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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Nov 5, 2022 11:24:30 GMT -8
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Nov 14, 2022 16:34:42 GMT -8
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Nov 16, 2022 4:30:15 GMT -8
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Post by Deborah on Nov 20, 2022 18:49:07 GMT -8
The Comedy wildlife photography awards are out with the runners up.. And Pegasus lives!
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Dec 30, 2022 9:39:04 GMT -8
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Post by desert dweller on Feb 1, 2023 12:55:07 GMT -8
I bet I can do this. Here, hold my beer.
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Feb 6, 2023 7:57:49 GMT -8
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Post by Travis on Feb 6, 2023 9:17:26 GMT -8
I bought a 1986 Mazda pickup truck with custom cabinetry and carpeted, padded sleeping space similar to that setup. When I traded the pickup in for a newer Chevy, I took all the woodwork out to save it for the newer pickup. In the process I weighed all the woodwork. That setup has even more lumber and added weight than mine did.
The real test was when I drove up steep highways into the Bighorn Mountains without and with all that convenience weighing down the back of the pickup. The materials may not have been expensive. But I'm sure fueling the pickup for a drive up into the mountains was costing more. I decided the convenience was not worth the fuel expense and lower gears I had to use to get up the mountainside.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jun 23, 2023 10:40:06 GMT -8
And the apple is endlessly changeable. It's known biologically as an "extreme heterozygote," which means that even when you plant the seed from, say, a Granny Smith, the tree that grows will express itself completely differently. To create a specific strain of apple, each individual tree must have a piece of the desired type grafted onto it. Much like faith, you never know what you're going to plant. Sow the same seed many times, as with the same verse of Genesis, and you'll come up with as many variations. You have to go tree by tree.
Makes sense. During the fall, on long trail runs/hikes, I like sampling apples from "wild" apple trees. There seems to be a lot of variation between trees, even ones growing close together.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jul 24, 2023 9:24:02 GMT -8
Did you know... the ocean near the tip of India is nearly 350' lower than average sea level? A pronounced dip in the geoid under the Indian Ocean—called the Indian Ocean geoid low (IOGL)—is the planet’s most prominent gravitational anomaly. It covers more than three million square kilometers and is centered about 1,200 km southwest of the southern tip of India. (Its enormity, as well as the fact that the ocean looks relatively flat at any given point, means the dip isn’t visible at the surface.) As a result of the low pull of gravity there, combined with the higher gravitational pull from the surrounding areas, the sea level of the Indian Ocean over the hole is a whopping 106 meters lower than the global average, says the new study’s senior author Attreyee Ghosh, a geophysicist at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore.www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-gravity-hole-in-the-ocean-may-be-the-ghost-of-an-ancient-sea1/
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Post by texasbb on Jul 24, 2023 13:49:02 GMT -8
As a result of the low pull of gravity there, combined with the higher gravitational pull from the surrounding areas, the sea level of the Indian Ocean over the hole is a whopping 106 meters lower than the global average(Underlining mine.) If the pull of gravity is lower in the "hole," why wouldn't that make the water above it bulge higher, not lower? --Not a Geophysicist
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Post by ErnieW on Jul 24, 2023 16:14:33 GMT -8
If the pull of gravity is lower in the "hole," why wouldn't that make the water above it bulge higher, not lower? --Not a Geophysicist I think they are saying that the high gravity areas around this low gravity pull the water away making the dip.
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