The pigment known as 'mummy brown' is so-called because it was originally made with the flesh of ground-up Egyptian mummies. There is a modern version which does not include this ingredient, presumably due to a shortage of available mummies.

Boru

The next big earth quake in the San Andrea fault zone is the well know danger associated with California.    However, archeology shows California is subject to less well known periodic mega flooding that occur at roughly the same frequency as magnitude 7.5+ quakes on the San Andreas, or roughly once every 100-150 years.       

Last such mega flood occurred in 1862 when it drowned 1% of California’s population and rose above the tops of telegraph poles in down town sacramento.   Flooding stretched from Oregon to Mexico.     It was actually on the small side as far as these mega floods go in California.    A previous occurance in 1610 was twice as big.      Due to the huge area it affected, a repeat of the 1862 mega flood in California today, now well overdue, will cause an estimated 5 times as much economic damage as the big one on San Andreas striking the greater Los Angeles area during rush hour.

Despite the 1862 flood having occurred well within white man’s tenancy in the state and amply documented in contemporary newspapers and other private and public records,  as well as availability of  clear geological and archeological evidence of the comparatively frequent reoccurrence of similar flooding events,   The flood risk maps used bt the state and most local municipalities in CA for zoning and disaster planning purposes do not account for floods on that scale.

(December 20, 2023 at 11:03 pm)brewer Wrote:

(December 20, 2023 at 6:57 pm)h4ym4n Wrote: Curse?

Too much free time can become very tedious, monotonous, just plain damn dull.

Plus free time for someone with a penchant for addiction...................

I see what you mean.

I find myself spending time watching my basement garden grow. My lime tree is fruiting.

I’ve become addicted to making my first perfect sourdough starter. I now have three sets of starters going and haven’t baked a sing loaf yet. Have to wait four or five more feedings. Still learning

I used to walk only four 5 mile walks/week when working…. Now I’m walking six times….

I bought a wine making kit and have three more weeks till ready 

I need help

The dental appointment I had scheduled for Tuesday at 7:30 in the morning isn't going to happen. I was contacted multiple times to make sure I was healthy enough to make the appointment. Today I was informed the dentist has COVID.

If you reach out and touch a 1 inch ball of neutroniuM, the gravitational gradient at the surface of the neutronium ball would be so steep that it would literally pull your blood out through the skin of your finger tips to form a spherical pool on the surface,  and you would not have the strength to pull your finger tip away from the neutronium ball again.

(January 1, 2024 at 2:00 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: If you reach out and touch a 1 inch ball of neutroniuM, the gravitational gradient at the surface of the neutronium ball would be so steep that it would literally pull your blood out through the skin of your finger tips to form a spherical pool on the surface,  and you would not have the strength to pull your finger tip away from the neutronium ball again.

I’ll keep that in mind if I’m ever with reaching distance of a 1 inch ball of neutronium.

Boru

Steven Jay Russell, con man and subject of the film, I Love You Phillip Morris, once escaped from prison by faking AIDS. He used a combination of starving himself and using laxatives to lose so much weight that he was transferred to a prison hospital. While there, he phoned the prison posing a a doctor who said that Russell had been selected as one of the test subject for an experimental AIDS treatment and needed to report immediately. He simply walked out of the prison. Several weeks later, he contacted the prison authorities - posing as the same doctor - with the news that Russell had died.

He was eventually recaptured and is currently serving a sentence of 144 years.

Boru

That's gross.

(January 1, 2024 at 4:27 pm)no one Wrote: That's gross.

Which bit?

Boru