bidding came through and I was pretty happy that well, at least it is done after all the work of putting things together and getting them there. The winners picked up the one item they wanted and walked off...

As LHF2019 said.. "research the model on line for known issues...." This would include a look up on parts availability. There is always a reason the machine is being Auctioned Off. Estate Auctions, have worked out the best for me. Attended many large commission based equipment...

You know where the person lives. And their real name. Sooooo..... write a signature required letter to them? I'd make it a very nicely worded letter, explaining the issue from your perspective. These things can be persistent. A political fund raising org, every two years, calls my...

Just because no has ever seen or heard of prostitution in ice fishing shacks, doesn't mean it wouldn't or has ever happened. ESPECIALLY in shacks set up on public property in front of million dollar water front homes.

Zuks Meta Verse is more as if Google Earth became interactive in a VR way and you get to act in that world with other members. Google has the tools to do this right now. For some reason they have not.

A medical thingy about chippers. I have what is called Dupuytren's Contracture, also known as Viking Hand. And this can be exasperated by vibration put on your hands. Working a chipper, as you know, sends lots of vibrations to your hands as you feed. I didn't have a major problem with...

Seems that you really can't get rid of a Facebook account. I decided to cancel mine, did exactly what they directed as to how to cancel. They gave me a date, of cancellation, so I downloaded the info file and re-selected that I wanted it to be cancelled, and not to be re-instated in the...

Ransoms is a shorthand word I started to use, after dealing with many machines that had been locked up by malware: That asked a fee to unlock the machine. Most people understand how Crypto-ransomware works. But I found that there is a much broader category and industry out there, some of...

Bill G, I've been doing computer stuff for 40 years. It is a fact that a major anti virus company included a key logger in an update. They didn't know, how it happened, admitted it, and it was very quickly corrected. Its a fact that a certain product, which for awhile was a requirement to do...

A nephew gave us a google nest for x-mas. It immediately, and unopened, was re-gifted. :) I do wonder why laptops don't have manual caps or slides for their cameras and mics. Some do, but most don't. Once every year or so, I will hire myself to do a digital inventory of what Jasperfrank's...

I forgot about the Gendel P30 I bought from a local gun dealer. Dealer said it was new. But it wouldn't cycle more than three or four rounds. Set it back to Grendel. It was completely rebuild/ replaced aside from the frame. Sent back at no cost with a hand written letter from George...

Four companies come to mind. Bennet Trim tabs for boats. All I did was make a inquiry as to what a few replacement parts would cost me. Four days later the parts I asked about just show up in the mail free. Dremil Tool Company. Same deal. Was expecting some sort of bill, but they said...

Three Horse Ranch, I had the same thing happen. I know with certainty that I had done no searches online. I was just talking about pergolas with my wife, before going on-line and looking for vendors. Maybe she did searches, but I didn't. And maybe I had talked to other people, just...

Isn't this all just for very rich people?

Doing computer repair, lots of people got hacked. Had a pic of them doing something private, both visual and on the mics. And some one held ransom, so as not to become public. I can clear the machine, but I can't clear what the ransom person can do. That will always be out there and I...

"Gov't: You owes us taxes and its your responsibility to figure out how to pay us. Oh, and if you make a mistake we will fine or jail you, or both. Good luck." - Tradosaurus. I've done my own taxes for 40 years, and through several businesses that needed somewhat complicated filings. The...

Tech moves in such strange ways these days. When building the house, in 2003, which has all underground utility's, I said don't pull coaxial, just give me copper pairs, cause Comcast at the time had such a bad reputation, I would have had to buy a repeater and pay for its maintenance...

Your soil type will determine the tire type. There is a lot of clay and 7%+ inclines where I am, and Turf tires would be useless, pulling stuff out of the woods. So I've always used R1s. They do tear up the lawn around the house, yet I've never gotten stuck and personally, don't attempt...

Mr. Maguire: There is a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it? Benjamin Braddock: Yes, I will. Mr. Maguire: Okay. Enough said. That's a deal. From the movie The Graduate. The easiest way for anyone to invest, is to follow any stocks I might suggest...

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