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Quote from: chefist on October 01, 2020, 06:22:53 PM
ha...Dames? not much...just the gold prediction that didn't come true. That young lady does not look very interested.

Hey Chefist, I just wanted to let you know that I have never heard such effective use of laughter during a radio show as was demonstrated during the  last audio only live show of "The Gabcast".

While your "level" sounded low as compared to "rubini" while Liberace was booming, though it was a bit difficult to hear what you were saying when you spoke, when you were extend-a-laughing at Rubini, while was saying "And what's with the laughing" he just kept getting more and more frustrated.  As a listener it was freaking hilarious.  Good work Chefist.  In one of my recent posts I typo'ed Chefist as Chestfist.  Coincidence?  I think not.

It'd be cool if you'd do a show again sometime. For some reason I really enjoyed when you read through the list of people in the chat. You'd read out the usernames like "Swiss Army Tooth" or "Falkies Incisors for Scissors" and then get a laugh or a reaction to the username.  This wasn't a 25 or 30 second spot either, if the chat was full we were talking about a few minutes of Usernames and laughs.  The Martinez Tonight shows are still up at MV's UFOSHIP.COM.  The "search bar" over there helped me find the Martinex Tonight shows.

Here is the pic that's posted with show of Martinez Tonight â€" 17 September, 2017 over at UFOSHIP.com


The show https://www.ufoship.com/?p=2899

Take care buddy!

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Hog

Quote from: Corona Kitty on October 01, 2020, 03:15:48 PM
Let's be honest he weighs about 120 pounds, an easy mark to take out especially in New York.

That "cranium" belongs to a 120 pound man?  Is he 3'5"?

  Physical indicators are important when sizing up an opponent, but size isnt high on my personal list. Lists will vary.  How someone walks/carries themselves is.  I've seen some women that would give any man a bad day if they were locked in a phonebooth with each other, knives in hand.  Of course you never bring a knife to a gun fight, but as a Canuck who's unfamiliar with New York gun laws I was always under the impression that New York was "no concealed carry" State, but then I do remember Howard Stern saying that he carried a sidearm.

When Steve and Andousburbank met up in for whiskey in New York City, Aldous had nothing but good things to say about Steve.

I always enjoyed having Bateman around here at Bellgab.com. In 26 days it will have been 2 years since Bateman has been active on these forums. Back then his "dayjob" in TV took up his time for his podcasting.  I do remember him not being keen on doing a live show.  He found comfort in recording his shows, he always had that "safety net" in place.  People think that it's sooooo easy to do a live show, well think again.  I remember Lee telling a story about a job for some radio station.  His interviewer told him to start talking and continue to talk until he is told to stop.  IIRC the term is "free association" or something like that.  Well Bateman here at Bellgab in my opinion never came off like a "high and mighty" like he was better above others.  He did/does have a nice position where he is employed and I would consider himself an "insider" having access to people and information from within the broadcasting world that I certainly do NOT have access  to.  I found his posts and some of his views entertaining.  I enjoyed his hosting of f the one or two "The Gabcast" episodes he hosted and usually enjoyed when he called into the shows on the live shows and podcasts of the Vandeven Enterprises Broadcasting Network at UFOSHIP.COM.  He had this one female character that he would do that I found very funny. I cant remember the name though, damn.

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https://twitter.com/thenewarea51/status/1311357843879198720

Coolpics

https://youtu.be/u19R0zfusiQ

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Hog

Quote from: Corona Kitty on September 28, 2020, 07:22:27 PM
Chefist deserves a refund.

Like fuck, he handed over his quid as quickly as he could.  He was just as excited as everyone else to get in on the Art Bell come-come-come-comeback.

According to Heather, she offered on 2 separate occasions to "pay you back"  (speaking of Chefist).  Chestfist then states "I dont care about getting paid back." after thge 45 minute mark of the Jan 18 2016 Gabcast https://www.ufoship.com/?p=2645

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F-35B and KC-130J  collide during refuelling ops.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2020-09-29/two-marine-aircraft-collide-mid-air-near-salton-sea

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https://youtu.be/UJMpDJO7tb4



That's awesome, these freaking condoms were always a drag.  Now I can go bareback while still protecting myself with a mask.

BTW, In Ontario we have gone back from Level 3 back to Level 2 as our 2nd wave hits.

