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#21
The Gravel Bar / Re: Bees (for Ken)
Last post by Woolly Bugger - April 11, 2024, 17:07:57 PM #22
The Gravel Bar / Re: Unlimited Fly Fishing News...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - April 11, 2024, 11:33:08 AMA Colorado fly fishing legends reflects on life, career
A.K. Best is best known for his prolific contributions to the world of fly tying, where his meticulously crafted flies, detailed instructional books, and innovative techniques have earned him widespread acclaim among fly fishers worldwide
Watch the video here;
https://gazette.com/life/a-colorado-fly-fishing-legends-reflects-on-life-career/video_921e5d0f-1a49-59c6-9996-3ecc5c8a0fc2.html
A.K. Best is best known for his prolific contributions to the world of fly tying, where his meticulously crafted flies, detailed instructional books, and innovative techniques have earned him widespread acclaim among fly fishers worldwide
Watch the video here;
https://gazette.com/life/a-colorado-fly-fishing-legends-reflects-on-life-career/video_921e5d0f-1a49-59c6-9996-3ecc5c8a0fc2.html
#23
The Gravel Bar / Re: Unlimited Nuclear Disaster...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - April 11, 2024, 11:29:19 AMCurrent State of Post-Accident Operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
...The removal of fuel debris has been delayed. Experimental removal using a removal device (a folding robot arm of 22m in length) originally scheduled in the Mid-term Roadmap to take place in Unit 2 in FY2021 has been delayed (for the third time) until October 2024. Having been delayed due to the COVID-19 infection and then malfunctioning of the removal device, trouble has also been experienced opening the reactor vessel penetration hatch (X-6 penetration) to be used to insert the device. The hatch having been opened, it was found that cables, etc. inside the penetration, which melted during the accident, have fused and are lying in a heap. TEPCO built a device to push away the accumulated material using machinery and water (scheduled to be completed at the end of FY2023). The plan now is to use an experimental telescopic-type removal device, differing from the robot arm removal device, that can be inserted into the hatch without removing the accumulated material. This device will be used to extract debris on an experimental basis by October, and then from the end of FY2024 through to FY2025 the robot arm removal device will also be used to extract debris. In addition, investigations are ongoing due to water level reductions occurring in the Unit 1 pressure containment vessel (PCV) and Unit 3 PCV and suppression chamber.
https://cnic.jp/english/?p=7057
This detailed report shows that they still don't know how they are going to clean up this nightmare!
...The removal of fuel debris has been delayed. Experimental removal using a removal device (a folding robot arm of 22m in length) originally scheduled in the Mid-term Roadmap to take place in Unit 2 in FY2021 has been delayed (for the third time) until October 2024. Having been delayed due to the COVID-19 infection and then malfunctioning of the removal device, trouble has also been experienced opening the reactor vessel penetration hatch (X-6 penetration) to be used to insert the device. The hatch having been opened, it was found that cables, etc. inside the penetration, which melted during the accident, have fused and are lying in a heap. TEPCO built a device to push away the accumulated material using machinery and water (scheduled to be completed at the end of FY2023). The plan now is to use an experimental telescopic-type removal device, differing from the robot arm removal device, that can be inserted into the hatch without removing the accumulated material. This device will be used to extract debris on an experimental basis by October, and then from the end of FY2024 through to FY2025 the robot arm removal device will also be used to extract debris. In addition, investigations are ongoing due to water level reductions occurring in the Unit 1 pressure containment vessel (PCV) and Unit 3 PCV and suppression chamber.
https://cnic.jp/english/?p=7057
This detailed report shows that they still don't know how they are going to clean up this nightmare!
#24
The Gravel Bar / Re: unlimited odds and ends
Last post by Woolly Bugger - April 11, 2024, 10:18:29 AMAmerica's Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.
Nuclear war is madness. Were a nuclear weapon to be launched at the United States, including from a rogue nuclear-armed nation like North Korea, American policy dictates a nuclear counterattack. This response would almost certainly set off a series of events that would quickly spiral out of control. "The world could end in the next couple of hours," Gen. Robert Kehler, the former commander of US Strategic Command, told me in an interview.
We sit on the razor's edge. Vladimir Putin has said he is "not bluffing" about the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction should NATO overstep on Ukraine, and North Korea accuses the US of having "a sinister intention to provoke a nuclear war." For generations, the American public has viewed a nuclear World War III as a remote prospect, but the threat is ever-present. "Humanity is one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation," cautions UN Secretary-General António Guterres. "We must reverse course."
