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pantone159

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  1. 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.
  2. Good idea. Somebody is even planning to make a new submersible, mainly made of acrylic. Seems like a good project for both of them.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. I have built several desktop systems myself, but I always figured that a laptop would be too much of a PITA, since in that case everything is as tiny as possible, and fitted together as closely as possible. A desktop leaves you plenty of room to work. So for a laptop I would just buy one. I don't know that you save any money building your own anymore, it is more for the fun/satisfaction of doing it yourself.
  8. She sure did TRY and have her employee's back, but failed, and it is now very clear that that will not happen anymore at Tesla.
  9. I think that Elon is just being a petulant brat. My read, is that the Supercharger exec tried to spare her team from layoffs, and Musk's response is: Any managers that try and stick up for your employees will be fired, and all of your employees as well. This gives a clear message to the employees: 1) To managers: You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT stick up for your employees. 2) To workers: Your manager ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT have your back. I'm sure this will be great for morale, everybody knows it is now HARDCORE.
  10. SUMUS SIC FUCKING RETUSUS E Pluribus Unum has been there too long, time for a change anyways.
  11. It is the fallout from the Toledo War with Ohio. Way back when Michigan was about to be admitted to the union, the border between Ohio and Michigan was not well defined, and there was a dispute between the states. Since you couldn't be admitting states with undefined borders, eventually the decision was to give the small strip of land near Toledo to Ohio, and as compensation, Michigan was given the UP. At the time, everyone thought the UP was worthless and so Michigan got the bad end of that deal, but then they realized that it was full of iron and copper.
  12. Does being arrested by a cop trying to smoke a joint count?
  13. Yeah, I saw something about national news where protests included UT, so of course I immediately went to this site, and everything being posted (some of which was actual news) was on the 2 Israel/Palestine threads, so of course I followed things here, and those posts just got deleted??? WTF???
  14. Las Manitas? I don't remember when it closed but I liked that place.
  15. Don't worry, the remaining shop techs are all extremely hardcore.
  16. I'd stay in Longmont or maybe Loveland, not far away. I've never been to Loveland but it has to at least smell better than Greeley.
  17. The 'market' will work out a new price. Ideally, the business has now increased in worth by whatever value the company makes of the cash raised by the stock sales, which would be divided by the new (larger) number of shares, to work out the new per-share price.
  18. I don't remember my first silver (probably a Mercury dime though), but my first real numismatic/collectible thing was this $20 note from the Republic of Texas. I think it cost me $25 in US dollars, 40 years ago or so.
  19. When I have had something like this happen, I have been accidentally pressing the volume control on my headset.
  20. The sun looks like a black hole, at least to me. It just looks completely wrong and impossible. The brightness of everything is just broken. It is hard to explain until you see it yourself.
  21. Mecca will also get about 5 min 10 sec of totality in 2027, to add another religious site.
  22. No, it depends on exactly how close the moon and sun are, which vary in complicated ways. It never gets close to an hour but it does vary a lot. About 3-4 minutes is pretty typical.
  23. Sydney will get a total eclipse for about 3 minutes 50 seconds, at about 2 pm.
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