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Hog

"shrieking in ecstasy"


Another good laugh!  Bellgab rules.

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Hey Lee, nice to see "The Gabcast" post stickied again.  I popped by UFOSHIP.COM and saw two new Gabcasts. 
Nice to hear you again.  The mix with Chefist laughing the entire time whilst being able to hear what "Rubini" was saying was hilarious. "Rubini" is like "What is he laughing at?" and gets mad at Chefist for the laughing, to which Chefist only laughs harder and harder.  I proceed to almost propel my sugar free Cool-Aid beverage onto my keyboard while I break out in deep abdominal contractions from a good belly laugh.  STill have 8 minutes to go.
Endorphins were released, my day is better, thank you Michael, I'm good for another day!

Sent to you via Windows 7.

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Hog

Quote from: pate on July 06, 2020, 09:59:49 AM
Roz,

Lately I have been contemplating that my semi-feral bachelor state might benefit from blissful domestication. 

This might be yet another Bellgab fantasy, mild insanity or a symptom of the madness of love;  perhaps a tasty melange of the three?  In these difficult times, I find comfort in my longheld conviction that such a sumptuosly beautiful mind as yours must necessarily be held within a similarly beguiling package.

Being the gambling rambler that I am, I feel that I must cast the die.  This lifelong fascination with the mysterious concept of an arranged marriage leads to contemplation of lifting the veil on an adventerous nuptial arrangement.  I embark upon this perhaps quixotic quest with the firm belief of your perfect nubility;  I impossibly dream that you will be convinced upon reading this request that it was written while on a bended knee.

Should this offer be appealing to you, simply provide an appropriate ring-size and a jeweler will be engaged to fashion a suitably tasteful and elegant ornament for your many talented hand.

This bauble will be presented at, and for, your pleasure as further negotiations warrant.

If nothing else, I hope this offer leaves you with at minimum a bemused smile.

Yours,

-p

Thanks Pate, now I feel all dumb about myself. 
I was forced to Google and here are the fruits of my labours:  "quixotic" from Merriam-Webster, and I QUOTE Quixotic definition is - foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals; especially : marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action. ENDQUOTE

Cool word, quixotic.

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This Ukrainian leader, Viktor Yushchenko



attended a dinner in September 2004.   "Dutch toxicologist Bram Brouwer also stated his changes in appearance were the result of chloracne, and found dioxin levels in Yushchenko's blood 6,000 times above normal."



6 months after the poisoning in April 2005, he meets with US president George Bush.


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At least he wasn't provided with a dose of Polonium-210 as Mr Alexander Litvinenko was. November 1st 2006, he was hospitalized, he died 3 weeks later.


He fled retribution to the UK, being a former Russian Federal Security Service FSU/Soviet KGB agent that became a vocal critic of the Russian state while living in the UK isn't great for longevity. Six years after fleeing, he was poisoned by two Russians in a suspected assassination.  He received the honour of being the first confirmed victim of lethal polonium-210-induced acute radiation syndrome.  He received a 10 microgram dose of Polonium-210. This is about 200 times the median lethal dose of 50 nanograms in cases where the substance is swallowed and then digested via the digestive system.

1 kilogram=1000 grams=2.2 pounds
1 gram=0.04oz
1 milligram=0.001 grams=0.00003527396oz=3.5273962 x 10 exponent -5 ounces
1 microgram=0.000001 grams =3.527396 x 10 exponent -8 ounces 
Medications such as thyroid hormones and super painkillers such as Fentanyl and its analogues(Remfentanyl, Carfentanyl, Sufentanyl are measured in micrograms) Carfentanyl used to be marketed as a "big game" tranquilizer for elephants, Rhinos, Buffalo, Hippos etc. It is 100 times more powerful; than Fentanyl and is about 10,000 times more powerful than Morphine Sulphate. A dart of Carfentanyl is shot into the big animal and in essence gives the animal a massive opiate overdose.  As the veterinarian does his/her work, the animals vital signs are monitored and when the are finished, an opiate antagonist is given to reverse the effects of the Carfentanyl agonist. Narcan(naloxone) is an opiate antagonist. If a person is actively overdosing on opiate agonists(morphine,heroin,oxycodone,hydrocodone, methadone etc are ALL opiate receptor agonists) an opiate receptor antagonist is given to reverse the effects of the opiate receptor agonists.
1 nanogram=0.000000001 grams =3.527396194958 x 10 exponent -11 ounces

He received 200 times the median lethal dose of 50 nanograms. So 200 times 50 equals 10,000 nanograms=10 micrograms

Here is 2 milligrams of Fentanyl powder, a lethal dose for most people, next to a US penny.  That little pile of powder weighs 2 milligrams or 2,000,000 nanograms.

