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Re: Chat
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:01 am
by ggordon
I brought a bag of candy up here to the cabin just in case neighborhood kids might come by, but it's the off-season and as far as I can tell there isn't anyone else in any of the nearby cabins. Oh well, guess I have it all to myself.
Re: Chat
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:03 am
by ggordon
pommystuart wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:34 pm
Gordon, Vacations are NOT for bug fixing, they are for bug swotting (when they try to drink your drink).
Enjoy.
I do plan to partake of locally brewed beverages while I'm here.
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:21 pm
by Michael
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:37 pm
by AvastMH
Local brews, all the sweets to yourself? Sounds grand, Gordon
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:55 am
by Randi
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:35 am
by jil
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 11:36 am
by AvastMH
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 11:43 am
by AvastMH
A very happy birthday to you April!
(It almost looks like a whaling log book
)
Re: Chat
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:41 pm
by studentforever
Sorry to intrude into this thread, Happy Birthday April
However, came across this item on the Beeb website which may interest some of you
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-h ... e-54780740
I know the Spanish Armada is before our remit but a big factor in its defeat was
the WEATHER and I think the museum is the one who hosts our website and has promised to put them on public display - I hope digital access too.
Re: Chat
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:32 pm
by Randi
Happy Birthday
April !
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:51 pm
by Michael
Happy Birthday, April!
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 4:47 pm
by arboggs
Thank you, everyone!
The bookworm cakes are appropriate because I've been reading like mad lately. Just plowing my way through the to-read pile.
Re: Chat
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 4:48 am
by Randi
‘I feel as if I am in the studio of a genius’: A photographer’s 30-year record of dreamlike icescapes and hues in Antarctica
An iceberg grooved with a curtainlike pattern called a fluted iceberg and large chunks of glacier ice called
bergy bits at Dorian Bay in 2016. (Ira Meyer)
A cathedral-like iceberg at Port Charcot in 2019. (Ira Meyer)
“I call this one 'Stairway to Heaven,' ” Meyer says. He took the photo at Fish Islands in 2017. (Ira Meyer)
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 8:10 am
by jil
Beautiful
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 2:50 pm
by Michael
They are stunning!!!
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 4:30 pm
by Hanibal94
Amazing!
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:57 pm
by AvastMH
Quite breathtaking
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 1:08 am
by Michael
I was puzzled by an odd greenish blob on the Google Map while I was working out part of Burton Island's 1955 voyage. I decided to look on the fishing app to see what, if anything, was there. Nothing, other than lots of little squares with notations like: Prod Pullen E-17. I thought these must be gas wells or oil exploration wells. One of my friends from work in the Yukon lost a ton of money betting on these wells, and I had no idea that it was such a big effort. I found this, with a search on Prod Pullen E-17.
The Beaufort Sea–Mackenzie Basin hosts an immense petroleum resource. Fifty-two petroleum fields found by 263 wells, including four gas hydrate research wells, have discovered petroleum expected to be 172.75 x 10 6 m 3 recoverable crude oil and condensate and 254.67 x 10 9 m 3 marketable conventional natural gas. The region is estimated to have an expected undiscovered 957.2 x 10 6 m 3 recoverable crude oil and 1.64 x 10 12 m 3 recoverable conventional natural gas. The conventional resources are co-located with an immense gas hydrate resource estimated between 2.4 x 10 12 and 87 x 10 12 m 3 raw natural gas in place. Development of the often co-located gas hydrate petroleum resource could augment the conventional petroleum province significantly within the production life span of the conventional onshore fields.
As far as I know, these were just exploration wells, and they aren't in production. But, with just a bit more global warming and a bit less ice and an early investor could be RICH!!!
It makes me weep...
Re: Chat
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 1:17 am
by AvastMH
Ah - well found Michael! I've spotted that thing before now and wondered what it was but never had a chance to chase it. It's horrifying to think that it's a load of gas and oil that might be used to shoot the planet in the foot.
Re: Chat
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2020 11:07 pm
by krwood
The USS Spica opened the door in 1944 during an initial exploration of Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0301/report.pdf
