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Montana rider

Turbo Monkey
Mar 14, 2005
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OK my problem with this is the time span is way too short for fossilization. That's just a dry turd in a museum.
I think with a high mineral content (Yellowstone) you can get fossilization in a much shorter time frame not that that has anything to do with this piece of shit...
 

gonefirefightin

free wieners
Not really a new discovery actually, When I was in my silviculture classes of fire behavior in the 90's you could read these actions portrayed in the growth rings, flood years will give wide spaces in the rings, drought years will bring tight rings, and fire seasons (depending on severity) will produce a very dark and stunted ring similar to drought years but will ingest ash as seen in a dark layer on the ring itself. Sometimes you can observe several fires in a season as well. Its very prominent in renewable conifer species in scheduled harvesting units, 2nd and 3rd growth forests, and even deciduous but much more difficult to see in slow-growing hardwoods and riparian species.
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
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Portland, OR
If you watch through to the end, the jpg code insertion is cool.

@jimmydean there's your challenge

Epic. So many hours, damn. 4660 code instances of the Doom Pi. :rofl:

<edit> quick History lesson. I started at Intel February of '94 and got a copy of Doom soon after. We would blow up the Corporate network during the night shift. I worked Shift 6 from 7pm to 7am W, Th, Fri.
 
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Changleen

Paranoid Member
Jan 9, 2004
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Pōneke
Not quite science, but science related.
The last image taken by the Cassini probe before it crashed into Jupiter.
View attachment 217744
Unfortunately that’s not true, because it’s cool, but actually that’s an ‘artist’s impression’. Also; wrong gas giant.

 

Jm_

sled dog's bollocks
Jan 14, 2002
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This guy's MS Paint skills are amazing. I've watched a few of his vids, super interesting, but its almost worth it just for the MS Paint alone.
 

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
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Riding the baggage carousel.
No doubt having already extinguished any practical cooking applications.

 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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Sleazattle
The interesting part is that geologists believe there’s a maximum height before the mountains start sinking back into the crust under their own weight.

There is a reason why celestial bodies above a certain size are always spherical.