Today I Learned - Page 38

Griff · 08-30-2018, 11:50 AM

A couple days ago I learned that the Hopi traveled all the way up to the Canadian Rockies and left some pictographs.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-30-2018, 12:40 PM

Cool, I wonder how they know it was Hopi and not their cousins in the north.

Griff · 08-30-2018, 02:08 PM

I'm going to start digging on that because the Hopi identification is recent. Unfortunately, people seem unable to keep their hands off the pictographs because they are in a reasonably easy canyon to access. I assume earlier photos are more revealing.

glatt · 08-30-2018, 02:17 PM

99.9999% of visitors can be respectful and leave no trace, but it only takes one idiot in a million to ruin it for everyone forever.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-30-2018, 05:37 PM

And forever.

captainhook455 · 09-01-2018, 09:29 AM

How many places have you revisited that the entrance is blocked so you can only peer in? Like in Cades Cove, NC as a child I climbed the ladders into the lofts of the log cabins. Its easy to tell the names of the cretins who visited as they left their identification carved in the wood.

Gravdigr · 10-07-2018, 10:42 PM

TIL that the current world water speed record (317.60 (or.58) mph, by Ken Warby, in Oz) is 40 years old, and that the last two challengers both died attempting to break it.

In fact, it's forty years old today.

Griff · 10-08-2018, 07:44 AM

Yikes! I'd have never guessed this one was holding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pr4T5ClWEw

Gravdigr · 10-09-2018, 05:15 PM

That's a fairly small boat, how'd he get those yuge balls in there?

Squawk · 10-12-2018, 04:26 PM

I learnt on Wednesday at a work course that one litre of solvent can contaminate one hundred million litres of water.

Undertoad · 10-12-2018, 08:18 PM

Wait a minute, water is a solvent!

Squawk · 10-13-2018, 08:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Wait a minute, water is a solvent!

Yes true, but I think they were talking about inorganic solvents, which are hazardous to health.

Gravdigr · 10-13-2018, 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squawk

I learnt on Wednesday at a work course that one litre of solvent can contaminate one hundred million litres of water.

One drop will contaminate the same amount of water.

Just not to the same extent.

Squawk · 10-14-2018, 06:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

One drop will contaminate the same amount of water.

Just not to the same extent.

Well I don't know. One drop in a hundred million litres might not be detectable. There may be no solvent molecules in some samples. But I'm certainly no expert on the subject.

Gravdigr · 10-15-2018, 05:30 PM

Ya don't need to be an expert to get there.

08-30-2018, 11:50 AM	#556
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08-30-2018, 12:40 PM	#557
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Cool, I wonder how they know it was Hopi and not their cousins in the north. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-30-2018, 02:08 PM	#558
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I'm going to start digging on that because the Hopi identification is recent. Unfortunately, people seem unable to keep their hands off the pictographs because they are in a reasonably easy canyon to access. I assume earlier photos are more revealing. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-30-2018, 05:37 PM	#560
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	And forever. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-07-2018, 10:42 PM	#562
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	TIL that the current world water speed record (317.60 (or.58) mph, by Ken Warby, in Oz) is 40 years old, and that the last two challengers both died attempting to break it. In fact, it's forty years old today. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

08-30-2018, 02:17 PM	#559
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	99.9999% of visitors can be respectful and leave no trace, but it only takes one idiot in a million to ruin it for everyone forever.

09-01-2018, 09:29 AM	#561
captainhook455 Rapscallion Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 1,357	How many places have you revisited that the entrance is blocked so you can only peer in? Like in Cades Cove, NC as a child I climbed the ladders into the lofts of the log cabins. Its easy to tell the names of the cretins who visited as they left their identification carved in the wood.

10-08-2018, 07:44 AM	#563
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Yikes! I'd have never guessed this one was holding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pr4T5ClWEw __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

10-09-2018, 05:15 PM	#564
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	That's a fairly small boat, how'd he get those yuge balls in there? __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

10-12-2018, 04:26 PM	#565
Squawk Peoploid Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 152	I learnt on Wednesday at a work course that one litre of solvent can contaminate one hundred million litres of water. __________________ 'Nothin' seems that weird anymore' Lo-Fidelity Allstars

10-12-2018, 08:18 PM	#566
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Wait a minute, water is a solvent!

10-15-2018, 05:30 PM	#570
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Ya don't need to be an expert to get there. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

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