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newtboy
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oritteropoThanks
*doublepromote a *quality mythology
Marimba making Mephistopheles minion makes music magically making men magnificent musicians.
oritteropo
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oritteropoHappy christmas everyone
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newtboy
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oritteropoThanks
Ankylosaurus magniventrishas always been my favorite. Huge (33' and around 8 tons) and one of the spikiest of all ankylosaurs. My favorite dinosaur of all time.
I prefer the theory that it's both false head and weapon. Dinosaurs often didn't have great vision so a false head doesn't have to be very convincing. Getting a predator to attack the club would put it in perfect striking range, the tails weren't as flexible as crocodiles or iguanas, and 8 ton giant bearded dragons don't spin on a dime.
*promote a *quality beast.
lucky760
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oritteropoThanks
It took me a minute of looking at it to work it out too. The ropes need to be kept under tension for it to work, and at first glance the four corner pieces are much more obvious than the one doing all the work of holding it up.
That's really cool! But help me understand the physics. 🤔
How is the upper half being held up, is it really just the rope attached to the middle lower wood that's supporting all the weight?
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JiggaJonson
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oritteropoThanks.
*quality
lucky760
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oritteropoThanks
Yeah, wow, that was pretty enlightening and fascinating even.
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simonm
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oritteropoCongrats on the shiny ruby star
newtboy
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oritteropoThanks
When we visited Iceland, my wife and I hiked all over Dimmuborgir, the home of the Yule lads. It was a maze of caves and canyons with pathways throughout, some more obvious than others. Various placards had information about them and their parents, but I don't recall anything about their cat.
*quality mythology
bareboards2
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oritteropoToday is actually summer solstice https://twitter.com/BOM_Vic/status/1208492322721271809
It's not actually too bad here, we're hundreds of kilometres from the NSW fires, although they are so big that the smoke reached New Zealand. Rather weirdly, the smoke even reached Melbourne on Friday due to an inversion layer and unusual wind conditions. Our Bureau of Meteorology provided a video here https://twitter.com/BOM_Vic/status/1207815448571633664
My Sydney based colleagues on the other hand have had air conditions much like Delhi in India (and for similar reasons). In fact my one young colleague who travelled to Delhi for a few weeks probably had better air quality there after rain cleared up the air in Haryana and Delhi!
Oh dear. I knew you were halfway around the world! I am starting that slide into death called being over 65 and I am forgetting all sorts of things now. (I had to stare at my slippers for a full 90 seconds before I could remember the word. I knew they went on my feet though. Not that far gone yet.)
So yeah. Summer. We do something similar in about six months -- except it is light at 5 am and the sun sets about 9:45 pm. And never gets to 111.
I have been reading about your climate crisis challenges. My heart is breaking for you all.
bareboards2
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oritteropoThere are few parts of the globe further from me than the Pacific North Wet
We have an excess, I'm willing to share.
It was 44.1°C (111.4°F) here yesterday at 6pm and sunset wasn't until 8:42pm. Sunrise was at 5:55am.
But anyway, happy return of the light
Dude! Thank you! And Happy Return of the Light to you (if you are in a region where that remark brings a smile to your lips.... I am right next to Canada.... it is dead dark at 7:30 am and 5 pm....)
Mordhaus
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oritteropoThanks, and likewise
Happy Holidays
Mordhaus
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oritteropoThanks
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newtboy
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oritteropoThey actually look pretty repairable... and the problem is that buying them all up for spares has driven up the going rate for them!
https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/singing-fish.htm
Yep. I'm thoroughly impressed. I hope she got lots of spare fish. It won't be nearly as impressive with 1/4 of them nonfunctional, and I would expect them to break regularly.
newtboy
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oritteropoThanks
It works surprisingly well, doesn't it?
So good.
Next I expect them to build a room full of mounted Teddy Ruxpin heads singing choir songs in unison with 4 part harmonies.
*doublepromote a *quality wall treatment. If I'm ever in Chicago, I'm stopping by there.
SFOGuy
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oritteropoThanks
*quality