Gfted1 Posted August 23, 2016 Posted August 23, 2016 That stumpy thing? It's just a baby, out in California we have really old trees. Yep, 5k+ years old if the article is to be believed: The world's oldest tree, an unnamed bristlecone pine that lives high up in the White Mountains in California, is more than 5,000 years old, while dozens of giant sequoias in California are thought to be between 3,000 and 3,500 years old. I wonder how you determine a trees age without counting the rings? "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Hurlshort Posted August 23, 2016 Posted August 23, 2016 I believe you do a mix of estimating based on diameter and comparing to other nearby trees, while factoring possible environmental issues in the area of the time period.
Nonek Posted August 23, 2016 Posted August 23, 2016 (edited) Those of us who have blue eyes are apparently the new kids on the block, a mere 6 to 10 millenia old, and all share a common ancestor. No offense but i'm not inviting you all round for high tea! https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130170343.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCgP-6mzz00 Edited August 23, 2016 by Nonek 1 Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin. Tea for the teapot!
Guard Dog Posted August 23, 2016 Posted August 23, 2016 This news story gets an awesome rating of 9.9 out of 10: http://ballparkdigest.com/2016/08/22/miss-babe-ruth-to-finish-season-as-hoppers-bat-dog/ "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Agiel Posted August 24, 2016 Posted August 24, 2016 (edited) Documentary based on Eric Schlosser's "Command and Control": Recommend also David E. Hoffman's "The Dead Hand." Be warned, however, they can make for rather depressing reads. Edited August 24, 2016 by Agiel Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
Hiro Protagonist Posted August 27, 2016 Posted August 27, 2016 Trainspotting becomes a reality. Firemen rescue Norwegian man stuck inside public drop toilet after trying to retrieve phone http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-27/norway-man-rescued-from-inside-drop-toilet-after-losing-phone/7790980
Bartimaeus Posted August 29, 2016 Posted August 29, 2016 RIP Gene Wilder. Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Raithe Posted August 29, 2016 Posted August 29, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hgd9ypwIsM "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Raithe Posted August 31, 2016 Posted August 31, 2016 Also, just a very funky chair. 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Bartimaeus Posted August 31, 2016 Posted August 31, 2016 ...a useless, uncomfortable chair at that, too. Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Gromnir Posted September 1, 2016 Posted September 1, 2016 (edited) ...a useless, uncomfortable chair at that, too. useless? are you kidding? am not caring if it is the world's most uncomfortable chair, but it would be extreme useful for when family visits. the kids would love it and we would derive much pleasure as we strike a slouching super-villain pose while deigning listen to our aunts, cousins, and uncles complain 'bout... whatever. "yes, please do continue." HA! Good Fun! ps we would buy one today if not for fact that such silliness is almost always ridiculous expensive and we is too cheap to throw away money on such joke props. Edited September 1, 2016 by Gromnir 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Bartimaeus Posted September 1, 2016 Posted September 1, 2016 it looks like a torture device Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Hiro Protagonist Posted September 2, 2016 Posted September 2, 2016 Elderly Japanese fisherman uses karate skills to fight off black bear in mountains http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-02/japanese-fisherman-uses-karate-skills-to-fight-off-bear/7810940 A 63-year-old Japanese man says he used his karate skills to fight off a black bear that attacked him in a mountain creek. Atsushi Aoki was fishing when the 190-centimetre animal set upon him in what he said was an unprovoked attack. In scenes seemingly reminiscent of Leonardo Di Caprio's epic tussle with an angry bear in the Oscar-winning film The Revenant, Mr Aoki was bitten and scratched repeatedly, including on his head. "The bear was so strong, and it knocked me down," Mr Aoki told Tokyo Broadcasting System. "It turned me over and bit me right here," he added, pointing to his bandaged leg. But instead of trying to outrun the animal — an Asian black bear — the fisherman decided he would use his well-honed karate skills. After assuming a fighting stance with his right fist in front of him, Mr Aoki jabbed at his attacker's eyes, which sent the creature scrambling away into the woods. "I thought it's either I kill him or he kills me," Mr Aoki told public broadcaster NHK. The plucky fisherman managed to get back to his car and get himself to a hospital in Gunma, north-west of Tokyo, despite the mauling that left him with injuries to his head, arm and leg. "He drove himself to hospital, and he even remembered to grab the fish that he had caught," a local police officer told AFP. Despite media excitement over the episode, authorities in Japan advised against this course of action when confronted by one of Japan's numerous wild bears. Earlier this year four people were killed in separate bear attacks.
Gfted1 Posted September 2, 2016 Posted September 2, 2016 Thats the rule of thumb with bears: "If its brown, lay down." (on your stomach with your legs spread); "If its black, fight back." "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Malcador Posted September 2, 2016 Posted September 2, 2016 Thats the rule of thumb with bears: "If its brown, lay down." (on your stomach with your legs spread); "If its black, fight back." Skimmed over this and was wondering what kind of weird racist joke was this 2 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Raithe Posted September 3, 2016 Posted September 3, 2016 Because who doesn't need a tactical spork? 4 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
ManifestedISO Posted September 3, 2016 Posted September 3, 2016 A tactical spork might be ideal against a bowl of pho. Okay I'm hungry now. All Stop. On Screen.
Gromnir Posted September 5, 2016 Posted September 5, 2016 http://www.vintag.es/2016/08/these-16-vintage-drivers-licenses-of.html HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Orogun01 Posted September 5, 2016 Posted September 5, 2016 In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu awaits dreaming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you.
Gfted1 Posted September 7, 2016 Posted September 7, 2016 Pilot This X-wing Drone to Shoot Down an Auto-Hovering Death Star That Fires Right Back. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Raithe Posted September 7, 2016 Posted September 7, 2016 For those into science and corporate business... How Elizabeth Holmes' House of Cards Came Tumbling Down "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Guard Dog Posted September 8, 2016 Posted September 8, 2016 A riddle for you. This is a true statement: 6+3+4=2. How is this possible? (Note: if you are from anywhere other than North America or Japan you get extra credit for figuring this out.) "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Gromnir Posted September 8, 2016 Posted September 8, 2016 (edited) A riddle for you. This is a true statement: 6+3+4=2. How is this possible? (Note: if you are from anywhere other than North America or Japan you get extra credit for figuring this out.) 'cause God loves baseball HA! Good Fun! ps God doesn't actual care 'bout sports, but his mother loves college football. Edited September 8, 2016 by Gromnir 2 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
ShadySands Posted September 8, 2016 Posted September 8, 2016 (edited) Just because I haven't seen anyone else mention it Standing Rock Protests: Dogs, Mace Used On Peaceful Protestors It's all over my social media but I also have a lot of friends and family that live on reservations or have tribal citizenship so I dunno how much play this is getting outside those circles Edited September 8, 2016 by ShadySands Free games updated 3/4/21
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