2 milligrams=2000 micrograms=2,000,000 nanograms

If that little pile of Fentanyl were Polonium-210, there would be 40,000 lethal doses sitting there beside that penny.



Unfortunately for Mr Litvinenko, unlike opiate overdoses, there is no "antidote" for Polonium-210 poisoning.  Polonium-210 undergoes "Alpha Decay" and becomes Pb-206(Pb=Lead 206 with a stable half-life of 138.376 days, the longest of all the Polonium isotopes.
It is said that a major detriment to tobacco smoking is all the Polonium/Lead that is ingested from the tobacco leaf's environment, into/onto the tobacco plants leaves.  These leaves are harvested, dried and cured, then cut, rolled and smoked.  Any Polonium absorbed by the plant from the environment(nuclear weapons tests, Chernobyls and Fukashimas) in addition to the agricultural phosphate fertilizers that also supply certain isotopes,  is introduced into the persons lungs during smoking.. 
Normally people dealing with radiation don't usually worry much about alpha decay radiation because air can block it, and if it does make it to your skin, the dead skin cells are a barrier to the radiation harming you.  However, inhaling tobacco smoke into your lungs presents a large problem, the same type of skin cells that cover your body are NOT present inside your lungs, esophagus, mouth etc.  So this normally almost inert alpha particle interaction with your external skin, becomes highly interactive with the skin of your lungs and if you eat any, highly interactive with the tissues of your digestive system.


Plus even more "goodies" in tobacco smoke.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko

Ok folks, that's all for now, I'm dieing for a smoke.

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Hog

Hey Pate,

did the guy ever have any skin that looked like this?


That's called "chloracne" and is a skin reaction due to dioxin exposure.  I wonder if his Mother ever developed "chloracne"?

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Those Rainbow Herbicides, of which, only one was named Agent Orange-simply because the 55 gallon barrel had an Orange stripe on it, therefore it was called Agent Orange.
There was:
Agent Green (1962-1964) used 8,208 gallons
Agent Purple  1962-1964 used 145,000 gallons 
Agent Pink  (1962-64)122,792 gallons
Agent White started to replace Orange in 1966; 5,239,853 gallons were used
Agent Blue only Rainbow Agent that was used in large scale crop destruction  2,166,656 gallons
Agent Orange- 11,712,860 gallons all Oranges(1965 to 1970)
Agent Orange-II   
Agent Orange-III
Enhanced Agent Orange or Super Agent Orange which was Agent Orange mixed with some of the chemical from Agent White

"A 2003 study in Nature found that the military under-reported its use of rainbow herbicides by 2,493,792 U.S. gallons." 

4,800,000 people were affected by the herbicides used in Vietnam during Operation

Agents Orange and Agent Purple underwent small scale testing up here in Canada.  Canadian Department of National Defense (DND) did some testing for teh US DEpartment Of Defense(DOD)83 acres of the 180,000 plus acres of CFB Gagetown. "The Canadian Department of National Defense (DND) announced that for three days in
June 1966 (14-16) and four days in June 1967 (21-24), small-scale testing of various
defoliants and desiccants, including Agent Orange and Agent Purple, took place over a
small portion of the Canadian Forces Base (CFB), Gagetown, New Brunswick.
Based on current information, Canadian officials stated that the U.S. supplied only two
barrels of the Agent Orange and Agent Purple defoliants for testing purposes. The testing
did not involve wide-spread spraying. Controlled testing occurred under strict
conditions, ensuring minimal drift, in an area difficult to access. The testing area was
comprised of two small areas covering approximately 83 acres of the 180,000 plus acres
of CFB Gagetown."

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 A company was aid to dispose of concentrated Dioxin tailings that were leftover from the production of some of the Rainbox Agents, of which one of the herbicides was indeed Agent Orange. Herbicides are bad enough, but some of the processes to make the herbicides result in concentrations of 3-5 parts per million, after reductions, the herbicides were brought in under 0.1 ppm.

