Onward, my noble steed! The story behind the woodpecker-riding weasel “The woodpecker landed in front of us and I feared the worst,” says Le-May. “I guess our presence, maybe 25 metres away, momentarily distracted the weasel. The woodpecker seized the opportunity and flew up and away into some bushes away to our left. Quickly the bird gathered its self-respect and flew up into the trees and away from our sight. The weasel just disappeared into the long grass, hungry.”
The Biggest Things Ever to be Transported by Sea (With Pics)
Ken Jennings Finds the Biggest Waterfall in the World – The amazing thing about the Denmark Strait cataract is that it dwarfs anything you’d see above the waves. Its water drops almost 11,500 feet, more than three times the height of Angel Falls in Venezuela, normally considered Earth’s tallest waterfall. And the amount of water it carries is estimated at 175 million cubic feet of water per second. That’s equivalent to almost two thousand Niagaras at their peak flow.
Blue Marlin, the Ship That Ships Shipping Ships
Ad Hominem: This is the best logical fallacy, and if you disagree with me, well, you suck. McGroarty’s Logical Fallacies — fun list – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries In Physics Since then, many black holes have been observed, including a huge, supermassive one at the heart of our own galaxy. (Don’t worry. It won’t swallow up the Sun any time soon.)But the mystery of what occurs at the heart of a black hole is still unsolved. Some physicists thought that there might be a “singularity”—a point of infinite density with some mass concentrated down into an infinitely small space. It’s difficult to imagine. Worse yet, any singularity leads to a black hole in this theory, so there’s no way we could observe a singularity directly.
All This ‘True Conservative’ Talk About ‘Principles’ Is Just Another Lie Let’s take the latest in a seemingly endless series of #fails from that smarmy dope Paul Ryan, King of the Fredocons. First, he rushed to help out the liberals with their ridiculous narrative about how Donald Trump is a “Nazi” (Wait, I thought the narrative memo had him being a Russian fifth columnist – damn, our president sure is versatile!). You couldn’t keep Ryan from eagerly jumping in with his usual more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger-about-Trump thing to help the left push its latest meme. Antifa though? Not so fast! Ryan, the poodle that he is, obediently waited until Nancy Pelosi led the way and offered some tepid words about these commie blackshirts and their thirst for blood before Brave Sir Ryan ran out and offered some tepid words about these commie blackshirts and their thirst for blood.
It’s Sea Slug Census Time Again! – Atlas Obscura
Gun-Controlled Chicago: At Least 45 Shot, Seven Killed over Labor Day Weekend
France Adopts Law That Uses Informants To Monitor Private Conversations For “Hate Speech” The device used to relay the “insult” is confiscated. Phones, computer, tablets will be held by the state. It is evident that the device will be investigated for evidence of additional “hate speech.” If found, heavier charges can be made.
The hanging of train robber Black Jack Ketchum didn’t go as planned
Theia, the unknown planetary object devoured to form the Earth and Moon as known today
A View of Saturn’s Rings From the Inside, Courtesy of Cassini – Atlas Obscura
The city of the future could lie below your feet | In a metropolis like Los Angeles. With limited space, people are building in-fill housing in backyards and garages. A key concern around the world is immigration: when cities are planned, the living space for immigrant populations is often overlooked.
Bohemia’s Strange Trip | City Journal Heroin, opioids, and crime are on the rise again in Fog City. Homelessness has again become a plague, and not only in the Haight. Billionaires step over sleeping bags and dodge dog feces on sidewalks to enter some of the nation’s most expensive restaurants. A city with more dogs than children, San Francisco has become, like New York, a city of extremes of wealth and poverty, with too few of the middle-class adults upon whom urban cultural and economic vibrancy ultimately depend.
People Are the Design Margin | ‘Cajun navies’ are also useful because there are also things government does not know how to do, like keeping existing supply chains running. The story of how the H.E.B. grocery chain kept 60 of its 83 stores open and stocked in the face of one the worst storms in centuries is management case study material. They tracked the storm to determine which cities it would most likely hit. They drew down on frozen food and upped their inventory of canned goods. They organized car, boat, truck and even helicopter pools. They sacrificed variety for quantity. In a word they did what only grocery people would know and the average bureaucrat would not.
Richard Bong State Recreation Area – Kansasville, Wisconsin – Atlas Obscura The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop sealing the signs.
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A DuckDuckGo search (not Goolag; never Goolag) for “listalactites” reveals no others using this word save for American Digest. Gerard, you’ve coined a new word!
Excellent. Always cutting edge here at AD headquarters!
Sadly, since Bong AFB never came to be (twice!), the Air Force never was able to recruit with the slogan, “Join us getting high at the Bong!”
Oh, and “Bohemia:” That gathering in the winter of 1967 in Golden Gate Park has to have been the last time the lefties cleaned up after themselves.
At Least 45 Shot, Seven Killed over Labor Day Weekend. Sharpshooters they ain’t.
BillH, it’s that “I look cool holding my handgun horizontally” thing. It is about the worst possible thing you can do for accuracy. Unfortunate for the shooter, fortunate for the target, not so good for those behind the target.
In the army there are 3 levels of qualification with the M16 rifle, in ascending order:
Marksman
Sharpshooter
Expert
Marksman being the lowest level and Expert the highest, at least 90% of US soldiers qualify as Marksman and less than 2% qualify as Expert, and it must be noted that a fair amount of cheating goes on during this phase. Thus, during the Iraq war more than 7,000 rounds of ammunition were expended per each killed enemy. As you can see the negro’s of chicago have a much better accuracy rate than the typical US soldier, stolen sideways pistols and all.
3 basic rules:
1) Learn the long established principles behind accurate shooting.
2) Use only high quality, well maintained equipment.
3) Practice, practice, practice, under a variety of conditions.
The violation of any of the 3 basic rules will guarantee failure.