Beautiful Pictures

[Doc]

Sounds like a great trip Chris! We love Custer State Park and there's so much to do and see there. It's a shock the first time you drive down through the animal zone and there's hundreds of Bison in the fields on both sides and also blocking the road. We'd be living in SD now if there winters weren't so bad. ?

Who snuck in the albino Bison in the picture?

I’ll get my Quigley ..

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[Doc]

Dinner Time! A typical day in my backyard. Not counting the foxes, raccoons, opossums, etc

COOL !

 

[Motorpsychology]

Even better

Very nice, Tracy! There is an optical illusion at play; the fine young man is holding the fishing pole at just the right angle so that the antenna looks like the hook and line as if he "caught" the Ranger!

BTW, you could've lined the truck up better with the tree line, But great pic otherwise!

 

[Tracy Bowman]

Very nice, Tracy! There is an optical illusion at play; the fine young man is holding the fishing pole at just the right angle so that the antenna looks like the hook and line as if he "caught" the Ranger!

BTW, you could've lined the truck up better with the tree line, But great pic otherwise!

I would say I’ll try to do better next time….but you know I won’t.?

 

[OrangeStreak]

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Well worth the read. NDE events from around the world.

I remember as a teenager, a friends grandfather at home in Hospice. During his final moments, he sat up in bed, eyes wide open, arms stretched out. He started to describe what he was seeing, and family members began to ask questions to him, hoping for a clear description. My friend said he spoke to them, and then he began speaking to someone else that they could not see, fell back to his bed and died.

They are convinced that he was seeing his first glimpse of heaven.

I believe.

My Father was in the hospital when he died. Three days before his life was ended he told us that he saw angels gathered at the foot of his bed. He was elated because that confirmed his destination! ?

 

[KNI]

WTF?!?!?!

Megrez not even visible on naked eye?! Barely shows on camera.

 

[KNI]

Some Finnish forest pics from today's walk.

 

[Doc]

Some Finnish forest pics from today's walk.

Give me a fly rod ..

 

[Motorpsychology]

WTF?!?!?!

Megrez not even visible on naked eye?! Barely shows on camera.

Megrez, also called Delta Ursae Majoris, is the faintest star in the constellation Ursa Major. It is at the start of Ursa's (bear) tail, or in familiar terms, the rivet that holds the handle on the Big Dipper. There are two dim companion stars right adjacent to Megrez.

In tribal lore, one test for a prospective warrior was that he had to be able to see one or both companion stars. I guess there was less light pollution then.

 

[KNI]

Megrez, also called Delta Ursae Majoris, is the faintest star in the constellation Ursa Major. It is at the start of Ursa's (bear) tail, or in familiar terms, the rivet that holds the handle on the Big Dipper. There are two dim companion stars right adjacent to Megrez.

In tribal lore, one test for a prospective warrior was that he had to be able to see one or both companion stars. I guess there was less light pollution then.

Well on clear cold winter night you see the milky way in bare eye in here.

I'd guess we have some ash & smoke from Ukraine in the sky at the moment. This would coincide with the current elevated amount of radioactive cesium which is also detected in here. Source for that would be Tsernobyl.

 

[Motorpsychology]

Well on clear cold winter night you see the milky way in bare eye in here.

I'd guess we have some ash & smoke from Ukraine in the sky at the moment. This would coincide with the current elevated amount of radioactive cesium which is also detected in here. Source for that would be Tsernobyl.

Some years ago, there was a documentary on one of the science channels here, that showed how a giant shroud was made to cover the damaged containment vessel, but I wonder if some of the radioactive waste ejected before the shroud was built has now made it into aquifers?

 

[TJC]

The aquifer under Chernobyl has been monitored constantly since the accident. it is well known that the aquifer has been compromised, and the radiation is slowly spreading south towards Kiev. A time table was published years ago about when it would arrive in the city's water.

What is happening in Japan is even more serious.... and apparently forgotten. Just raise the safe radiation threshold level standards in the US and conveniently turn off the monitoring systems to the public.

What we don't know won't hurt us.

 

[TJC]

Oh and they never contained the melted rods. They are still sinking into the earth. They only stopped the airborne particulates from dispersing with the dome.

 

[KNI]

Some years ago, there was a documentary on one of the science channels here, that showed how a giant shroud was made to cover the damaged containment vessel, but I wonder if some of the radioactive waste ejected before the shroud was built has now made it into aquifers?

I believe the Cesium is from the initial meltdown and explosion. Kind of expanded from there globally over the winds, but local contamination was higher. The plant life absorbed the Cesium and now that the ground is open and forest are in fire it gets released back to athmosphere with the ash. Nothing nearly as big as the initial contamination, but detectable on the radiation sensors.

 

[TJC]

That explanation makes a lot of sense.

The USA has its own messes to clean up. GE dumped 1.3 million lbs of PCBs in the Hudson River over 30 years. The EPA thought about cleanup but decided it would only make things worse if they stirred the riverbed up.

Unfortunately, the river did not self clean, and dredging was required. The dredging area has been completed, and aquatic plants seeded in the cleaned areas. They are still heavily monitoring the area to see if this effort yields the desired results.

This is one of the largest Superfund sites in the USA. 200 miles of the river is severely compromised.

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