Somehow, the oily tailings were sprayed onto properties in order to keep the dust down. The contamination also kept horses and birds "down".  Dioxin is just one of those compounds that normal humans cannot interact safely with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri#NEPACCO_chemical_waste_disposal


Any Missourians recall this story?

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Quote from: DynamoHum on July 31, 2020, 03:47:14 PM
The Chernobyl series was truly excellent. They interspersed real footage with dramatised footage for the rooftop clearance scene.

I remember the events very clearly as practically all the sheep in Wales had to be culled because the wind carried the radiation over to the UK and it contaminated lots of animals here.

If anyone hasn’t seen Chernobyl, it’s truly riveting.

Looking forward/not looking forward to the Fukushima dramatisation in a few years.

Restrictions on certain Scotch lamb farms ended in 2010 with restrictions on Wales lamb farms finally ending in 2013.

Crazy.

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Quote from: pate on July 31, 2020, 01:37:43 PM
I think I will take a gander at this "Chernobyl" miniseries, if the opportunity arises.  For some reason it brought the movie Silkwood to my twisted and warped mind.

If you haven't seen "Silkwood," it might be of interest to you while this "Chernobyl" mini-series is fresh in your mind.

Good stuff, I will keep an eye out for it, aye!

-p

Hey Pate, what's shaking?  Spoiler alert, I found the scene where they send conscripts up onto the most dangerous of the three rooftops that required "Bio-robots" to clear the graphite  and dump it back into the reactor. 90 seconds is all they have, they are told to scoop the graphite blocks up to and over the rail and to NOT look over the rail.  Any and all robots, including the space rovers from the Soviet failed Moon shot were used and the intense radiation cooked their electronics.
Crazy scene!


https://youtu.be/kQtYKLrSlfo


I think I have seen Silkwood. Was it about a woman who was exposed to Plutonium at work? IIRC They had to tear through her home in order to decontaminate it?  I'll have to watch it again, it's been at least 20 years since I've seen it.

Another good one was the "China Syndrome".  Apparently the "China Syndrome" was released on March 16 1979 and then 12 days later the Three Mile Island(TMI) partial meltdown incident occurred on March 28 1979.  Three Mile Island was scored Level 5 out of the 7 tiered nuclear incident system.  If the TMI nuclear operators had done absolutely nothing, the reactor would have safely shut down with zero release of radiation.

Here is the "Turbine Trip" scene from the China Syndrome.

https://youtu.be/nemYBeT4aQY

I think that the movie China Syndrome and the Three Mile Island incident did a big number on the nuclear power industry in the United States.  Chernobyl in 1986 finished it off.

A few years ago my province of Ontario dropped coal for power production. Right now 60% of Ontarios electrical production is nuclear.
"As of June 2019, Canadian reactors had produced 2.9 million spent fuel bundles or around 52,000 tonnes of high-level waste, the second largest amount in the world behind the USA. This number could grow to 5.5 million bundles (103,000 tonnes) at the end of the planned life of the current reactors fleet."

Anyone have any memories of what it was like to live through Three Mile Island incident?

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Church of AI.

I read that as "Church of Artificial Insemination".

I used to be a Master Breeder, I literally have hundreds of thousands of "offspring".

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Quote from: AC400KICK on July 23, 2020, 10:43:29 AM
There are problems down here to be dealt with. Let's take care of them first before we play Buck Rodgers.

There are MUCH better ways to save money.  NASA gets around 1/2 a cent of every federal tax dollar.
NASA in the last 62 years, since its inception in 1958 has received less money over those 62 years, than the USA spends on the military IN A SINGLE YEAR.

'People think that NASA gets a large portion of federal funding, but it just isn't so.
NASA's budget as percentage of federal total, from 1958 to 2017, look at that "bulge" in the 60's. Around 4.5% of Federal spending or around 4.5 cents of every Federal budget dollar.


