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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 29, 2019 9:10:04 GMT -5
I was just doing the dishes, and wondering why just compressing our garbage up tight and shooting that shit a million miles off into space isn't a do-able solution to our garbage crises. Then it occurred to me: What if our own eventual first encounter with other life forms was due to their interstellar garbage? We already have a growing issue with shit in orbit around the planet. Worn-out satellites, rocket stages, pieces parts of the ISS, etc. Adding more junk to that is going to make it more and more dangerous to go into space, because no astronaut needs to take an old boot in the helmet and risk decompression on a space walk.
AND we just need to stop making shit that is neither recyclable nor biodegradable. An old paper bag can be composted and used as substrate to raise new trees to make more paper bags, keeping our resources on the planet instead of shooting them into space. Plastic baggery is good for nothing but this:
This is NOT the way to make a good first impression on interstellar visitors.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 29, 2019 16:15:34 GMT -5
I was aware of that. That's why I said "millions of miles", rather than just, you know, thousands or even tens-of-thousands. I mean, like - send that shit across the solar system.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 31, 2019 18:03:58 GMT -5
Well, have you heard of Changing World Technologies? The guy who started the company -- I love that his name is Appel -- has figured out how to boil plastic down into heating oil. He can do it with anything else organic, too. That would provide a valuable recycling stream for all those unrinsed yogurt cups, plastic grocery bags and pizza boxes encrusted with cheese that most recyclers won't touch with a stick. Linky: pitchbook.com/profiles/company/50977-63 |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 3, 2019 3:29:18 GMT -5
Well, have you heard of Changing World Technologies? The guy who started the company -- I love that his name is Appel -- has figured out how to boil plastic down into heating oil. He can do it with anything else organic, too. That would provide a valuable recycling stream for all those unrinsed yogurt cups, plastic grocery bags and pizza boxes encrusted with cheese that most recyclers won't touch with a stick. Linky: pitchbook.com/profiles/company/50977-63
I certainly hope there's something to it. A scientist on the BBC radio the other night had mostly depressing news about plastics and the cost of recycling. I am a terrible contributor to this mess myself. A LOT of my meals are straight from heated-up plastic bowls and trays. I do dutifully sort my recyclables for pick up every week. I even wash the bowls of any residual food before I place them in the recyclable bin. I'm trying to lower my footprint.  |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 16, 2019 17:36:06 GMT -5
Bit of a surprise yesterday. I have been waiting since last fall to see a bloom on a very hard-to-find reblooming daylily. It bloomed at last and looked just like the photos -- stripy brown with a red triangular zone in the center surrounding a bright yellow throat. That was in the morning, and the surprise came later when I arrived home. The flower had turned purple. A lot of flowers change colors, but usually they just fade -- say, a lavender rose fades to pink, then white. Or a white rose "ages" to more of an ecru color. There is a whole plant family, the boraginaceae, that boasts pink buds that open up to a clear true blue.
But brown changing to purple??
This is the culprit, unfortunately named "Old Termite" by the breeder -- a head-scratcher in itself |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 17, 2019 17:10:51 GMT -5
Tried that face-aging app and got a skull. That's bad, right?  |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 18, 2019 3:57:19 GMT -5
Okay, I actually DID do it (the face-aging app), just messing around on last break earlier tonight. Don't do it. Seriously. There's no good reason to, and it might cause you to drive off a bridge or something.
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Post by Deeky on Jul 18, 2019 8:35:56 GMT -5
Now the NSA has your name and a recent picture. Good luck storming Area 51!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 18, 2019 13:51:59 GMT -5
I dunno about the NSA, but the Russians do now, anyway.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 18, 2019 14:17:36 GMT -5
Tried that face-aging app and got a skull. That's bad, right? Um, yes. |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jul 18, 2019 21:40:36 GMT -5
Tried that face-aging app and got a skull. That's bad, right? Um, yes. I'm just keeping my portrait in a locked room, like always... |
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Post by El Santo on Jul 24, 2019 19:50:43 GMT -5
Juniper explained Cats to me the other day, and I realized with considerable astonishment that it has exactly the same "plot" as Orgy of the Dead.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 28, 2019 17:19:12 GMT -5
Juniper explained Cats to me the other day, and I realized with considerable astonishment that it has exactly the same "plot" as Orgy of the Dead. I think that just made my whole week, Santo. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 24, 2019 21:14:33 GMT -5
I simply do not know what to make of this. I was walking out to my car and spotted a red-eared slider walking across the parking lot. She was covered in mud. I ran back inside and got out the crab containment field (one of those big orange buckets you get at Home Depot), put her in it and drive her a mile or so to the millpond. First I showed her to a neighbor who opined that she had come out of the swamp behind my building.
