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[bruce_the_loon]

We've been scanned. I'm not sure what instrument this was, but it flew a grid pattern over the area adjacent to our house(and our house as well on the first pass)where Freeport is about to open a new copper pit mine.

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Couple of news releases on there about airborne geophys scans taking place. Normally electromagnetic scans either for geological structures or groundwater.

 

[corkybstewart]

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Couple of news releases on there about airborne geophys scans taking place. Normally electromagnetic scans either for geological structures or groundwater.

I don't think this is a government survey-it was done almost exclusively over mine owned property. An engineer from that mine went rockhounding with me yesterday, he claims it's just making a new topographic map of the area, but since the new pit hasn't begun yet I doubt the topography has changed enough to require new mapping. I personally figure it's some sort of magnetometer to define the limits of the ore body, but the mine probably won't tell me the truth-they haven't yet except when they admitted if they destroy our aquifer our only recourse is to sue them.

 

[corkybstewart]

I don't think this is a government survey-it was done almost exclusively over mine owned property. An engineer from that mine went rockhounding with me yesterday, he claims it's just making a new topographic map of the area, but since the new pit hasn't begun yet I doubt the topography has changed enough to require new mapping. I personally figure it's some sort of magnetometer to define the limits of the ore body, but the mine probably won't tell me the truth-they haven't yet except when they admitted if they destroy our aquifer our only recourse is to sue them.

Gravity survey is also a good possibility.

 

[grampamark]

 

[grampamark]

My wife made a Christmas quilt and sent it off to be professionally quilted. It came back in the mail today. She still has to sew the binding around the outside. She also got our kids and grandkids matching Grinch t-shirts.

 

[Sailingeric]

From a couple weeks ago, my niece and I went to Brownsville, Oregon to see some of the locations from the 1986 movie Stand By Me.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Now we're getting some proper snowfall.

 

[GrogNerd]

46° (on its way to 60) & rain here.

no white Black Friday for us

 

[grampamark]

A little underexposed. There’s a red sky at morning on the Frozen Tundra.

 

[day_trippr]

Leftovers Lunch...

 

[nobadays]

Beautiful, albeit chilly day here in the Southern Colorado Rockies after 3" of snow to usher in Thanksgiving!

 

[Tom R]

Hey, have you been poking around in my 'fridge?!

 

[beermanpete]

The last Blockbuster, Bend, OR.

 

[Brewsmith]

A conducting baton I made from Indian Rosewood and a fiberglass rod

 

[Sailingeric]

My desk top weather station says it might a little warm in Tuesday, with a low of 191 degrees.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Wife and kids are visiting her parents for a week.
I have friends to play various autistic RTS games with.
I have ale. I have Shwarzwald ham. I have Cheddar. I have rum. I have sausage. I have pickled cucumber.
Life is complete.

 

[bracconiere]

I have friends to play various autistic RTS games with.

i love RTS games! your better off then me, the computer is to stupid to play against, and i don't have any living people that want to play....

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

And smoked pork belly.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Dm me your steam deets m'dude.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Just be aware we play alot of ck3 and eu4

 

[balrog]

Just be aware we play alot of ck3 and eu4

Civ5 here

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

lets get a HBT gaming crew going, @bracconiere just got to get a headset

 

[GrogNerd]

Combat Mission

Played Beyond Overlord back in the day, but really love the more modern combat titles

 

[balrog]

Fibonacci, FTW

 

[balrog]

All you bikers can prolly tell me what kind of iron this is...

 

[El Whedo]

It's a Trumpet.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

All you bikers can prolly tell me what kind of iron this is...

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Can't comment on the make of the bike, but I though GPS in 1970 on a bike would have been the old lady in the sidecar with the map whipping in the wind shouting instructions to her husband.

 

[bracconiere]

All you bikers can prolly tell me what kind of iron this is...

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i was still using that v. of GPS in 2004? and it doesn't seem like it was that long ago?

 

[day_trippr]

Civilian use of the first gen GPS constellation was in the 80s. I recently tossed a Garmin handheld from that era...

Cheers!

 

[bracconiere]

Civilian use of the first gen GPS constellation was in the 80s.

but it was purposley inacurate wasn't it?

 

[day_trippr]

Yup. "Selective Availability" meant an induced error of around a dozen meters, iirc. Reagan enabled civvy use of GPS with SA enabled, Clinton ended SA...

Cheers!

 

[bracconiere]

Yup. "Selective Availability" meant an induced error of around a dozen meters, iirc. Reagan enabled civvy use of GPS with SA enabled, Clinton ended SA...

Cheers!

and now we have google street view...

 

[Dland]

Semi random picture, but on topic anyway;

Earlier this fall, someone took out a power pole with their truck just down the street, fired up the a genset to keep going with brew. Power was out for 3 hours, and I'd just mashed in, so needed sparge water, and later of course to boil.

Was just about to move set over from powering brew control to powering house so I could get some water (am on well), when the grid power came back on.

That did inspire me to get the 2nd and 3rd tier gens operational(a couple of MEP-002 s), but that is another picture.

 

[Sailingeric]

Too this at Staniel Cay last month, where part of Thunderball was filmed.

 

[GrogNerd]

someone took out a power pole with their truck

Montgomery County, MD: hold my beer!

 

[balrog]

Montgomery County, MD: hold my beer!

That's gonna leave a mark

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[balrog]

I'm just trying to figure out WHY one might want to...

 

[doug293cz]

Montgomery County, MD: hold my beer!

Still trying to figure out how they ended up where they are without bending up the airplane much more severely. Luckily, both occupants survived, and have been rescued.

lt's a retractable gear Mooney, and the gear are down, so it looks like they might have been trying to land when they hit the wires/tower.

Brew on

 

[GrogNerd]

only a mile & 1/4 from a small airport (hard to see on the map, I highlighted the runway)