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I just watched the HBO miniseries Chernobyl.  It was excellent IMO.  I remember the actual events of 1986, but I didnt remember Valery Legasov's suicide 2 years to the minute after the actual explosion of reactor #4 at 01:23:40 hours local April 26, 1986.  He was the guy that spilled the beans in regards to the Soviet state know about and covering up the fact that the Soviet light water cooled, graphite moderated, unenriched Uranium fueled RBMK reactors with their Positive Void co-efficient can experience thermal power excursions once the emergency SCRAM buttons(meant to immediately stop the fission chain reaction-in essence the SCRAM button it the Emergency Stop button for nuclear reactors) that can occur when operating the reactor in low power states.  He wasn't shot in the head, and during the next 2 years he made several audio tapes that were circulated among the Soviet science community.  Eventually the Soviets caved and made alterations to their RBMK reactors making the emergency stop SCRAM buttons safer to use.

The initial explosion was a steam explosion when the SCRAM button was depressed causing a power excursion of over 32,000 megawatts(32,000,000,000 watts) of thermal energy inside a reactor that was designed for 3,200 megawatts of thermal energy(3,200,000,000 watts).  All of the liquid water, liquid H20, was suddenly converted to steam and since the volume of water as it changes state from liquid to gas increases by 1,600 times, there was no where for all this extra volume to go so reactor number 4 blew its 1000 tonne steel lid up and over on its side and blew the roof of the reactor building to smithereens. The core now exposed to the open air explosively caught fire as oxygen swept down into the core.  The resultant graphite fire was billowing two WW-II nuclear bombs worth of radioactive materials into the environment EVERY HOUR.  The total fuel load for a RBMK reactor is 192 tons of 2% Uranium.  Following the Chernobyl incident, the 2% Uranium load was changed to 2.4% enriched Uranium.  There are currently 10 RBMK reactors under operation at this time. 2 New RBMK reactors were built AFTER the Chernobyl incident, one of them being Smolensk-3, the other Ignalina-2.  Ignalina-2 was shutdown in 2009. 
"The automatic reactor shutdown system at Inglina-2 was triggered on June 6, 2009, at 09:15 EEST (06:15 UTC), the automatic reactor protection system was actuated and Unit 2 was shut down No radiation was released. Plant officials decided to keep it off-line for thirty days, performing the annual preventive maintenance in June, instead of August 29â€"September 27 as originally scheduled."

With the core exposed to the atmosphere apparently there was Cherenkov radiation visible in the form of a brilliant blue light that forms when high seed beta particles pass through its immediate environment.

Here is the Cherenkov light in an underwater nuclear reactor named teh Advanced Test Reactor.


and from the Reed Research Reactor


It was crazily dramatic when it was being discussed that the officials in West Germany were keeping their children inside the schools during recess to reduce their exposure to nuclear fallout while at the very same moment, school aged boys are walking through an outdoor basketball court in the city of Pripyat with the burning reactor in the background.

Years ago I remember the story of a guy who went in for a shift at a nuclear powerplant. It was Sweden or Finland or one of those smaller Western countries. At these powerplants, your level of radiation is measured upon you arriving at work AND as you leave work, this way it can be proven that you indeed became irradiated while at work or not. Well to everyone's surprise as he placed his hands into the radiation detector and the machine began to do a full body scan, the radiation alarms started going off.  I'm sure that guy needed to change his underwear shortly thereafter.  Well it was determined that this nuclear powerplant worker had become contaminated from the fallout of Chernobyl that had blown in the winds several hundred kilometers away.  I also remember stories about the detection of radioonucleotides from Chernobyl Reactor #4 being detected in Canadian cows milk. Of course the simple detection of radioactive products says nothing about the actual amount of particles from which you can determine if its at a safe level or not. Simply sleeping for 8 hours next to someone gives you a dose of 0.05 microsieverts, which is the equivalent radioactive dose of eating 2 bananas=0.1 microsieverts. For comparison a flight from New York to LA gives you a dose of 40 microsieverts, which is 4 times higher than the dose a human gets after spending one average day on Earth from background radiation sources 10 microsieverts.


My hats go off to those "liquidators" that helped to save Europe from certain irradiation, esp. if the predicted multi megaton thermal explosion occurred. If the contents of the core of Reactor #4 caused that steam explosion we would have seen the cores of 4 Soviet era RBMK reactors with the force of 4 of the USA's largest strategic nuclear weapons currently in service, the 1.2 megaton B-83 nuke.  Europe/Africa/Asia, heck the world would be a very different place if the contents of those 4 reactors were strewn across the countryside.