So, it's a doubleheader:
Where did this muddy turtle come from? Sliders are very aquatic and there is no water for, like, a mile. Much too far away for a turtle to hike. It's uphill all the way, too.
Why does Sharon, who's lived here much longer than I have, think there is a swamp on our property?
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Post by Portrait in Flesh on Aug 25, 2019 14:05:09 GMT -5
I simply do not know what to make of this. I was walking out to my car and spotted a red-eared slider walking across the parking lot. She was covered in mud. I ran back inside and got out the crab containment field (one of those big orange buckets you get at Home Depot), put her in it and drive her a mile or so to the millpond. First I showed her to a neighbor who opined that she had come out of the swamp behind my building. So, it's a doubleheader: Where did this muddy turtle come from? Sliders are very aquatic and there is no water for, like, a mile. Much too far away for a turtle to hike. It's uphill all the way, too. Why does Sharon, who's lived here much longer than I have, think there is a swamp on our property? My mother inherited (read: ended up with an abandoned) red slider. Thing's probably close to 14 years old now. She's a tough old thing, having survived a pretty bad mauling from a raccoon (let's just say I call her Stubby now). At the rate things are going she'll probably outlive me. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 26, 2019 18:17:20 GMT -5
I simply do not know what to make of this. I was walking out to my car and spotted a red-eared slider walking across the parking lot. She was covered in mud. I ran back inside and got out the crab containment field (one of those big orange buckets you get at Home Depot), put her in it and drive her a mile or so to the millpond. First I showed her to a neighbor who opined that she had come out of the swamp behind my building. So, it's a doubleheader: Where did this muddy turtle come from? Sliders are very aquatic and there is no water for, like, a mile. Much too far away for a turtle to hike. It's uphill all the way, too. Why does Sharon, who's lived here much longer than I have, think there is a swamp on our property? My mother inherited (read: ended up with an abandoned) red slider. Thing's probably close to 14 years old now. She's a tough old thing, having survived a pretty bad mauling from a raccoon (let's just say I call her Stubby now). At the rate things are going she'll probably outlive me. Just be careful she doesn't start jetting around your mom's place with flames shooting out of her pants legs. The curtains could be at risk.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 26, 2019 18:40:13 GMT -5
I was outside and noticed a lot of bees swarming what I assumed, lo these many months, to be Dame's Rocket plants that bloom in the spring in purple and white. When I got closer, I saw that the bees were in fact yellowjackets, doing something I never saw this specie doing before: rapturously pollinating the flowers on these plants, which turned out to be some weird damned thing I never saw before. It's a shoulder-high plant with sprays of tiny tube-shaped flowers on top, green on the outside, brown on the inside. The yellowjackets were so thrilled with them that when it got too dark for the insects to see, they didn't head back to Yellowjacket HQ; they each settled on a flower and hung on upside down, apparently ready to spend the night there.
I could not find anything like this plant at GrowIt, PlantSnap or Google.
There has to bee a movie in this!!!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 3, 2019 20:07:41 GMT -5
I'm really not sure how to put this without sounding like a total nutcase or deviant.
I have an odd phenomenon that happens when I am bathing/showering. When I get around to cleaning that last, most intimate region, it simultaneously opens up my sinuses and sense of smell! I never really noticed this when I was younger, but it is certainly a genuine effect now that I'm hurtling towards senior citizen status. Is there some link between my schnoz and my butthole? I don't think this ever came up in Nursing school. Please tell me even one of you has experienced this. I feel like the living embodiment of that "head-up-his-ass" meme from the ancient days of the Internet. I don't want to be that guy!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 3, 2019 20:13:26 GMT -5
My mother inherited (read: ended up with an abandoned) red slider. Thing's probably close to 14 years old now. She's a tough old thing, having survived a pretty bad mauling from a raccoon (let's just say I call her Stubby now). At the rate things are going she'll probably outlive me. Just be careful she doesn't start jetting around your mom's place with flames shooting out of her pants legs. The curtains could be at risk.
This actually brings up a question: Is Gamera male or female? Destroy All Planets (1968) makes more sense if it's the later.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 3, 2019 22:19:32 GMT -5
Just be careful she doesn't start jetting around your mom's place with flames shooting out of her pants legs. The curtains could be at risk.
This actually brings up a question: Is Gamera male or female? Destroy All Planets (1968) makes more sense if it's the later.
I haven't seen that movie in so long I don't know what that means. |
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