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The aftermath of the controlled burn-off of the chemicals from a 50-car derailment in Palestine Ohio.
Passenger's photo while their plane flew near East Palestine, Ohio … chemical fire after the train derailed.
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At least one person can laugh about it.
The controller of the US Army’s M-SHORAD
No need to reinvent the wheel.
This is (probably) the oldest olive tree on Earth, clocking in at a whopping 3,500-plus-year-old:
This is what the city of Seattle used to be like before a major project changed it, flattening hills and reshaping the landscape to "open up the city to more commerce":
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This is what a cross-section of wood from the 1950s looks like compared with a cross-section of wood from today:
The modern wood is on top - the 1950s wood is on the bottom.
I'm not sure of the ramifications of the ring width.
This is what the back of the "Mona Lisa" looks like:
This is what a credit card from the 1950s looked like:
This is what a map of the world's oceans and only the world's oceans looks like:
I find that exceedingly interesting.
The ancient city of Nimrud stood for 3,000 years (in what is present-day Iraq) until 2015 when it was reduced to dust in a single day by Isis militants.
Of course, they thought they were doing God's work.
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Ukraine
Please remember that we are living in the safest period in human history.
I've only played Truth or Dare once. Two people dared me to go home.
I can never remember how many trilobites are in a gigabyte.
AND AWRY WE GO
It occurs to me that when the ice gets close enough to shore for one of them to jump his action will just push the ice farther away from shore.
I have mentioned before the problems with having spectators so close to the riders.
It seems rather likely that someone with a lot of money bet on one rider would be highly motivated to sabotage another rider.
I can almost smell the demon rum.
Look closely...
How is that even possible?
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There's a reason you shouldn't run near water...
Oh, hell, that had to hurt!
God inventing dogs: “What if your best friend sometimes shit in your living room and ate your shoes?”
I trust rabbits implicitly. They wouldn’t let just anybody have ears like that.
NATURE'S GRANDEUR
Can you imagine being knocked to your knees and watching - in real time - the Earth move like that?
The Sea Otter
I'm assuming that the fans are to keep the flies away.
Someone mentioned that they are branded on their necks.
Is that true?
Let's end this section with several interesting images of bears.
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Climbing a tree to elude a bear is a bad idea since they are much better at it than you.
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Attention people who run in dark clothes at night: I don’t have THAT much car insurance.
Turns out, people will turn around and walk the other way if you hiss like a cat when they approach you.
MAN: THE MAKER OF THINGS
Making something funny is actually very difficult.
Most of the time humor involves something unexpected.
With my OOMVO I often try to hook up a comment with an image it really doesn't belong to.
Here's another example of the same thing.
My wife smashes her sandwiches - true.
I've worked on enough movies to be fascinated by how they do things.
Once they knocked down a newly built building that was painted to look old and they filled the attic with flour to create the clouds of white dust one would expect.
Try to imagine taking your grandson out in the yard and pointing up at the ISS and saying, "I helped build that."
I seem to remember that some types of sailboats were disqualified from the big races because they were just too fast.
How many times do you think he got one of those chains caught on something?
There are otherwise functioning human beings who actually think their dead relatives look down on them from heaven.
Imagine where we would be if all the brainpower and resources we put into weapons development went into solving actual problems of people.
More Wires
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Item B6:
At first glance, yeah it looks like the door is totally messed up. However I suspect the image may be somewhat deceptive visually. The door frame appears to be parallel to other elements (vertical wall corners, the floor, signs, whiteboard,etc) while the brown acoustic panels appear to be installed off plumb. The panels appear tilted slightly rightward as compared to the vertical structural elements and signage. They also appear custom made to match the weird angle - take note of the hole patterns. Perhaps an askew panel mounting was an aesthetic or other design choice?
As for today's Puzzle Time entry, I see two possible solutions. In the order I thunk 'em:,
1] Remove the vertical matchstick from the plus sign and place it diagonally upon the equal sign. The plus becomes a minus, and the equal becomes an inequal sign. 2 - 5 ≠ 5
2] Within the leftmost "5" digit, move the left side vertical matchstick to the right side, changing that "5" to a "3". 2 + 3 = 5
No, they can't all be gems, but I for one appreciate your efforts.
D12 Vulan 20mm shells that costs the US Tax payer around $180,000 a minute to fire ... All that cash ...
A12; why keep supporting Ukraine? Russia has a defensible case, and Biden is on the make.
Dear Mike, NOTHING Ukraine could have done justifies the constant shelling of civilians and other war crimes.
RH
regarding tree rings in ^A5^
Spruce/Fir trees (which make up the preponderance of framing lumber, including 2X4'sin your picture, naturally replenish a forest after clear cutting. It's really quite amazing; you can see the small seedlings, sprouting from seed cones on the forest floor. But they never "grow up" into trees - they need at least 50% light to grow. But when clear cut (or fire or...), they immediately start growing into trees. In fact, they grow so thick, that they choke out each other. The result of this is slow growth year to year because they are all competing for food and light and are only inches apart. Hence narrow annual rings.
When a professionally managed forest is harvested for lumber abdwood pulp, they allow the clear cut to naturally rejuvenate until a certain age (I seem to think it is 10 years),Then foresters in these managed forests go through with saws that look a lot like weedwhackers and cut most of them down, leaving a number of more spaciously spaced tress to flourish. This is called "pre commercial thinning." The result is that with less competition, the trees now grow more vigirously, going taller and fatter more quickly, and becoming a much healthier tree (and forest).
What you are looking at in the picture is the difference between unmanaged and managed forests.
A5 fair point Fardygardy. However we don’t know if those 2 samples are even the same species, what altitude, latitude or soil conditions etc they were grown in. The more modern sample is clearly from nearer the Centre of the tree where growth rings are more widely spaced. The caption might just as well have said “Look! 2 lumps of wood”.
A science guy
A12 according to Steven Pinker
If you have some time on your hands listen to the Joe Rogan experience on Spotify. The latest episode with Eric Weinstein. Be opened minded if you decide to listen to it. -Armando
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