Both the Chernobyl and Fukashima Daichi incidents are rated at Level 7 event classification of the International Nuclear Event Scale.  I remember when the Fukashima incident was rated at a level 5, then was uprated to Level-6.  I dint realize until exactly 2 minutes ago that Fukashima was increased again to a Level 7 incident.


Anyone else care to share their reviews/stories from Chernobyl/Fukashima?

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Quote from: Ciardelo on July 30, 2020, 11:27:53 AM

It's "madding" not "maddening."

The podcast was maddening, as in listening to it is likely to madden someone, ie to frustrate or anger.

Maddening
Art Bell's posts here at Bellgab.com were always cryptic, they were maddening as you couldn't tell what was actually going on.
Madding
Art Bell's posts were always cryptic, from them, I could never tell what was going on.  In the run-up to M.I.T.D. Art fired Keith Rowland and made him apologize to MV on-air, was I'm sure, very maddening for Keith and Art's madding behaviour never helped the situation one iota.  Especially when Art proclaimed that Keith was "nothing but One's and Zero's".

"Oui" ou "Non"?

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 Regis Philbin, died in his 89th year.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/regis-philbin-dead-at-88

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Ran out of time to fix post, I'll try again.

Wow, the last couple hours have seen a LOT of Monarch activity.

About 13 days ago, this caterpillar entered its pupa stage. This picture shows the caterpillar in a "J" shape(attachment#1)

a couple hours later a chrysalis(Attachment#2)

The 1st chrysalis that I thought would eclose later today or tomorrow actually eclosed a couple hours ago.
Attachment#3

Then as I was photographing the eclosed butterfly, I looked down at my feet in the flowerbed, and inside a bush I discovered another Monarch.  It had just eclosed and its wings wand body were still wet.  I carried it around on my finger for about an hour.(attachment#4)

Attachment #5 shows me holding the Monarch I found near the ground, up near the Monarch under the eaves of my house.

The Monarch under the eves flew away and I didn't see where it went. Then I saw it fly up from the front lawn and I walked over to it.  As it flew up, the Monarch still in my hand flew after it, but she couldnt catch him and she landed in the grass, so I retrieved her and placed her in a pollinator friendly plant I have out back.  Here she is.(attachment#6) And another(attachment#7)

And here is another caterpillar about 5 days from entering its pupa stage.(attachment#8)


There was another caterpillar that was absolutely fat, but it disappeared this morning.  Hopefully it crawled into the same bush and enters its pupa stage in a few days.

There was also a couple female Monarchs that were laying eggs in my Milkweed. they look so tattered and worn compared to the new Monarchs that were born today.  Its amazing how far they travel to come up here and simply amazing that the Autumns SuperMonarchs fly the same distance South that 3-4 generations of Spring/Summer Monarchs take to fly North.  PLUS the SuperMonarchs have to overwinter in Mexico AND begin the trek Northward before starting a new generation of Monarchs to continue the cycle.  The SuperMonarchs are equivalent to a human living to approx. 400 years of age.
The female Monarch carries her own body weight in eggs.  A female Monarch can lay her body weight in eggs.  If a B-52 bomber with its Max Take Off Weight of 488,000 pounds had the same bomb carrying ability, that means it could carry 244,000 pounds of bombs, when in reality it has a bomb load of just 70,000 pounds.



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Wow, the last couple hours have seen a LOT of Monarch activity.

About 13 days ago, this caterpillar entered its pupa stage. This picture shows the caterpillar in a "J" shape(attachment#1

a couple hours later

The 1st chrysalis that I thought would eclose later today or tomorrow actually eclosed a couple hours ago.
Attachment#1

Then as I was photographing the eclosed butterfly, I looked down at my feet in the flowergarden, and inside a bush I discovered another Monarch.  I carried it around on my finger for about an hour.
Attachment#2


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Great show Lee and Heater(Mr.Thornton)!!

I can't believe your youngest offspring, Miss Liberace is now 5, that means that your oldest, Miss Liberace. is in her last year of Med. school.
It's funny that Nabila's vote for the most uninspired, uncreative, soulless, uninteresting, disconnected, I'm not invested in this process at all, dog name ever  "Scooby", has indeed stuck at the Liberace residence.
Please let us know when yous guys add "Scrappy" to the Liberace household.