So far, we haven't. The Pentagon's plans for nuclear war remain firmly in place.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/nuclear-war-scenario-book-siop-weapons-annie-jacobsen/
Dan Carlin Hardcore History Addendum
Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen joins Dan to discuss the contents of her new book which, using insider and expert information, dramatically outlines how a nuclear war might unfold.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan-carlins-hardcore-history-addendum/id1326393257?i=1000651502148
Nuclear war is madness. Were a nuclear weapon to be launched at the United States, including from a rogue nuclear-armed nation like North Korea, American policy dictates a nuclear counterattack. This response would almost certainly set off a series of events that would quickly spiral out of control. "The world could end in the next couple of hours," Gen. Robert Kehler, the former commander of US Strategic Command, told me in an interview.
We sit on the razor's edge. Vladimir Putin has said he is "not bluffing" about the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction should NATO overstep on Ukraine, and North Korea accuses the US of having "a sinister intention to provoke a nuclear war." For generations, the American public has viewed a nuclear World War III as a remote prospect, but the threat is ever-present. "Humanity is one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation," cautions UN Secretary-General António Guterres. "We must reverse course."
So far, we haven't. The Pentagon's plans for nuclear war remain firmly in place.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/nuclear-war-scenario-book-siop-weapons-annie-jacobsen/
Dan Carlin Hardcore History Addendum
Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen joins Dan to discuss the contents of her new book which, using insider and expert information, dramatically outlines how a nuclear war might unfold.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan-carlins-hardcore-history-addendum/id1326393257?i=1000651502148
#25
The Gravel Bar / Re: unlimited odds and ends
Last post by Woolly Bugger - April 11, 2024, 09:06:18 AMHow hidden WW2 bombs across the Pacific are found and destroyed, decades after war
Teams in the Marshall Islands, which is littered with unexploded weapons from the second world war, uncover and detonate potentially deadly devices
Eight decades after the guns fell silent, munitions left by the US and Japan still litter beaches, jungles, and lagoons and continue to pose a hidden but lethal threat.
Now millions is being spent by the US and others across the Pacific to identify, remove and destroy dormant bombs, also known as unexploded ordnance. Some estimate the number of bombs – found across the region including in Fiji, Palau and Solomon Islands – could be in the hundreds of thousands.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/ww2-hidden-bombs-clearing-disposal-pacific-marshall-islands-unexploded-ordnance-uxo
Teams in the Marshall Islands, which is littered with unexploded weapons from the second world war, uncover and detonate potentially deadly devices
Eight decades after the guns fell silent, munitions left by the US and Japan still litter beaches, jungles, and lagoons and continue to pose a hidden but lethal threat.
Now millions is being spent by the US and others across the Pacific to identify, remove and destroy dormant bombs, also known as unexploded ordnance. Some estimate the number of bombs – found across the region including in Fiji, Palau and Solomon Islands – could be in the hundreds of thousands.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/ww2-hidden-bombs-clearing-disposal-pacific-marshall-islands-unexploded-ordnance-uxo
#26
The Gravel Bar / mashed the wrong button
Last post by Woolly Bugger - April 06, 2024, 11:03:36 AMan upgrade fubared the forum...
it's going to be a while before I add all the mods back and change things back to the way they were
- The Bossman
- Low Rent Forum
it's going to be a while before I add all the mods back and change things back to the way they were
- The Bossman
- Low Rent Forum
#27
The Gravel Bar / Re: unlimited odds and ends
Last post by Woolly Bugger - April 04, 2024, 16:09:00 PM100,000 Live Salmon Spilled Off a Truck. Most Landed in a Creek and Lived.
A tanker carrying young salmon crashed. But most of the fish flopped into a creek and "hit the water running," a wildlife official said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/us/salmon-truck-creek-oregon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h00.O0Gi.DhQAwPJvTlbs&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=m&sgrp=c-cb
A tanker carrying young salmon crashed. But most of the fish flopped into a creek and "hit the water running," a wildlife official said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/us/salmon-truck-creek-oregon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h00.O0Gi.DhQAwPJvTlbs&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=m&sgrp=c-cb
#28
The Gravel Bar / Re: Trump Sucks
Last post by jwgnc - April 04, 2024, 09:56:13 AMYou cannot view this attachment.
Campaign HQ here in Madison County. Just east of the trash collection center.
Campaign HQ here in Madison County. Just east of the trash collection center.
#29
The Gravel Bar / Re: Trump Sucks
Last post by Onslow - April 03, 2024, 20:11:58 PMQuote from: trout-r-us on April 03, 2024, 19:26:15 PMYou cannot view this attachment.
Your existence is defined by Trump. He wins, he owns you and your brain.
#30
The Gravel Bar / Re: Trump Sucks
Last post by trout-r-us - April 03, 2024, 19:26:15 PMYou cannot view this attachment.