I was thinking that your "non-compete" was keeping you from doing any more Gabcasts or "The Spec Sheet".  I personally am not a big tech geek, but I do add new episodes of "The Spec Sheet" and "The Gabcast" to my "bedtime" roster.  No matter the show, so long as you are involved in the broadcast, I am interested in listening.  I really wish I could find your new show, but I remember you stating that your new show and the Bellgab crowd shall never cross paths.  I really can't blame you, but it still sucks. 

I did enjoy your segment on LCD and LED/LCD TVs. 

"This is a very special edition of "The Spec Sheet". On this broadcast each listener will receive a complimentary pre-owned 10 GB IBM IDE hard drive No need to call about the drive, we have your information   To speak with Curtis call now a 573-837-4948 that's  573-837-4948 and now here's "The Spec Sheet"."

Nvidia RTX-2070-SUPER graphics card, only $499.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2070-super/

Nice to hear you 'casting again Lee!

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Quote from: Jackrabbit on July 24, 2020, 01:46:19 AM
What common cooking ingredient, found in virtually every American kitchen, can be combined with instant chocolate pudding mix in order to create a high explosive?

Ammonia.

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My first chrysalis of the year has now turned black and is becoming transparent.  It's about an inch long and we should have a butterfly today or tomorrow.

I've got 2 more caterpillars getting fat.  It seems as though they do prefer the newer more tender leaves of the milkweed.  I just cut some of the tops off some of the plants, they should be in good shape when its time to make some Super Monarchs, the larger ones that travel from Canada down to Mexico and overwinter.  The smaller Monarchs that head back North take 3-4 generations to get back up here.  The ones that will emerge this week are the smaller non-Supermonarchs.

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Quote from: Walks_At_Night on July 23, 2020, 07:33:41 AM
What?  Rubini has put boots on the ground in Pahrump!?!

He just went to her house to "rattle her cage".

Perhaps Bateman would be her Exec Producer?

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Apparently the TU-95MS has the ability to shut down some of its turboprop engines in order to save fuel while at cruise.

That's some pretty slow landing gear as well.

Ignore the stroboscopic effects, the actual engine shut down occurs at 1:40 and startup at 2:50


https://youtu.be/q-2dfEc70gU

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I have 2 chrysalis' that have been hanging for about a week now and a 3rd caterpillar fattening up.  A weathered looking Monarch laid a bunch of eggs yesterday.

I have reads that I should "cut back" my milkweed so that lots of fresh tender leaves are present for the super Monarch caterpillars to eat before they metamorphose for the trip down South this Autumn.  Does anyone have any tips?  I'm 6'4" and my tallest plants are at my eye level, my shortest at my hips.

It's true, plant the milkweed and the Monarchs will come.

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Quote from: Jackrabbit on July 13, 2020, 09:45:49 AM
https://komonews.com/amp/news/local/alaska-airlines-plane-forced-to-land-in-seattle-after-passenger-threatens-to-kill-everyone


My old job.

Crazed Canadian white make stands up and double taps said passenger threatener with some 5.56mm NATO to the brainstem.  A hush comes across the passengers and the Captain via the loudspeaker stays. OK folks were had a slight delay but we'll be leaving the gate right away.  Crazed white Canadian returns to his seat and clears the chamber of his C-8 carbine and says  " Hey sorry about the mess. eh... could I get a beer?  Molson Export, please."

That's my "undercover Federal Marshal who saves the day" fantasy type of dream.  It was all a dream. I mean who carries around a C-8 carbine?  It's fun to dream.  Tony Soprano packed heat sometimes, esp. when the Soprano family went to the mattresses.  I remember Tony falling asleep while holding a blacked out M14 that the Baccala" gave him as a birthday gift when he and sister Janice spent a weekend together at a lakehouse.  7.62NATO, some serious stopping power.

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Hog

I currently have 7 Monarch caterpillars eating away at their milkweed.

It seems pretty early for these guys to be the butterflies that will head South(ie Super Monarchs).   I've read that it takes them 3-4 lifecycles to get from Mexico to Canada, but only a single lifecycle makes the same trip back down to Mexico from Canada, and it still has to overwinter in Mexico.

Are these early arrivals simply part of one of the lifecycles that will continue to head further North?

PS That was an awesome video about the concealed drone taking footage within the swarm of butterflies.  Thanks GS.

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Hog